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Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur von Auwers (1838 - 1915)
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Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur von Auwers (September 12, 1838 - January 24, 1915) was a German astronomer. He specialized in astrometry, making very precise measurements of stellar positions and motions. He detected the companion stars of Sirius and Procyon from their effects on the main star's m...
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Taylor Wilson
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My name is Taylor Wilson and I am 17 years old. I am obsessed with all things nuclear and radioactive and conduct research in related fields. Research Interests include Applied Nuclear Physics and Nuclear History. I collect all manner of radioactive items of a historical nature, and visit nuclear s...
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Carl Zeiss (1816 - 1888)
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Carl Zeiss (11 September 1816 - 3 December 1888) was a German maker of optical instruments commonly known for the company he founded, Carl Zeiss Jena (now: Carl Zeiss AG). Zeiss made contributions to lens manufacturing that have aided the modern production of lenses. Read more
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Mary Watson Whitney (1847 - 1921)
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Mary Watson Whitney (September 11, 1847 - January 20, 1921) was an American astronomer and for 22 years the head of the Vassar Observatory. Read more
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James Edward Keeler (1857 - 1900)
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James Edward Keeler (September 10, 1857 - August 12, 1900) was an American astronomer. The first pulsar was discovered in 1899 by James Edward Keeler. Read more
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Max Leroy Anderson (1934 - 1983)
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Max Leroy Anderson (September 10, 1934 - June 27, 1983) was an American hot air balloonist and businessman. He helped place Albuquerque on the map as the balloon capital of the world. He was responsible for the first nonstop balloon crossing of the Atlantic Ocean and of the United States. Read more
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Luigi Alyisio Galvani (1737 - 1798)
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Luigi Alyisio Galvani (September 9, 1737 - December 4, 1798) was an Italian physician and physicist who lived and died in Bologna. In 1791, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs legs twitched when struck by a spark. Read more
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William Cranch Bond (1789 - 1859)
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William Cranch Bond (September 9, 1789 - January 29, 1859) was an American astronomer, and the first director of Harvard College Observatory. Read more
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John Henry Poynting (1852 - 1914)
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John Henry Poynting (9 September 1852 - 30 March 1914) was an English physicist. He was a professor of physics at Mason Science College (now the University of Birmingham) from 1880 until his death. Read more
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John Aitken FRS FRSE (1839-1919)
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John Aitken FRS FRSE (1839-1919) was a Scottish meteorologist, physicist and marine engineer. He was one of the founders of cloud physics and aerosol science, who built the first apparatus to measure the number of dust and fog particles in the atmosphere, a koniscope. Read more
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Alexander (of) Neckam (1157 - 1217)
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Alexander (of) Neckam (8 September 1157 - 1217) was an English scholar and teacher. Read more
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Marin Mersenne (1588 - 1648)
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Marin Mersenne, Marin Mersennus or le Père Mersenne (8 September 1588 - 1 September 1648) was a French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as the "father of acoustics" (Bohn 1988:225). Mersenne was "the center of the world of science and...
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Rob Elliott
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Meteorite man Rob's £58,000 from auction The meteorite collector has revealed that he scooped £58,000 from the latest auction of the 'space rocks' he originally scooped out of the ground. The sum, netted from an auction held in Edinburgh earlier this month, was well above what the lots were expecte...
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Dr. Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1829 - 1887)
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Dr. Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (September 7, 1829 - December 22, 1887) was an American geologist noted for his pioneering surveying expeditions of the Rocky Mountains in the late 19th century. Read more
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Efim Isaakovich Zelmanov
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Efim Isaakovich Zelmanov (born 7 September 1955) is a Russian mathematician, known for his work on combinatorial problems in nonassociative algebra and group theory, including his solution of the restricted Burnside problem. Read more
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