Henri Poincaré

male, deceased (1912)
Relativists, eidetic memory, Chaos theorist, principle of relativity, topologist, three-body problem…mathematicalphysics, Mathematical analyst
Jules Henri Poincaré was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science. Poincaré is often de...
James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell

male, deceased (1879)
Maxwell's equations, electricity, magnetism, mathematicalphysics, mathematician and theoretical physicist, Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution
James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 - 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist. His most significant achievement was...
Michael Atiyah

Michael Atiyah

male, 80 years old
Old Mancunian, lebanese, british humanist association, Atiyah-Singer index theorem, Order of Merit, Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge…mathematicalphysics, mathematical proof
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, FRS (b. April 22, 1929) is a British-Lebanese mathematician, widely considered one of the greatest geometers of the...
E. T. Whittaker

E. T. Whittaker

male, deceased (1956)
Old Mancunian, Edmund Taylor Whittaker, special functions, celestial mechanics, convert to Roman Catholicism, Trinity College, Dublin…mathematicalphysics
Edmund Taylor Whittaker (24 October1873 - 24 March1956) was an English mathematician, who contributed widely to applied mathematics, mathematical...
Dannie Heineman

Dannie Heineman

male, deceased (1962)
astrophysics, mathematicalphysics, Heineman Foundation, Dannie N. Heineman
Dannie N. Heineman (born November 23, 1872 - died 31 January, 1962) was a Belgian-American engineer and businessman. He was a prolific sponsor of...
Hermann Minkowski

Hermann Minkowski

male, deceased (1909)
gottingen, Aleksotas, Relativists, Russian Empire, From Kaunas, kaunas…mathematicalphysics
Hermann Minkowski (June 22, 1864 in Aleksotas/Russian Empire (today Kaunas, Lithuania), – January 12, 1909 in Göttingen) was a Lithuanian-born Ger...
Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace

male, deceased (1827)
Laplace operator, Laplace's equation, Laplacian differential operator, Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace, mathematician, classical mechanics…Mathematical analyst, mathematicalphysics, mathematical astronomy
Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace was a French mathematician and astronomer who put the final capstone on mathematical astronomy by summarizing and...
Frank J. Tipler

Frank J. Tipler

male, 62 years old (New Orleans, Louisiana, United States)
signatory of "A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism", ISCID fellow, Tulane University faculty, cornucopian, Eschatology, ISCID fellows…mathematicalphysics
Frank J. Tipler (born in 1947 in Andalusia, Alabama) is a professor of mathematical physics at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Augustin Louis Cauchy

Augustin Louis Cauchy

male, deceased (1857)
Roman Catholic, French, mathematician, Alumni of the École Polytechnique, Mathematical analyst, Christian…mathematicalphysics, mathematical analysis
Augustin Louis Cauchy (August 21, 1789 - May 23,1857) was a French mathematician. He started the project of formulating and proving the theorems of...
Wendelin Werner

Wendelin Werner

male, 41 years old
Loève Prize, Fermat Prize, Fields Medal, random walk, Oded Schramm, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie…mathematicalphysics, European Mathematical Society
Wendelin Werner is a German-born French mathematician working in the area of self-avoiding random walks, Schramm-Loewner evolution, and related...