Biography Category
( rnst h n´r kh v ´b r) (KEY) , 1795–1878, German physiologist. He was a professor at the Univ. of Leipzig (1821–71) and is known for his work o...
1785–1848, American jurist and diplomat, b. Providence, R.I., grad. Rhode Island College (now Brown), 1802. After translating the Code Napoléon int...
(w l´ s) (KEY) , 1616–1703, English mathematician. He was Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford Univ. from 1649. He systematized the use of form...
1912–90, Australian novelist, b. London. Raised in England, he returned to Australia after World War II, earning his living by farming and writing. ...
1911–2000, American labor leader, b. Providence, R.I. In 1933 he went to work as a machine assembler at the Detroit Gear and Machine Co., where he j...
1874–1949, American Reform rabbi and Zionist leader, b. Budapest, grad. College of the City of New York, 1891, Ph.D. Columbia, 1901. He served as a ...