James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell

male, deceased (1879)
Maxwell's equations, electricity, magnetism, mathematical physics, mathematician and theoretical physicist, Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution…waves
James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 - 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist. His most significant achievement was...
Fritz John

Fritz John

male, deceased (1994)
New York University, University of Kentucky, mathematician, hitler, Mathematical analyst, New York University faculty…waves
Fritz John was a German born mathematician specialising in partial differential equations and ill-posed problems. His early work was on the Radon...
Joy Bright Hancock

Joy Bright Hancock

female, deceased (1986)
Joy Bright, Naval Air Station Wildwood, Women in the United States Navy, From Cape May, New Jersey, Buried at Arlington National Cemetery, From Bethesda, Maryland…waves
Joy Bright Hancock (4 May 1898 - 20 August 1986), a veteran of both the First and Second World Wars, was one of the first women officers of the...
Karen Uhlenbeck

Karen Uhlenbeck

female, 67 years old
Harvard University, Steele Prize, Georgios Daskalopoulos, American Mathematical Society, Noether Lecturer, Ph.D.…waves
Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck (born August 24, 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a professor and Sid W. Richardson Regents Chairholder in the Department of...
Miranda Krestovnikoff

Miranda Krestovnikoff

female, 36 years old
Researcher, From buckinghamshire, World Gone Wild, Programmes, filmmaking, broadcast…waves
Miranda Krestovnikoff (born 1973 in Buckinghamshire, England) is a television presenter specialising in Natural History and Archaeological...
Leverett Saltonstall

Leverett Saltonstall

male, deceased (1979)
Killed in action, Richard Byrd, American military, Battle of Guam, Massachusetts Senate, waves
Leverett A. Saltonstall was an American Republican politician who served as Governor of Massachusetts (1939–1945) and as a United States Senator (1...
Dorothy C. Stratton

Dorothy C. Stratton

female, deceased (2006)
American military personnel of World War II, Scouting, purdue university, World War II, University of Chicago, United States Coast Guard officer…waves
Dorothy Constance Stratton (March 24, 1899, Brookfield, Missouri - September 17, 2006, West Lafayette, Indiana) was the director of the SPARS, the...
Virginia Heinlein

Virginia Heinlein

female, deceased (2003)
Women in the United States Navy, Lockheed U-2, u-2, waves, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, usenet
Virginia ("Ginnie") Heinlein (April 22, 1916 - January 18, 2003), born Virginia Doris Gerstenfeld, was the third wife of Robert A. Heinlein, a very...
Mildred H. McAfee

Mildred H. McAfee

female, deceased (1994)
Women in the United States Navy, American military personnel of World War II, American university and college president, University of Chicago alumni, From Kansas City, naval reserve…waves
Mildred Helen McAfee Horton (May 12, 1900 - September 2, 1994) was an American academic who served during World War II as first director of the...
Virginia Gildersleeve

Virginia Gildersleeve

female, deceased (1965)
Barnard College alumni, from New York City, conference, World War I, legion of honor, Academic…waves
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (October 3 1877 - July 7 1965) was an American academic and the sole female US delegate to the San Francisco United...