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William Henry Eccles (1875 - 1966)
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William Henry Eccles (23 August 1875 - 29 April 1966) was a British physicist and a pioneer in the development of radio communication. Read more
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Robert Floyd Curl, Jr.
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Robert Floyd Curl, Jr. (born August 23, 1933) the son of a Methodist Minister is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio, Texas and is an emeritus professor of chemistry at Rice University. Read more
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Giacomo Filippo Maraldi (1665 - 1729)
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Giacomo Filippo Maraldi (August 21, 1665 - December 1, 1729) was an French-Italian astronomer and mathematician. His name is also given as Jacques Philippe Maraldi. Born in Perinaldo (modern Liguria) he was the nephew of Giovanni Cassini, and worked most of his life at the Paris Observatory (1687...
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Eduard Suess (1831 - 1914)
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Eduard Suess (August 20, 1831, London - April 26, 1914, Vienna) was a geologist who was an expert on the geography of the Alps. He is responsible for hypothesising two major former geographical features, the supercontinent Gondwana (proposed 1861) and the Tethys Ocean. Read more
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Valentin Petrovich Glushko
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Valentin Petrovich Glushko or Valentyn Petrovych Hlushko (born 2 September 1908 in Odessa, Russian Empire - 10 January 1989) was a Soviet engineer, and the principal Soviet "Chief Designer" of spacecraft and rockets during the Soviet/American Space Race. Read more
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Simon Kirwan Donaldson FRS
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Simon Kirwan Donaldson FRS (born 20 August 1957, in Cambridge, England), is an English mathematician famous for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds. Read more
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Christian Mayer (1719 - 1783)
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Christian Mayer (August 20, 1719 - April 16, 1783) was an Czech astronomer and teacher. Read more
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Leonid Alekseyevich Kulik (1883 - 1942)
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Leonid Alekseyevich Kulik (August 19, 1883, Tartu - April 24, 1942) was a Russian mineralogist who is noted for his research into meteorites. Read more
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Alan Baker
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Alan Baker, FRS (born on 19 August 1939) is an English mathematician. He was born in London. He is known for his work on effective methods in number theory, in particular those arising from transcendence theory. Read more
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH (1887 - 1940)
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH (17 August 1887 - 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Commu...
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Pierre de Fermat (1601 or 1607/8 - 1665)
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Pierre de Fermat (17 August 1601 or 1607/8 - 12 January 1665) was a French lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, France, and an amateur mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his adequality. Read more
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Walter Noddack (1893 - 1960)
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Walter Noddack (17 August 1893 in Berlin - 7 December 1960 in Berlin) was a German chemist. He, Ida Tacke (who later married Noddack), and Otto Berg reported the discovery of element 43 and element 75 in 1925. Read more
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Rob Elliot
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Each year more than 30 meteorites fall on British soil, yet only 20 have ever been found. Rob Elliot, a "hunter" renowned worldwide discovered one of only four ever found in Scotland - the Glenrothes meteorite, which he found in July 1998. He also discovered the Hambleton meteorite in Nor...
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Amron Harry Katz (1915 - 1997)
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Amron Harry Katz (August 15, 1915 - February 10, 1997) was an American physicist who specialized in aerial reconnaissance. Read more
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Leslie John Comrie (1893 - 1950)
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Leslie John Comrie (15 August 1893 - 11 December 1950) was an astronomer and a pioneer in mechanical computation. Read more
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