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Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630)
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Johannes Kepler (December 27, 1571 - November 15, 1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. Read more
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Ernest Leonard Johnson (1891 - 1977)
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Ernest Leonard Johnson (December 28, 1891 - June 1977) was a South African astronomer, and former member of the Union Observatory in Johannesburg from which he retired in 1956. He discovered 18 asteroids between 1946 and 1951 and some comets, including periodic comet 48P/Johnson. Johnson was the...
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Vera Rubin
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Vera (Cooper) Rubin (born July 23, 1928) is an American astronomer. She pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. She is famous for uncovering the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves. This phenomenon became k...
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Edwin Goldwasser (1919 -2016)
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Fermi Lab Co-Founder, Physicist Dr. Edwin Goldwasser Dies Dr. Edwin Goldwasser, a co-founder of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and one of the world's most prominent physicists who spent decades at the University of Illinois, has died at the age of 97. Read more
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Anne Frank
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Anne Frank's diary removed from website The Diary of Anne Frank has been removed from book repository Wikisource after the site became aware it had fallen foul of copyright law. The site briefly hosted a digital copy of Het Achterhuis, the first version of the diary compiled by Anne's father Otto, wh...
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Albert Porta
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In 1919 meteorologist Albert Porta predicted that the world would end on December 17 because the conjunction of six planets would create a magnetic current that would pierce the sun, creating great explosions of flaming gas that would consume the Earth. It did indeed prove to be a lot of hot air but no...
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Ian McCaskill
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Ian McCaskill (born 28 July 1938) is a former BBC weatherman. His Scottish accent, manner of speech, and relentless (some would say unseemly) enthusiasm for severe weather made him popular with viewers. He became the most imitated weather presenter in the UK. He went to Queen's Park School (near Qu...
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John Herschel Glenn, Jr.
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John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (born July 18, 1921) is a former United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut and United States senator who was the first American to orbit the Earth and third American in space. Read more
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Steven H. Pravdo
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Dr. Steven H. Pravdo (born 9 December 1951) is a Principal Scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and project manager for the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking Project. Asteroid 6560 Pravdo (1991 NP) is named in his honour. Link:
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Mohammad Abdus Salam (1926 - 1996)
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Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk (January 29, 1926 - November 21, 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the electroweak unification of the electromagnetic and weak forces. Read more
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Ronald John Garan Jr.
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Ex-astronaut's plans to take tourists to outer atmosphere A BBC summit dedicated to exploring world-changing innovations in science, technology and health has been taking place in Sydney, Australia. Retired Nasa astronaut Ron Garan spoke at the summit about space company World View's plans to...
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Alan Longstaff
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Alan Longstaff originally trained as a biochemist, and after working as a research scientist at the Universities of Rome and Aberdeen, taught for 18 years at the University of Hertfordshire. He jumped ship in 1998, becoming a University student once again, to study astronomy and geology. Read mor...
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William J. Borucki
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NASA Kepler Visionary Honoured By American Association for the Advancement of Science William J. Borucki, principal investigator for NASA's Kepler mission at the agency's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California, has been named a Fellow by the American Association for the Advanceme...
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Isaac David Abella (1934 - 2016)
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Isaac David Abella (June 20, 1934 - October 23, 2016) was a Professor of Physics at The University of Chicago. He specializes in laser physics, quantum optics, and spectroscopy. Read more
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Gordon Hamilton (1966 - 2016)
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Scottish scientist Gordon Hamilton dies in Antarctica in snowmobile accident A Dundee-born scientist has died in Antarctica after the snowmobile he was driving fell into a crevasse. Dr Gordon Hamilton, 50, was killed after the vehicle plunged 30.48m into the crevasse on Saturday. Read more
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