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Born July 17, 1894 • Wisconsin
Died November 24, 1978 (aged 84) • (Anniversary in 3 days)
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John von Neumann
John von Neumann
American mathematician
Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán
American engineer
Kurt Gödel
Kurt Gödel
American mathematician
Charles Steinmetz.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
American engineer
Simon Newcomb, c. 1905.
Simon Newcomb
American astronomer and mathematician
Dorothy Maud Wrinch
British-American mathematician and biochemist
Norbert Wiener.
Norbert Wiener
American mathematician
Gladys West
American mathematician
Minsky, Marvin
Marvin Minsky
American scientist
Claude Shannon
American engineer
Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson
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Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl
German-American mathematician
John Nash
John Nash
American mathematician
Peirce, Benjamin
Benjamin Peirce
American mathematician and astronomer
Peter Lax, 2005.
Peter Lax
Hungarian-American mathematician
Oswald Veblen
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John Henry Holland
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Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
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Stephen Smale
American mathematician
Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper
United States naval officer and mathematician

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