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This section is for '''biographies''' of people who have made | This section is for '''biographies''' of people who have made important contributions to the field. Important is a highly subjective term, and SklogWiki has absolutely no intention of offering a definition of this word. Perhaps for the inclusion of a biography of a current researcher, a vague guide could be that she or he has a [http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0507655102 h-index] greater than, or equal to, say 20. | ||
If a biography concerning yourself (or you wish to start your own biography) is here then ''please go ahead and edit it''. After all, you know your scientific background better than anyone else. One of the most important sections is a (hyper-linked) publications list. Other interesting details would be the name of ones PhD supervisor, and a list of the PhD's one has supervised. | If a biography concerning yourself (or you wish to start your own biography) is here then ''please go ahead and edit it''. After all, you know your scientific background better than anyone else. One of the most important sections is a (hyper-linked) publications list. Other interesting details would be the name of ones PhD supervisor, and a list of the PhD's one has supervised. | ||
Revision as of 16:54, 5 February 2009
This section is for biographies of people who have made important contributions to the field. Important is a highly subjective term, and SklogWiki has absolutely no intention of offering a definition of this word. Perhaps for the inclusion of a biography of a current researcher, a vague guide could be that she or he has a h-index greater than, or equal to, say 20.
If a biography concerning yourself (or you wish to start your own biography) is here then please go ahead and edit it. After all, you know your scientific background better than anyone else. One of the most important sections is a (hyper-linked) publications list. Other interesting details would be the name of ones PhD supervisor, and a list of the PhD's one has supervised.
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- Rodney J. Baxter
- Daniel Bernoulli
- Kurt Binder
- Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogoliubov
- Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann
- Robert Boyle
C
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
- Jacques Alexandre César Charles
- Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron
- Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius
- E. G. D. Cohen
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E
F
G
H
J
K
L
- Lev Davidovich Landau
- Joel L. Lebowitz
- Elliott H. Lieb
- Sir John Edward Lennard-Jones KBE, FRS
- Johann Josef Loschmidt
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R
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T
- Benjamin Thompson
- William Thomson 1st Baron Kelvin
- David J. Thouless