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  2. John Keill (1671 - 1721) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Sep 2023: D Kubrin, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Biography by John Henry, in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004).

  3. Cuthbert Tunstall (1474 - 1559) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Sep 2023: J B Easton, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Biography by D G Newcombe, in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004).

  4. 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).

  5. Jérôme Lalande (1732 - 1807) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    2 Nov 2023: T L Hankins, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... R Hahn, The anatomy of a scientific institution: the Paris Academy of Sciences, 1666-1803 (berkeley, 1971).

  6. 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

  7. Marston Morse (1892 - 1977) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: Zund, writing in the Dictionary of American Biography, says this of his character:-.

  8. Persi Diaconis (1945 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    23 Jun 2024: Scientific American. ... In addition, Diaconis has acted as a consultant to Scientific American (1972-80), the Jet Propulsion Laboratories (1974), the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey (1974-), the Stanford Linear Accelerator

  9. Chaim Samuel Hönig (1926 - 2018) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    27 Jun 2024: talented young people into a scientific career, and the need to increase exchanges between Brazilian and foreign researchers. ... In 1998 he was honoured with the award of the National Order of Scientific Merit.

  10. Francis Macaulay (1862 - 1937) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: T A A Broadbent, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  11. John Playfair (1748 - 1819) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: They became lifelong friends and Maskelyne introduced him to the leading scientific men of the day. ... J Challinor, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).