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Alexander Dalgarno (1928 - 2015)
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Alexander Dalgarno FRS (5 January 1928 - 8 April 2015) was a British physicist who was a Phillips Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University. Read more
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Sappho
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Sappho, was an Ancient Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. In history and poetry texts, she is sometimes associated with the city of Mytilene on Lesbos; she was also said to have been born in Eresos, another city on Lesbos. Her birth was sometime between 630 BC and 612 BC, and it is said that sh...
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Michael Collins
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Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930) is a former American astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew in space twice. His first spaceflight was Gemini 10, in which he and command pilot John Young performed two rendezvous with different spa...
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Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921-2015)
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Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (21 October 1921 - 30 March 2015) was a Dutch astronomer. Read more
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Jurrie van der Woude (1935 - 2015)
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Jurrie van der Woude (June 18, 1935 - March 20, 2015) was a JPL Media relation's specialist. Jurrie van der Woude handled the public release of photographs for Mariners 4, 6, 7 and 9 missions to Mars and Mariner 10 to Venus and Mercury and participated in preparing NASA's atlas of Mercury. In the 1970's...
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William Smith (1769 - 1839)
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William 'Strata' Smith (23 March 1769 - 28 August 1839) was an English geologist, credited with creating the first nationwide geological map. Read more
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Zdenek Svestka
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Title: Svestka's Research: Then and Now Author: Hugh S. Hudson Zdenek Svestka's research work influenced many fields of solar physics, especially in the area of flare research. In this article I take five of the areas that particularly interested him and assess them in a "then and now" s...
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Cecile Saltzman
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NASA Women's History Month Profile - Cecile Saltzman (Stennis Space Centre) Spoiler
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Terry Pratchett
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Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE (born 28 April 1948) is an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. Read more
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Leonard Nimoy
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Leonard Nimoy has attended his final "Star Trek" convention. The 80-year-old actor, best-known for playing Mr. Spock in the original TV series that began in September 1966, formed four fingers into a V for Vulcan sign and intoned to fans Spock's most famous phrase: "Live long and p...
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Richard Owen (1804 - 1892)
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Sir Richard Owen FRS KCB (20 July 1804 - 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. Despite being a controversial figure, Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils. Read more
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Susan Jane Helms
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Susan Jane Helms (born February 26, 1958) is a Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force and a former NASA astronaut. She is currently the Commander, 14th Air Force (Air Forces Strategic); and Commander, Joint Functional Component Command for Space at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Californ...
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Ralph Nobles (1920 - 2015)
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Ralph Nobles, a nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, personally witnessed the first nuclear bomb blast in the New Mexico desert, and later led efforts to save thousands of acres of San Francisco Bay wetlands from development, has died. Read more
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Donald C. Parker (1939 - 2015)
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Donald C. Parker, also known as Don Parker (January 28, 1939 - February 22, 2015), was an American retired physician and amateur astronomer, specialising in the research of the Solar System and planetary photography. Read more
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Mildred Shapley Matthews
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Mildred Shapley Matthews (born 15 February 1915 - February 11, 2016) was an American astronomer and editor of many astronomy books. She is one of five influential children by astronomers Harlow and Martha Betz Shapley. Mildred Shapley Matthews is an editor and research assistant at the Lunar and...
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