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Adolphe Quetelet

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Arthur Schopenhauer

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Adolphe Quetelet

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Hector Berlioz

French composer

Benjamin Bradley (inventor)

An American engineer and inventor who created a steam engine large for a warship

Glenn T. Seaborg

Glenn T. Seaborg

An American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transu...

James Henry Pullen

James Henry Pullen

A British savant, who created a 10-foot long model of SS Great Eastern

Bede

An English Benedictine monk at the monastery of St. Peter and its companion monastery of St. Paul.

Wolfgang Pauli

An Austrian theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics.

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Alfred J. Lotka and the origins of theoretical population ecology

Alfred J. Lotka and the origins of theoretical population ecology

Ecology, being an interdisciplinary subject, has often advanced by borrowing perspectives and methods from numerous other disciplines. Of the many cross-disciplinary transfers that have contributed to the science of ecology, one unusual source of inspiration has been physical chemistry, which in a round-about way served to stimulate the development of population ecology in the 1920s. This transfer from physical chemistry into biology was the brainchild of Alfred James Lotka (1880–1949), a man of exceptional creativity and one of the fathers of what would later become theoretical population ...

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One of the world’s greatest mathematicians, Sir Andrew Wiles, made a rare public appearance in the Science Museum this week to discuss his latest research, his belief in the value of struggle, and how to inspire the next generation.Sir Andrew made global headlines in 1994 when he reported that he had cracked Fermat’s Last Theorem, so named because it was first formulated by the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat in 1637.His triumph while working in Princeton marked the end of a long gruelling struggle for Sir Andrew, who first became entranced by the theorem in the early si...

July 1816: Fresnel’s Evidence for the Wave Theory of Light

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Until the early 20th century, the question of whether light is a particle or a wave had divided scientists for centuries. Isaac Newton held the former stance and advocated for his “corpuscular” theory. But by the early 19th century, the wave theory was making a comeback, thanks in part to the work of a French civil engineer named Augustin-Jean Fresnel.Born in 1788 to an architect, the young Fresnel had a strict religious upbringing, since his parents were Jansenists — a radical sect of the Catholic Church that embraced predestination. Initially he was home-schooled, and did not show ...

Reimagining of Schrödinger’s cat breaks quantum mechanics — and stumps physicists

Reimagining of Schrödinger’s cat breaks quantum mechanics — and stumps physicists

In the world’s most famous thought experiment, physicist Erwin Schrödinger described how a cat in a box could be in an uncertain predicament. The peculiar rules of quantum theory meant that it could be both dead and alive, until the box was opened and the cat’s state measured. Now, two physicists have devised a modern version of the paradox by replacing the cat with a physicist doing experiments — with shocking implications.Quantum theory has a long history of thought experiments, and in most cases these are used to point to weaknesses in various interpretations of quantum mechanics....

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It’s one thing to find some young classical talent that’s been nurtured from age 3 on the Suzuki method with a toy piano and can glide through Chopin and Schumann. It’s another thing when that same classical prodigy can play jazz well enough to please a giant like Quincy Jones.Well, 11 yea...

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