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Philipp Frank (1884 - 1966) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Frank/7 Mar 2023: The group developed the philosophy of logical positivism, investigating scientific language and scientific methodology. ... G Holton, R S Cohen, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852 - 1939) - Biography - MacTutor History …
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lindemann/12 Apr 2024: R V Jones, H Wussing, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Francesco Barozzi (1537 - 1604) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Barocius/12 Apr 2024: Venice, 1586). He died of apoplexy. M N Boyer, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Ludwig Boltzmann (1844 - 1906) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Boltzmann/30 Dec 2023: Despite this, depressed by scientific arguments with Ostwald which are described below Boltzmann unsuccessfully attempted suicide during his time in Leipzig. ... S G Brush, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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John Dee (1527 - 1609) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Dee/4 Jan 2024: Perhaps we should say a few words at this stage to explain this quotation. ... J B Easton, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Étienne Louis Malus (1775 - 1812) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Malus/6 Aug 2023: M Pedersen, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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William Osgood (1864 - 1943) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Osgood/18 Jan 2024: J L Walsh, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... G D Birkhoff, Obituary: William Fogg Osgood, Scientific Monthly 57 (1943), 466-469.
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D'Arcy Thompson (1860 - 1948) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Thompson_DArcy/4 May 2024: He was knighted in 1937. W T Calman, writing in the Dictionary of National Biography, says that D'Arcy Thompson:-. ... An index to additional material on D'Arcy Thompson is atR D'A Thompson, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York
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James Joseph Sylvester (1814 - 1897) - Biography - MacTutor History…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Sylvester/30 Dec 2023: The answer is 63d. Can you prove this!]. J D North, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... A Cayley, Scientific Worthies XXV : James Joseph Sylvester, Nature 39 (1889), 217-219.
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William Young (1863 - 1942) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Young/25 Sep 2023: J C Burkill, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... J C Burkill, William Henry Young, Dictionary of National Biography 1941-1950 (Oxford, 1959), 984-985.