Biography Category
(n ls rü´b r f n´s n) (KEY) , 1860–1904, Danish physician. He established in Copenhagen an institute of light therapy and wrote several books on ...
(py r d f rmä´) (KEY) , 1601–65, French mathematician. A magistrate whose avocation was mathematics, Fermat is known as a founder of modern numbe...
1881–1955, Scottish bacteriologist, discoverer of penicillin (1928) and lysozyme (1922), an antibacterial substance found in saliva and other body s...
(f l ´p s) (KEY) , Ital. Gabriello or Gabriele Fallopio (gäbr l´l , gäbr ´l fäl-l ´py ) (KEY) , 1523–62, Italian anatomist; pupil and suc...
(f r´ r) (KEY) , 1849–1922, American lawyer, b. Concordia, La. He made his home in New Orleans, where he had a large corporation practice. He was a...
c.1726–1791, Polish Jewish sectarian and adventurer, b. Podolia as Jacob Ben Judah Leib. He founded the Frankists, a heretical Jewish sect that was ...