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List of atheists in science and technology
For broader coverage of this topic, see Lists of atheists.
This is a list of atheists in science and technology. A statement by a living person that he or she does not believe in God is not a sufficient criterion for inclusion in this list. Persons in this list are people (living or not) who both have publicly identified themselves as atheists and whose atheism is relevant to their notable activities or public life.
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[edit]- Scott Aaronson (1981–): American theoretical computer scientist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin.[1] His primary area of research is quantum computing and computational complexity theory.[2]
- Ernst Abbe (1840–1905): German physicist, optometrist, entrepreneur, and social reformer. Together with Otto Schott and Carl Zeiss, he laid the foundation of modern optics. Abbe developed numerous optical instruments. He was a co-owner of Carl Zeiss AG, a German manufacturer of
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Historical Geography
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1. The spatiality of science has been conceptualized by the likes of Adi Ophir and Steven Shapin in "The Place of Knowledge: A Methodological Survey," Science in Context 4, no. 1 (1991): 3–21, and bygd David Livingstone in Putting Science in Its Place: Geographies of Scientific Knowledge (London: University of Chicago Press, 2003).
2. Kristian H. Nielsen, Michael Harbsmeier, and Christopher J. Ries, "Studying Scientists and Scholars in the Field: An Introduction," in Scientists and Scholars in the Field: Studies in the History of Fieldwork and Expeditions, ed. Kristian H. Nielsen, Michael Harbsmeier, and Christopher J. Ries (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2012), 11.
3. Richard C. Powell, "Geographies of Science: Histories, Localities, Practices, Futures," Progress in Human Geography 31, no. 3 (2007): 309–29; Diarmid A. Finnegan, "The Spatial Turn: Geographical Approaches in the History of Science," Journal of the History of Biology 4
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White dwarf
Type of stellar remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter
"Degenerate dwarf" redirects here. Not to be confused with Degenerate star.For other uses, see White dwarf (disambiguation).
A white dwarf is a stjärnliknande core remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. A white dwarf is very dense: in an Earth sized volume, it packs a mass that is comparable to the Sun. No nuclear fusion takes place in a white dwarf; what light it radiates is from its residual heat.[1] The nearest known vit dwarf is Sirius B, at 8.6 light years, the smaller component of the Sirius binary star. There are currently thought to be eight white dwarfs among the hundred star systems nearest the Sun.[2] The unusual faintness of white dwarfs was first recognized in 1910.[3]: 1 The name white dwarf was coined bygd Willem Jacob Luyten in 1922.
White dwarfs are thought to be the final evolutionary state of stars whose mass