Milton Abramowitz

male
mathematician, mathematics, numerical analyst, numerical analysis, NIST, NationalBureauofStandards…Handbook of Mathematical Functions
Milton Abramowitz was a mathematician at the National Bureau of Standards who, with Irene Stegun, edited a classic book of mathematical tables...
Irene Stegun

Irene Stegun

female
mathematician, mathematics, numerical analyst, numerical analysis, NIST, NationalBureauofStandards…A Handbook of Mathematical Functions
Irene Stegun was a mathematician at the National Bureau of Standards who, with Milton Abramowitz, edited a classic book of mathematical tables...
Edward Condon

Edward Condon

male, deceased (1974)
physicist, 1902-1974, American, university of colorado at boulder, richard m. nixon, physics…University of California, Berkeley, Congress of the United States, NationalBureauofStandards, University of Colorado
Edward Uhler Condon (March 2 1902 - March 26 1974) was a distinguished American nuclear physicist, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, a participant in...
Jacob Rabinow

Jacob Rabinow

male, deceased (1999)
engineer, best match principle, National Inventors Hall of Fame, "best match" principle, kharkov, Lemelson-MIT Prize…NationalBureauofStandards
Jacob Rabinow (1910 - 1999) was an engineer who led a truly prolific career as an inventor. He earned a total of 230 U.S. patents on a variety of...
Cornelius Lanczos

Cornelius Lanczos

male, deceased (1974)
System of linear equations, conjugate gradient method, scientist, Jewish person, eigenvalues, Eigenvalue, eigenvector, and eigenspace…NationalBureauofStandards, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Cornelius Lanczos, born Kornél Löwy (February 2, 1893-June 25, 1974), was a Hungarian mathematician and physicist. Lanczos' PhD thesis (1921) was on...
John L. Hall

John L. Hall

male, 75 years old
JILA, American, Alumni of the University of Glasgow, physicist, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Nobel laureate in Physics…NationalBureauofStandards, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Optical Society of America, department of commerce, university of colorado at boulder
John Lewis "Jan" Hall is an American physicist. He shared one half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics with Theodor W. Hänsch for his work in p...
Gertrude Blanch

Gertrude Blanch

female, deceased (1996)
Cornell University, Works Progress Administration, computation, From Dayton, Ohio, WPA, NationalBureauofStandards
Gertrude Blanch ("ca." 1897 - 1996) was an American mathematician who did pioneering work in numerical analysis and computation. Blanch was born...