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  2. Émile Mathieu (1835 - 1890) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    18 Jan 2024: I might derive from them, but in the hope that the results of my investigations would more engage the interest of scientific men. ... I Grattan-Guinness, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  3. John T Graves (1806 - 1870) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    27 Aug 2023: I wish to make my escape from the bar, being fonder of literary and scientific than of professional pursuits. ... A Rice, Graves, John Thomas (1806-1870), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004).

  4. Annie Jump Cannon (1863 - 1941) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    1 Jul 2023: O Gingerich, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). See THIS LINK. ... J M, The Award of the Draper Medal to Dr Annie J Cannon, The Scientific Monthly 34 (4) (1932), 378-379.

  5. Robert Ball (1840 - 1913) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Sep 2023: I]t is the highest scientific chair in England, if not in Europe, the Solar System, no! ... Biography by P A Wayman, in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004).

  6. Abu'l-Wafa (940 - 998) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Abul-Wafa/

    21 Apr 2023: A P Youschkevitch, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  7. Vincenzo Viviani (1622 - 1703) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: In 1644 Viviani, as Torricelli's collaborator, carried out the experiment which proved a major scientific advance and led to the development of the barometer. ... The inscriptions are given in the article [A Natucci, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific

  8. Hermann Bondi (1919 - 2005) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    6 Sep 2023: It would certainly be a mistake to think that this represents the most important part of Bondi's scientific work, however, for he was a leading expert on many topics in ... He had, however, held a large number of other roles: Secretary of the Royal

  9. Øystein Ore (1899 - 1968) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: We note that the two biographical books referred to in the quotation are Cardano, the Gambling Scholar published by Princeton Press in 1953, and Niels Henrik Abel, Mathematician Extraordinary published by

  10. Freeman Dyson (1923 - 2020) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Sep 2023: Dyson started to become a celebrity in scientific circles. He was aware of the risks of such fame and tellingly said:-. ... He has written a number of expository articles such as Mathematics in the physical sciences (1964) in Scientific American, on the

  11. Felix Hausdorff (1868 - 1942) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    8 Nov 2023: M Katetov, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).