Daniel Shanks (1917-1996)

Daniel Shanks (1917-1996)

Daniel Shanks was born on January 17, 1917, in the city of Chicago, where he was raised and where in 1937 he received his B.S. in physics from the University of Chicago. In 1940 he worked as a physicist at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, moving the following year to the position of physicist at the Naval Ordinance Laboratory, a position he retained until 1950. In 1951 his post at the NOL changed ...

Daniel Shanks’ Square Forms Factorization

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic. It has engaged the industry and wisdom of ancient and modern geometers ... the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and s...

Harold Frederick Schuknecht. 1917-1996.

Harold Frederick Schuknecht, MD, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School and Chief Emeritus of the Department of Otolaryngology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, who has died, at the age of 79, on October 19, 1996, was a world renowned clinical otologist, otopathologist, teacher and scholar. Harold Schuknecht was born in South Dakota i...

In memoriam Pieter D. Nieuwkoop (1917-1996).

Pieter Nieuwkoop died September 18, 1996, at age 79, in sues formed by the flap which protruded from the neural tube. The most anterior neural structures (forebrain) develUtrecht, The Netherlands, after a brief illness. He continued his laboratory research on early vertebrate development oped at the distal end of the flap, whereas posterior structures developed at the base and matched those of ...

Variations on a Theorem of Landau . Part I By Daniel Shanks and