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Willy Ley (1906 - 1969)
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Willy Ley (October 2, 1906 - June 24, 1969) was a German-American science writer and space advocate who helped popularise rocketry and spaceflight in both Germany and the United States. The crater Ley on the far side of the Moon is named in his honour. Read more
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George Robert Carruthers
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George Robert Carruthers ( born October 1, 1939 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an African American inventor, physicist, and space scientist. He has lived most of his life on the South Side of Chicago. Read more
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Johannes Geiger (1882 - 1945)
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Johannes "Hans" Wilhelm "Gengar" Geiger (September 30, 1882 - September 24, 1945) was a German physicist. He is perhaps best known as the co-inventor of the Geiger counter and for the Geiger-Marsden experiment which discovered the Atomic nucleus. Read more
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Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870 - 1942)
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Jean Baptiste Perrin (30 September 1870 - 17 April 1942) was a French physicist and Nobel laureate. After Albert Einstein published (1905) his theoretical explanation of Brownian motion in terms of atoms, Perrin did the experimental work to test and verify Einstein's predictions, thereby settl...
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Sir Nevill Francis Mott (1905 - 1996)
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Sir Nevill Francis Mott, CH, FRS (30 September 1905 - 8 August 1996) was an English physicist. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, especially amorphous semiconductors. Read more
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Otto Yulyevich Schmidt (1891 -1956)
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Otto Yulyevich Schmidt (September 30 [O.S. September 18] 1891 - September 7, 1956) was a Soviet scientist, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, statesman, academician, Hero of the USSR (27 June 1937), and member of the Communist Party. A minor planet, 2108 Otto Schmidt - discovered in 1948...
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James Watson Cronin
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James Watson Cronin (born September 29, 1931) is an American nuclear physicist. Cronin and co-researcher Val Logsdon Fitch were awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964 experiment that proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles. Read more...
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Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954)
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Enrico Fermi (29 September 1901 - 28 November 1954) was an Italian-American physicist particularly known for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1. Read more
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Jacques Charles François Sturm (1803 - 1855)
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Jacques Charles François Sturm (September 29, 1803 - December 15, 1855) was a French mathematician. Read more
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Artemisia I of Caria
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Artemisia I of Caria (fl. 480 BC) became the ruler, after the death of her husband, as a client of the Persians - who in the 5th century BC ruled as the overlords of Ionia. Artemisia is best remembered for her participation in the Battle of Salamis. The only one of his commanders to be female, Artemisia co...
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Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698 - 1759)
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Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (Saint-Malo, 17 July 1698 - Basel, 27 July 1759) was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the Director of the Académie des Sciences, and the first President of the Berlin Academy of Science, at the invitation of Frederick the Great. Re...
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Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824 - 1896)
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Benjamin Apthorp Gould (September 27, 1824 - November 26, 1896) was a pioneering American astronomer. He is notable for creating the Astronomical Journal, discovering the Gould Belt, and for founding of the Argentine National Observatory and the Argentine National Weather Service. Read more
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Christopher Hansteen (1784 - 1873)
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Christopher Hansteen (26 September 1784 - 11 April 1873) was a Norwegian geophysicist, astronomer and physicist. In 1807 Hansteen began the inquiries in terrestrial magnetism with which his name is especially associated. Read more
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Ole Christensen Rømer (1644 - 1710)
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Ole Christensen Rømer (25 September 1644, Århus - 19 September 1710, Copenhagen) was a Danish astronomer who in 1676 made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light. Read more
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Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (1843 - 1928)
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Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (September 25, 1843 - November 15, 1928) was an influential American geologist and educator. In 1893 he founded the Journal of Geology, of which he was editor for many years. In 1905, Chamberlin and Forest Ray Moulton developed a theory of the formation of the solar syste...
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