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1793–1841, English mathematician and physicist. He was largely self-taught until, in 1833, he entered Caius College, Cambridge. In addition to makin...
1839–1915, American lawyer and teacher, b. Brighton, Mass. A graduate of Harvard Law School (1861), he served in the Civil War and then entered law ...
1544–1603, English scientist and physician. He studied medicine at Cambridge Univ. (M.D., 1569), where he was elected a Fellow of St. John’s Colle...
(g m´p rz) (KEY) , 1850–1924, American labor leader, b. London. He emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1863. He worked as a cigar ma...
(h r´män gün´t r gräs´män) (KEY) , 1809–77, German mathematician and Sanskrit scholar, educated in Berlin. He invented a new algebra of vecto...
(g ´l n) (KEY) , c.130–c.200, physician and writer, b. Pergamum, of Greek parents. After study in Greece and Asia Minor and at Alexandria, he retur...