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Augustus Edward Hough Love (1863-1940)
Scientific field: Mathematics
Known for: Theory of elasticity
Augustus E. H. Love was a British geophysicist and mathematician who discovered a major type of seismic wave that was subsequently named for him.
Love held the Sedleian professorship of natural philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1899 to 1940. In his analysis of earthquake [...]

Joseph Black (1728-1799)
Scientific field: Chemistry, Physics
Known for: Discovery of carbon dioxide, Latent heat, Specific heat
Joseph Black was a British chemist and physicist best known for the rediscovery of “fixed air” (carbon dioxide), the concept of latent heat, and the discovery of the bicarbonates.
In his investigations of the heating of magnesia alba (magnesium carbonate), Black anticipated [...]

Leonhard Euler (1707-1783)
Scientific field: Mathematics, Physics
Known for: Euler’s number
Swiss mathematician and physicist, Leonhard Euler was one of the founders of pure mathematics. He not only made decisive and formative contributions to the subjects of geometry, calculus, mechanics, and number theory but also developed methods for solving problems in observational astronomy and demonstrated useful applications of [...]

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (1452-1519)
Scientific field: Biology, Mathematics
Known for: Anatomical studies, Science of painting
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. His notebooks reveal a spirit of scientific inquiry and a mechanical inventiveness that [...]