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1916–, American labor leader, b. Glasgow, Scotland. His family emigrated to the United States when he was a child and settled in Detroit, where he b...
1822–92, American lawyer, b. Catskill, N.Y., grad. Hamilton College, 1840. He studied at Yale law school and was admitted to the bar in 1845. He was...
(kôrn ´y h ´mäns) (KEY) , 1892–1968, Belgian physiologist. His contributions to the physiology of circulation include a study of the sensory me...
( m´r m, sh sh´nä) (KEY) or Amram Gaon (gä´ n) (KEY) , d. c.875, Hebrew scholar, head of the Jewish academy at Sura in Persia. He is chiefly kno...
1884–1944, American mathematician, b. Overisel, Mich.; father of Garrett Birkhoff. The son of a physician, he was educated at Harvard (B.A., 1905) a...
1758–1828, Austrian anatomist and founder of phrenology. He devoted most of his life to a minute study of the nervous system, especially the brain. ...