Web Authors (Science) - Hall of Fame

Aux grands hommes, la Patrie reconnaissante.

Many people share their knowledge on the Internet, but the outstanding contributions of a
few dedicated scientists belong in this "Hall of Fame" (in alphabetical order). [ Nominate ]

John C. Baez, mathematical physicist (b.1961)

Professor of mathematics, at UC Riverside; he is a cousin of the American folk singer Joan Baez (b.1941-01-09). John Baez is a one-man Internet army who answers many physics questions on sci.physics.research and publishes his own aperiodic column.

John Baez's Stuff | Fun Stuff | The n-category Café | This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics

Alexander Bogomolny, software developer

Former Associate Prof. of Mathematics, University of Iowa.
Until May 2004, Alexander Bogomolny had a monthly column on the site of the Mathematical Association of America.

Cut The Knot

Kevin S. Brown (Kent, WA)

Kevin Brown signs his name only once in his rich MathPages website (which doesn't feature a single external link). Before 1999, Brown was discussing Relativity and other mathematical topics on USENET. Fred Olden is related to Brown, Anatoly isn't.

MathPages.com | Reflections on Relativity

Chris K. Caldwell, number theorist (b. 1956)

Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, at UT Martin.

home | The Prime Pages | The Prime Glossary

David W. Cantrell, mathematician (b. 1949)

Known for his presence on mathematical newsgroups, where he answers popular questions and offers original contributions, David Cantrell also contributes to MathWorld, Numericana, etc.

Umberto Cerruti, algebraist (b. 1948)

Department of Mathematics, University of Torino (Italy).

Math News

Karl Dahlke, blind scientist (b. 1960)

Dahlke has been totally blind since age 10. He once managed to write a speech synthesizer on his Apple II using the bell as sole feedback. His text-based mathematical site is so good that it can be extremely useful to sighted people as well.

home | edbrowse (Editor Browser for the blind ) | mathreference.com

Glenn Elert, physics teacher

Glenn Elert teaches at Midwood High School at Brooklyn College (NY). He acts as the editor of the Physics Factbook, a large collection of essays written by high-school students as an exercise in library research methods (in a scientific context).

home | Hypertextbook | Physics Factbook | Get Bent

Chris Hillman, physics and math expositor

In 1992, Hillman started Relativity on the World Wide Web (he was then a math grad student at the University of Washington). He left his pages in the care of John Baez before returning in March 2007, disappointed by his Wikipedia experience. Sadly, Hillman lost faith again in June 2007 but remained active online.

David A. Eppstein, computer scientist

Professor in the School of Information and Computer Science, at UC Irvine.

The Geometry Junkyard

Walter Lewin, professor of physics (b. 1936)

Walter Lewin is an astrophysicist with a flair for showmanship. His undergraduate lectures at MIT are legendary. Some of those have been broadcasted by UWTV (Seattle) and are available online in video form, through MIT's OpenCourseWare.

Jeff Miller, educator

A teacher at Gulf High School in New Port Richey (Florida) Jeff Miller maintains an authoritative page about the "Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics".

home | Words of Mathematics | Mathematical Symbols | Stamps

Robert Munafo, programmer (b. 1964)

home | Numbers | Large Numbers

Carl R. "Rod" Nave, professor of physics

Department of Physics & Astronomy, Georgia State University. The quaint style of HyperPhysics comes from the HyperCard^® system (Apple Computer) for which it was originally designed.

HyperPhysics [ without index frame ]ttp://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hmat.html">HyperMath

John J. O'Connor

J.J. O'Connor is one of the two editors (with E.F. Robertson) of the authoritative MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.

home | MacTutor History of Mathematics

Sten F. Odenwald, astronomer (b. 1955?)

Ask the Astronomer | The Astronomy Café

Ed Pegg Jr. , recreational mathematician

As a mathematician with a strong interest in recreational mathematics, Ed Pegg Jr. may well be the heir apparent to Martin Gardner (1914-) in the Internet era. He helped Stephen Wolfram with NKS and joined MathWorld in 2004.

Ed Pegg Jr.'s Math Games (MAA Column) | MathPuzzle.com

Dan Piponi, computer graphics guru (b. 1966)

Thinker, tinkerer and Academy Award winner... Signing sigfpe, Dan Piponi maintains a blog entitled A Neighborhood of Infinity (great name!) which features some superb essays about quantum physics and other mathematical topics.

sigfpe | A Neighborhood of Infinity (blog)

Simon Plouffe, numerologist (b. 1956)

Best known for his "Inverter" which attempts to express in terms of known constants some number given in decimal form. He collaborated to Sloane's Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.

home | Plouffe's Inverter

Edmund F. Robertson

Edmund Robertson is one of the two editors (with J.J. O'Connor) of the authoritative MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.

home | MacTutor History of Mathematics

Russell J. Rowlett, metrologist

Director of the Center for Mathematics and Science Education of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

home | A Dictionary of Units of Measurement

Alom Shaha, filmmaker

Alom Shaha is a former physics teacher who works as a TV producer in London. His approach to science communication has been recognized with a fellowship from the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA).

article | Labreporter

Neil J.A. Sloane, AT&T fellow (b. 1939)

Neil James Alexander Sloane maintains a huge encyclopedia of noteworthy integer sequences, where each sequence is assigned a 6-digit identifier with an A prefix (e.g. A000055) for which the acronym SIDN (Sloane ID number) has appeared in Wikipedia.

home | The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences | The OEIS 100K E-Party

Terence Tao, top mathematician (b. 1975)

Terence Chi-Shen Tao is a professor of mathematics at UCLA, born in Australia. He was promoted to full professorship at age 24. He received the Fields Medal in 2006 (see PAP) and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007.

home | What's New?

Eric W. Weisstein, encyclopedist (b. 1969)

Eric's Favorite Links | Treasure Troves of Science | World of Mathematics | World of Physics

Edward L. "Ned" Wright, cosmologist

Astronomy Professor at UCLA (Los Angeles).

Cosmology Tutorial

Sharing Science on the Web | Giants of Science | Solvay Conferences | Armorial