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  1. William Spottiswoode (1825 - 1883) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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

    25 Jan 2024: It is remarkable that Spottiswoode was able to undertake the amount of work that he did, both scientific and administrative. ... H Rix, Spottiswoode, William, Dictionary of National Biography LIII (London, 1898), 417-418.

  2. Albertus (1200 - 1280) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    23 Nov 2023: He now had a heavy administrative load but still found time to continue his scientific work. ... W A Wallace, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  3. William Clifford (1845 - 1879) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: J D North, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... J R Newman, William Kingdon Clifford, Scientific American 188 (2) (1953), 78-84.

  4. Hermann Hankel (1839 - 1873) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: M J Crowe, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  5. Richard von Mises (1883 - 1953) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    8 Apr 2024: von Mises chose the topics according to a very definite view-point, determined by his ideas about the essence and method of every thoroughly scientific research. ... N T Gridgeman, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

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

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

    25 Sep 2023: Robert E Butts, Biography of William Whewell in Dictionary of Scientific Biography 14 (New York 1970-1990), 292-295. ... M Ruse, The Scientific Methodology of William Whewell, Centaurus 20 (1976), 227-257.

  7. Michael Faraday (1791 - 1867) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: In fact these lectures would become Faraday's passport to a scientific career. ... his virtues were those of action, not of mere abstention. L P Williams, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  8. Oliver Heaviside (1850 - 1925) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: C Susskind, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... P J Nahin, Oliver Heaviside, Scientific American 262 (June 1990), 80-87.

  9. John William Strutt (1842 - 1919) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: However Stokes does not appear to have directly encouraged Rayleigh to undertake a scientific career. ... T J Trenn, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  10. Stanley Jevons (1835 - 1882) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: N T Gridgeman, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).