Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

male, 87 years old (Stanford, California, United States)
Recent single origin hypothesis, Stanford University, population genetics, House of Sforza, emeritus, from Genoa
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza (born January 25, 1922) is an Italian population geneticist born in Genoa, who has been a professor at Stanford...
Kurt Gödel

Kurt Gödel

male, deceased (1978)
Logician, incompleteness theorems, mathematician, mathematics, philosopher, Gödel numbering…continuum hypothesis
Kurt Gödel (April 28, 1906 Brünn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno, Czech Republic) - January 14, 1978 Princeton, New Jersey) was an Austrian American ma...
Saharon Shelah

Saharon Shelah

male, 64 years old
Jewish person, set theory, Israeli, mathematician, cardinal, mathematics…continuum hypothesis
Saharon Shelah (born July 3, 1945 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem...
Ernst Zermelo

Ernst Zermelo

male, deceased (1953)
Alumni of Freiburg University, set theory, philosopher, physics, mathematics, freiburg…continuum hypothesis
Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo was a German mathematician, whose work has major implications for the foundations of mathematics and hence on...
Paul Cohen

Paul Cohen

male, deceased (2007)
Littlewood's conjecture, conjecture of Littlewood, National Medal of Science, University of London, Set theorist, Jewish person…continuum hypothesis
Paul Joseph Cohen (April 2, 1934 - March 23, 2007) was an American mathematician. He was born in Long Branch, New Jersey into a Jewish family and...
Rami Grossberg

Rami Grossberg

male
Israeli, mathematician, Carnegie Mellon University faculty, conjecture, Carnegie Mellon University, mathematics…continuum hypothesis, weak continuum hypothesis
Rami Grossberg is an associate professor of mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University and a leading researcher in model theory. Grossberg's recent...
W. Hugh Woodin

W. Hugh Woodin

male, 54 years old
Logician, inner model, Omega-logic, William Hugh Woodin, continuum hypothesis, determinacy
William Hugh Woodin is a set theorist at University of California, Berkeley. He has made many notable contributions to the theory of inner models...
Philip J. Klass

Philip J. Klass

male, deceased (2005)
Ufologist, pseudoscientific, crank, Pseudoscience, cancer death, Sherlock Holmes…Extraterrestrial hypothesis
Philip Julian Klass (November 8 1919-August 9 2005) was born in Des Moines, Iowa and died in Merritt Island, Florida. He was an electrical engineer...
Maurice Anthony Biot

Maurice Anthony Biot

male, deceased (1985)
Leuven alumni before 1968, Timoshenko Medal, Catholic University of Leuven, porous media, physicist, naturalized citizen of the United States…Extraterrestrial hypothesis
Maurice Anthony Biot (b. May 25 1905, Antwerp, Belgium - d. September 12 1985, New York City) was a Belgian-American physicist and the founder of...
Jack Sarfatti

Jack Sarfatti

male, 70 years old
San Diego State University faculty, University of California, San Diego alumni, Cornell University alumni, Science writer, University of California, Riverside alumni, science teacher…Extraterrestrial hypothesis
Jack Sarfatti (born September 14, 1939) is an American theoretical physicist and the author of a number of popular works on quantum physics and...