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Jan Łukasiewicz (1878 - 1956) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lukasiewicz/8 Apr 2024: G Goe, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Andrew Wiles (1953 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wiles/28 Jun 2024: In 2017 Wiles was awarded the Royal Society's Copley Medal, the world's oldest scientific prize. ... Why has this theorem been so difficult to prove?, Scientific American (21 October 1999).
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Hendrik Lorentz (1853 - 1928) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lorentz/25 Jan 2024: R McCormmach, O Mayr, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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George Jerrard (1804 - 1863) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Jerrard/18 Jan 2024: J D North, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Biography by R A Bryce, in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004).
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Lorenzo Mascheroni (1750 - 1800) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mascheroni/14 May 2024: A Seidenberg, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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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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Charles-François Sturm (1803 - 1855) - Biography - MacTutor History…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Sturm/2 Nov 2023: This was clearly an extremely fortunate opportunity for Sturm. Although he returned to the château in May 1824 he left after six further months to devote himself to scientific research. ... P Speziali, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography
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Matthew Stewart (1717 - 1785) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Stewart/7 Mar 2023: I N Sneddon, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Biography by E I Carlyle, rev. Niccolò Guicciardini, in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004).
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Émile Clapeyron (1799 - 1864) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Clapeyron/19 Jan 2024: M Kerker, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Willebrord Snell (1580 - 1626) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Snell/4 Apr 2024: D J Struik, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Wiskd. (5) 3 (1) (2002), 60-63. W Bowie, Notable Progress in Surveying Instruments, The Scientific Monthly 29 (5) (1929), 402-406.