Biography Category
(r ´z z) (KEY) or Rasis (r ´s s,–z s) (KEY) , 860–932, Persian physician. He was chief physician at the Baghdad hospital. An observant clinicia...
1889–1979, U.S. labor leader, b. Crescent City, Fla., attended the College of the City of New York. As a writer and editor of the black magazine The...
1810–95, English Orientalist and administrator; brother of George Rawlinson. In the course of his service with the Persian army and as consul at Bag...
(lw r n ´) (KEY) , 1843–1918, French jurist, professor of international law at the Univ. of Paris. Renault was one of the founders of the scientif...
(Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann) (g ´ôrk fr ´dr kh b rn´härt r ´män) (KEY) , 1826–66, German mathematician. He studied at the universities ...
(r ´th r) (KEY) , 1907–70, American labor leader, b. Wheeling, W.Va. A tool- and diemaker, he became shop foreman in a Detroit automobile plant, me...