- Danica McKellar
Danica Mae McKellar (born January 3, 1975), is an American actress of Scottish and Portuguese descent. She is best known for her role as Winnie Cooper in the television show "The Wonder Years." Born in La Jolla, California, McKellar and sister Crystal McKellar have maintained a friendly competition to see who gets more acting jobs. Indeed, when the actress who would play Winnie had to be chosen, … - Boris Berezovsky
Boris Abramovich Berezovsky a.k.a. Platon Elenin is a Russian-born billionaire. He emigrated to the UK in 2001, where he was granted political asylum. - Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock. "Forbes" magazine's list of The World's Billionaires has ranked him as the richest person in the world since 1995, … - Karl Popper
Sir Karl Raimund Popper, CH, FRS, FBA, (July 28, 1902 - September 17, 1994), was an Austrian-born British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is counted among the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century, and also wrote extensively on social and political philosophy. - Julian Schwinger
Julian Seymour Schwinger (February 12, 1918 -- July 16, 1994) was an American theoretical physicist. He formulated the theory of renormalization and posited a phenomenon of electron-positron pairs known as the Schwinger effect. He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work on quantum electrodynamics (QED), along with Richard Feynman and Shinichiro Tomonaga - Paul Kocher
Paul Carl Kocher (born June 11, 1973) is an American cryptographer and cryptography consultant, currently the president of Cryptography Research, Inc. Among his most significant achievements are the development of timing attacks that can break online implementations of RSA, DSA and fixed-exponent Diffie-Hellman under certain circumstances, as well as the co-development of power analysis and differential power analysis. He also contributed to the design of Deep Crack, … - Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, (born 8 January1942) is a British theoretical physicist. Hawking is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes, and his popular works in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general. - Linus Pauling
Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 - August 19, 1994) was an American quantum chemist and biochemist. He was also acknowledged as a crystallographer, molecular biologist, and medical researcher. Pauling is widely regarded as the premier chemist of the twentieth century. He pioneered the application of quantum mechanics to chemistry, and in 1954 was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work describing the nature of chemical bonds. - Paul Dirac
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS (August 8, 1902 - October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum mechanics. He held the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and spent the last ten years of his life at Florida State University. Among other discoveries, he formulated the so-called "Dirac equation," which describes the behavior of fermions and which led to the prediction of the existence of antimatter. - John Maynard Smith
Professor John Maynard Smith, F.R.S. (6 January 1920 - 19 April 2004) was a British evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he then took a second degree in genetics under the well-known biologist J.B.S. Haldane. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution and theorised on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signaling theory. - Werner Heisenberg
Werner Karl Heisenberg was a celebrated German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, and acknowledged to be one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century. He was born in Würzburg, Germany and died in Munich. Heisenberg was the head of German nuclear energy project, though the nature of this project, and his work in this capacity, has been heavily debated. - Edward Teller
Edward Teller (original Hungarian name "Teller Ede") (January 15 1908 - September 9 2003) was a Austria-Hungary-born American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb." Teller immigrated to the United States in the 1930s, and was an early member of the Manhattan Project charged with developing the first atomic bombs. During this time he made a serious push to develop the first fusion-based weapons as well, … - Paul Davies
Paul Charles William Davies (born April 22, 1946) is a British-born, physicist, writer and broadcaster, who holds the position of College Professor at Arizona State University. He has held previous academic appointments at the University of Cambridge, University of London, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, University of Adelaide and Macquarie University. His research interests are in the fields of cosmology, quantum field theory, and astrobiology. - John Forbes Nash Jr.
John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born June 13 1928) is an American mathematician who works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. He shared the 1994 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences (also called the Nobel Prize in Economics) with two other game theorists, Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi. He is best known in popular culture as the subject of the Hollywood movie, "A Beautiful Mind", … - Kip Thorne
Kip Stephen Thorne is an American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in gravitation physics and astrophysics and for having trained a generation of scientists. A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking, he is the current Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech and one of the world’s leading experts on the astrophysical implications of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. - David Spiegelhalter
David John Spiegelhalter FRS (16 August 1953 -) is a statistician. He is now Professor of the Pubic Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge, and used to work at the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge. - Rolf Landauer
Rolf Landauer was an IBM physicist who in 1961 demonstrated that when information is lost in an irreversible circuit, the information becomes entropy and an associated amount of energy is dissipated as heat. This principle is relevant to reversible computing, quantum information and quantum computing. Landauer was born on February 4, 1927 in Stuttgart, Germany. Of Jewish parentage, he immigrated to the United States in 1938, graduated in 1943 from Stuyvesant High School, … - David Hilbert
David Hilbert was a German mathematician, recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He invented or developed a broad range of fundamental ideas, in invariant theory, the axiomatization of geometry, and with the notion of Hilbert space, one of the foundations of functional analysis. He adopted and warmly defended Cantor's set theory and transfinite numbers. - Shaun Wylie
Shaun Wylie is a British mathematician and former World War II codebreaker. Wylie was born in Oxford, England, and educated at Dragon School and then Winchester College. He won a scholarship to New College, Oxford where he studied mathematics and classics. In 1934, he went to study topology at Princeton University, obtaining a PhD in 1937 with Solomon Lefschetz as his supervisor. At Princeton he met fellow English mathematician Alan Turing. - Stephen Smale
Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician from Flint, Michigan, and winner of the Fields Medal in 1966. He entered the University of Michigan in 1948. Initially, Smale was a good student, placing into an honors calculus sequence taught by Bob Thrall and earning himself A's. However, his sophomore and junior years were marred with mediocre grades, mostly Bs, Cs and even an F in nuclear physics. - Timothy Timothy Gowers
William Timothy "Tim" Gowers FRS (born November 20 1963, Wiltshire) is a British mathematician. He is as of 1998 Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Trinity College. He completed his PhD entitled 'Symmetric Structures in Banach Spaces' at the University of Cambridge in 1990 under the supervision of Béla Bollobás, … - James Lighthill
Sir Michael James Lighthill FRS (23 January 1924 - 17 July 1998) was a British applied mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of Aeroacoustics. - Oswald Veblen
Oswald Veblen (24 June 1880 in Decorah, Iowa - 10 August, 1960) was an American mathematician, geometer and topologist, whose work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity. He proved the Jordan curve theorem in 1905. - Derek Abbott
Derek Abbott (May 3, 1960, in South Kensington, London, UK) is a physicist and electronic engineer. He is a Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is notable for leading theoretical work in the development of Parrondo's paradox, contributions to the field of stochastic resonance, and experimental contributions to T-ray imaging. - Max Newman
Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman (February 7 1897 - February 22 1984) was a British mathematician and codebreaker. - Roger Jones
Roger D. Jones, PhD is an American physicist and entrepreneur. Roger D. Jones is currently Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer of Qforma, Inc. located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Trained in physics at Dartmouth College, Jones worked as a staff physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1979 to 1995. His primary research interests were in laser fusion and machine learning. - Hellmuth Kneser
Hellmuth Kneser was a German mathematician, who made notable contributions to group theory and topology. His most famous result may be his theorem on the existence of a prime decomposition for 3-manifolds. His proof originated the concept of normal surface, a fundamental cornerstone of the theory of 3-manifolds. He was born in Dorpat, Russian Empire (now Tartu, Estonia) and died in Tübingen, Germany. - Karl Menger
Karl Menger was a mathematician of great scope and depth. He was the son of the famous economist Carl Menger. He worked in mathematics on algebras, curve and dimension theory, and geometries. Moreover, he contributed to game theory and social sciences. He was a student of Hans Hahn and received his PhD from the University of Vienna in 1924, L. E. J. Brouwer invited Menger to teach at the University of Amsterdam. - Jonathan Bowen
Jonathan Bowen is Chairman of Museophile Limited and a Visiting Professor at London South Bank University, where he has founded and headed the Centre for Applied Formal Methods since 2000. During 2006-07, he is a visiting academic at University College London. EPSRC Visiting Fellow: - Hans Bethe
Hans Albrecht Bethe (pronounced "BAY-tuh"); (July 2 1906--March 6, 2005), was a German-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. During World War II, he was head of the Theoretical Division at the secret Los Alamos laboratory developing the first atomic bombs. There he played a key role in calculating the critical mass of the weapons, … - Athanassios S. Fokas
Athanassios S. Fokas is a Greek mathematician, well known in the field of integrable nonlinear partial differential equations. Fokas was born on the Greek island of Kefallonia on June 30, 1952. - Simon Donaldson
Simon Kirwan Donaldson, born in Cambridge in 1957, is an English mathematician famous for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds. Donaldson gained a BA in mathematics from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1979, and in 1980 began postgraduate work at Worcester College, Oxford, first under Nigel Hitchin and later under Atiyah's supervision. Still a graduate student, Donaldson soon proved in 1982 a result that would establish his fame. - Oskar Morgenstern
Oskar Morgenstern was a German born Austrian economist who, working with John von Neumann, helped found the mathematical field of game theory (see Neumann-Morgenstern utility). Morgenstern was born in Görlitz, Germany. His mother was an illegitimate daughter of Frederick III, German Emperor. He was educated in Vienna, and was a recipient of a three year fellowship financed by the Rockefeller Foundation. - Vladimir Voevodsky
Vladimir Voevodsky is a Russian mathematician. His work in developing a homotopy theory for algebraic varieties and formulating motivic cohomology led to the award of a Fields Medal in 2002. - Claire Voisin
Claire Voisin is a French professor of mathematics and director of research at the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu at the University of Paris VI: Pierre et Marie Curie. She is noted for her work in algebraic geometry - particularly as it pertains to variational Hodge structures and mirror symmetry. She received the Sophie Germain Prize in 2003. - Tom Lehrer
Thomas Andrew (Tom) Lehrer (born April 9, 1928) is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. He used to lecture on mathematics and musical theater. - David Morgan-Mar
David Morgan-Mar (aka DangerMouse) is a Ph.D. graduate from the University of Sydney, Australia, best known online for two webcomics, "Irregular Webcomic!" and "Infinity on 30 Credits a Day", and for creating several humorous esoteric programming languages. He is also the author of several GURPS roleplaying sourcebooks for Steve Jackson Games, as well as a regular contributor to "Pyramid" magazine. He works as an optical engineer at Canon. - Wilhelm Magnus
Wilhelm Magnus was a mathematician. He made important contributions to combinatorial group theory, elliptic functions, and the study of tessellations. In 1931, he received his PhD from the University of Frankfurt, in Germany. His thesis, written under the direction of Max Dehn, was entitled "Über Unendlich diskontinuierliche Gruppen von einer definirenden Relation (der Freiheitssatz)". Magnus was a faculty member in Frankfurt from 1933 until 1938. - Heinz Hopf
Heinz Hopf was a mathematician born in Gräbschen, Germany (now Grabiszyn, part of Wrocław, Poland). He attended Dr. Karl Mittelhaus' higher boys' school from 1901 to 1904, and then entered the König-Wilhelm- Gymnasium in Breslau. He showed mathematical talent from an early age. In 1913 he entered the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University where he attended lectures by Ernst Steinitz, Kneser, Max Dehn, Erhard Schmidt, and Rudolf Sturm. When World War I broke out in 1914, … - Thomas Fink
Thomas Fink is an American physicist who has authored a number of journal articles on statistical and biological physics and two popular books. He is a Charge de Recherche at CNRS/Institut Curie and when not in Paris lives in England.
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