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Word: mathematician (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week cosmologists were arguing a new theory, originated by Mathematical Physicist Raymond A. Lyttleton of Cambridge University and elaborated with the help of Mathematician Hermann Bondi of the University of London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unbalanced Universe | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...since his freshman year in high school. A graduate of St. John's University, he is close to a doctor's degree in advanced mathematics at M.I.T., where his grades average 4.9 out of a possible 5. In his spare time Student Slagle works as a staff mathematician at M.I.T.'s famed Lincoln Laboratory. ¶ Robert J. Winn Jr., 23, of Dallas, began to lose his vision at the age of six. He is about to receive a B.S. at North Texas State College, has had eleven A's and one B in the last three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Their Best | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...material that could be both cheap and strong. The son of a Catalan mathematics professor, Torroja trained as an engineer at Madrid University, then worked for five years as a contractor before finally deciding that "the structure of concrete cannot be figured mathematically-it is much stronger than the mathematician can prove, and you can't wait for the mathematician. You have to go ahead and try what you know by intuition." To prove his theory of intuition, he founded his own Technical Institute of Construction and Cement, kept it going on a shoestring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Art of Structure | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...Derived by Swiss Mathematician Jakob Bernoulli (1654-1705), from the equation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Art of Structure | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...blushed and retreated without a word, but he soon found out that her name was Abigail Fithian Halsey II. She worked as a mathematician at the laboratory, lived in Bethesda with four Navy WAVEs, and would be delighted to go bicycling with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Reach into Space | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

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