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Jack Horkheimer (1938 - 2010)
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Jack Horkheimer (born Foley Arthur Horkheimer; June 11, 1938 - August 20, 2010) was the executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium. He was best known for his astronomy show Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer, which started airing on PBS on November 4, 1976. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org...
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Antonín Becvár (1901 - 1965)
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Antonín Becvár (10 June 1901 - 10 January 1965) was a Czech astronomer who was active in Slovakia. He was born (and died) in Stará Boleslav. Among his chief achievements is the foundation of the Skalnaté Pleso Observatory and the discovery of the comet C/1947 F2 (Becvár) (also known by the designatio...
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John Dollond FRS (1706 - 1761)
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John Dollond FRS (10 June O.S. (21 June N.S.) 1706 - 30 November 1761) was an English optician, known for his successful optics business and his patenting and commercialisation of achromatic doublets. Read more [spoiler][video=http...
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Samuel Heinrich Schwabe (1789 - 1875)
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Samuel Heinrich Schwabe (25 October 1789 - 11 April 1875) a German astronomer remembered for his work on sunspots. Read more
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Eugene N. Parker
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Eugene N. Parker (born June 10, 1927) is an American solar astrophysicist who received his B.S. degree in physics from Michigan State University in 1948 and Ph.D. from Caltech in 1951. In the mid-1950s Parker developed the theory on the supersonic solar wind and predicted the Parker spiral shape of...
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William Nielsen Brandt
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William Nielsen Brandt (born June 10, 1970; also known as Niel Brandt) is a distinguished professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the Pennsylvania State University. He is best known for his work studying the X-ray properties of active galaxies, X-ray binaries, and other cosmic X-ray sources....
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Frederik Kaiser (1808 - 1872)
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Frederik Kaiser (Amsterdam, June 10, 1808 - Leiden, July 28, 1872) was a Dutch astronomer. He was director of the Leiden Observatory from 1838 until his death. Read more
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Immanuel Velikovsky (1895 - 1979)
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Immanuel Velikovsky (10 June [O.S. 29 May] 1895 - 17 November 1979) was a Russian-Jewish psychiatrist and independent scholar, best known as the author of a number of controversial books reinterpreting the events of ancient history, in particular the US bestseller Worlds in Collision, publishe...
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Vinod Johri
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Vinod Johri is an Indian astrophysicist. He is an eminent cosmologist, a retired professor of astrophysics at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and an emeritus professor at Lucknow University since 1995. Read more
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Abū al-Wafa' Būzjanī (940 - 998)
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Ab al-Wafa, Muammad ibn Muammad ibn Yaya ibn Ismal ibn al-Abbas al-Bzjan (10 June 940 - 15 July 998) was a Persian mathematician and astronomer who worked in Baghdad. Read more
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Andrew R. Liddle
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Andrew R. Liddle (born 9 June 1965) is Professor of astrophysics at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, as of 2013. Read more
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Michiel van der Klis
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Michiel van der Klis (born 9 June 1953) is a Dutch astronomer best known for his work on extreme 'pairings' of stars called X-ray binaries, more particularly his explanation of the occurrence of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in these systems and his discovery of the first millisecond X-ray p...
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Peter Quinn
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Peter Quinn (born 9 June 1955) was the head of the Data Management Division at the European Southern Observatory. Read more
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Stanley G. Love
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Dr. Stanley G. Love, Ph.D. (born June 8, 1965) is an American scientist and a NASA astronaut. Read more
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Isabel Martin Lewis (1881 - 1955)
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Isabel Martin Lewis (July 11, 1881 - 1955?) was an American astronomer who was the first woman hired by the United States Naval Observatory as assistant astronomer. In 1918, Lewis was elected a member of the American Astronomical Society. She was also a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Ca...
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