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Abraham Pais (1918 - 2000)
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Abraham Pais (May 19, 1918 - July 28, 2000) was a Dutch-born American physicist and science historian. Read more
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Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (1788 - 1862)
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Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (28 May 1788 - 21 December 1862) was a German astronomer. Rümker served as a midshipman in the British East India Company and then in the British merchant navy from 1811 until 1817, where he met Austrian astronomer Baron Franz-Xaver de Zach, who influenced Rümker to stud...
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 - 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. Read more
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Richard Tousey (1908 - 1997)
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Richard Tousey (May 18, 1908 - April 15, 1997) was an American astronomer. He was a pioneer in the observation of the sun from space, and took the first photographs of the sun's ultraviolet spectrum, using a captured V-2 rocket Read more
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Bernard M. Oliver (1916 - 1995)
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Bernard M. Oliver (1916 - 1995), aka Barney Oliver, was a scientist who made contributions in many fields, including radar, television, and computers. He was the founder and director of Hewlett Packard (HP) laboratories until his retirement in 1981. Read more
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Carl Gottlieb Swartz (1757-1824)
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Carl Swartz, a Swedish amateur astronomer and correspondent of Charles Dupuis, Jean Delambre, and Jean Bailly, wrote a treatise in Swedish on the origin and meaning of the constellations, which was translated into French and went through several editions. Peter Doig (A Concise History of Astron...
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Raymond Hide
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Raymond Hide CBE FRS (born 17 May 1929) is a British physicist, who was formerly Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. Since 2000, he has been Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College, London. Read more
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Norman Lockyer (1836 - 1920)
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Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, FRS (17 May 1836 - 16 August 1920), known simply as Norman Lockyer, was an English scientist and astronomer. Along with the French scientist Pierre Janssen he is credited with discovering the gas helium. Lockyer also is remembered for being the founder and first editor of...
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Frederick Hanley Seares (1873 - 1964)
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Frederick Hanley Seares (May 17, 1873 - July 20, 1964) was an American astronomer. He worked at Mount Wilson Observatory and won the Bruce Medal in 1940. Read more
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Roy Kerr
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Roy Patrick Kerr CNZM (born 16 May 1934) is a New Zealand mathematician who is best known for discovering the Kerr vacuum, an exact solution to the Einstein field equation of general relativity. Read more
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Maria Reiche (1903 - 1998)
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Maria Reiche (1903 - 1998) was a German mathematician, archaeologist, and technical translator who is notable for her research in the Nazca Lines in Peru, beginning in 1940, and her success in gaining recognition and preservation of the property. She helped educate people about the resource and g...
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Robert Frederick Christy (1916 - 2012)
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George Lucas
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George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American film producer, screenwriter, director, and entrepreneur. Read more
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Cate Blanchett
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Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett (born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actress, whose work has earned several accolades, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTAs, and an Academy Award. [url=http://en.wikipedia...
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Joe Farman (1930 - 2013)
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Cambridge scientist Joe Farman who helped find ozone 'hole' dies The British Antarctic Survey scientist Joe Farman, who helped identify the "hole" in the ozone layer over the southern pole, has died. Dr Farman published the discovery with Brian Gardiner and Jon Shanklin in the journal...
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