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 Asimov F & SF Essays Index
Asimov references many people in his essays, and this is the index to these names. The book titles in bold in the grey box are the books that have been indexed so far.
The pages are identified by the 4-letter book code, and then any and all pages which reference that individual.
For example, Gilbert N. Plass is referenced on pg. 41 of Fact and Fancy and so this is identified as: FaFa: 40.
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OTri
FaFa
ViHe
AdDi
TiSp
FrHe
ScNI
SoBa
StCo
LeEl
TrMo
OfSm
PlWa
QuBr
RoIn
SuBr
CoEo
XUnk
SuMo
FaSe
ReWr
OuEv
SeUn
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Only A Trillion
Fact and Fancy
View from a Height
Adding a Dimension
Of Time, Space & Other Things
From Earth to Heaven
Science, Numbers and I
The Solar System and Back
The Stars in Their Course
Left Hand of the Electron
The Tragedy of the Moon
Of Matters Great & Small
The Planet That Wasn't
Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright
The Road to Infinity
The Sun Shines Bright
Counting the Eons
X Stands for Unknown
The Subatomic Monster
Far as Human Eye Could See
The Relativity of Wrong
Out of Everywhere
The Secret of The Universe
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1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1968
1970
1971
1972
1973
1975
1976
1977
1979
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1987
1988
1990
1990
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The citations consist of the phrase - if any - with which Asimov identifies the individual he references.
"von"s and "van"s are alphabetized under the name following that. Otto von Guericke, therefore, is found in the Gs. "De"s also go under the name following. So Leon P. Teisserene de Bort is found in the Bs. (Even if its supposed to be Teisserenc de Bort!)
People with titles are listed under their name. Lord Kelvin is found under Thomson, William.
As
| Name |
Annotation |
Reference |
| Adams, John Couch |
English astronomer |
FaFa: 112
TiSp: 60 |
| Adams, Walter Sydney |
American astronomer |
AdDi: 183-184 |
| Agricola, George |
minerologist |
FrHe: 91 |
| Amontons, Guillaume |
French physicist |
FrHe: 107 |
| Ampère, Andre Marie |
French physicist |
FrHe: 95 |
| Anderson, Carl David |
American physicist |
FrHe: 135 |
| Antropoff, A. von |
. |
TiSp: 178 |
| Appleton, Edward Victor |
British physicist |
FaFa: 59 |
| Archimedes of Syracuse (287?-212 BC) |
(id'd from Syracuse AdDI pg 41) |
AdDi: 4, 41, 42, 193
FrHe: 197, 202 |
| Archytas of Tarentum |
philosopher of Pythagoras school |
ViHe: 114 |
| Aristarchos of Samos |
(Aristarchus in AdDi) |
FaFa: 148
AdDi: 173 |
| Aristotle (384-322 BC) |
. |
FaFa: 47, 48, 50, 148
ViHe: 113, 114
AdDi: 85, 137, 169, 170, 193 |
| Arrhenius, Svante August (1859-1927) |
Swedish chemical student |
FaFa: 240-243
AdDi: 193
TiSp: 189 |
| Asimov, Robyn |
daughter of Isaac |
TiSp: 98 |
| Aston, Francis William |
English physicist |
ViHe: 97 |
| Avogadro, Amedeo |
Italian chemist |
ViHe: 81-82, 84
FrHe: 104 |
Bs
| Name |
Annotation |
Reference |
| Bacon, Roger |
. |
SpTi: 11 |
| Baade, Walter |
German-American astronomer |
FaFa: 191, 193
TiSp: 62 |
| Baldwin, Ernest |
author, Comparative Biochemistry, 1948 |
OTri: 138 |
| Barnard, Edward Emerson |
American astronomer |
AdDi: 187
TiSp: 61 |
| Barringer, Daniel Moreau |
Discovered Meteor Crater was made by a meteor. |
FrHe: 166 |
| Bartholin, Erasmus |
Dutch physician |
AdDi: 91 |
| Bartlett, Neil |
University of British Columbia |
TiSp: 178-179 |
| Bawden, Frederick C. |
British biochemist |
ViHe: 43 |
| Bede |
St. (the "venerable Bede") |
AdDi: 169 |
| Beilstein, Friedrich Konrad |
Russian chemist (yes, Russian) |
TiSp: 185, 186 |
| Bergmann, Torbern Olof |
Swedish chemist |
AdDi: 139 |
| Bering, Vitus |
Danish navigator. |
FrHe: 42 |
| Berthollet, Claude Louis |
French chemist |
AdDi: 139 |
| Berzelius, Jöns Jakob (1779-1848) |
Swedish chemist |
ViHe: 83
AdDi: 140, 194
FrHe: 90
TiSp: 187 |
| Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm |
German astronomer |
FaFa: 141
AdDi: 182 |
| Biela, Wilhelm von |
German astronomer |
FaFa: 129 |
| Black, Joseph |
Scottish chemist |
AdDi: 124 |
| Bode, Johann |
German astronomer, namer of planet Uranus |
FaFa: 110
TiSp: 58 |
| Boethius |
last of the Roman philosophers |
ViHe: 114 |
| Bohr, Niels (1885-1962) |
Danish physicist |
AdDi: 194
FrHe: 75, 131
TiSp: 166-167 |
| Boltzmann, Ludwig |
Austrian physicist |
ViHe: 141
FrHe: 108 |
| Bond, George Phillips |
American astronomer |
ViHe: 214
TiSp: 61 |
| Bondi, H. |
. |
FaFa: 210 |
| Bort, Leon P. Teisserenc de |
French meteorologist |
FaFa: 55 |
| Boyd, Dr. William C. |
Professor of Immuniochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine (in at least 1950) |
OTri: 145, 147, 148, 154 |
| Boyle, Robert (1627-1691) |
British scientist |
FaFa: 51-52
AdDi: 140, 194
FrHe: 107 |
| Bradbury, Ray |
American science fiction writer |
FrHe: 61 |
| Bradley, James |
English astronomer |
AdDi: 98, 99 |
| Brahe, Tycho |
Danish astronomer |
FaFa: 126, 202 |
| Broglie, Louis V. de (1892- ) |
French physicist |
AdDi: 194 |
| Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm |
German scientist |
ViHe: 64
FrHe: 94
TiSp: 158 |
Cs
| Name |
Annotation |
Reference |
| Cabot, John |
Italian navigator. Real name, Giovanni Caboto |
FrHe: 42 |
| Camp, Catherine de |
Archaeologist, wife of L. Sprague de Camp |
FrHe: 101 |
| Camp, L. Sprague de |
American science fiction author |
FrHe: 136 |
| Campbell, John W. |
editor, Analog |
AdDi: 27
OTri: 155
FrHe: 114 |
| Cannizarro, Stanislao |
Italian chemist |
ViHe: 84
AdDi: 194 |
| Cantor, Georg |
German mathematician |
AdDi: 36 |
| Capek, Karl |
Czech playwright |
FrHe: 60 |
| Cardano, Girolamo |
Italian mathematician |
AdDi: 63 |
| Carlisle, Anthony |
British chemist |
ViHe: 81 |
| Carnot, Sadi |
French physicist |
ViHe: 137 |
| Cartmill, Cleve |
American science fiction writer |
FrHe: 54 |
Cassini, Giovanni Domenico
Cassini, Jean Dominique in AdDi |
Italian-born French astronomer |
ViHe: 214
AdDi: 175, 176
TiSp: 58 |
| Cavendish, Henry (1731-1810) |
Engish physicist |
ViHe: 65-66, 202
AdDi: 128-130, 131, 194 |
| Celsius, Anders |
Swedish astronomer |
ViHe: 169 |
| Ceulin, Ludolf von |
German mathematician |
AdDi: 46, 47 |
| Chadwick, James |
English physicist |
FrHe: 127
ViHe: 94 |
| Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan |
astronomer |
ViHe: 192
FrHe: 192 |
| Charles, Jacques Alexandre Cèsar |
French chemist |
ViHe: 172
FrHe: 107 |
| Chevreul, Michel Eugène |
French chemist |
FrHe: 93-94 |
| Chiu, Hong Yee |
post-doctoral research worker, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton |
ViHe: 183, 192, 193-195 |
| Churchward, James |
Author, The Lost Continent of Mu |
FrHe: 136 |
| Cicero, Marcus Tallius |
Roman orator |
FaFa: 256 |
| Clark, Alvin Graham |
American telescope maker |
AdDi: 183 |
| Clausius, Rudolf |
German physicist |
ViHe: 140 |
| Clèment, Nicholas |
French chemist |
TiSp: 182 |
| Columbus, Christoher |
. |
AdDi: 168, 169, 171, 172-173
FrHe: 42 |
| Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473-1543) |
Polish astronomer (not id's formally until AdDi pg. 174) |
FaFa: 126, 228
AdDi: 99, 174, 177 |
| Correns, Karl |
German botanist |
AdDi: 154 |
| Coulomb, Charles Augustin de (1736-1806) |
French astronomer |
TiSp: 88 |
| Crick, Francis H. (1916 - ) |
English physicist |
AdDi: 194 |
| "the Curies" |
. |
ViHe: 63 |
| Curie, Jacques |
French scientist, brother of Pierre |
ViHe: 119 |
| Curie, Marie S. (1867-1934) |
French scientist, wife of Pierre |
ViHe: 119
AdDi: 194
FrHe: 74 |
| Curie, Pierre |
French scientist, brother of Jacques, husband of Marie |
ViHe: 119 |
| Cuvier, Georges L. C. F. D. (1769-1832) |
French biologist |
AdDi: 194 |
Ds
| Name |
Annotation |
Reference |
| Dachille, Frank |
of Pennsylvania State University |
FrHe: 165 |
| Dalton, John (1766-1844) |
English chemist |
ViHe: 78-80, 141
AdDi: 195 |
| Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882) |
English naturalist (ViHe 159) |
FaFa: 224-226, 227, 229, 230, 232
ViHe: 159
AdDi: 146, 148, 149, 150, 154, 194 |
| Dase, Zacharias |
"a fellow" who calculated pi to 200 places |
AdDi: 48 |
| Daubrèe, Gabriel Auguste |
French geologist |
ViHe: 207 |
| Davis, Philip J. |
Author, The Lore of Numbers |
AdDi: 13 |
| Davy, Humphry (1778-1829) |
English chemist |
AdDi: 195
FrHe: 94-95, 96-97
TiSp: 186 |
| Day, Donald |
author, Index to the Science Fiction Magazines |
AdDi: 27 |
| Democritus of Abdera |
Greek philosopher |
ViHe: 77 |
| Dèsormes, Charles Bernard |
French chemist |
TiSp: 182 |
| Deveney, Ken Jr. |
letter writer |
OTri: 155 |
| Diaz, Bartholomew |
Portguese navigator |
FrHe: 39 |
| Dicaearchus |
Greek geographer, pupil of Aristotle |
TiSp: 28 |
| Dö'bereiner, Johan Wolfgang |
German chemist |
TiSp: 186 |
| Donn, William |
of Columbia |
FaFa: 44, 45 |
| Dumas, Jean Baptiste Andrè |
French chemist |
AdDi: 140 |
Es
| Name |
Annotation |
Reference |
| Eddington, Arthur S. |
English astronomer |
ViHe: 191 |
| Ehrlich, Paul (1854-1915) |
German bacteriologist |
AdDi: 195 |
| Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) |
Scientist: theory of relativity |
FaFa: 230, 246
ViHe: 136
AdDi: 107, 111, 195
FrHe: 117, 131
TiSp: 147, 166 |
| Elford, William J. |
English bacteriologist |
ViHe: 42 |
| Emiliani, Cesare |
. |
FaFa: 44 |
| Encke, Johann Franz |
German astronomer |
FaFa: 133 |
| Eratosthenes of Cyrene |
Greek astronomer |
AdDi: 170, 173
TiSp: 30 |
| Ericcson, Leif |
Icelandic navigator |
FrHe: 42 |
| Euclid |
. |
AdDi: 8 |
| Eudoxus of Cnidus |
Greek mathematician |
TiSp: 9 |
| Euler, Leonhard |
Swiss mathematician |
AdDi: 39 |
| Eusebius of Caesarea |
Christian Church historian. |
SpTi: 23 |
| Ewing, Maurice |
of Columbia |
FaFa: 44, 45 |
Fs
| Name |
Annotation |
Reference |
| Fahrenheit, Gabriel DAniel |
German physicist |
ViHe: 168-169 |
| Faraday, Michael (1791-1867) |
self educated scientist
AdDi ids him as English chemist and physicist |
FaFa: 228
ViHe: 86
AdDi: 195 |
| Ferdinand II |
Grand Duke of Tuscany |
ViHe: 167 |
| Fermi, Enrico (1901-1954) |
Italian physicist (ViHe 186) |
ViHe: 127, 186
AdDi: 195
FrHe: 75 |
| Fibonacci, Leonardo (Leonardo of Pisa) |
most accomplished mathematician of Middle Ages |
AdDi: 6 |
| Fischer, Hans |
German chemist |
OTri: 40 |
| Fitzgerald, George Francis |
Irish physicist |
AdDi: 106 |
| Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis |
French physicist |
AdDi: 100 |
| Flammarion, Camille |
French astronomer |
TiSp: 61 |
| Flamsteed, John |
First Astronomer Royal |
FaFa: 111 |
| Foucault, Jean Bernard |
Fizeau's assistant |
AdDi: 100-101 |
| Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) |
American scientist and statesman |
AdDi: 124, 195 |
| Frèmy, Edmomnd |
French chemist, Louyet's assistant |
FrHe: 97-98, 100 |
| Fresnel, Augustin Jean |
French physicist |
ViHe: 116
AdDi: 92 |
| Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) |
Austrian neurologist |
AdDi: 196 |
| Freund, John E. |
author, A Modern Introduction to Mathematics |
AdDi: 37 |
Gs
| Name |
Annotation |
Reference |
| Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642) |
. |
FaFa: 48-49, 243-245
ViHe: 167
AdDi: 97, 120, 196<>br>
FrHe: 152
SpTi: 56, 65 |
| Galois, Evariste |
evolved group theory |
FaFa: 230 |
| Gamow, George |
author, One, Two, Three...Infinity |
AdDi: 29 |
| Gauss, Karl Friedrich (1777-1855) |
German mathematician |
FaFa: 256
AdDi: 53, 62, 195
TiSp: 99 |
| Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis (1778-1850) |
French scientist |
FaFa: 54
AdDi: 196
FrHe: 107 |
| Gibbs, Josiah Willard (1839-1903) |
American physicist and chemist |
AdDi: 196
TiSp: 189 |
| Goddard, Robert |
American rocket scientist |
TiSp: 185 |
| Gold, Thomas |
. |
FaFa: 210 |
| Guericke, Otto von |
mayor of Magdeburg |
FaFa: 50-51 |
| Gutenberg, Beno |
American geologist |
ViHe: 204 |
Hs
| Name |
Annotation |
Reference |
| Hall, Asaph |
American astronomer |
TiSp: 61 |
| Halley, Edmund (1656-1742) |
friend of Newton |
FaFa: 126, 127, 138
AdDi: 196 |
| Harrison, John |
English clockmaker |
SpTi: 31 |
| Harvey, William (1578-1657) |
English physiologist |
AdDi: 196 |
| Heaviside, Oliver |
of England |
FaFa: 59 |
| Heezen, Bruce |
Columbia University geologist |
FaFa: 247 |
| Heinlein, Robert |
American science fiction writer |
FrHe: 54-55 |
| Heisenberg, Werner (1901 - ) |
German physicist |
AdDi: 196
FrHe: 117, 128, 133 |
| Helmholtz, Hermann L. F. von (1821-1894) |
German physicist and physiologist |
AdDi: 196
TiSp: 151 |
| Henderson, Thomas |
British astronomer |
FaFa: 141 |
| Henry, Joseph (1797-1878) |
American physicist |
AdDi: 196197 |
| Hermite, Charles |
French mathematician |
AdDi: 57 |
| Herodotus |
. |
SpTi: 43 |
| Herschel, Wilhelm Friedrich (William) (1738-1822) |
German/British astronomer |
FaFA: 110-111
AdDi: 197
TiSp: 58, 59, 104 |
| Hertz, Heinrich R. (1857-1894) |
German physicist |
AdDi: 94, 197 |
| Heumann, Karl F |
Director of the Chemical-Biological Coordination Center of the National Research Council |
OTri: 155 |
| Hillebrand, William Francis |
American chemist |
ViHe: 68 |
| Hipparchos of Nicaea (2nd century BC) |
(Hipparchus in AdDi)
Greek astronomer |
FaFa: 148
AdDi: 176, 197 |
| Hofmann, August W. von |
German chemist |
AdDi: 135-136 |
| Hooke, Robert |
English scientist |
FaFa: 52
ViHe: 33, 37 |
| Hoyle, Fred |
. |
FaFa: 210 |
| Hubble, Edwin Powell (1889-1953) |
American astronomer (id'd in AdDi) |
FaFa: 190-191
AdDi: 197
TiSp: 106 |
| Hutton, James (1726-1796) |
Scottish geologist |
AdDi: 197 |
| Huyghens, Christian (1629-1695 |
Dutch astronomer (ViHe 214) |
ViHe: 114, 214
AdDi: 197
TiSp: 31, 57 |
Is
| Name |
Annotation |
Reference |
| Ivanoski, Dmitri |
Russian bacteriologist |
ViHe: 42 |
Js
| Name |
Annotation |
Reference |
| Janssen, Pierre J. C. |
French astronomer |
ViHe: 64 |
| Jeffries, John |
American |
FaFa: 54 |
| John II |
King of Portugal |
AdDi: 171, 172 |
| Joule, James Prescott |
British physicist |
TiSp: 151, 152 |
| Julius Caesar |
Ruler of Rome (Caesar is a title) |
TiSp: 9, 10, 21, 23 |
Ks
| Name |
Annotation |
Reference |
| Kamp, Peter Van de |
Swarthmore College |
AdDi: 185 |
| Kapp, Reginald O. |
author, Towards a Unified Cosmology |
FaFa: 207-217 |
| Kapteyn, Jacobus Cornelius |
Dutch astronomer |
FaFa: 183 |
| Kasner, Edward |
co-author, Mathematics and the Imagination (1940) |
AdDi: 2, 11
OTri: 46 |
| Kaye, Albert L. |
American chemist |
FrHe: 100 |
| Kekule von Stradonitz, Friedrich August (1829-1896) |
German chemist
(von Stradonitz added from AdDi 197) |
ViHe: 84
AdDi: 197 |
| Kennelly, Arthur Edwin |
of the United States |
FaFa: 59 |
| Kepler, Johnann (1571-1630) |
Tycho Brahe's assistant, astronomer
ID'd as a German astronomer, AdDi) |
FaFa: 119, 126, 202, 244-245
AdDi: 197
FrHe: 152, 174
SpTi: 56 |
| Kirchhoff, Gustav R. (1824-1887) |
German physicist |
AdDi: 198
TiSp: 167, 186 |
| Kirkwood, Daniel |
English astronomer |
ViHe: 214 |
| Kirchhoff, Gottlieb Sigismund |
Russian chemist |
TiSp: 183 |
| Kirschoff, Gustav Robert |
German scientist |
ViHe: 64
TiSp: 158 |
| Klaproth, Martin Heinrich |
German chemist, discoverer of element uranium |
TiSp: 59 |
| Knox, George |
British chemist |
FrHe: 97 |
| Knox, Thomas |
British chemist |
FrHe: 97 |
| Koch, Robert (1843-1910)) |
German bacteriologist |
AdDi: 198 |
| Kordylewski, K. |
Polish astronomer |
ViHe: 222 |
| Kornbluth, Cyril |
American science fiction writer |
FrHe: 60 |
| Kuiper, Gerard P. |
Dutch-American astronomer |
TiSp: 62 |
Ls
| Name |
Annotation |
Reference |
| Lagrange, Joseph Louis |
French astronomer |
ViHe: 218 |
| Lamarck, Jean Baptiste de |
French naturalist |
FaFa: 141
AdDi: 147 |
| Lambert, Johann Heinrich |
German mathematician |
AdDi: 47 |
| Landsteiner, Karl |
Austrian physicist |
AdDi: 157, 160, 162 |
| Langevin, Paul |
French physicist |
ViHe: 119 |
| Laplace, Pierre S. (1749-1827) |
French mathematician and astronomer |
AdDi: 198
FrHE: 114 |
| Lassell, William |
Enlish astronomer |
TiSp: 60, 61 |
| Laurent, Auguste |
French chemist |
FrHe: 90 |
| Lavoisier, Antoine L. |
brilliant young French chemist
(not ID'd as Antoine til pg. 198) |
AdDi: 125-127, 128, 129, 130-131, 198
FrHe: 94 |
| Lawrence, Ernest O. (1901-1958) |
American physicist |
AdDi: 198 |
| Leeuwenhoek, Anton van |
Dutch microscopist |
ViHe: 37 |
| Leavitt, Henrietta |
(Miss) |
FaFa: 186, 187, 188 |
| Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von |
mathematician |
AdDi: 18, 43 |
| Leucippus of Miletus |
Greek philosopher |
ViHe: 77 |
| Leverrier, Urbain J. J. (1811-1877) |
French astronomer |
FaFa: 112
AdDi: 198
SpTi: 60
|
| Lieber, Fritz |
American science fiction author |
FrHe: 60 |
| Liebig, Justus (1803-1873) |
German chemist |
AdDi: 135, 138, 198 |
| Lindemann, Ferdinand |
German mathematician |
AdDi: 58 |
| Linnaeus, Carolus (1707-1778) |
Swedish botanist |
AdDi: 198-199 |
| Liouville, Joseph |
French mathematician |
AdDi: 57 |
| Lockyer, Norman |
English astronomer |
ViHe: 64 |
| Lodge, Oliver |
English scientist |
AdDi: 105 |
| Loschmidt, J. |
German physicist |
FrHe: 105 |
| Louyet, P. |
Belgian chemist |
FrHe: 97 |
| Powell, Percival |
American astronomer |
TiSp: 63 |
| Luyten, William J. |
University of Minnesota |
AdDi: 184 |
| Lyell, Charles |
author, Principles of Geology |
FaFa: 226 |
Ms
| Name |
Annotation |
Reference |
| Maanen van |
. |
AdDi: 184 |
| Mach, Ernst |
Austrian physicist |
AdDi: 106 |
| Magellan, Ferdinand |
Portuguese navigator |
AdDi: 173
FrHe: 15
|
| Malthus, Thomas Robert |
English clergyman |
FaFa: 224-225
AdDi: 148 |
| Marggraf, Andreas Sigismund |
German chemist |
FrHe: 92 |
| Mariotte, Edme |
French physicist |
FrHe: 107 |
| Marius, Simon |
German astronomer - named the four Jovian satellites discovered by Galileo. |
SpTi: 57
FrHe: 78
TiSp: 53 |
| Maxwell, James Clerk (1831-1879) |
Scottish physicist (referred to as Clerk Maxwell, mathematician from ViHe pgs 141 onward) |
ViHe: 86, 141, 152, 153, 154, 173, 214
AdDi: 93-94, 199
FrHe: 107 |
| McCrea, W. H. |
. |
FaFa: 210, 213 |
| McLaughlin, Dean B. |
Author, Introduction to Astronomy (1961) |
FrHe: 174 |
| Mendel, Gregor Johann (1822-1884) |
Augustinian monk/ Austrian botanist (IDd pg. 199) |
AdDi: 151-152, 153, 154, 155, 199
OTri: 151 |
| Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich (1834-1907) |
Russian chemist |
ViHe: 85, 92
AdDi: 199
FrHE: 112
TiSp: 186 |
| Mersenne, Marin |
French friar |
AdDi: 9-10 |
| Meyer, Lothar |
German chemist |
FrHe: 111 |
| Michelson, Albert Abraham (1852-1931) |
Polish-born American physicist |
AdDi: 97, 101-104, 105, 107, 199 |
| Milankovich, Milutin |
Serbian physicist |
FaFa: 42 |
| Millay, Edna St. Vincent |
. |
AdDi: 50 |
| Miller, ? |
Chemist |
OTri: 108 |
| Mitscherlich, Eilhart |
German chemist |
AdDi: 135 |
| Mohorovicic, Adrija |
Serbian geologist |
ViHe: 205 |
| Moissan, Ferdinand Frederic Henri |
French chemist |
FrHe: 98-100 |
| Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne |
French, brother of Joseph Michel |
FaFa: 54 |
| Montgolfier, Joseph Michel |
French, brother of Jacques Etienne |
FaFa: 54 |
| Morley, Edward William |
chemist |
AdDi: 104, 105 |
| Moseley, Henry Gwyn-Jeffreys (1887-1915) |
English physicist |
ViHe: 93
AdDi: 199 |
Ns
| Name |
Annotation |
Reference |
| Nägeli, Karl Wilhelm von |
Swiss botanist |
AdDi: 150-151, 153, 154 |
| Newman, James |
co-author, Mathematics and the Imagination (1940) |
AdDi: 2, 11
OTri: 46 |
| Newton, Isaac (1642-1727) |
English physicist and mathematician
(not formally ID'd until AdDI pg 199) |
FaFa: 63, 65, 126, 230
ViHe: 115, 167, 168
AdDi: ix, 89, 91, 120, 175, 199
FrHe: 152-153, 181 |
| Nicholson, William |
British chemist |
ViHe: 81 |
| Noüy, Lecomte du |
French author [this is his title, not his name] |
OTri: 102-103 |
Os
| Name |
Annotation |
Reference |
| O'Keefe, John |
. |
AdDi: 178 |
| Olbers, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias (b. 1758) |
German physician and astronomer |
TiSp: 98-104 |
| Onnes, Heike Kammerlingh |
Dutch physicist |
ViHe: 71, 72 |
| Ostwald, Friedrich W. (1853-1932) |
German physical chemist |
AdDi: 199-200 |
| Ostwald, Wilhelm |
Russian chemist |
TiSp: 190 |
| Oughtred, William |
English mathematician |
AdDi: 38 |
Ps
| Name |
Annotation |
Reference |
| Parsons, William |
English astronomer |
FaFa: 201 |
| Pascal, Blaise |
French scientist |
FaFa: 53 |
| Pasteur, Louis (1822-1895) |
French biochemist |
FaFa: 240
ViHe: 41
AdDi: 200 |
| Pauli, Wolfgang |
Austrian-born physicist |
ViHe: 186 |
| Pauling, Linus (1901 - ) |
American chemist |
AdDi: 200
FrHe: 100
TiSp: 178 |
| Peary, Robert |
American arctic explorer |
FrHe: 35 |
| Perkin, William H. (1838-1907) |
English chemist |
AdDi: 200 |
| Phillips, Peregrine |
English chemist |
TiSp: 187 |
| Piazzi, Giuseppe |
Italian astronomer, discoverer of Ceres |
FaFa: 112
TiSp: 59, 99 |
| Piccard, Jacques |
French sub-mariner |
FrHE: 32 |
| Pickering, William H. |
American astronomer |
TiSp: 61 |
| Pierce, G. W. |
American physicist |
ViHe: 120 |
| Pike, Nicholas |
Author, Pike's Arithmetic: A New and Complete System of Arithmetic Composed for the Use of the Citizens of the United States 1795, 1797 |
TiSp: 123 |
| Pirie, Nirman |
British biochemist |
ViHe: 43 |
| Planck, Max Karl Ernest Ludwig (1858-1947) |
German scientist |
AdDi: 107, 200
TiSp: 161, 165 |
| Plass, Gilbert N. |
Johns Hopkins |
FaFA: 41 |
| Plato |
Greek philosopher |
AdDi: 51 |
| Pohl, Frederick |
American science fiction writer |
FrHe: 60 |
| Polo, Marco |
Venetian traveler |
AdDi: 171
FrHe: 39 |
| Pons, Jean Louis |
French astronomer |
FaFa: 133 |
| Posidonius of Apamea |
Greek geographer |
AdDi: 170 |
| Powell, Cecil Frank |
British physicist |
FrHe: 135 |
| Priestly, Joseph (1733-1804) |
Unitarian minister (English chemist on AdDi 139) |
AdDi: 124, 125, 127, 131, 139, 200 |
| Ptolemy, Claudius |
Greek astronomer (in AdDi) |
FaFA: 148
AdDi: 170 |
| Ptolemy Euergetes |
Macedonian King of Egypt |
TiSp: 9 |
| Pythagoras of Samos |
. |
ViHe: 114
FrHe: 78
TiSp: 53, 54 |
| Pytheas of Massalia |
Greek explorer |
FrHe: 150-151 |
Qs
| Name |
Annotation |
Reference |
Rs
| Name |
Annotation |
Reference |
| Ramsay, William |
Scottish chemist |
ViHe: 66-67, 68
TiSp: 168 |
| Recher |
someone who calculated pi to 500 places |
AdDi: 48 |
| Reinmuth, ? |
astronomer |
FrHe: 171 |
| Richards, Theodore William |
American chemist |
ViHe: 85, 86 |
| Ricketts, Howard Taylor |
American pathologist |
ViHe: 27 |
| Roche, E. |
astronomer |
TiSp: 81 |
| Roemer, Olaus |
Danish astronomer |
AdDi: 98 |
| Roentgen, Wilhelm H. (1845-1923) |
German physicist |
AdDi: 200 |
| Rothman, Milton A. |
author, The Laws of Physics, Basic Books, 1963 |
FrHe: 123 |
| Rutherford, Daniel |
student of Joseph Black (uncle of Sir Walter Scott) |
AdDi: 124 |
| Rutherford, Ernest (1871-1937) |
New Zealand-born British chemist |
ViHe: 92
AdDi: 200
FrHe: 126 |
Ss
| Name |
Annotation |
Reference |
| Sagan, Carl |
astronomer, Harvard University |
ViHe: 225, 234 |
| Sanger, Dr. F. |
British biochemist |
OTri: 60, 61 |
| Sayers, Dorothy |
British mystery writer |
FrHe: 82 |
| Scheele, Karl W. (1742-1786) |
German-Swedish chemist |
AdDi: 200
FrHe: 92 (spells it Carl) |
| Schleiden, Matthias Jakob |
German biologist |
ViHe: 34 |
| Schmidt, Maarten |
Astronomer |
FrHe: 202 |
| Schwanhard, Heinrich |
German glass-cutter |
FrHe: 91-92 |
| Schwann, Theodor (1810-1882) |
German biologist (AdDi says zoologist) |
ViHe: 34
AdDi: 201 |
| Schwarzchild, K. |
physicist |
FrHe: 196 |
| Shanks, William |
"a fellow" who calculated pi to 707 places |
AdDi: 48 |
| Shapley, Harlow |
emeritus director of Harvard College Observatory (id'd in AdDi) |
FaFa: 188
AdDi: 189 |
| Sharp, Abraham |
English mathematician |
AdDi: 46, 48 |
| Sitter, Willem de |
Dutch astronomer |
FrHe: 200 |
| Skewes, S. |
South African mathematician |
AdDi: 13 |
| Smith, E. E. "Doc" |
sf writer |
AdDi: 84 |
| Soddy, Frederick (1877-1956) |
British chemist |
ViHe: 92
AdDi: 200 |
| Sosigenes |
Egyptian astronomer who helped Julius Caesar form the Julian calendar. |
TiSp: 9, 1o |
| Spallanzani, Lazzaro |
Italian scientist |
ViHe: 120 |
| Stahl, George Ernest |
German physician |
AdDi: 122, 123 |
| Stas, Jean Servais |
Belgium chemist |
ViHe: 85 |
| Stanley, Wendell Meredith |
American bacteriologist |
ViHe: 42 |
| Stokes, George Gabriel |
English physicist |
AdDi: 106 |
| Strutt, John William (Lord Rayleigh) |
British physicist, |
ViHe: 64
TiSp: 160 |
| Struve, Friedrich Wilhelm |
German/Russian astronomer |
FaFa: 141 |
Ts
| Name |
Annotation |
Reference |
| Thales (640? - 546 BC) |
(Ionian) Greek philosopher |
AdDi: 201
TiSp: 43
|
| Thomson, Joseph J. (1856-1940) |
English physicist |
AdDi: 201 |
| Thomson, William (Lord Kelvin) (1824-1907) |
British scientist |
ViHe: 173
AdDi: 105, 197 |
| Titius, Johann Daniel |
German astronomer |
FaFa: 109 |
| Titov, Gherman |
Russian cosmonaut |
FaFA: 72 |
| Tombaugh, Clyde W. |
American astronomer |
TiSp: 63 |
| Torricelli, Evangelista |
pupil of Galileo |
FaFa: 49-50 |
| Toscaneli, Paolo |
Italian geographer |
AdDi: 171 |
| Travers, Morris William |
. |
TiSp: 168 |
| Troili, Domenico |
Italian scientist |
ViHe: 208 |
| Tschermak, Erich |
Austrian botanist |
AdDi: 154 |
| Tswett, Michael |
Russian botanist |
OTri: 52 |
U - Z
| Name |
Annotation |
Reference |
| Urey, Harold C. |
University of Chicago |
FaFa: 43 |
| Van't Hoff, Jocobus H. (1852-1911) |
Dutch physical chemist |
AdDi: 201 |
| Vega, George |
"a fellow" who calculated pi to 140 places |
AdDi: 48 |
| Vesalius, Andreas (1514-1564) |
Beglgian anatomist |
AdDi: 201 |
| Vieta, François |
French mathematician |
AdDi: 43, 46 |
| Virchow, Rudolf (1821-1902) |
German scientist |
FaFa: 240
AdDi: 201 |
| Volta, Alessandro (1745-1827) |
Italian physicist |
AdDi: 201 |
| Vries, Hugo de |
Dutch botanist |
AdDi: 154 |
| Walker, Burnham S. |
head of Boston University School of Medicine biochemistry department |
OTri: 145, 152-153 |
| Wallace, Alfred Russel |
English naturalist |
FaFa: 226, 227, 229, 230, 232 |
| Walsh, Don |
American sub-mariner |
FrHE: 32 |
| Ward, Joshua |
English sulfuric acide manufacturer |
TiSp: 182 |
| Watt, James |
American inventor |
TiSp: 153 |
| Wells, H. G. |
British science fiction writer |
FrHe: 58 |
| Whipple, Fred |
Professor, Harvard |
FaFa: 128 |
| Wien, Wilhelm |
German physicist |
TiSp: 158 |
| Wiener, Alexander S. |
American physician |
AdDi: 162 |
| Wildt, Rupert Widt |
astronomer |
ViHe: 234 |
| William of Occam |
English scholar |
FaFa: 209 |
| Williamson, Jack |
American science fiction writer |
FrHe: 60 |
| Witt, Gustav |
German astronomer |
FrHe: 170
TiSp: 62 |
| Wolf, Max |
German astronomer |
ViHe: 219 |
| Wöhler, Friedrich (1800-1882) |
founder of chemistry |
AdDi: 201 |
| Wurtz, Charles adolphe |
French chemist |
AdDi: 140 |
| Yukawa, Hideki |
Japanese physicist |
FrHe: 133, 134, 137 |
| Yost, Donald M. |
American chemist |
FrHe: 100 |
| Young, Thomas |
English physicist (called a physician on AdDi pg. 89) |
ViHe: 115, 116
AdDi: 89, 90, 91 |
| Zwicky, Fritz |
Swiss astronomer |
FrHe: 192 |
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