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Born August 29, 1959 (age 67) • London • England
Notable Works “A New Kind of Science”
Subjects Of Study cellular automata • nature • scientific modeling

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Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Arthur Eddington
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Sir James Jeans
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Isaac Newton
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Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Galileo
Galileo
Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
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Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
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William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
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Mileva Marić-Einstein
mathematician and physicist
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Christiaan Huygens
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Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
French scientist and mathematician
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Gaspard Monge, count de Péluse
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David Hilbert
David Hilbert
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Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier
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Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl
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Julius Plücker
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Siméon-Denis Poisson
Siméon-Denis Poisson
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