| Beadle, George | <person> An American geneticist who won the Nobel Prize in 1958 with Edward Tatum for showing that genes are responsible for controlling the production of enzymes. Lived: 1903-1991. (13 Nov 1997) |
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| beadle | 1. A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; called also an apparitor or summoner. 2. An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students. In this sense the archaic spellings bedel (Oxford) and bedell (Cambridge) are preserved. 3. An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc. Origin: OE. Bedel, bidel, budel, OF. Bedel, F. Bedeau, fr. OHG. Butil, putil, G. Buttel, fr. OHG. Biotan, G. Bieten, to bid, confused with AS. Bydel, the same word as OHG. Butil. See. Bid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Bachman, George | <person> U.S. Parasitologist, *1890. See: Bachman-Pettit test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bachmann, Jean George | <person> U.S. Physiologist, 1877-1959. See: Bachmann's bundle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Baehr, George | <person> U.S. Physician, 1887-1978. See: Baehr-Lohlein lesion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Blumer, George | <person> U.S. Physician, 1858-1940. See: Blumer's shelf. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Brewer, George | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1861-1939. See: Brewer's infarcts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Budd, George | <person> English physician, 1808-1882. See: Budd's cirrhosis, Budd's syndrome, Budd-Chiari syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Caldwell, George | <person> U.S. Physician, 1834-1918. See: Caldwell-Luc operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Palade, George | <person> Roumanian-U.S. Cell biologist and Nobel laureate, *1912. See: Palade granule, Weibel-Palade bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Rainey, George | <person> English anatomist, 1801-1884. See: Rainey's corpuscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Papanicolaou, George | <person> Greek-U.S. Physician, anatomist, and cytologist, 1883-1962. See: Pap smear, Pap test, Papanicolaou examination, Papanicolaou smear, Papanicolaou smear test, Papanicolaou stain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Carpenter, George | <person> British physician, 1859-1910. See: Carpenter's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gibson, George | <person> Scottish physician, 1854-1913. See: Gibson murmur. (05 Mar 2000) |
| McKee, George Kenneth | <person> British orthopedic surgeon, *1930. See: McKee's line. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Glenner, George | <person> U.S. Pathologist and histologist, *1927. See: Glenner-Lillie stain for pituitary. (05 Mar 2000) |