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  1. Augustin Fresnel (1788 - 1827) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fresnel/

    12 May 2024: To this work [1]:-. he brought the same inventiveness, concentration, and perseverance previously manifest in his scientific work. ... R H Silliman, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  2. Erwin Schrödinger (1887 - 1961) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schrodinger/

    25 Jan 2024: In [16] there is the following quotation from a student in Schrödinger's class at school:-. ... A Hermann, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  3. Harold Davenport (1907 - 1969) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Davenport/

    25 Jan 2024: H Halberstam, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  4. William Spottiswoode (1825 - 1883) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Spottiswoode/

    25 Jan 2024: It is remarkable that Spottiswoode was able to undertake the amount of work that he did, both scientific and administrative. ... H Rix, Spottiswoode, William, Dictionary of National Biography LIII (London, 1898), 417-418.

  5. Albertus (1200 - 1280) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Albertus/

    23 Nov 2023: He now had a heavy administrative load but still found time to continue his scientific work. ... W A Wallace, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  6. William Whewell (1794 - 1866) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Whewell/

    25 Sep 2023: Robert E Butts, Biography of William Whewell in Dictionary of Scientific Biography 14 (New York 1970-1990), 292-295. ... M Ruse, The Scientific Methodology of William Whewell, Centaurus 20 (1976), 227-257.

  7. Michael Faraday (1791 - 1867) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Faraday/

    25 Jan 2024: In fact these lectures would become Faraday's passport to a scientific career. ... his virtues were those of action, not of mere abstention. L P Williams, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  8. Oliver Heaviside (1850 - 1925) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Heaviside/

    25 Jan 2024: C Susskind, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... P J Nahin, Oliver Heaviside, Scientific American 262 (June 1990), 80-87.

  9. John William Strutt (1842 - 1919) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Rayleigh/

    25 Jan 2024: However Stokes does not appear to have directly encouraged Rayleigh to undertake a scientific career. ... T J Trenn, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  10. Emil Artin (1898 - 1962) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Artin/

    23 Apr 2024: Perhaps his views on teaching and writing texts are best illustrated by a quotation from a review he wrote in 1953:-. ... candidates (eleven in Hamburg, two in Bloomington, eighteen in Princeton). B Schoeneberg, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific