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Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai (1919 - 1971)
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Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai (12 August 1919 - 31 December 1971) was an Indian physicist. He is considered to be the father of the Indian space program; legendary Homi Bhabhas successor as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission; and was as at home in the world of the arts as in his favourite laboratory. [...
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Tracy Caldwell Dyson
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Tracy Caldwell Dyson, PhD (born Tracy Ellen Caldwell, August 14, 1969) is an American chemist and NASA astronaut. Caldwell Dyson was a Mission Specialist on Space Shuttle Endeavour flight STS-118 in August 2007. Read more
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Anders Jonas Angström (1814 - 1874)
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Anders Jonas Angström (13 August 1814 - 21 June 1874) was a Swedish physicist and one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy. Read more
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Otto Struve (1897 - 1963)
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Otto Struve (August 12, 1897, Kharkov, Russian Empire - April 6, 1963, Berkeley, USA) was a Russian-American astronomer of Baltic German ethnicity. In Russian, his name is sometimes given as Otto Lyudvigovich Struve; however, he spent most of his life and his entire scientific career in the Unite...
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Erwin Schrodinger (1887 - 1961)
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Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (12 August 1887 - 4 January 1961) was a physicist and theoretical biologist who was one of the fathers of quantum mechanics, and is famed for a number of important contributions to physics, especially the Schrödinger equation, for which he received the Nob...
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Pierre-Louis Lions
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Pierre-Louis Lions (born August 11, 1956 in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes) is a French mathematician. His parents were Jacques-Louis Lions, a mathematician and at that time professor at the University of Nancy, who in particular became President of the International Mathematical Union, and Andrée...
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Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (1912 - 1954)
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Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs (11 August 1912 - 9 March 1954) was a German astronomer. She made important observations of variable stars. Read more
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Wolfgang Paul (1913 - 1993)
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Wolfgang Paul (August 10, 1913 - December 7, 1993) was a German physicist, who co-developed the non-magnetic quadrupole mass filter which laid the foundation for what we now call an ion trap. He shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 for this work with Hans Georg Dehmelt; the other half...
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Abū Maʿshar, Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Balkhī
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Abu Ma'shar, Ja'far ibn Muammad al-Balkhi (also known as al-Falak or Ibn Balkh, Latinised as Albumasar, Albusar, or Albuxar) (10 August 787 in Balkh, Khurasan - 9 March 886 in Wasi, Iraq), was a Persian astrologer, astronomer, and Islamic philosopher, thought to be the greatest astrologer of the A...
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Francesco Barozzi (1537 - 1604)
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Francesco Barozzi (in Latin, Franciscus Barocius) (9 August 1537 - 23 November 1604) was an Italian mathematician, astronomer and humanist. Read more
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Jonathan Homer Lane (1819 - 1880)
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Jonathan Homer Lane (August 9, 1819, Geneseo, New York - May 3, 1880, Washington D.C.) was an American astrophysicist and inventor. Lane was particularly interested in astronomy, and was the first to perform a mathematical analysis of the Sun as a gaseous body. Read more
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Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901 - 1958)
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Ernest Orlando Lawrence (August 8, 1901 - August 27, 1958) was an American physicist and Nobel Laureate, known for his invention, utilisation, and improvement of the cyclotron atom-smasher beginning in 1929, based on his studies of the works of Rolf Widerøe, and his later work in uranium-isotope...
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James Benson Irwin (1930 - 1991)
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James Benson Irwin (March 17, 1930 - August 8, 1991) was an American astronaut and engineer. He served as Lunar Module pilot for Apollo 15, the fourth human lunar landing; he was the eighth person to walk on the Moon. Read more
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Dennis Lamenti
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Although the job of the astronomer is a lot less lonely than it used to be - they spend far fewer long nights looking into telescopes in remote observatories and far more days in laboratories and research centers crunching numbers, analyzing data and collaborating with other astronomers - Dennis La...
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James Bowdoin II (1726 - 1790)
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James Bowdoin II (August 7, 1726 - November 6, 1790) was an American political and intellectual leader from Boston, Massachusetts during the American Revolution. In 1780 he was primarily responsible for the creation of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded an honorary doctora...
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