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(kärl länt´sht n r) (KEY) , 1868–1943, American medical research worker, b. Vienna, M.D. Univ. of Vienna, 1891. In 1922 he came to the United Sta...
1716–94, English naval surgeon. Considered the founder of naval hygiene in England, Lind observed on a ten-week cruise (1746) that 80 seamen of 350 ...
(än´t n vän l ´v nh k´´) (KEY) , 1632–1723, Dutch student of natural history and maker of microscopes, b. Delft. His use of lenses in examini...
[b]Ludwig van Beethoven[/b] was born on December 16, 1770 in Bonn, Germany, and baptized on December 17. Interestingly enough, till his 40th year Beet...
(ädr N´ mär ´ l zhäN´dr ) (KEY) , 1752–1833, French mathematician. He is noted especially for his work on the theory of numbers, on which he ...
(shärl lw älfôNs´ läv räN´) (KEY) , 1845–1922, French physician. While an army surgeon in Algiers he discovered (1880) the parasite that cau...