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A Is For Asimov: The F & SF Essays Compiled by Averil Chase History as discovered through Asimov's essays. When complete, this document will be available as a free downloadable PDF. Free download: TOC and Annotated index for Asimov on Science Fiction (1981) PDF. Visit: Isaac Asimov on Everything: The Asimov Quote Book Visit: Asimov On Everyone Essays Index Return to: A Is For Asimov Homepage 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.   Web thethunderchild.com OTri FaFa ViHe AdDi TiSp FrHe ScNI SoBa StCo LeEl TrMo OfSm PlWa QuBr RoIn SuBr CoEo XUnk SuMo FaSe ReWr OuEv SeUn 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 1957 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1968 1970 1971 1972 1973 1975 1976 1977 1979 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1987 1988 1990 1990 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, IsAT-28 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 Bleuler, Paul E. Swiss Psychiatrist IsAT: 20 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 Buxton, Jedediah 18th century Englishman, autistic savant IsAT: 28 Cs Name Annotation Reference Cabot, John Italian navigator. Real name, Giovanni Caboto FrHe: 42 Cameron, Dr. Ewen Albany Medical Center IsAT: 37 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 Carrel, Alexis surgeon, kept a chicken heart alive for over 32 years. IsAT: 82 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 Clarke, C. A. University of Liverpool IsAT: 25 Clausius, Rudolf German physicist ViHe: 140 Clèment, Nicholas French chemist TiSp: 182 Colburn, Zerah born in Vermont, 1804, autistic savant IsAT: 28 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 IsAT: 90 "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 IsAT-28 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 Flexner, Josepha University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, married to Louis B. IsAT: 39 Flexner, Louis B. University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, married to Josepha IsAT: 39 Fox, Sidney W. Institute of Molecular Evolution at the University of Miami IsAT: 85 Foucault, Jean Bernard Fizeau's assistant AdDi: 100-101 Fraenkel-Conrat, Heinz research biochemist at the University of California IsTA: 89 Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) American scientist and statesman AdDi: 124, 195 Frèmy, Edmond 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 IsAT-32 Freund, John E. author, A Modern Introduction to Mathematics AdDi: 37 Friedhoff, Arnold J. of New York University IsAT: 25 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 Garrod, Archibald E. English physician IsAT: 56 Gauss, Karl Friedrich (1777-1855) German mathematician FaFa: 256 AdDi: 53, 62, 195 IsAT-29 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 Hoffer, Dr. A at the University Hospital in Saskatoon, Canada IsAT: 22 Hoffman, Dr. Albert chemist, working with LSD IsAT: 26 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 Huxley, T. H. English biologist IsAT: 33 Huyghens, Christian (1629-1695 Dutch astronomer (ViHe 214) ViHe: 114, 214 AdDi: 197 TiSp: 31, 57 Hyden, Holger Swedish neurologist IsAT: 34 Is Name Annotation Reference Ivanoski, Dmitri Russian bacteriologist ViHe: 42 Js Name Annotation Reference Jacobson, Allan L. University of California IsAT: 36 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 Mayer, Jean physiologist at Harvard Medical School IsAT: 45 McConnell, James V. University of Michigan IsAT: 36 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 Muller, Hermann J Nobel prize winning geneticist IsAT: 81 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 Oparin, O. I. biochemist IsAT: 85 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 Pavlov, Ivan P. Russian physiologist IsAT: 29 Peary, Robert American arctic explorer FrHe: 35 Penfield, Wilder G. McGill University IsAT: 32 Perkin, William H. (1838-1907) English chemist AdDi: 200 Petrucci, Dr. Danielle of Bologna, Italy IsAT: 82 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 Price, Dr. Charles C. president of the American Chemical Society IsAT: 80 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 Rose, William C. American biochemist IsAT: 60 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 Spiegelman, Professor Sol University of Illinois IsAT: 8901 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 Wallis, John mathematician IsAT: 28 Walsh, Don American sub-mariner FrHE: 32 Ward, Joshua English sulfuric acide manufacturer TiSp: 182 Watson, Dr. James D. American biochemist, a 1950s Quiz Kid IsTA: 90 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 Wilkins, Maurice H. F. New Zealand-born physicist IsTA: 90 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 All quotes maintain their original copyright and are presented here for research, reference and review. Thanks to Doubleday for permission to use selected quotes. Click on the icons for new features in The Thunder Child. Radiation Theater: 1950s Sci Fi Movies Discussion Boards The Sand Rock Sentinel: Ripped From the Headlines of 1950s Sci Fi Films

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