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Jacques Cassini (8 February 1677 - 16 April 1756) was a French astronomer, son of the famous Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini. Read more

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An influential Norfolk-born archaeologist, Lewis R. Binford, died earlier this week. Binford was professor emeritus at Southern Methodist University and the University of New Mexico. He died Monday in Kirksville, Mo., according to SMU. He was 79. [url=http://hamptonroads.com/2011/04/est...

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It has been claimed that as many as two out of five humans on the planet today owe their existence to the discoveries made by one brilliant German chemist. Yet this is the same chemist denounced by young German students today as a "murderer". No-one personifies better than Fritz Haber the d...

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A 12-year-old child prodigy has astounded university professors after grappling with some of the most advanced concepts in mathematics. Jacob Barnett has an IQ of 170 - higher than Albert Einstein - and is now so far advanced in his Indiana university studies that professors are lining him up for a P...

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Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, the chief exponent of the theory that planets like earth have been seeded for life by comets has been dismissed from his post at the Cardiff University in Wales, United Kingdom. The university informed the Sri Lanka born British scientist that they are withdrawi...

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Nobel Prize Winner Baruch Blumberg Dies of Apparent Heart Attack Nobel Prize winner Dr. Baruch "Barry" Blumberg, who served as the first director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute at NASA's Ames Research Centre, suffered an apparent heart attack while attending a conference at Ames...

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Files released today show that MI5 labelled the scientist and broadcaster Jacob Bronowski a "security risk" for nearly 20 years Bronowski is remembered as a brilliant scientist and broadcaster. His series The Ascent of Man, which was transmitted on the BBC in the 1970s, is regularly in...

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Michael Neander (originally Neumann) (April 3, 1529 - October 23, 1581) was a German teacher, mathematician, medical academic, and astronomer. The crater Neander on the Moon is named after him. Read more

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In years to come, Frenchs Forest's Emily Bathgate may be responsible for telling the world things about the universe they never knew before. The 22-year-old University of Technology, Sydney, student was last week announced as the only Australian - and one of only 20 people in the world - to take part...

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Dr. Victor Manuel Blanco Ph.D., (1918-March 8, 2011), was a Puerto Rican astronomer who in 1959 discovered "Blanco 1", a galactic cluster. Blanco was the second Director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, which had the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphe...

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At 80, palaeontologist Mary Dawson maintains a piercing interest in the origins of early life on Earth In 2007, she'd accompanied these younger palaeontologists to Haughton crater, created 39 million years ago by a meteorite and named in honour of Samuel Haughton, a late 19th-century professor o...

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James Ludlow Elliot, a professor of planetary astronomy and physics at MIT who discovered the rings of Uranus in 1977, died on March 3 from cancer-related complications. He was 67. Elliot was known as one of the great observational planetary astronomers of the modern era. Among his accomplishment...

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Astrophysicist Dr Jennifer Wiseman on 'life out there' Dr Jennifer Wiseman is the American astrophysicist recently appointed as senior project scientist for the Hubble telescope at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Centre. She is in the UK to give a lecture on exoplanets, the possibility of life elsew...

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Bruce Winstein, an experimental physicist who studied the afterglow of the universe's birth, died Feb. 28 after a four-year battle with cancer. He was 67. Winstein, the Samuel K. Allison Distinguished Service Professor in Physics, the Enrico Fermi Institute and the College, was known as a puncti...

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	Jacques Cassini (1677 - 1756) (Preview) Jacques Cassini (8 February 1677 - 16 April 1756) was a French astronomer, son of the famous Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini. Read more	Blobrana	1	Apr 18 13:33 2011 by Blobrana
	Lewis R. Binford (1930 - 2011) (Preview) An influential Norfolk-born archaeologist, Lewis R. Binford, died earlier this week. Binford was professor emeritus at Southern Methodist University and the University of New Mexico. He died Monday in Kirksville, Mo., according to SMU. He was 79. [url=http://hamptonroads.com/2011/04/est...	Blobrana	0	Apr 16 10:28 2011 by Blobrana
	Fritz Haber (Preview) It has been claimed that as many as two out of five humans on the planet today owe their existence to the discoveries made by one brilliant German chemist. Yet this is the same chemist denounced by young German students today as a "murderer". No-one personifies better than Fritz Haber the d...	Blobrana	0	Apr 12 12:18 2011 by Blobrana
	Jacob Barnett (Preview) A 12-year-old child prodigy has astounded university professors after grappling with some of the most advanced concepts in mathematics. Jacob Barnett has an IQ of 170 - higher than Albert Einstein - and is now so far advanced in his Indiana university studies that professors are lining him up for a P...	Blobrana	3	Apr 9 10:33 2011 by Blobrana
	Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe (Preview) Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, the chief exponent of the theory that planets like earth have been seeded for life by comets has been dismissed from his post at the Cardiff University in Wales, United Kingdom. The university informed the Sri Lanka born British scientist that they are withdrawi...	Blobrana	1	Apr 8 01:35 2011 by Blobrana
	Dr. Baruch Blumberg (1925 - 2011) (Preview) Nobel Prize Winner Baruch Blumberg Dies of Apparent Heart Attack Nobel Prize winner Dr. Baruch "Barry" Blumberg, who served as the first director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute at NASA's Ames Research Centre, suffered an apparent heart attack while attending a conference at Ames...	Blobrana	0	Apr 6 20:16 2011 by Blobrana
	Jacob Bronowski (1908 - 1974) (Preview) Files released today show that MI5 labelled the scientist and broadcaster Jacob Bronowski a "security risk" for nearly 20 years Bronowski is remembered as a brilliant scientist and broadcaster. His series The Ascent of Man, which was transmitted on the BBC in the 1970s, is regularly in...	Blobrana	0	Apr 4 12:27 2011 by Blobrana
	Michael Neander (1529 - 1581) (Preview) Michael Neander (originally Neumann) (April 3, 1529 - October 23, 1581) was a German teacher, mathematician, medical academic, and astronomer. The crater Neander on the Moon is named after him. Read more	Blobrana	0	Apr 3 07:40 2011 by Blobrana
	Emily Bathgate (Preview) In years to come, Frenchs Forest's Emily Bathgate may be responsible for telling the world things about the universe they never knew before. The 22-year-old University of Technology, Sydney, student was last week announced as the only Australian - and one of only 20 people in the world - to take part...	Blobrana	0	Mar 31 14:01 2011 by Blobrana
	Dr. Victor Manuel Blanco (1918-2011) (Preview) Dr. Victor Manuel Blanco Ph.D., (1918-March 8, 2011), was a Puerto Rican astronomer who in 1959 discovered "Blanco 1", a galactic cluster. Blanco was the second Director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, which had the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphe...	Blobrana	1	Mar 17 08:44 2011 by Blobrana
	Mary Dawson (Preview) At 80, palaeontologist Mary Dawson maintains a piercing interest in the origins of early life on Earth In 2007, she'd accompanied these younger palaeontologists to Haughton crater, created 39 million years ago by a meteorite and named in honour of Samuel Haughton, a late 19th-century professor o...	Blobrana	0	Mar 13 12:38 2011 by Blobrana
	James Ludlow Elliot (1944-2011) (Preview) James Ludlow Elliot, a professor of planetary astronomy and physics at MIT who discovered the rings of Uranus in 1977, died on March 3 from cancer-related complications. He was 67. Elliot was known as one of the great observational planetary astronomers of the modern era. Among his accomplishment...	Blobrana	1	Mar 10 19:05 2011 by Blobrana
	Dr Jennifer Wiseman Person (Preview) Astrophysicist Dr Jennifer Wiseman on 'life out there' Dr Jennifer Wiseman is the American astrophysicist recently appointed as senior project scientist for the Hubble telescope at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Centre. She is in the UK to give a lecture on exoplanets, the possibility of life elsew...	Blobrana	1	Mar 4 15:04 2011 by Blobrana
	Physicist Bruce Winstein (1943-2011) (Preview) Bruce Winstein, an experimental physicist who studied the afterglow of the universe's birth, died Feb. 28 after a four-year battle with cancer. He was 67. Winstein, the Samuel K. Allison Distinguished Service Professor in Physics, the Enrico Fermi Institute and the College, was known as a puncti...	Blobrana	0	Mar 2 23:13 2011 by Blobrana
	John Michael Lounge (1946 - 2011) (Preview) [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Lounge]Read	Blobrana	0	Mar 2 04:02 2011 by Blobrana
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