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Augustin Fresnel (1788 - 1827) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fresnel/12 May 2024: To this work [1]:-. he brought the same inventiveness, concentration, and perseverance previously manifest in his scientific work. ... R H Silliman, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Erwin Schrödinger (1887 - 1961) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schrodinger/25 Jan 2024: In [16] there is the following quotation from a student in Schrödinger's class at school:-. ... A Hermann, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Harold Davenport (1907 - 1969) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Davenport/25 Jan 2024: H Halberstam, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Finlay Freundlich (1885 - 1964) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Freundlich/2 Jun 2024: He was very much "Herr Professor" with a deep awareness of the significance of the tremendous scientific developments in which he had taken some share over his long life. ... E G Forbes, S Ross, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York
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William Spottiswoode (1825 - 1883) - Biography - MacTutor History of …
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Spottiswoode/25 Jan 2024: It is remarkable that Spottiswoode was able to undertake the amount of work that he did, both scientific and administrative. ... H Rix, Spottiswoode, William, Dictionary of National Biography LIII (London, 1898), 417-418.
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Albertus (1200 - 1280) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Albertus/23 Nov 2023: He now had a heavy administrative load but still found time to continue his scientific work. ... W A Wallace, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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William Whewell (1794 - 1866) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Whewell/25 Sep 2023: Robert E Butts, Biography of William Whewell in Dictionary of Scientific Biography 14 (New York 1970-1990), 292-295. ... M Ruse, The Scientific Methodology of William Whewell, Centaurus 20 (1976), 227-257.
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Michael Faraday (1791 - 1867) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Faraday/25 Jan 2024: In fact these lectures would become Faraday's passport to a scientific career. ... his virtues were those of action, not of mere abstention. L P Williams, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Oliver Heaviside (1850 - 1925) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Heaviside/25 Jan 2024: C Susskind, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... P J Nahin, Oliver Heaviside, Scientific American 262 (June 1990), 80-87.
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John William Strutt (1842 - 1919) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Rayleigh/25 Jan 2024: However Stokes does not appear to have directly encouraged Rayleigh to undertake a scientific career. ... T J Trenn, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).