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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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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
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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:-.
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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
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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.
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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).
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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).