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#9751

Thomas Bartholin

Thomas Bartholin

1616 - 1680 (64 years)

Thomas Bartholin was a Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian. He discovered the lymphatic system in humans and advanced the theory of refrigeration anesthesia, being the first to describe it scientifically.

#9752

Moritz Allé

1837 - 1913 (76 years)

Moritz Allé was an Austrian astronomer and mathematician, one of the teachers of Nikola Tesla. Scientific career After his university graduation, Allé startet his professional career as an assistant at the Vienna Observatory in 1856. He was appointed Adjunkt at the observatory in Kraków in 1859. In 1860 he completed his PhD at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. In 1862 he was appointed Adjunkt at the observatory in Prague. It was there where he completed his habilitation in mathematics in 1863. In 1867, Allé was appointed professor of mathematics at the Joanneum in Graz and was elected as its rector in 1875/76.

#9753

Robert Leroy Mercer

#9754

Ezechiel de Decker

1603 - 1643 (40 years)

Ezechiel de Decker was a Dutch surveyor and teacher of mathematics. Tables of logarithms In 1625, De Decker entered a contract with Adriaan Vlacq for the publication of several translations of books by John Napier, Edmund Gunter and Henry Briggs. A first book was published in 1626, with several translations done by Vlacq. A second book was made of the logarithms of the first 10000 numbers from Briggs' Arithmetica logarithmica published in 1624. The logarithms were shortened to 10 places. In 1627, De Decker's "Tweede deel" was published and it contained the logarithms of all numbers from 1 to 100000, to 10 places.

#9755

Phillips Brooks

Phillips Brooks

1835 - 1893 (58 years)

Phillips Brooks was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts. He wrote the lyrics of the Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem".

#9756

Donald Sadler

1908 - 1987 (79 years)

Donald Harry Sadler was an English astronomer and mathematician who developed an international reputation for his work in preparing astronomical and navigational almanacs. He worked as the Superintendent of His Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office from 1937 to 1971.

#9757

Heinrich Schotten

1856 - 1939 (83 years)

Heinrich Georg Leonhard Schotten was a German mathematician and mathematical pedagogue, known for his work on reforms in the teaching of geometry. Schotten was a Gymnasium student in Marburg and in Leipzig and studied from 1876 to 1882 in Leipzig, Breslau, Berlin and Marburg with teaching qualification via state examination in Marburg in 1882 and with doctorate in 1883. His dissertation has the title Über einige bemerkenswerte Gattungen der Hypocycloiden. After completing his doctorate, he spent a probationary year in Kassel as a Gymnasium teacher. He was employed as a Gymnasium teacher in Bad Hersfeld, Schmalkalden and Kassel .

#9758

William John Greenstreet

William John Greenstreet

1861 - 1930 (69 years)

William John Greenstreet was an English mathematician who was editor of The Mathematical Gazette for more than thirty years. Life and work Greenstreet was son of a Royal Artillery's Sergeant. He was educated at Southwark and he entered St John's College, Cambridge in 1879, graduating there in 1883. Then he was mathematics professor in different schools in Framlingham, East Riding and Cardiff before he became Head Master at Marling School in 1891. In 1910 he retired to Burghfield Common with the intention of devoting to literary work.

#9759

Dario Graffi

1905 - 1990 (85 years)

Dario Graffi was an influential Italian mathematical physicist, known for his researches on the electromagnetic field, particularly for a mathematical explanation of the Luxemburg effect, for proving an important uniqueness theorem for the solutions of a class of fluid dynamics equations including the Navier-Stokes equation, for his researches in continuum mechanics and for his contribution to oscillation theory.

#9760

Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm

Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm

1841 - 1919 (78 years)

Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm was a German mathematician. His Ph.D. advisor was Heinrich Eduard Schroeter, and Otto Toeplitz was one of his Ph.D. students. His best ever proposal type claim is commonly known as "Sturm's Theorem" based on finding the complex imaginary roots of an infinite arbitrary-integer series.

#9761

Enoch Beery Seitz

Enoch Beery Seitz

1846 - 1883 (37 years)

Enoch Beery Seitz was an American mathematician who was Chair of Mathematics at North Missouri State Normal School Seitz was elected to the London Mathematical Society on 11 March 1880, only the fifth American to be so honored. Over 500 of his solutions were published in the Analyst, the Mathematical Visitor, the Mathematical Magazine, the School Visitor and the Educational Times of London, England.

#9762

Peder Horrebow

1679 - 1764 (85 years)

Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow was a Danish astronomer. Born in Løgstør, Jutland to a poor family of fishermen, Horrebow entered the University of Copenhagen in 1703. He worked his way through grammar school and university by virtue of his technical knowledge: he repaired mechanical and musical instruments and cut seals. He received his MA from the university in 1716, and his MD in 1725. From 1703 to 1707, he served as an assistant to Ole Rømer and lived in Rømer's home. He worked as a household tutor from 1707 to 1711 to a Danish baron, and entered the governmental bureaucracy as an excise w...

#9763

Isaac Sir Newton

#9764

William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley

1849 - 1903 (54 years)

William Ernest Henley was an English poet, writer, critic and editor. Though he wrote several books of poetry, Henley is remembered most often for his 1875 poem "Invictus". A fixture in London literary circles, the one-legged Henley might have been the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's character Long John Silver , while his young daughter Margaret Henley inspired J. M. Barrie's choice of the name Wendy for the heroine of his play Peter Pan .

#9765

Karl Reinhardt

1895 - 1941 (46 years)

Karl August Reinhardt was a German mathematician whose research concerned geometry, including polygons and tessellations. He solved one of the parts of Hilbert's eighteenth problem, and is the namesake of the Reinhardt polygons.

#9766

Norman H. Anning

1883 - 1963 (80 years)

Norman Herbert Anning was a mathematician, assistant professor, professor emeritus, and instructor in mathematics, recognized and acclaimed in mathematics for publishing a proof of the characterization of the infinite sets of points in the plane with mutually integer distances, known as the Erdős–Anning theorem.

#9767

Jacques Callot

1592 - 1635 (43 years)

Jacques Callot was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine . He is an important person in the development of the old master print. He made more than 1,400 etchings that chronicled the life of his period, featuring soldiers, clowns, drunkards, Gypsies, beggars, as well as court life. He also etched many religious and military images, and many prints featured extensive landscapes in their background.

#9768

Antonio Collalto

1765 - 1820 (55 years)

Antonio Collalto was an Italian mathematician and physicist. Life He was from a modest and otherwise unrecorded family. According to Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna, his surname did not indicate a connection with the house of Collalto but instead his status as a Jewish convert to Catholicism in his youth. He was unable to study at the Patriarchal Seminary of Venice, run by the Somaschi Fathers, and gained a scientific education from the physicist Vincenzo Miotti. He completed his studies and then became a priest. In 1795 he became professor of maths and physics in the public schools of Venice. In 1...

#9769

Diego Rodríguez

1569 - 1668 (99 years)

Diego Rodríguez was a mathematician, astronomer, educator, and technological innovator in New Spain. He was one of the most important figures in the scientific field in the colony in the second half of the seventeenth century.

#9770

Arthur Herbert Copeland

1898 - 1970 (72 years)

Arthur Herbert Copeland was an American mathematician. He graduated from Harvard University in 1926 and taught at Rice University and the University of Michigan. His main interest was in the foundations of probability.

#9771

Johannes Valentinus Andreae

Johannes Valentinus Andreae

1586 - 1654 (68 years)

Johannes Valentinus Andreae , a.k.a. Johannes Valentinus Andreä or Johann Valentin Andreae, was a German theologian, who claimed to be the author of an ancient text known as the Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459 . This became one of the three founding works of Rosicrucianism, which was both a legend and a fashionable cultural phenomenon across Europe in this period.

#9772

Pierre Simon Marquis De Laplace

#9773

James Cagney

1899 - 1986 (87 years)

James Francis Cagney Jr. was an American actor, dancer and film director. On stage and in film, he was known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comic timing. He won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances.

#9774

John Bell

1812 - 1895 (83 years)

John Bell was a British sculptor, born in Bell's Row, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. His family home was Hopton Hall, Suffolk. His works were shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851, and he was responsible for the marble group representing "America" on the Albert Memorial in London.

#9775

Eugene P. Northrop

1908 - 1969 (61 years)

Eugene P. Northrop was an American research mathematician and a math popularizer. Northrop received his PhD from Yale University in 1934 with thesis advisor Einar Hille. Northrop held the William Rainey Harper Chair of Mathematics at the University of Chicago, and frequently served in administrative roles and on technical commissions. He is most remembered for his 1944 book Riddles in Mathematics, which was well-received by the mathematical community and remains in print as a Dover book .

#9776

Hiroshi Okamura

1905 - 1948 (43 years)

Hiroshi Okamura was a Japanese mathematician who made contributions to analysis and the theory of differential equations. He was a professor at Kyoto University. He discovered the necessary and sufficient conditions on initial value problems of ordinary differential equations for the solution to be unique. He also refined the second mean value theorem of integration.

#9777

Alf Victor Guldberg

1866 - 1936 (70 years)

Alf Victor Emanuel Guldberg was a Norwegian mathematician. His father was Axel Sophus Guldberg and his aunt was Cathinka Guldberg. Alf Guldberg received in 1892 his Ph.D. and became in that year a privatdocent at the University of Oslo. In 1913 he became a professor there. He also taught at the Norwegian Military Academy and the Norwegian Military College.

#9778

Robert William Genese

1848 - 1928 (80 years)

Robert William Genese was an Irish mathematician whose career was spent in Wales. Early life and education Genese was born on Westland Row a street on the south side of Dublin on 8 May 1848. From St John's College of the University of Cambridge, Genese received in 1871 his bachelor's degree and in 1874 his master's degree.

#9779

François Nau

1864 - 1931 (67 years)

François Nau was a French Catholic priest, mathematician, Syriacist, and specialist in oriental languages. He published a great number of eastern Christian texts and translations for the first and often only time.

#9780

Adolf Kiefer

1857 - 1929 (72 years)

Adolf Kiefer was a Swiss mathematician, working mainly on geometry. Life Kiefer was born in 1857 in Selzach, Switzerland to Jakob, a farmer, village mayor and member of Solothurn parliament. In 1880 he graduated as a teacher of mathematics and physics. He taught, from 1881-2, at the Concordia Institute, in Zürich. Kiefer's 1881 doctorate was from the University of Zürich for the thesis Der Kontakt höherer Ordnung bei algebraischen Flächen. Between 1882 and 1894 he taught geometry and technical drawing at the canton school in Frauenfeld, becoming deputy head in 1886 and head in 1888. In 1894 he became director of the Concordia Institute.

#9781

Petrus Bertius

1565 - 1629 (64 years)

Petrus Bertius was a Flemish philosopher, theologian, historian, geographer and cartographer. Bertius published much in mathematics, and historical and theological works, but he is now best known as cartographer with his edition of the Geographia of Ptolemy , and for its atlas.

#9782

Alexander Myller

Alexander Myller

1879 - 1965 (86 years)

Alexander Myller was a Romanian mathematician and professor at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași.

#9783

George Richard Crooks

George Richard Crooks

1822 - 1897 (75 years)

George Richard Crooks was an American Methodist minister, writer, and educator. Early career George Crooks was born in Philadelphia, the son of George R. Crooks, Sr. and Mary M. Crooks. He graduated from Dickinson College in 1840 at the age of 18, and, according to his yearbooks, his family was then residing in Adams, Illinois. Following graduation he undertook missionary work as a circuit rider in Illinois. He soon returned to Dickinson, and in the 1841-2 Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Dickinson College, Crooks is listed as "Tutor in Languages and Mathematics."

#9784

Jacques Babinet

Jacques Babinet

1794 - 1872 (78 years)

Jacques Babinet was a French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer who is best known for his contributions to optics. Biography His father was Jean Babinet and mother, Marie‐Anne Félicité Bonneau du Chesn. Babinet started his studies at the Lycée Napoléon, but was persuaded to abandon a legal education for the pursuit of science. A graduate of the École Polytechnique, which he left in 1812 for the Military School at Metz, he was later a professor at the Sorbonne and at the Collège de France. In 1840, he was elected as a member of the Académie Royale des Sciences. He was also an astronome...

#9785

Michael Tombros

Michael Tombros

1889 - 1974 (85 years)

Michael Tombros was a Greek sculptor who was influential in introducing avant-garde styles into Greece. Life Michael Tombros was born in Athens in 1889, son of a marble sculptor from Korthio, Andros island. He attended the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1903 to 1909. He studied sculpture with Georgios Vroutos and Lazaros Sochos, and drawing with Dimitrios Geraniotis, Alexandros Kalloudis and Georgios Jakobides. He also worked at the marble sculpture workshop of N.M. Perakis. In 1910 he set up his own studio in Athens. In 1914 he obtained a scholarship from the estate of George Averoff which...

#9786

Aphra Behn

1640 - 1689 (49 years)

Aphra Behn was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors. Rising from obscurity, she came to the notice of Charles II, who employed her as a spy in Antwerp. Upon her return to London and a probable brief stay in debtors' prison, she began writing for the stage. She belonged to a coterie of poets and famous libertines such as John Wilmot, Lord Rochester. Behn wrote under the pastoral pseudonym Astrea.

#9787

John Sturgeon Mackay

1843 - 1914 (71 years)

John Sturgeon Mackay FRSE LLD was a Scottish mathematician and academic author. Life He was born on 22 October 1843 at Auchencairn near Kirkcudbright the son of John Mackay and his wife Jessie Sturgeon. The family moved to Perth early in his life and he was educated at Perth Academy. He entered St Andrews University in 1859 and graduated MA in 1863.

#9788

Charles P. Neill

Charles P. Neill

1865 - 1942 (77 years)

Charles Patrick Neill was an American civil servant who was raised in Austin, Texas, after his family emigrated from Ireland in 1850. Neill graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1897 with a doctorate in economics and politics. He was appointed the United States Commissioner of Labor in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt. As Commissioner of Labor he helped inspect the Meat Packing industries, and reported women and child labor injustices. He also mediated labor disputes between workers and employers in the coal, railroad, and steel corporations.

#9789

James Summers

1828 - 1891 (63 years)

James Summers was a British scholar of English literature, hired by the Meiji government of the Empire of Japan to establish an English language curriculum at the Kaisei Gakuin . Early life Summers was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire. His father was a plasterer of limited means, and seems to have left his family some time before James became 10 years old. Summers moved from Bird Street to the Close with his mother and went to the Lichfield Diocesan Training School for about one year from September 1844 to November 1845. He moved again to Stoke-on-Trent with his mother and started his teaching career at a National School there.

#9790

Giacomo Bellacchi

1838 - 1924 (86 years)

Giacomo Bellacchi was an Italian mathematician. After graduating from Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, he became a teacher at a military school and at the Tuscan Technical Institute, where one of his pupils was Vito Volterra.

#9791

Walter Fricke

1915 - 1988 (73 years)

Walter Ernst Fricke was a distinguished German professor of theoretical astronomy at the University of Heidelberg. He was a mathematician and cryptanalyst during World War II at the Wehrmacht signals intelligence agency, Inspectorate 7/VI from 1941 to 1942

#9792

Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar

786 - 833 (47 years)

was a mathematician and translator. Biography Almost nothing is known about his life, except that he was active in Baghdad, then the capital of the ʿAbbāsid Empire. He was the first author who translated Euclid's Elements from Greek into Arabic. His first translation was made for Yaḥyā ibn Khālid, the Vizier of Caliph Hārūn al‐Rashīd. He made a second, improved, more concise translation for the Caliph al-Maʾmūn . Around 829, he translated Ptolemy's Almagest, which at that time had also been translated by Hunayn Ibn Ishaq and .

#9793

James White

1775 - 1820 (45 years)

James White was an English advertising agent, author and lifelong friend of Charles Lamb. Personal life He was the son of Samuel and Mary White and was baptised at the Church of St. John in Bedwardine, Worcester, on 17 April 1775.

#9794

Perdiccas

365 BC - 321 BC (44 years)

Perdiccas was a general of Alexander the Great. He took part in the Macedonian campaign against the Achaemenid Empire, and, following Alexander's death in 323 BC, rose to become supreme commander of the imperial army, as well as regent for Alexander's half brother and intellectually disabled successor, Philip Arridaeus .

#9795

Jacques-Marie-Frangile Bigot

Jacques-Marie-Frangile Bigot

1818 - 1893 (75 years)

Jacques Marie Frangile Bigot was a French naturalist and entomologist most noted for his studies of Diptera. Bigot was born in Paris, France, where he lived all his life, though he had a small house in Quincy-sous-Sénart, Essonne. He became a member of the Entomological Society of France in 1844, and his first paper was published in its Annals in 1845, as was most of his later work. Bigot was a prolific author, and, like Francis Walker, his work was the subject of much later criticism.

#9796

Johann Samuel König

Johann Samuel König

1712 - 1757 (45 years)

Johann Samuel König was a German mathematician. Biography Johann Bernoulli instructed both König and Pierre Louis Maupertuis as pupils during the same period. König is remembered largely for his disagreements with Leonhard Euler, concerning the principle of least action. He is also remembered as a tutor to Émilie du Châtelet, one of the few female physicists of the 18th century.

#9797

Stephen Harriman Long

Stephen Harriman Long

1784 - 1864 (80 years)

Stephen Harriman Long was an American army civil engineer, explorer, and inventor. As an inventor, he is noted for his developments in the design of steam locomotives. He was also one of the most prolific explorers of the early 1800s, although his career as an explorer was relatively short-lived. He covered over 26,000 miles in five expeditions, including a scientific expedition in the Great Plains area, which he famously confirmed as a "Great Desert" .

#9798

Margaret Millington

1944 - 1973 (29 years)

Margaret Hilary Millington was an English-born mathematician. She was born Margaret Hilary Ashworth in Halifax, Yorkshire, the daughter of the local assistant head postmaster, and was educated there. She continued her studies at St Mary's College, Durham and went on to Oxford University, where she earned a PhD in 1968 with A. O. L. Atkin as her advisor. Also, in 1968, she married Lieutenant A.H. Millington, who was part of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. She was awarded a two-year Science Research Council Fellowship which allowed her to pursue research at any university. During...

#9799

René Risser

1869 - 1958 (89 years)

René Nathan Risser was a French statistician, mathematician, actuary, artillery officer, government administrator, professor of actuarial science, and inventor. Education and career Risser graduated from the École polytechnique in 1892 and then graduated from the École d'application de l'artillerie et du génie in the Arrondissement of Fontainebleau. In 1898 he became an employee of the Statistique générale de la France upon recommendations from Emmanuel Carvallo and Arthur Fontaine. Upon the advice of Lucien March, Risser oriented his career toward actuarial science and in 1907 joined the government ministry of Travail et de la Prévoyance sociale .

#9800

Stevie Smith

1902 - 1971 (69 years)

Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smith , was an English poet and novelist. She won the Cholmondeley Award and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. A play, Stevie by Hugh Whitemore, based on her life, was adapted into a film starring Glenda Jackson.

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