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Francisco José Duarte (1883 - 1972) - Biography - MacTutor History…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Duarte/7 Mar 2023: He died on 1 October, 1972, in Caracas. We use here Michalup's quotation ([4] or [10], p. ... Personally, and as a scientific colleague of the Venezuelan Academy, I lost a sincere friend, who always was available when I needed him.
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George McVittie (1904 - 1988) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/McVittie/28 Jun 2024: He wrote [20]:-. During the years September 1939 to September 1945 I was seconded from King's College, London, to the Scientific Civil Service and worked at Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) ... S K Runcorn, George McVittie: his breadth of
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Julius Schauder (1899 - 1943) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schauder/8 Apr 2024: Schauder was there, as wereand some dozen other topologists. I sent this photograph toW Forster, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Johann Segner (1704 - 1777) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Segner/23 Nov 2023: A T Grigorian, A P Youschkevitch, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Nikolai Egorovich Zhukovskii (1847 - 1921) - Biography - MacTutor…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Zhukovsky/18 Jan 2024: A T Grigorian, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... N M Merkulova, N E Zhukovskii -founder of the scientific school of aerodynamics (Russian), Investigations in the history of mechanics, 'Nauka' (Moscow, 1981), 268-292
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Persi Diaconis (1945 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Diaconis/23 Jun 2024: Scientific American. ... In addition, Diaconis has acted as a consultant to Scientific American (1972-80), the Jet Propulsion Laboratories (1974), the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey (1974-), the Stanford Linear Accelerator
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Chaim Samuel Hönig (1926 - 2018) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Honig/27 Jun 2024: talented young people into a scientific career, and the need to increase exchanges between Brazilian and foreign researchers. ... In 1998 he was honoured with the award of the National Order of Scientific Merit.
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Jim Wilkinson (1919 - 1986) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wilkinson/19 Apr 2024: He died at home from a heart attack. Biography by Charles Clenshaw, rev., in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004). ... B N Parlett, The contribution of J H Wilkinson to numerical analysis, A history of scientific computing (New York, 1990),
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George Birkhoff (1884 - 1944) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Birkhoff/24 May 2024: M Morse, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Math. Anal. Appl. 7 (1963), 271-283. H S White, Professor George D Birkhoff, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Scientific Mo.
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Hypatia (370 - 415) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hypatia/30 Dec 2023: Hypatia taught these philosophical ideas with a greater scientific emphasis than earlier followers of Neoplatonism. ... E A Kramer, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).