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Johann Bernoulli (1667 - 1748)
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Johann Bernoulli (27 July 1667 - 1 January 1748; also known as Jean or John) was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He is known for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus and educated Leonhard Euler in his youth. Read more
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William Hyde Wollaston FRS (1766 - 1828)
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William Hyde Wollaston FRS (6 August 1766 - 22 December 1828) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering two chemical elements; the elements palladium (symbol Pd) and rhodium (symbol Rh) in 1803, and for developing a way to process platinum ore. Read more
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Sir Alexander Fleming (1881 - 1955)
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Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 - 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known discoveries are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the...
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William Henry Dines BA FRS (1855 - 1927)
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William Henry Dines BA FRS (5 August 1855 - 24 December 1927) was an English meteorologist. From 1901 to 1902 he was President of the Royal Meteorological Society and in 1905 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Read more
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John Wrottesley FRS FRAS (1798 - 1867)
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John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley FRS FRAS (5 August 1798 - 27 October 1867) was an English astronomer. Wrottesley is distinguished for his attainments in astronomical science, was a founding member of the Royal Astronomical Society and served as its president from 1841 to 1842. In 1839 he rec...
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Charles Dillon Perrine (1867 - 1951)
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Charles Dillon Perrine (July 28, 1867 - June 21, 1951) was an Argentine astronomer. Born in Ohio, he worked at Lick Observatory from 1893 to 1909 and then was director of the Argentine National Observatory (today, Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba) in Argentina from 1909 until 1936. Read more
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Lenka Kotková
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Lenka Kotková (née arounová; born 26 July 1973) is a Czech astronomer. She is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. She works at Observator Ondrejov (Ondrejov Observatory), located near Prague. Besides numerous main belt asteroids she also discovered Mars-crosser asteroid 9671 Hemera and Hilda...
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John Maher (1938-2011)
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Dr John Maher, formerly Senior Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry at Bristol, has died. Professor Nick Norman remembers 'a remarkable individual'. John Maher studied for his BSc and PhD degrees at Imperial College London. He joined the Department of Inorganic Chemistry (as it then was) at the Unive...
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William Putnam Sterne, Jr. (1946 - 2011)
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Bill Sterne Jr., astronomy expert and photographer, dies at 65 A Tulsa photographer and film technician who travelled the world to watch and photograph eclipses, William Putnam "Bill" Sterne Jr. died July 18. He was 65. A graveside service was held Friday at Floral Haven Cemetery. It wa...
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Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880 - 1919)
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Milan Rastislav tefánik (July 21, 1880 in Koariská (Kosaras), Kingdom of Hungary - May 4, 1919 in Ivanka pri Dunaji, Czechoslovakia) was a Slovak politician, diplomat, and astronomer. Read more
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Jean-Felix Picard (1620 - 1682)
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Jean-Felix Picard (July 21, 1620 - July 12, 1682) was a French astronomer and priest born in La Flèche, where he studied at the Jesuit Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand. He was the first person to measure the size of the Earth to a reasonable degree of accuracy in a survey conducted in 1669-70, for which he i...
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Jean-Henri Focas (1909 - 1969)
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Jean-Henri Focas (20 July 1909 - 3 January 1969) was a Greco-French astronomer. In Greek he was known as Ioannis Focas. He worked at the Pic du Midi Observatory, investigating the surface features of Mars using visual and photographic techniques. The lunar crater Focas and a crater on Mars were name...
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John Grunsfeld
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Shuttle Memories: John Grunsfeld Astronaut John Grunsfeld, who flow on the shuttle five times and helped service the Hubble Space Telescope on three of those mission, speaks with Miles O'Brien about his memories of the Space Shuttle prog...
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Jacques d'Allonville (1671 - 1732)
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Jacques Eugène d'Allonville, Chevalier de Louville par Fontenelle (July 14, 1671 - September 1732) was a French astronomer and mathematician. The crater Louville on the Moon is named after him. Read more
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George Driver "Pinky" Nelson
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George Driver "Pinky" Nelson (born July 13, 1950) is a former NASA astronaut. During STS-1 he was the photographer in the prime chase plane. He also served as support crewman and CAPCOM for the last two OFT flights, STS-3 and STS-4, and as head of the Astronaut Office Mission Development G...
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