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Born April 22, 1887 • Copenhagen • Denmark
Died January 22, 1951 (aged 63) • Copenhagen • Denmark
Notable Family Members brother Niels Bohr
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Erasmus Bartholin
Danish physician and physicist
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Farkas Bolyai
Hungarian mathematician and writer
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Luca Pacioli
Italian mathematician
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Engraved portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz with long curly hair, wearing a buttoned coat and cravat, facing forward.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Galileo
Galileo
Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
French philosopher Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Werner Karl Heisenberg sits at a desk in a suit with his hands folded, bookshelves in the background.
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Portrait of Archimedes by Giuseppe Nogari shows an elderly man with white hair and beard, holding a compass, gazing downward, set against a dark background.
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and inventor
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
American mathematician
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Euclid
Euclid
Greek mathematician
Engraving of six astronomers, with Hipparchus seated at center and, from left to right, Galileo, Johannes Hevelius, Tycho Brahe, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Ptolemy standing, each holding scientific instruments.
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Sylvester II, detail from the ivory vessel used at the consecration of Otto III, 996; in the Domschatzkammer des Aachener Domes, Aachen, Ger.
Sylvester II
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Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician

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