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Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev
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Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev (born July 13, 1934 in Zhizdra) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 5, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10. Read more
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Hubert Reeves, CC, OQ
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Hubert Reeves, CC, OQ (Montreal, July 13, 1932) is a Canadian astrophysicist and populariser of science. Read more
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Alvan Graham Clark (1832 - 1897)
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Alvan Graham Clark (July 10, 1832 - June 9, 1897), born in Fall River, Massachusetts, was an American astronomer and telescope-maker. Read more
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John Howard Casper
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John Howard Casper (born July 9, 1943) is an American astronaut. Casper became an astronaut in 1985. He has spent over 825 hours in space on four spaceflights. In 1990, Casper made his first spaceflight aboard STS-36. This was a Department of Defense mission. He flew aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour i...
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William Bradford Shockley Jr. (1910 - 1989)
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William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 - August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor. Along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which all three were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics. Bipolar junction transistor Sho...
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Nostradamus
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Michel de Nostredame (14 or 21 December 1503 - 2 July 1566), usually Latinised to Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous worldwide. Most academic sources maintain that the associations made between world event...
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Kate Whitaker
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Scientist of the Week: Kate Whitaker Every Thursday, Laboratory Equipment features a Scientist of the Week, chosen from the science industry's latest headlines. This week's scientist is Kate Whitaker of Yale Univ. Whitaker and her team probed into the distant universe and discovered that galax...
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Gottfried Leibniz
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (sometimes von Leibniz) (July 1, 1646 - November 14, 1716) was a German philosopher and mathematician. Leibniz occupies a prominent place in the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy. He developed the infinitesimal calculus independently of Isaac Newt...
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Kalpana Chawla
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Kalpana Chawla (July 1, 1961 - February 1, 2003) was an Indian-American astronaut with NASA. She was one of seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Read more
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Georges Lemaître
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Monsignor Georges Henri Joseph Edouard Lemaître (17 July 1894 - 20 June 1966) was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. He sometimes used the title Abbé or Monseigneur. Lemaître proposed what became known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of...
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Thomas Wright (1711-1786)
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Conference marks tercentenary of Thomas Wright, eighteenth-century polymath A range of scholars from across the UK come together for a conference at the University of Bristol today to celebrate and reflect on the work of Thomas Wright, a fascinating eighteenth-century astronomer, mathematic...
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Rashid Syunyaev
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Russia astronomer and astrophysicist Rashid Syunyaev has become the proud winner of this year's Kyoto Prize. Established by Kyocera Corp. CEO Katsuo Inamori in 1985, the award is given on an annual basis to leading scientists, artists, philosophers and filmmakers. [url=http://english.ruvr....
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Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598 - 1671)
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Giovanni Battista Riccioli (17 April 1598 - 25 June 1671) was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest. He was a Jesuit who entered the order in 1614. He was also the first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a freely falling body. Read more
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William Randolph "Randy" Lovelace II
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William Randolph "Randy" Lovelace II (December 30, 1907-December 12, 1965) was an American physician who made contributions to aerospace medicine. During World War II he served in the Air Force. He personally performed experiments in escape and the use of the parachute at high-altit...
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al-Kashanī (1380 - 1429)
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Ghiyath al-Dn Jamshd Masd al-Kash (or al-Kashan) (c. 1380 Kashan, Iran - 22 June 1429 Samarkand, Transoxania) was a Persian astronomer and mathematician. Read more
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