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Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
Title:
Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
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Publishing, Helicon.
ISBN:
9781859865033
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1 online resource (1526 pages)
Contents:
The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography -- Preface -- Table of contents -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- A -- Abbe, Ernst (1840-1905) -- Abel, Neils Henrik (1802-1829) -- Abelian functions -- Abetti, Giorgio (1882-1982) -- ablation -- absorption trough -- abstract algebra -- abstract group -- abundant number -- accelerator nerve -- achromatic lens -- actin -- Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) -- Adams, Walter Sydney (1876-1956) -- Addison, Thomas (1793-1860) -- adiabatic change -- Adler, Alfred (1870-1937) -- Adrian, Edgar Douglas (1889-1977) -- 1st Baron Adrian of Cambridge, -- aeon -- or eon, -- afferent nerve -- Agassiz, (Jean) Louis Rodolphe (1807-1873) -- Agnesi, Maria Gaetana (1718-1799) -- Agricola, Georgius (1490-1555) -- born Georg Bauer, -- Aiken, Howard Hathaway (1900-1973) -- air pump -- Airy, George Biddell (1801-1892) -- Aitken, Robert Grant (1864-1951) -- Alder, Kurt (1902-1958) -- Aleksandrov, Pavel Sergeevich (1896-1982) -- Alexander, Hattie Elizabeth (1901-1968) -- Alfvén, Hannes Olof Gösta (1908-1995) -- algebraic curve -- algebraic numbers -- algebraic topology -- Alhazen, Abu Ali al-Hassan ibn al-Haytham (c. 965-1038) -- alkyl -- allantois -- alpha chain -- Alpher, Ralph Asher (1921- ) -- al-Sufi (903-986) -- Alter, David (1807-1881) -- Alvarez, Luis Walter (1911-1988) -- Alzheimer, Alois (1864-1915) -- Ambartsumian, Viktor Amazasp Amazaspovich (1908-1996) -- Ampère, André-Marie (1775-1836) -- Amsler-Laffon, Jakob (1823-1912) -- Anaximander the Elder (c. 611-547 BC) -- Anderson, Carl David (1905-1991) -- Anderson, Philip Warren (1923- ) -- Andrews, Thomas (1813-1885) -- angle of parallelism -- Ångström, Anders Jonas (1814-1874) -- anisotropic -- or aelotropic, -- Anning, Mary (1799-1847) -- Antoniadi, Eugène Marie (1870-1944).

aperture -- Apgar, Virginia (1909-1974) -- Apollonius of Perga (c. 245-c.190 BC) -- Apollonius' problem -- Appert, Nicolas François (c.1750-1841) -- Appleton, Edward Victor (1892-1965) -- Arago, (Dominique) François (Jean) (1786-1853) -- Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC) -- Argand, Jean Robert (1768-1822) -- Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm August (1799-1875) -- Aristarchos (c. 320-c. 250 BC) -- Aristotle (384-322 BC) -- Arkwright, Richard (1732-1792) -- armature -- Armstrong, Edwin Howard (1890-1954) -- Armstrong, William George (1810-1900) -- Arp, Halton Christian (1927- ) -- Arrhenius, Svante August (1859-1927) -- artillery -- Artin, Emil (1898-1962) -- aryl -- Aston, Francis William (1877-1945) -- astronomical colour index -- Atkinson, Robert D'escourt (1898-1982) -- atomic heat -- atomic orbital -- atomic radius -- atomic volume -- Attenborough, David Frederick (1926- ) -- attenuation -- Audubon, John James Laforest (1785-1851) -- Auer, Carl -- aurora -- autoclave -- autogyro -- automorphic function -- autophagy -- Avery, Oswald Theodore (1877-1955) -- Avicenna (980-1037) -- Arabic Abu 'Ali Al-Husain Ibn Abdallah Ibn Sina, -- Avogadro, Amedeo (1776-1856) -- Conte de Quaregna, -- axoplasm -- Ayrton, Hertha (Phoebe Sarah) Marks (1854-1923) -- Ayrton, William Edward (1847-1908) -- B -- Baade, (Wilhelm Heinrich) Walter (1893-1960) -- Babbage, Charles (1792-1871) -- Babcock, George Herman (1832-1893) -- Babcock, Harold Delos (1882-1968) -- Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) -- 1st Baron Verulam and Viscount St Albans, -- Bacon, Roger (c. 1220-c. 1292) -- bacteriotropin -- or opsonin, -- Baekeland, Leo Hendrik (1863-1944) -- Baer, Karl Ernst Ritter von (1792-1876) -- Baeyer, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von (1835-1917) -- Baily, Francis (1774-1844) -- Bainbridge, Kenneth Tompkins (1904-1996) -- Baird, John Logie (1888-1946) -- Baker, Alan (1939- ).

Baker, Benjamin (1840-1907) -- Balmer, Johann Jakob (1825-1898) -- Balmer series -- bandwidth -- Banks, Joseph (1743-1820) -- Banneker, Benjamin (1731-1806) -- Banting, Frederick Grant (1891-1941) -- Bardeen, John (1908-1991) -- Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory -- or BCS theory, -- Barkla, Charles Glover (1877-1944) -- Barnard, Christiaan Neethling (1922-2001) -- Barnard, Edward Emerson (1857-1923) -- Barr, Murray Llewellyn (1908-1995) -- Barrow, Isaac (1630-1677) -- Bartlett, Neil (1932- ) -- Barton, Derek Harold Richard (1918-1998) -- barycentric calculus -- Bascom, Florence (1862-1945) -- Bassi, Laura (1711-1778) -- Bates, H(enry) W(alter) (1825-1892) -- Bateson, William (1861-1926) -- Bayliss, William Maddock (1860-1924) -- Beadle, Tatum, and Lederberg, George Wells Beadle (1903-1989), Edward Lawrie Tatum (1909-1975), and Joshua Lederberg (1925- ) -- Beaufort, Francis (1774-1857) -- Beaumont, William (1785-1853) -- Becquerel, (Antoine) Henri (1852-1908) -- Behring, Emil (Adolph von) (1854-1917) -- Beijerinck, Martinus Willem (1851-1931) -- Békésy, Georg von (1899-1972) -- Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922) -- Bell, Charles (1774-1842) -- Bell, Patrick (1799-1869) -- Bell Burnell, (Susan) Jocelyn (1943- ) -- Beltrami, Eugenio (1835-1899) -- Benedict, Ruth (1887-1948) -- born Ruth Fulton, -- Benz, Karl (Friedrich) (1844-1929) -- Berg, Paul (1926- ) -- Bergius, Friedrich Karl Rudolf (1884-1949) -- Bernard, Claude (1813-1878) -- Bernays, Paul (Isaak) (1888-1977) -- Bernoulli, Daniel (1700-1782) -- Bernoulli, Jacques (Jakob) 1654-1705 and Jean (Johann) (1667-1748) -- Bernoulli numbers -- or B numbers, -- Bernoulli's theorem -- Bernstein, Jeremy (1929- ) -- Berthelot, Pierre Eugène Marcellin (1827-1907) -- Berthollet, Claude Louis (1748-1822) -- Count, -- Berthoud, Ferdinand (1727-1807) -- Berzelius, Jöns Jakob (1779-1848).

Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm (1784-1846) -- Bessemer, Henry (1813-1898) -- beta chain -- Bethe, Hans Albrecht (1906-2005) -- Betti, Enrico (1823-1892) -- Betti numbers -- Bhabha, Homi Jehangir (1909-1966) -- Bhabha scattering -- Bichat, Marie François Xavier (1771-1802) -- Bickford, William (1774-1834) -- Bigelow, Erastus Brigham (1814-1879) -- Binet, Alfred (1857-1911) -- biplane -- biquaternions -- Birkhoff, George David (1884-1944) -- Bjerknes, Vilhelm Firman Koren (1862-1951) -- Black, Joseph (1728-1799) -- Black, Max (1909-1988) -- black-body radiation -- Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart (1897-1974) -- Baron Blackett, -- Blackwell, Elizabeth (1821-1910) -- Blakemore, Colin (Brian) (1944- ) -- blastoderm -- Bloch, Konrad Emil (1912-2000) -- blue dwarf, blue giant -- B number -- bobbin -- Bode, Johann Elert (1749-1826) -- Boerhaave, Hermann (1668-1738) -- Bohr, Mottelson, and Rainwater, Aage Niels Bohr (1922- ), Ben Roy Mottelson (1926- ) and (Leo) James Rainwater (1917-1986) -- Bohr, Niels Henrik David (1885-1962) -- Bok, Bart J(an) (1906-1992) -- Boksenberg, Alexander (1936- ) -- Bok's globule -- Boltzmann, Ludwig Eduard (1844-1906) -- Bolyai -- Farkas) Wolfgang (1775-1856) and János (1802-1860, -- Bolzano, Bernardus Placidus Johann Nepomuk (1781-1848) -- Bond, George Phillips (1825-1865) -- Bond, William Cranch (1789-1859) -- Bondi, Hermann (1919- ) -- Boole, George (1815-1864) -- Booth, Hubert Cecil (1871-1955) -- Borel, Emile Félix-Edouard-Justin (1871-1956) -- Born, Max (1882-1970) -- Bosch, Carl (1874-1940) -- Bose-Einstein statistics -- Boulton, Matthew (1728-1809) -- boundary value -- Bourbaki, Nicolas -- Bourdon, Eugène (1808-1884) -- Boveri, Theodor Heinrich (1862-1915) -- Bowden, Frank Philip (1903-1968) -- Bowen, Ira Sprague (1898-1973) -- Bowen, Norman Levi (1887-1956) -- box girder -- Boyle, Robert (1627-1691).

Boys, Charles Vernon (1855-1944) -- Bradley, James (1693-1762) -- Bragg, William Henry (1862-1942) and (William) Lawrence (1890-1971) -- Bragg's law -- Brahe, Tycho (1546-1601) -- braid theory -- Bramah, Joseph (1748-1814) -- Branly, Edouard Eugène Désiré (1844-1940) -- Braun, Emma Lucy (1889-1971) -- Braun, Karl Ferdinand (1850-1918) -- Bredig, Georg (1868-1944) -- Bremsstrahlung -- Brenner, Sydney (1927- ) -- Brewster, David (1781-1868) -- Brewster's law -- Bridgman, Percy Williams (1882-1961) -- Briggs, Henry (1561-1630) -- Bright, Richard (1789-1858) -- Brindley, James (1716-1772) -- Brinell, Johan August (1849-1925) -- British Standard Whitworth thread -- broad gauge -- Broglie, Louis Victor Pierre Raymond de (1892-1987) -- 7th duc de Broglie, -- Brongniart, Alexandre (1770-1847) -- Bronowski, Jacob (1908-1974) -- Brønsted, Johannes Nicolaus (1879-1947) -- Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan (1881-1966) -- Brown, Ernest William (1866-1938) -- Brown, Robert (1773-1858) -- Brown, Robert Hanbury (1916-2002) -- Brunel, Isambard Kingdom (1806-1859) -- Brunel, Marc Isambard (1769-1849) -- Buchner, Eduard (1860-1917) -- Buckland, William (1784-1856) -- Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc (1707-1788) -- Comte de Buffon, -- Bullard, Edward Crisp (1907-1980) -- Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm (1811-1899) -- Burali-Forte's paradox -- Burali-Forti, Cesare (1861-1931) -- Burbidge, Geoffrey (1925- ) and (Eleanor) Margaret (born Peachey) (1919- ) -- Burkitt, Denis Parsons (1911-1993) -- Burnet, (Frank) Macfarlane (1899-1985) -- Burnside, William (1852-1927) -- Bush, Vannevar (1890-1974) -- C -- Cailletet, Louis Paul (1832-1913) -- Cairns, Hugh John Forster (1922- ) -- Cajori, Florian (1859-1930) -- calculus of variations -- calibre -- Calkins, Mary Whiton (1863-1930) -- Callendar, Hugh Longbourne (1863-1930) -- Calne, Roy Yorke (1930- ) -- caloric theory -- calorimeter.

calorimetry.
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Authoritative and accessible guide to the lives, labours, and achievements of the men and women who have shaped the world of science.
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