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  2. Erasmus Reinhold (1511 - 1553) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: O Gingerich, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... A Chamber, Reinhold (Erasmus), in General Biographical Dictionary 26 (Nichols and Bentley, London, 1816), 123-125.

  3. Robert Ball (1840 - 1913) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Sep 2023: I]t is the highest scientific chair in England, if not in Europe, the Solar System, no! ... Biography by P A Wayman, in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004).

  4. Abraham Fraenkel (1891 - 1965) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Each generation would have had to change its stance vis-à-vis the Torah in accordance with the progress of their scientific theories. ... B van Rootselaar, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  5. Hermann Bondi (1919 - 2005) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    6 Sep 2023: It would certainly be a mistake to think that this represents the most important part of Bondi's scientific work, however, for he was a leading expert on many topics in ... He had, however, held a large number of other roles: Secretary of the Royal

  6. Freeman Dyson (1923 - 2020) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Sep 2023: Dyson started to become a celebrity in scientific circles. He was aware of the risks of such fame and tellingly said:-. ... He has written a number of expository articles such as Mathematics in the physical sciences (1964) in Scientific American, on the

  7. Annie Jump Cannon (1863 - 1941) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    1 Jul 2023: O Gingerich, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). See THIS LINK. ... J M, The Award of the Draper Medal to Dr Annie J Cannon, The Scientific Monthly 34 (4) (1932), 378-379.

  8. Felix Hausdorff (1868 - 1942) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    8 Nov 2023: M Katetov, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  9. Abu'l-Wafa (940 - 998) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Abul-Wafa/

    21 Apr 2023: A P Youschkevitch, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  10. Vincenzo Viviani (1622 - 1703) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: In 1644 Viviani, as Torricelli's collaborator, carried out the experiment which proved a major scientific advance and led to the development of the barometer. ... The inscriptions are given in the article [A Natucci, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific

  11. Øystein Ore (1899 - 1968) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: We note that the two biographical books referred to in the quotation are Cardano, the Gambling Scholar published by Princeton Press in 1953, and Niels Henrik Abel, Mathematician Extraordinary published by