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41. William Thomson (1824 - 1907) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: Thomson served as president of yet a third society when he was elected as president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1871. ... was required: Maxwell and Cavendish's null method for the inverse square law of electrostatics,

42. 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

43. Carolyn Eisele (1902 - 2000) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    11 Jan 2024: This letter, and others, clearly showed that Peirce was a master of the history of science as well as the history of mathematics. ... In 1953 Eisele was one of the founders of the Metropolitan New York Section of the History of Science Society [14]:-.

44. 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.

45. 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.

46. Victor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian (1908 - 1996) - Biography -…

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

    29 Apr 2024: A Blaauw, History of the IAU: The Birth and First Half-Century of the IAU (Kluwer, Boston, 1994). ... A I Eremeeva, Political Repression and Personality: The History of Political Repression Against Soviet Astronomers, J.

47. Dingle books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: become more critical if they are grounded in philosophy and know some history of science. ... Part I of the volume is composed of eight essays in the history of science; Part II of eleven essays in the philosophy of science.

48. 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,

49. Eisele books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Historical Perspectives on Peirce's Logic of Science: A History of Science Parts I and II (1985). ... So she decided to bring The New Elements to publication first, and then resume work on the history of science.

50. 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 :