Biography Category
1782–1848, American physician, b. Brimfield, Mass. In Sackets Harbor, N.Y., where he settled after serving as surgeon in the War of 1812, he invente...
(gö´d l) (KEY) , 1906–78, American mathematician and logician, b. Brünn (now Brno, Czech Republic), grad. Univ. of Vienna (Ph.D., 1930). He came ...
(gôdfrwä´) (KEY) , family of French scholars. Denis Godefroy, 1549–1622, was a Calvinist who fled (c.1580) to Geneva and later became a professor...
(älb r ´k j nt ´l ) (KEY) , 1552–1608, Italian writer on international law. Forced to leave Italy because of his Protestantism, he went to Engla...
(käm l´l gôl´j ) (KEY) , 1844–1926, Italian physician, noted as a neurologist and histologist. He shared with Ramón y Cajal the 1906 Nobel Pri...
1854–1920, American disease and sanitation expert, surgeon general of the United States, b. Mobile, Ala., grad. Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 1...