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41. Alice Everett (1865 - 1949) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    17 May 2024: Everett, Alice, Survey of Astronomical History, Astronomers: Middlesex, The Society for the History of Astronomy. ... M B Ogilvie, Obligatory amateurs: Annie Maunder (1868-1947) and British women astronomers at the dawn of professional astronomy, British

42. Hirst prize - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Hirst_prize/

    27 Mar 2024: It is the most widely used and influential web-based resource in history of mathematics. ... We learned of Whittaker's huge breadth of scholarship, in science, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, religion, history of physics and mathematics, and gardening

43. William Hodge (1903 - 1975) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: He opted to take optional courses on Latin and Greek instead of science. ... one of the great landmarks in the history of science in the present century.

44. Julian Adem life - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Adem_life/

    9 Jun 2023: The 'My life in science' series honoured those at the UNAM who were 'Shapers of science'. ... In 1957 and 1958, the International Geophysical Year was held, an unparalleled event in the history of Earth Sciences, and in which Mexico played a very decent

45. William Whewell (1794 - 1866) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Sep 2023: Died. 6 March 1866. Cambridge, England. Summary. William Whewell is most famous today for his work on the philosophy of science, history of science, and moral philosophy. . ... The areas for which Whewell is most famous today are philosophy of science,

46. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Mar 2024: of Sci. 38 (2) (1981), 191-206. P H Byrne, The significance of Einstein's use of the history of science, Dialectica 34 (4) (1980), 263-276. ... Cl. Sci. (5) (3) 64 (1978), 61-63. L Debnath, Albert Einstein-scientific epistemology, in Selected studies :

47. Von Neumann books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Von_Neumann_books/

    24 May 2024: 2.7. Review by: David Hawkins. Philosophy of Science 12 (3) (1945), 221-227. ... They limit their science of economics to that body of economic doctrine which is amenable to their theory of games.

48. Hendrik Lorentz (1853 - 1928) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: 1875. He was appointed professor of mathematical physics at Leiden University in 1878. ... J A Kox, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, the Ether and the General Theory of Relativity, Archive for History of Exact Science 38 (1988), 67-78.

49. Meyer awards - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Meyer_awards/

    28 Feb 2024: Abel Prize (2017). 4.1. The Abel Prize. The Abel Prize is awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. ... The history of wavelets goes back over a hundred years, to an early construction by Alfréd Haar.

50. Paul Erdős (1913 - 1996) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: foundation of computer science. ... He was also one of the most prolific mathematicians in history, with more than 1,500 papers to his name.