Scientists And Mathematicians
64 entries in the Scientists And Mathematicians compendium.
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Karl PearsonEnglish biostatistician and mathematician credited with establishing mathematical statistiKarl WeierstrassGerman mathematician who formalized modern analysis and continuity.Konrad LorenzAustrian scientist.Kurt GödelLogician who proved limits of formal axiomatic systems.Leonhard EulerSwiss polymath who founded graph theory and modern mathematical notation.Linus PaulingAmerican chemist and peace activist; two unshared Nobel Prizes.Lise MeitnerPhysicist who co-discovered nuclear fission.Lord KelvinScottish physicist who determined the correct value of absolute zero and advanced thermodyLouis AgassizSwiss-born American naturalist known for glaciology and ichthyology.Louis de BroglieFrench physicist who proposed the wave nature of matter.Ludwig BoltzmannAustrian physicist who defined entropy statistically.Luigi GalvaniItalian pioneer of bioelectromagnetics who investigated animal electricity in frog legs.Léon FoucaultFrench physicist who proved Earth's rotation with a pendulum.Marie CurieFirst person to win Nobel Prizes in two scientific fields.Marie TharpMarie Tharp (July 30, 1920 – August 23, 2006) was an American geologist and oceanographic Max BornGerman–British physicist who shaped quantum mechanics and mentored many.Max PlanckGerman theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory.Michael FaradayEnglish chemist and physicist who pioneered electromagnetism and electrochemistry.Mikhail LomonosovCo-founder of Moscow State University with Ivan Shuvalov.Murray Gell-MannAmerican physicist who introduced quarks and won the Nobel Prize.Nicolas Léonard Sadi CarnotFrench military engineer and physicist who founded the first successful theory of heat engNicolaus CopernicusRenaissance polymath who proposed the Sun-centered universe.Niels BohrDanish physicist who received the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics and founded the Niels Bohr INiels Henrik AbelNorwegian mathematician who proved the quintic equation unsolvable by radicals.Alfred WegenerOriginator of the continental drift hypothesis.Amedeo AvogadroItalian scientist who proposed Avogadro's law on gases.Andreas VesaliusAnatomist whose 1543 book helped mark the start of the Scientific Revolution.Andrey KolmogorovSoviet mathematician who founded modern probability theory.Antonie van LeeuwenhoekSelf-taught Dutch microscopist who first observed microbes.Apollonius of PergaAncient Greek geometer who defined conic sections.Arthur CayleyEnglish mathematician who founded modern British pure mathematics.AryabhataFirst major mathematician-astronomer of classical Indian science.Barbara McClintockBarbara McClintock was an American cytogeneticist whose pioneering work with maize chromosBernhard RiemannGerman mathematician who reshaped analysis, geometry, and number theory.BrahmaguptaIndian mathematician who formalized zero and the quadratic formula.C. V. RamanIndian physicist who discovered the Raman effect.Carl Gustav Jacob JacobiGerman mathematician who advanced elliptic functions, dynamics, and number theory.Caroline HerschelFirst professional female astronomer and comet discoverer.Charles DarwinEnglish physicist and director of the National Physical Laboratory during WWII.Charles HermiteFrench mathematician who proved e is transcendental.Charles K. KaoPioneer of fibre optics who enabled modern telecommunications.Chien-Shiung WuChinese-American physicist who proved parity is not conserved.Christiaan HuygensDutch polymath who advanced optics, mechanics, and astronomy.Claude BernardFrench physiologist whose name is borne by Lyon 1 Claude Bernard University.Daniel BernoulliSwiss mathematician and physicist known for Bernoulli's principle.Dmitri MendeleevRussian chemist who created the periodic table of elements.Dorothy HodgkinMathematician and biochemical theorist who championed the cyclol hypothesis for protein stEdmond HalleyEnglish astronomer who predicted the return of Halley's Comet.Edward TellerHungarian-American physicist, father of the hydrogen bomb.Edwin HubbleEdwin Powell Hubble was an American astronomer who fundamentally transformed humanity’s unEmmy NoetherGerman mathematician who transformed abstract algebra and physics.EratosthenesAncient Greek polymath who first measured Earth's circumference.Ernest LawrenceAmerican nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer, and mathematician who co-developed the WiErnst MachPhysicist and philosopher whose positivism influenced the Vienna Circle.Nikolai LobachevskyRussian mathematician who developed hyperbolic geometry, challenging Euclid's fifth postulOtto HahnAwarded by the Max Planck Society to young scientists and researchers.ParacelsusSwiss physician and alchemist, father of toxicology.Paul DiracEnglish theoretical physicist and founder of quantum mechanics.Peter DebyeDutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry.Peter Gustav Lejeune DirichletGerman mathematician who created analytic number theory and defined the modern function.Pierre-Simon LaplaceFrench polymath who advanced celestial mechanics and probability theory.Pierre CurieFrench physicist and chemist, pioneer in radioactivity and magnetism.Pierre de FermatFrench mathematician known for Fermat's principle of least time.Pliny the ElderRoman author of the encyclopedic Natural History.
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