Biographies and Founders

Please browse the list to discover the wonderful mathematical minds behind the formulas we use each day. Within these pages you will find brilliant mathematicians and their mathematical formulas, as well as chemist and physicists that discovered many physical formulas that we use daily.

Alfred Russel Wallace

(January 8, 1823 - November 7, 1913) Wallace was a British biologist, anthropologist, geographer, and naturalist. He is unofficially known as the "father of biogeography." W... (more)

Avicenna

(980 AD - 1070 AD) Avicenna was a physician and philosopher. Avicenna made many great contributions to a wide range of subjects, with an emphasis on philosophy and medicine,... (more)

Carolus Linnaeus

(May 23, 1707 - January 10, 1778) Linnaeus was a physician, botanist, and zoologist. He is best remembered as the "father of modern taxonomy" since he created the foundation... (more)

Gauss, Carl Friedrich

(30 April 1777 - 23 Feb 1855) Carl Gauss was German mathematician, physicist, and astronomer known for groundbreaking research in many fields. His contributions include the ... (more)

Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus

(February 4, 1776 - February 16, 1837) Gottfried was a naturalist and a professor of mathematics and medicine who had attended his doctorate in medicine. Gottfried helped pr... (more)

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

(August 1, 1744 - December 28, 1829) Jean was a naturalist who is best remembered for his theory of "inheritance of acquired traits" or heredity, which is no now a discredi... (more)

Newton, Isaac

(1642-1727) Isaac Newton was a physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and a philosopher. He is known for his ground breaking work in the field of gravitation as well as motio... (more)

Otto Brunfels

(1448 - December 23 1534) Brunfels was a botanist, and theologian. He made great contributions to pharmaceutics, but his greatest contributions was to botany. He is consider... (more)

Pythagoras

(582 BC - 496 BC) Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher and a... (more)

Savasorda (Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi)

Savasorda who is also known as Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi was a jewish mathematitian and astronomer. He is best known today for officially writing the quadratic formula in the... (more)

Snell, Willebrord

(1580 - October 30, 1626) Willebrord Snell was a Dutch astronomer and a mathematician known best for his law of refraction - also known as Snell's law. He is also known for ... (more)

Stephen Jay Gould

(September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) Stephen was a evolutionary biologist, paleontologist and science historian who has attended a geography degree. He was a world renowne... (more)

William Harvey

(April 1, 1578–June 3, 1657) Harvey was a medical doctor is best remembered for his work on the human heart. He was the first person to correctly document the blood and ... (more)