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Ibn Khaldn (1332 - 1406)
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Ibn Khaldn or Ibn Khaldoun (, Ab Zayd 'Abdu r-Raman bin Muammad bin Khaldn Al-Hadrami, May 27, 1332 AD/732 AH - March 19, 1406 AD/808 AH) was an Arab historiographer and historian born in North Africa in present-day Tunisia and is sometimes viewed as one of the forerunners of modern historiography, s...
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Louis Slotin (1910 - 1946)
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Louis Alexander Slotin (December 1, 1910 - May 30, 1946) was a Canadian physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project, the secret US program during World War II that developed the atomic bomb. On May 21, 1946, Slotin accidentally began a fission reaction, which released a burst of hard...
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John Ness
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Microsatellite picks up science gong AN engineer who is pioneering the rollout of broadband in Antarctica has won the country's top prize for taking technological insights to the marketplace. Last night, electromagnetic engineer John Ness received the Australian Academy of Technological Sci...
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Martha Haynes
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More than 100 people gathered May 14 and 15 for a symposium, "Galaxies: not WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get)," celebrating Haynes' 60th birthday. If there were a manual for new professors at Cornell, said astronomy department chair Ira Wasserman, Martha Haynes' career would be cit...
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Miguel Arnold Reyes
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Asteroid to be named after Pinoy science HS student An asteroid will be named after the Philippine Science High School (PSHS) student who placed second in one of the categories at the 2011 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) in Los Angeles, California in the United States...
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Maximilian Hell (1720 - 1792)
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Maximilian Hell, S.J. (Hungarian: Hell Miksa) (May 15, 1720 - April 14, 1792) was a Hungarian astronomer and an ordained Jesuit priest from the Kingdom of Hungary. Read more
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Peder Horrebow (1679 - 1764)
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Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow (Horrebov) (May 14, 1679 - April 15, 1764) was a Danish astronomer. Born in Løgstør, Jutland to a poor family of fishermen, Horrebow entered the University of Copenhagen in 1703. Read more
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Willard Sterling Boyle (1924 - 2011)
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Willard Sterling Boyle, CC (August 19, 1924 - May 7, 2011) was a Canadian physicist and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device. Read more
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Vladimir Popovkin
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appointed Vladimir Popovkin, formerly First Deputy Defense Minister, as head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos today (April 29, 2011), replacing Anatoly Perminov. Read more
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Anatoly Perminov
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The head of Russia's space agency is to step down after seven years in the job, a deputy prime minister announced Wednesday, after a string of problems and launch delays angered top officials. Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said that Roskosmos head Anatoly Perminov would be stepping down as he...
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Professor Stanisław Gorgolewski (1926-2011)
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Yesterday I received the sad news that Professor Stanisaw Gorgolewski died age 84. Professor Gorgolewki, or Stan, was one of the founders of radio astronomy in Poland. Stan studied physics in Poland after the war and went on to spend some of his PhD at the University of Cambridge working with Martin R...
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Richard Weeden Underwood (1927 - 2011)
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Richard Weeden Underwood ("Dick") was born in Newport, RI on July 15, 1927 to the late John Burns Underwood and Mary Josephine Del Nero Underwood. Dick was chief engineer on the production of the first topographic maps of the moon. He was the first person to view every photograph from the G...
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Gabrielle Giffords
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A US congresswoman is in a critical condition after being shot at a public event in Arizona in an attack in which five people were killed. Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords, 40, was shot in the head at close range in front of hundreds of people in Tucson. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...
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Wilhelm Schickard (1592 - 1635)
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Wilhelm Schickard (22 April 1592 - 24 October 1635) was a German polymath who designed a calculating machine in 1623, twenty years before the Pascaline of Blaise Pascal. Read more
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Charles Elachi
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JPL Director Charles Elachi Receives Multiple Honours The director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Charles Elachi, is receiving multiple awards and honours this year in the United States and overseas. Read more...
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