Kelvin: Life, Labours and Legacy

Thomas Dover's life and legacy

Schrödinger’s Legacy: Systems and Life

Woody Bledsoe - His Life and Legacy

October 1995 of ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Woody was one of the founders of AI, making early contributions in pattern recognition and automated reasoning. He continued to make significant contributions to AI throughout his long career. His legacy consists not only of his scientific work but also of several generations of scientists who learned from Woody the joy of scient...

The life and legacy of Marie Curie.

Marie Curie was a remarkable woman whose discoveries broke new ground in physics and chemistry and also opened the door for advances in engineering, biology, and medicine. She broke new ground for women in science: she was, for example, the first woman to receive a doctor of science degree in France, the first woman to win Nobel Prize, the first woman to lecture at the Sorbonne, the first perso...

Comments on the life and mathematical legacy of Wolfgang Doeblin

This article contains the translation into English of the main results found in the Comptes Rendus Volume of December 2000, dedicated to Wolfgang Doeblin’s sealed envelope sent to the Académie des Sciences de Paris in February 1940. The genesis of these results – both from human and scientific perspectives – is discussed, as well as their importance in our present understanding of onedimensiona...