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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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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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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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David Donoho (1957 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Donoho/28 Jun 2024: MacSpin received the award "MacSpin - Best Scientific/Engineering Software of 1987," from the MacUser Magazine. ... His work provides new insight into some of the most pressing scientific questions of the present day.".
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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).
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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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Antoni Hoborski (1879 - 1940) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hoborski/28 Jun 2024: S Domoradzki, Z Pawlikowska-Brożek and D Węglowska (eds.), Antoni Hoborski, in Biographical dictionary of Polish mathematicians (Tarnobrzeg, 2003), 74-75. ... J Dybiec, Mathematical investigations of Antoni Hoborski, AGH Scientific Notebooks 935:
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Julius Weisbach (1806 - 1871) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Weisbach/2 Nov 2023: the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and theH Rouse, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).