Carl Snyder

male, deceased (1946)
University of Iowa, Economist, Statistician, Nonparell, washington post, capitalism…MagnumOpus
Carl Snyder (April 23, 1869, Cedar Falls IA - 1946 Santa Barbara CA) was an American economist and statistician. Although he attended theUniversity...

Dines Bjørner

male, 72 years old
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Association for Computing Machinery, Fellow of the IEEE, Academic, IEEE, macau…MagnumOpus
Dines Bjørner in Macau during the 1990s. His "magnum opus" on software engineering (three volumes) appears in 2005/6 (see details below). To s...

Thomas Dempster

male, deceased (1625)
Cosimo II, De Etruria Regali Libri Septem, latin language, Scottish lowlands, Scottish Highlands, etruria…MagnumOpus
Thomas Dempster (August 23, 1579 - September 6, 1625) was a Scottish scholar and historian. Born into the aristocracy in Aberdeenshire, which...

Chabua Amirejibi

male, 88 years old
communist party, World War II, writer, Siberia, stalin, Soviet dissident…MagnumOpus
Chabua (Mzechabuk) Amirejibi (born November 18, 1921) is a Georgian novelist notable for his magnum opus, "Data Tutashkhia", and a lengthy...

William Bell Dinsmoor

male, deceased (1973)
Harvard University, Columbia University, Nashville, architect, Archaeologist, archaeological institute of america…MagnumOpus
William Bell Dinsmoor, Sr. (born Windham, New Hampshire 1886; died Athens, Greece July 1973) was an architectural historian of classical Greece and...
Romeo Cascarino

Romeo Cascarino

male, deceased (2002)
classical music, composer, Classical composer, Guggenheim Fellowship, American, MagnumOpus
Romeo Cascarino (b. September 22, 1922; d. January 8, 2002) was an American composer of classical music. His music is generally tonal, and his...
Richard Swineshead

Richard Swineshead

male
Scholastic philosopher, Gerolamo Cardano, Liber calculationum, Julius Caesar Scaliger, qui pene modum excessit humani ingenii, Bibliothèque du Roi…MagnumOpus
Richard Swineshead (fl. c. 1340 – 1354), logician and natural philosopher, was perhaps the greatest of the Oxford Calculators of Merton College, wh...

Andy Byatt

male
Deep Blue, BBC Natural History Unit, High-definition TV, Planet Earth, ocean, Documentary film…MagnumOpus
Andy Byatt is an English wildlife documentary film producer for the BBC Natural History Unit (NHU) in Bristol. His key expertise is in the creation...

William Of Heytesbury

male
chancellor, University of Oxford, mathematician, Sophismata, divisibility, Infinitely divisible…MagnumOpus
William Heytesbury (a. 1313 – 1372/1373), philosopher and logician, is best known as one of the Oxford Calculators of Merton College, where he wa...

Ahmed Farah Ali 'Idaja'

male
somali, writer, Non-fiction writer, BBC, MagnumOpus, Somali language
Ahmed Farah Ali 'Idaja' (Somali spelling: Axmed Faarax Cali 'Idaajaa',) is one of the first Somali language writers and 'father' of the Somali...