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John Hadley (1682 - 1744) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hadley/25 Sep 2023: This certainly put in in an exceptionally good financial position and enabled him to pursue his scientific interests. ... E G Forbes, The scientific and technical bases for longitude determination at sea, NTM Schr.
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Helge von Koch (1870 - 1924) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Koch/7 Mar 2023: in 1910. M Bernkopf, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Adelard (1075 - 1160) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Adelard/30 Nov 2023: consists of 76 scientific discussions based on Arabic science. In this work he promoted the use of experimental data and writes that he [1]:-. ... prefers reason to authority. M Clagett, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990)
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Sydney Chapman (1888 - 1970) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Chapman/25 Jan 2024: T G Cowling, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Dmitry Aleksandrovich Grave (1863 - 1939) - Biography - MacTutor…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Grave/30 Oct 2023: A Volodarsky, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... V A Dobrovol'skii, The scientific and pedagogic activity of D A Grave (On the centenary of his birth) (Russian), Istor.-Mat.
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Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette (1769 - 1834) - Biography - MacTutor…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hachette/2 Nov 2023: The final area which interested Hachette was physics. Again his interests in this topic were wide, including work on optics, electricity, magnetism and scientific instruments. ... R Taton, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York
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Johann Werner (1468 - 1522) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Werner/27 Aug 2023: Since his pastoral duties were rather limited, he devoted much time to scientific study. ... M Folkerts, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Christoph Gudermann (1798 - 1852) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gudermann/2 Nov 2023: L Novy, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Pierre Deligne (1944 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Deligne/28 Jun 2024: the volume of his publications is a true measure of the richness of his scientific production. ... P Ball, Belgian Mathematician Wins Abel Prize for Shaping Algebraic Geometry, Scientific American (2013).
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Wilhelm Meyer (1856 - 1934) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Meyer/7 Mar 2023: Likewise the work in his habilitation thesis went into the geometrical theory of Segre manifolds set up byW Burau, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).