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1809 – Grassman – bio
Hermann Grassman was born in Germany in 1809 and was a physicist and mathematician, but was also very knowledgeable in many different fields. He created the concepts of linear algebra and vector spaces. PRECURSOR: -0300 – Euclid Laplace 1736 – Lagrange 1777 – Gauss CONCURRENT: 1790 – Mobius 1805 – Hamilton SUBSEQUENT: 1845 – Clifford [...]
1862 – Hilbert – bio
David Hilbert was born in 1862 in Germany and was a mathematician. He worked on creating a set of axioms as the foundation for Euclidean geometry. He was the creator of a concept of abstract vector space that extends mathematical techniques beyond Euclidean spaces into spaces of many dimensions. This is now know as “Hilbert [...]
1826 – Riemann – bio
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann was born in 1826 in Breselenz, Germany. He worked on analytic geometry, algebraic geometry, and both non-euclidean and n-dimensional geometries. Some of this work laid important foundations for Einstein’s theory of relativity. He composed the famous “Riemann Hypothesis” which deals with predicting prime numbers. He was a student under Gauss. PRECURSOR: [...]
1786 – Arago – bio
Francoise Arago was born in 1786 in France and was an astronomer, physicist and mathematician. Some of his work complemented similar work by Faraday and Fresnel. His confirmation of a bright spot of light at the center of a circular shadow helped confirm Fresnel’s wave theory of light and is now known as “Arago’s spot”. [...]
1868 – Sommerfeld – bio
Arnold Sommerfeld was born in 1868 in Germany and was a physicist and mathematician. He has become known for cultivating a large group of students who made significant contributions to science, including Pauli, Heisenberg, Debye, Bethe, Pauling and Rabi, all of whom won nobel prizes. There were many more who made significant contributions and created [...]
1882 – Born – bio
Max Born was born in Prussia (then part of Germany, now part of Poland) in 1882 and was a physicist and mathematician who made contributions to quantum theory. He was responsible for interpreting Schrodinger’s wave equation as an expression of probability which became part of what is known as “the Copenhagen Interpretation”. PRECURSOR: 1831 – [...]
1858 – Planck – bio
Max Planck was born in 1858 in Kiel, Germany and was the physicist responsible for creating the beginnings of quantum theory. Planck was working on a description of electromagnetic radiation when he discovered that energy is only radiated in discrete bundles, or quanta. A constant derived from the equation he produced is now known as [...]
1892 – de Broglie – bio
Louis de Broglie was born in Dieppe, France in 1892 and was a physicist. He was known primarily for creating the “de Broglie hypothesis”, which associates wavelength characteristics with any moving particle or object. At the time, electrons were being defined mostly as particles, although there had been some evidence developed of both particle and [...]
1887 – Schrodinger – bio
Erwin Schrodinger was born in Vienna, Austria in 1887 and was a physicist who made major contributions to quantum mechanics. The Schrodinger wave equation describes the state of an atom, including the electrons as mathematical waves. It was later demonstrated that Heisenberg’s matrix mechanics and the wave function were describing the same thing. PRECURSOR: 1777 [...]
1700 – Bernoulli – bio
Daniel Bernoulli was born in 1700 in the Netherlands and became a mathematician known for his work with fluid dynamics and probability and statistics. In fluid mechanics, “Bernoulli’s Principle” describes the relationships involved amongst fluid speed, pressure differential and potential energy. PRECURSOR: 1642 – Newton 1662 – Boyle’s law CONCURRENT: 1707 – Euler SUBSEQUENT: 1736 [...]
