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Hendy obtained a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Physics and Mathematics, at the University of Canterbury.She was awarded an Aurora Astronomy Scholarship that enabled her to take an overseas trip to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Carnegie Observatory, UCLA, Macdonald Observatory Texas, University of British Columbia, NRC Observatory Victoria and CHFT Hawaii.
A number of his cartoons featured skinhead characters and in 1984, Private Eye editor Ian Hislop suggested a strip that became "The Yobs". [4] The strip was published from 1985, and Husband was then able to leave his job and become a full-time cartoonist. [4] [5] He also had a Private Eye strip called "The Oldies" which ran for most of the ...
Rice was born February 16, 1923, in St. Petersburg, Florida. [6]Four of Rice's pentagon tilings. Marjorie Rice was a San Diego [1] mother of five, who had become an ardent follower of Martin Gardner's long-running column, "Mathematical Games", which appeared monthly, 1957–1986, in the pages of Scientific American magazine.
Larry Gonick (born 1946) is an American cartoonist best known for The Cartoon History of the Universe, a history of the world in comic book form, which he published in installments from 1977 to 2009.
Sidney Harris, a.k.a. S. Harris, is an American cartoonist who draws cartoons about science, mathematics, and technology.. Harris was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 8, 1933, [1] and obtained his degree from Brooklyn College.
Norman Gene Macdonald [i] (October 17, 1959 [ii] – September 14, 2021) was a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, and writer whose style was characterized by deadpan delivery, eccentric understatement, and the use of folksy, old-fashioned turns of phrase.
Fictional mathematicians, people who use an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems Pages in category "Fictional ...
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...