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Born November 1, 1919 • Vienna • Austria
Died September 10, 2005 (aged 85) • Cambridge • England
Subjects Of Study steady-state theory
Fred Hoyle
Sir Fred Hoyle
British mathematician and astronomer
Jeans
Sir James Jeans
British physicist and mathematician
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher
Michał Heller
Michał Heller
Polish priest and mathematical cosmologist
Edward Arthur Milne
British astrophysicist
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Alan Turing
Alan Turing
British mathematician and logician
Mary Cartwright, 1947
Mary Cartwright
British mathematician
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Dorothy Maud Wrinch
British-American mathematician and biochemist
Arthur Cayley, detail of an oil painting by W.H. Longmaid, 1884; in the collection of Trinity College, Cambridge, England.
Arthur Cayley
British mathematician
George Boole
George Boole
British mathematician
Martin Rees
Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist
Sir James Lighthill
British mathematician
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage
British inventor and mathematician
Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram
British physicist
Andrew John Wiles
Andrew Wiles
British mathematician
James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician

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