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 John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842-1919) wrote the standard Treatise on Sound, experimented in optics and microscopy, and, with William Ramsay, discovered argon. Short... | |
 Francois Raoult (1830-1901) was a French chemist. Short Biography: In 1882, while working at the University of Grenoble, Raoult formulated one of the basic laws of chemistry... | |
 William Ramsay (1852-1916) was a Scottish chemist who, with Lord Rayleigh, discovered argon in 1894. Short Biography: In 1895 Ramsay manufactured helium, and in 1898, in cooperation... |  Venkata Raman (1888-1970) was an Indian physicist who in 1928 discovered what became known as the Raman effect the scattering of monochromatic light (light of a single wavelength) when... |
 Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898-1988) was an American physicist who developed techniques to measure with astonishing accuracy the strength of the weak magnetic fields. Short Biography: These... |  Francois Rabelais (1495-1553) was educated in the Renaissance humanist tradition and was the author of satirical allegories, La Vie inestimable de Gargantua/The Inestimable Life of... |
 Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet (1796-1874) was a Belgian statistician, a pioneer of modern statistical methods. Short Biography: He developed tests for the validity of statistical... |  Pythagoras (c.580-500 BC) was a Greek mathematician and philosopher, who formulated Pythagoras's theorem: in a right-angled triangle, the square on the hypotenuse equals the sum of... |
 Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. AD 100-170) was a Egyptian astronomer and geographer, who worked in Alexandria. Short Biography: The Almagest developed the theory that Earth is the centre... |  William Prout (1785-1850) published Prout's hypothesis: that the atomic weight of every atom is an exact and integral multiple of the hydrogen atom in 1815. The discovery of isotopes... |
 Ilya Prigogine (1917-2003) has made major contributions to the field of thermodynamics for which work he was awarded the Nobel physics prize 1977. Short Biography: Earlier theories... |  Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) was a Unitarian minister, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society 1766. Short Biography: In 1791 his chapel and house in Birmingham were sacked... |
 Karl Raimund Popper (1902-1994) theory of falsificationism says that although scientific generalizations cannot be conclusively verified, they can be conclusively falsified by a counterinstance... |  Simeon Denis Poisson (1781-1840) was a French applied mathematician. Short Biography: In probability theory he discovered the Poisson distribution which is widely used in probability... |
 Max Planck (1858-1947) was appointed to the chair of physics at Kiel in 1885 and Berlin in 1889. Much of his early work was in thermodynamics. Short Biography: From 1930 to 1937... |  Isaac Pitman (1813-1897) studied Samuel Taylor's scheme for shorthand writing, and in 1837 published his own system, Stenographic Soundhand, fast and accurate, and adapted for use in... |
 Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903-1967) was an American biologist who together with Min Chueh Chang and John Rock developed the contraceptive pill in the 1950s. Short Biography: As... |  Auguste Piccard (1884-1962) was a Swiss scientist. Short Biography: In 1931-1932, he and his twin brother Jean Felix (1884-1963) made ascents to 17,000 m/55,000 ft in a balloon... |
 Max Perutz (1914-2002) was a British biochemist, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with John Kendrew for work on the structure of the haemoglobin molecule. Short Biography... |  Jean Perrin (1870-1942) was a French physicist who produced the crucial evidence that finally established the atomic nature of matter. Short Biography: Assuming the atomic hypothesis... |
 Marguerite Catherine Perey (1909-1975) career, which began as an assistant to Marie Curie in 1929, culminated with her appointment as professor of nuclear chemistry at the University... |  Karl Pearson (1857-1936) was a British statistician, who followed Galton in introducing statistics and probability into genetics, and developed the concept of eugenics (improving the... |
 Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958) was an Austrian physicist, who originated Poult's exclusion principle: in a given system no two electrons, protons, neutrons, or other elementary particles... |  Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) contributed to the development of hydraulics, the calculus, and the mathematical theory of probability. Short Biography: In mathematics, Pascal is known... |
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