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2. Kathleen Ollerenshaw (1912 - 2014) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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

   7 Mar 2023: Born. 1 October 1912. Died. 10 August 2014. Didsbury, Manchester,England. Summary. Kathleen Ollerenshaw was an English mathematician and educationalist who overcame deafness and went on to become an important political advisor. She was elected Lord

3. Henry More (1614 - 1687) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: seemed to show how to combine a scientific interest in nature with a primary concern for vindicating the reality of God and immortal human souls. ... Hist. Ideas 35 (1974), 33-49. B P Copenhauer, Jewish Theologies of Space in the Scientific Revolution:

4. Giovanni Magini (1555 - 1617) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: Born. 13 June 1555. Padua, Venetian States (now Italy). Died. 11 February 1617. Bologna, Papal States (now Italy). Summary. Giovanni Magini was an Italian scientist who worked in astronomy and had a version of an earth-centred Solar system. . View

5. Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868 - 1921) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

   25 Apr 2023: A Lightman, Great Scientific Discoveries of the Twentieth Century, Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 60 (2) (2007), 26-30. ... M Ogilvie, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Women in Science: Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century : a

6. Chrysippus (280 BC - 206 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: Soli, Cilicia, Asia Minor (now Soloi, Turkey). Died. 206 BC. Athens, Greece. Summary. Chrysippus was a Greek philosopher who is considered the cofounder of Stoicism. . View one larger picture. Chrysippus was of Phoenician roots. He came to Athens to

7. Joseph Proudman (1888 - 1975) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: Math. Monthly 33 (4) (1926), 224. D E Cartwright, Tides. A scientific history (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000). ... F Ursell, Proudman, Joseph (1888-1975), mathematician and oceanographer, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford

8. Mary Cannell (1913 - 2000) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: Through this work on Green, Mary Cannell has made many friends in the local and scientific communities, and I am delighted to have this opportunity of thanking her on their behalf ... There is no reference to him in the main volumes of the Dictionary of

9. Ida Rhodes (1900 - 1986) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: For example they acted as a general computing contractor for the Office of Scientific Research and Development and prepared navigation tables for the U.S. ... J A N Lee, Ida Rhodes (Hadassah Itzkowitz), in International Biographical Dictionary of

10. Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis (1892 - 1965) - Biography - MacTutor History …

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

    7 Mar 2023: In dealing with quotations, Duhem gives a French translation more focused on the beauty of his language than on being a literal translation. ... A fortunate circumstance was that his wife, who has always been a great support to him in his personal life

11. Dorothea Beale (1831 - 1906) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Beale recalled in an 1888 article:-. I began my innovations with the introduction of scientific teaching, and under the name physical geography I was able to teach a good deal. ... J Beaumont, Beale, Dorothea (1831-1906), Oxford Dictionary of National