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311. Heinrich Hertz (1857 - 1894) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

     4 Jan 2024: He gladly accepted, more for Bonn's beautiful and quiet setting on the Rhine than for its scientific prospects. ... R McCormmach, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

312. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

     30 Dec 2023: He was the author of a philosophical and scientific system that through the centuries became the support and vehicle for both medieval Christian and Islamic scholastic thought: until the end of ... D M Baume, L Minio-Paluello, G E L Owen, L G Wilson,

313. Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

     26 Feb 2024: When this was performed in 1962 at the Mermaid Theatre, one critic wrote: "Seldom can scientific mumbo-jumbo have sounded so convincing." This writing, Hoyle believed, complemented his serious work, in ... Fred Hoyle had no respect for the boundaries

314. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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     25 Mar 2024: His ashes were scattered at an undisclosed place. N L Balazs, M J Klein, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Sci. 44 (1) (1993), 61-79. N Maxwell, Induction and scientific realism : Einstein versus van Fraassen.

315. Torsten Carleman (1892 - 1949) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

     21 Dec 2023: Sometimes one got the impression of unbridled power both in his scientific and physical activity. ... Encyclopaedia of Mathematics 2 (Kluwer 1988), 25-26. K Kowalski and W-H Steeb, Nonlinear dynamical systems and Carleman linearization (World Scientific,

316. Harish-Chandra (1923 - 1983) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

     https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Harish-Chandra/

     30 Dec 2023: His scientific work, being a synthesis of analysis, algebra and geometry, is still of lasting influence. ... V S Varadarajan, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

317. Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736 - 1813) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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     30 Dec 2023: The following year Lagrange was a founding member of a scientific society in Turin, which was to become the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin. ... He died a week later. J Itard, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

318. Al-Biruni (973 - 1048) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

     https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Biruni/

     30 Dec 2023: Then do not imitate them in this! E S Kennedy, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... S M Ahmad, al-Biruni as a synthesizer and transmitter of scientific knowledge, Indian J.

319. Lazare Carnot (1753 - 1823) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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     23 Nov 2023: C S Gillespie, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... C C Gillispie and R Pisano, Lazare and Sadi Carnot. A scientific and filial relationship (Springer, 2013).

320. Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598 - 1647) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

     30 Dec 2023: E Carruccio, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).