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Brian G. W. Manning (1926 - 2011)
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Brian G. W. Manning (14 May 1926-10 November 2011) was an English astronomer who discovered several asteroids. He was born in 1926 in Birmingham. He constructed his first mirror from a piece of glass that a World War II bomb blew out of the roof of the factory where his father worked. He began as an engin...
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Aglaonike
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Aglaonike (2nd century BC), also known as Aganice of Thessaly, is cited as the first female astronomer in ancient Greece. She is mentioned in the writings of Plutarch and Apollonius of Rhodes as the daughter of Hegetor of Thessaly. She was regarded as a sorceress for her ability to make the moon disap...
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Gaspard Monge (1746 - 1818)
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Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse (9 May 1746 - 28 July 1818) was a French mathematician, the inventor of descriptive geometry (the mathematical basis of technical drawing), and the father of differential geometry. Read more
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Boris Mavashev
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Boris Mavashev (born 9 May 1939 in Tashkent) is a seismologist, doctor of geology and ecology, specialising in the geochemical and meteorological precursors of earthquakes. Read more
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John Russell (1808 - 1882)
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John Scott Russell FRSE FRS (9 May 1808, Parkhead, Glasgow - 8 June 1882, Ventnor, Isle of Wight) was a Scottish civil engineer, naval architect and shipbuilder who built the Great Eastern in collaboration with Isambard Kingdom Brunel. He made the discovery of the wave of translation that gave birt...
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James Ludovic Lindsay (1847 - 1913)
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James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres (28 July 1847 - 31 January 1913) was a British astronomer, politician, bibliophile and philatelist. A member of the Royal Society, Crawford was elected president of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1878. [url=http://en.wik...
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David Gill (1843 - 1914)
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Sir David Gill FRS (12 June 1843 - 24 January 1914) was a Scottish astronomer who is known for measuring astronomical distances, for astrophotography, and for geodesy. He spent much of his career in South Africa. Read more I...
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Ray Harryhausen (1920 - 2013)
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Ray Harryhausen, visual effects master, dies aged 92 Visual effects master Ray Harryhausen, whose stop-motion wizardry graced such films as Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans, has died aged 92. Read more [spoiler][/spoiler...
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Andrew Sherratt (1946 - 2006)
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Andrew Sherratt (8 May 1946 - 24 February 2006) was an English archaeologist, one of the most influential of his generation. He was best known for the idea of the Secondary Products Revolution. Read more
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Robin F. Heath
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Robin F. Heath (born 8 May 1948) is a British historian, astronomer, archaeoastronomer, astro-archaeologist and author. Read more
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Alexis Clairaut (1713 - 1765)
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Alexis Claude de Clairaut (or Clairault) (7 May 1713 - 17 May 1765) was a prominent French mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, and intellectual. He obtained an ingenious approximate solution of the problem of the three bodies; in 1750 he gained the prize of the St Petersburg Academy for his e...
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Raymond Lyttleton (1911 - 1995)
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Raymond Arthur Lyttleton FRS (May 7, 1911 - May 16, 1995) was a British mathematician and theoretical astronomer. He wrote a number of books: The Comets and Their Origin (1953), The Stability of Rotating Liquid Masses (1953), The Modern Universe {1956}, Rival Theories of Cosmology {1960}, Man's V...
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Robert Peary (1856 - 1920)
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Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. (May 6, 1856 - February 20, 1920) was an American explorer who claimed to have led the first expedition, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole. Peary's claim was widely credited for most of the 20th century, rather than the competing claim by Frederick Cook who sa...
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Anlaug Amanda Djupvik
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Anlaug Amanda Djupvik is a Norwegian astronomer. Her main field of research is star formation and the origin of the initial mass function. Read more
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Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834 - 1906)
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Samuel Pierpont Langley (August 22, 1834, Roxbury, Massachusetts - February 27, 1906, Aiken, South Carolina) was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and pioneer of aviation. Read more
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