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2. Giordano Bruno (1548 - 1600) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   27 Aug 2023: It was probably Bruno's attitude rather than his scientific beliefs which were found unacceptable by the scholars of Oxford University and Bruno had little option but to return to London. ... In his writings Bruno also argues that Christianity is a

3. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900 - 1979) - Biography - MacTutor…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Payne-Gaposchkin/

   12 Dec 2023: P Morrison, Review: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections, by Katherine Haramundanis, Scientific American 252 (4) (1985), 35-36. ... Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, in M Ogilvie and J Harvey (eds.), The Biographical Dictionary of

4. Yang Hui (1238 - 1298) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: H Peng-Yoke, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

5. Ali Moustafa Mosharrafa (1898 - 1950) - Biography - MacTutor History …

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

   7 Mar 2023: I sat on committees that judged my scientific worth and determined my promotions. ... A Goldschmidt and A Goldschmidt Jr, Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000).

6. Cesare Burali-Forti (1861 - 1931) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Burali-Forti/

   11 Jul 2023: H C Kennedy, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

7. Girard Desargues (1591 - 1661) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   13 May 2023: R Taton, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

8. Giuseppe Piazzi (1746 - 1826) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   11 Jan 2024: He was sent to study philosophy in Turin and while there became interested in mathematics through the teaching of Giambattista Beccaria (1716-1781), who is famed for his scientific study of ... G Abetti, Piazzi, Giuseppe, in Charles Coulston Gillispie (ed

9. Thomas Cherry (1898 - 1966) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: He wrote (see for example [1]):-. While I am interested in the facts of Nature, I am much more interested in scientific theories, and particularly in fundamental questions, e.g. ... Math. Soc. Gaz. 33 (1) (2006), 14-21. J J Cross, Sir Thomas Macfarland

10. Thomas Havelock (1877 - 1968) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Havelock's scientific work lay in two main areas: the passage of light through materials and naval hydrodynamics. ... P H Roberts, Havelock, Sir Thomas Henry (1877-1968), mathematician, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press,

11. William McFadden Orr (1866 - 1934) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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

    7 Mar 2023: Captain William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843-1920) was a scientific photographer particularly interested in applications of photography to astronomy. ... F E Hackett, Orr, William McFadden (1866-1934), rev. Julia Tompson, Oxford Dictionary of National