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al-Zarqali (1029 - 1100) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Zarqali/11 Jan 2024: J Vernet, Al-Zarqali, in Dictionary of Scientific Biography 14 (Charles Scribners Sons, New York, 1970-80).
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Gerald Whitrow (1912 - 2000) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Whitrow/7 Mar 2023: scientific side of his subject, rather than to contribute to their own special fields. ... the conveyance of some notion of Einstein's scientific achievements to a large and heterogeneous audience.
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Allen Whitworth (1840 - 1905) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Whitworth/11 Jan 2024: The former two can be regarded as purely scientific treatments of the subject, but inevitably coloured by his moral attitude, which however was extremely broad-minded. ... Series A (General) 130 (2) (1967), 147-176. D J Owen, Rev Alan Yoshioka, Whitworth,
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Steven Orszag (1943 - 2011) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Orszag/7 Mar 2023: The reader will be amused by the quotation at the beginning of every chapter from Sherlock Holmes, although the exact relevance is not always obvious. ... Understanding turbulent flows is a "grand challenge" comparable to other prominent scientific
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Alberto Barajas (1913 - 2004) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Barajas/11 Jan 2024: In addition to his roles as teacher, researcher, and Director of the Faculty of Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Barajas also served as Coordinator of Scientific Research and
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David Rittenhouse (1732 - 1796) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Rittenhouse/26 May 2023: He had published works on astronomy throughout his life but only in the second half of the 1780s did he turn his attention to scientific topics such as magnetism, publishing An
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Jur Hronec (1881 - 1959) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hronec/11 Jan 2024: Let us end by giving three quotations by Hronec:-. Believe me, dear friends, there is nothing more beautiful, more noble than work. ... M Becvarova (ed.), Development of mathematics between the World Wars, The: Case Studies, Examples And Analyses (World
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Mary Taylor (1898 - 1984) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Taylor_Mary/7 Mar 2023: Taylor returned to England in 1929 and was appointed as a Scientific Officer at the Radio Research Station in Slough, Berkshire. ... The Radio Research Station was part of the government Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and of the
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Norman Levinson (1912 - 1975) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Levinson/7 Mar 2023: E A Robinson, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Oswald Teichmüller (1913 - 1943) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Teichmuller/7 Mar 2023: E Scholz, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).