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Harlow Shapley (1885 - 1972) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Shapley_Harlow/21 Apr 2023: O J Gingerich, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... C Payne-Gaposchkin, Harlow Shapley, The Scientific Monthly 64 (3) (1947), 189-191.
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900 - 1979) - Biography - MacTutor…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Payne-Gaposchkin/12 Dec 2023: P Morrison, Review: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections, by Katherine Haramundanis, Scientific American 252 (4) (1985), 35-36. ... Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, in M Ogilvie and J Harvey (eds.), The Biographical Dictionary of
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Yang Hui (1238 - 1298) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Yang_Hui/7 Mar 2023: H Peng-Yoke, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Ali Moustafa Mosharrafa (1898 - 1950) - Biography - MacTutor History …
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mosharrafa/7 Mar 2023: I sat on committees that judged my scientific worth and determined my promotions. ... A Goldschmidt and A Goldschmidt Jr, Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000).
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Cesare Burali-Forti (1861 - 1931) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Burali-Forti/11 Jul 2023: H C Kennedy, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Girard Desargues (1591 - 1661) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Desargues/13 May 2023: R Taton, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Giuseppe Piazzi (1746 - 1826) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Piazzi/11 Jan 2024: He was sent to study philosophy in Turin and while there became interested in mathematics through the teaching of Giambattista Beccaria (1716-1781), who is famed for his scientific study of ... G Abetti, Piazzi, Giuseppe, in Charles Coulston Gillispie (ed
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Thomas Cherry (1898 - 1966) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cherry/7 Mar 2023: He wrote (see for example [1]):-. While I am interested in the facts of Nature, I am much more interested in scientific theories, and particularly in fundamental questions, e.g. ... Math. Soc. Gaz. 33 (1) (2006), 14-21. J J Cross, Sir Thomas Macfarland
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Thomas Havelock (1877 - 1968) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Havelock/7 Mar 2023: Havelock's scientific work lay in two main areas: the passage of light through materials and naval hydrodynamics. ... P H Roberts, Havelock, Sir Thomas Henry (1877-1968), mathematician, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press,
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William McFadden Orr (1866 - 1934) - Biography - MacTutor History of …
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Orr/7 Mar 2023: Captain William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843-1920) was a scientific photographer particularly interested in applications of photography to astronomy. ... F E Hackett, Orr, William McFadden (1866-1934), rev. Julia Tompson, Oxford Dictionary of National