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Alicia Boole Stott (1860 – 1940)
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Alicia Boole Stott (June 8, 1860, Cork, Ireland December 17, 1940, England) was a British mathematician, the third daughter of George Boole and Mary Everest Boole. She is best known for coining the term "polytope" for a convex solid in four dimensions, and having an impressive grasp of f...
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Tim Berners-Lee
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Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA (born 8 June 1955), also known as "TimBL," is a British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web Read more
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Kurt Josten (1912 - 1994)
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Kurt Josten (full name Conrad Hermann Hubertus Maria Apollinaris Josten, aka C. H. Josten; 7 June 1912, Neuss, Germany - 10 July 1994, Neuss) was a historian of science and Curator of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford in England. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Josten]Read m...
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Francesco Denza (1834 - 1894)
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Francesco Denza (7 June 1834 - 14 December 1894) was an Italian meteorologist and astronomer. Read more
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John Robertson (1830 - )
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John Robertson, born in 1830 at Struan, was a railway porter residing in Causewayend. He was an amateur astronomer and contributed to several national journals on the subject. Source
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Xi Zezong (1927 - 2008)
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Xi Zezong (June 6, 1927, Yuanqu, Shanxi - December 27, 2008, Beijing) was a Chinese astronomical historian. He is best known for his finding in Ancient Chinese history of the reference to Ganymede being visible [in the summer of 365 BC] to the human eye by ancient astronomer Gan De, before it was offic...
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Jane C. Charlton
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Jane C. Charlton (born June 5, 1965) is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University where she is a specialist in galaxy formation and evolution. Read more
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John Grigg (1838 - 1920)
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John Grigg (4 June 1838 - 20 June 1920) was a New Zealand astronomer. The 1874 transit of Venus awakened his interest in astronomy, which he pursued full-time starting in 1894. He began systematic searches for comets in that year. He is best known for his co-discovery of the periodic comet 26P/Grigg-...
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Paul Kempf (1856 - 1920)
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Paul Friedrich Ferdinand Kempf (June 3, 1856-February 16, 1920) was a German astronomer. Early in his career as an astronomer he aided German solar astronomer Gustav Spörer in his work to observe sun spot activity. Kempf joined an 1882 German expedition to Chile to observe the transit of Venus acro...
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Frank Shu
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Frank Shu (born June 2, 1943), is an American astrophysicist, astronomer and author. Read more
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Jon Culshaw
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Jonathan Peter Culshaw (born 2 June 1968 in Ormskirk, Lancashire) is an English impressionist and comedian. Read more Spoiler [spoiler][video=http://www.yo...
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Gerald James Whitrow (1912 - 2000)
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Gerald James Whitrow (9 June 1912, Kimmeridge, Dorset - 2 June 2000) was a British mathematician, cosmologist and science historian. Read more
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Carlyle Smith Beals (1899 - 1979)
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Carlyle Smith Beals, OC FRS (June 29, 1899 - July 2, 1979) was a Canadian astronomer. Beals worked at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, BC, until 1946. There, he studied emission lines in the spectra of certain hot stars, and studied gas clouds in the interstellar medium. He also de...
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Elis Strömgren (1870 - 1947)
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Svante Elis Strömgren (31 May 1870 - 5 April 1947) was a Swedish-Danish astronomer. Strömgren worked in a variety of fields but was particularly interested in theoretical astronomy and celestial mechanics, publishing works on the origin and orbits of comets. He also worked on the calculations fo...
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Joan of Arc (1412 – 1431)
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Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc; ca. 1412 - 30 May 1431), nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" (French: La Pucelle d'Orléans), is a folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake for heresy on 30 May 1431 [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Ar...
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