{"id":3614,"date":"2013-05-23T12:16:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T11:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=3614"},"modified":"2013-05-23T12:16:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T11:16:36","slug":"welsh-and-famous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2013\/05\/23\/welsh-and-famous\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh and famous"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\"flag<\/td>\nI have compiled a (very) short list of some of the important Welsh scientists and mathematicians throughout history. They are in no particular order.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Alfred Russel Wallace<\/strong>
\nBorn \t8 January 1823, Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales.
\nDied \t7 November 1913 (aged 90) Broadstone, Dorset, England.<\/p>\n

\"Wallace\"<\/p>\n

He independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection, which prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own ideas in On the Origin of Species<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Brian David Josephson<\/strong>
\nBorn 4 January 1940 Cardiff, Wales.
\n\"josephson\"<\/p>\n

He is known as a pioneer of the theoretical undesrstanding of superconductivity. He was awarded 1\/2 share of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physics for “his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects”.<\/p>\n

William Jones<\/strong>
\nBorn \t1675, Llanfihangel Tre’r Beirdd, Isle of Anglesey
\nDied \t3 July 1749<\/p>\n

\"jones\"
\nHe proposed the use of the symbol \u03c0 (the Greek letter pi) to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.<\/p>\n

Robert Recorde<\/strong>
\nBorn \tca. 1512, Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales
\nDied \t1558 London, England<\/p>\n

\"recorde\"
\nHe introduced the “equals” sign (=) and also the “plus” sign(+) in 1557.<\/p>\n

Elmer Gethin Rees<\/strong>
\nBorn \t1941 Llandybie, Carmarthenshire, Wales
\n\"rees\"
\nA mathematician who has published in a diverse range of areas including topology, differential geometry, algebraic geometry, linear algebra and Morse theory.<\/p>\n

Lyndon Evans<\/strong>
\nBorn 1945 Aberdare Wales
\n\"evens\"
\nProject leader of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.<\/p>\n

Bertrand Arthur William Russell<\/strong>
\nBorn \t18 May 1872 Trellech, Monmouthshire, UK
\nDied \t2 February 1970 (aged 97) Penrhyndeudraeth, Wales, UK
\n\"russel\"
\nHe co-authored, with A. N. Whitehead, Principia Mathematica<\/em>, which was an attempt to set all mathematics on the basis of logic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have compiled a (very) short list of some of the important Welsh scientists and mathematicians throughout history. They are in no particular order. Alfred Russel Wallace Born 8 January 1823, Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales. Died 7 November 1913 (aged 90) Broadstone, Dorset, England. He independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection, which prompted … Continue reading Welsh and famous<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}