John Couch Adams

John Couch Adams

male, deceased (1892)
John Couch Adams (June 5 1819 - January 21, 1892), was a British mathematician and astronomer. Adams was born in Laneast, Cornwall and died in...
G. H. Hardy

G. H. Hardy

male, deceased (1947)
Professor Godfrey Harold Hardy FRS (February 7, 1877 - December 1, 1947) was a prominent English mathematician, known for his achievements in...
William Thomson 1st Baron Kelvin

William Thomson 1st Baron Kelvin

male, deceased (1907)
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, FRSE, (26 June 1824 - 17 December 1907) was a mathematical physicist, engineer, and...
John Herschel

John Herschel

male, deceased (1871)
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH (March 7, 1792-May 11, 1871) was an English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and...
James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell

male, deceased (1879)
James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 - 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist. His most significant achievement was...
George Gabriel Stokes

George Gabriel Stokes

male, deceased (1903)
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet (13 August 1819-1 February 1903) was an Irish mathematician and physicist, who at Cambridge made important...
John Edensor Littlewood

John Edensor Littlewood

male, deceased (1977)
John Edensor Littlewood (9 June 1885 - 6 September 1977) was a British mathematician, best known for his long collaboration with G. H. Hardy
J. J. Thomson

J. J. Thomson

male, deceased (1940)
Sir Joseph John Thomson, OM, FRS (18 December 1856 - 30 August 1940) usually known as J. J. Thomson, was a British scientist. Thomson is credited...
James Joseph Sylvester

James Joseph Sylvester

male, deceased (1897)
James Joseph Sylvester was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition...
William Hopkins

William Hopkins

male, deceased (1866)
William Hopkins (February 2, 1793 - October 13, 1866) was an English mathematician and geologist. Hopkins was born at Kingston-on-Soar, in...