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Arthur Leroy Bloom (1928 - 2017)
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Arthur Leroy Bloom (September 2, 1928 - May 31, 2017) Geomorphologist Arthur Bloom dies at 88 Arthur L. Bloom, professor emeritus in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, who 26 years ago wrote what is considered the last comprehensive textbook on geomorphology, died May 31 at Cayuga M...
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Jerry Nelson (1944 - 2017)
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Jerry Earl Nelson (January 15, 1944 - June 10, 2017) was an American astronomer known for his pioneering work designing segmented mirror telescopes, which led to him receiving the 2010 Kavli Prize for Astrophysics. Read more
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Roscoe Riley Braham, Jr. (1921 - 2017)
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Roscoe Braham Jr., pioneering meteorologist, 1921-2017 Prof. Emeritus Roscoe Braham Jr., a noted expert in cloud precipitation physics who furthered weather research by combining the use of aircraft with ground-based instruments, died May 28 at the Glenaire Retirement Community in Cary, N.C...
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Ewen Whitaker
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Ewen A. Whitaker is a British-born astronomer who specialised in Lunar studies. He worked on several NASA missions, and was successful in locating the landing site of the Surveyor 3. (This was used to determine the landing site for the Apollo 12 mission.) He has been considered by some to be the world...
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Adam West (1928 - 2017)
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Adam West (born William West Anderson; September 19, 1928 - June 9, 2017) was an American actor widely known for his role as Batman in the 1960s ABC series of the same name and its 1966 theatrical feature film. Read more
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Brian Bellhouse (1936 - 2017)
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Tributes paid to pioneering Oxford engineer Professor Brian Bellhouse Tributes have been paid to the Oxford engineer and entrepreneur Professor Brian Bellhouse, who has died at the age of 80. Founder of one of the most successful companies ever to be spun out of Oxford, Professor Bellhouse has bee...
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Ötzi the Iceman
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Ötzi the Iceman, Similaun Man, and Man from Hauslabjoch are modern names for a well-preserved natural mummy of a man who lived about 5,300 years ago. The mummy was found in September 1991 in the Ötztal Alps, near Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy. Read more Otzi the iceman's face rec...
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Thomas Pesquet
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Thomas Pesquet (born 27 February 1978) is a French aerospace engineer, pilot, and European Space Agency astronaut. Read more
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John Noakes (1934 - 2017)
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John Noakes (born John W. Bottomley; 6 March 1934 - 28 May 2017) was an English television presenter and personality, best known for co-presenting the BBC children's magazine programme Blue Peter in the 1960s and 1970s Read more
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Halton Arp (1927 – 2013)
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Halton Christian "Chip" Arp (March 21, 1927 December 28, 2013) was an American astronomer. He was known for his 1966 Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, which (it was later realised) catalogues many examples of interacting and merging galaxies. Arp was also known as a critic of the Big Bang theo...
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Alexander Gerst
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ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst to fly to Space Station in 2014[url=http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMSE23UNSG_index_0.ht...
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Judith Gamora Cohen
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Judith Gamora Cohen (born May 5, 1946) is the Kate Van Nuys Page Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology. Read more
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Gustav Spörer (1822 - 1895)
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Friederich Wilhelm Gustav Spörer (23 October 1822 - 7 July 1895) was a German astronomer. He is noted for his studies of sunspots and sunspot cycles. In this regard he is often mentioned together with Edward Maunder. Spörer was the first to note a prolonged period of low sunspot activity from 1645 to 1...
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Robert Miles (1969 - 2017)
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Roberto Concina (3 November 1969 - 9 May 2017), better known by his stage name Robert Miles, was an Italian record producer, composer, musician and DJ. Read more
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Buddha
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Buddha's birthplace faces serious air pollution threat The historic site of Buddha's birthplace in Nepal faces a serious threat from air pollution, scientists and officials have warned. Recent data collected from air quality monitoring stations in five places across the country show Lumbini i...
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