Scientists And Mathematicians 1-24
24 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 engineer who founded the theory of heat engine efficiency.Nicolaus 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.
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