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Lawrence Hargrave (1850 - 1915)
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Lawrence Hargrave (29 January 1850 - 14 July 1915) was an engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer. Of great significance to those pioneers working toward powered flight, Hargrave successfully lifted himself off the ground under a train of four of his box kites at Stan...
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Charles Boyle (1674 - 1731)
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Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery KT PC FRS (28 July 1674 - 28 August 1731) was an English nobleman, statesman and patron of the sciences. Boyle became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1706. In 1713, under the patronage of Boyle, clockmaker George Graham created the first mechanical solar system model...
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Lubo Kohoutek
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Lubo Kohoutek (January 29, 1935, Zábreh in Moravia, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech astronomer who has discovered numerous asteroids and comets, most famously Comet Kohoutek. Read more
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Leonid Kadenyuk
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Leonid Kostyantynovych Kadenyuk (born 28 January 1951 in Klishkivtsi, Chernivtsi Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR) is the only astronaut of independent Ukraine. He made his flight on NASA's Columbia in 1997 as part of the international mission STS-87. Read more
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David Stanley Evans (1916 - 2004)
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David Stanley Evans (28 January 1916 - 14 November 2004) was a British astronomer, noted for his use of lunar occultations to measure stellar angular diameters during the 1950s. Read more
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Julius Bauschinger (1860 - 1934)
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Julius Bauschinger (January 28, 1860 - January 21, 1934) was a German astronomer. The minor planet 2306, discovered in 1939, has been named after Bauschinger. Read more
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Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274)
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Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (1225 - 7 March 1274), also Thomas of Aquin or Aquino, was an Italian Dominican priest, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the "Dumb Ox", "Angelic Doctor", &q...
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Adrien Auzout (1622 - 1691)
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Adrien Auzout (28 January 1622 - 23 May 1691) was a French astronomer. Auzout made contributions in telescope observations, including perfecting the use of the micrometer. He made many observations with large aerial telescopes and he is noted for briefly considering the construction of a huge ae...
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Auguste Antoine Piccard (1884 - 1962)
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Auguste Antoine Piccard (28 January 1884 - 24 March 1962) was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer. On 27 May 1931, Auguste Piccard and Paul Kipfer took off from Augsburg, Germany, and reached a record altitude of 15,785 m. During this flight, Piccard was able to gather substantial data on the u...
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Henry Morton Stanley (1841 - 1904)
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Sir Henry Morton Stanley, GCB, born John Rowlands (28 January 1841 - 10 May 1904), found David Livingstone on 10 November 1871, in Ujiji near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania, and may have greeted him with the now-famous, "Doctor Livingstone, I presume?" This famous phrase ma...
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Samuel Chao Chung Ting
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Samuel Chao Chung Ting (born January 27, 1936) is an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1976, with Burton Richter, for discovering the subatomic psion particle. Read more
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Francis Melvin Rogallo (1912 - 2009)
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Francis Melvin Rogallo (January 27, 1912 - September 1, 2009) was an American aeronautical engineer inventor born in Sanger, California, U.S.A.; he is credited with the invention of the Rogallo wing, or "flexible wing", a precursor to the modern hang glider and paraglider. Read more
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Balthasar van der Pol (1889 - 1959)
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Balthasar van der Pol (27 January 1889 - 6 October 1959) was a Dutch physicist. His main interests were in radio wave propagation, theory of electrical circuits, and mathematical physics. The van der Pol oscillator was named after him. Read more
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Paul the Octopus (2008 - 2010)
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Paul the Octopus (26 January 2008 - 26 October 2010) was a common octopus from Weymouth, England. Paul lived in a tank at a commercial attraction, the Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany. Read more
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Polykarp Kusch (1911 - 1993)
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Polykarp Kusch (January 26, 1911 - March 20, 1993) was a German-American physicist. In 1955 he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics with Willis Eugene Lamb for his accurate determination that the magnetic moment of the electron was greater than its theoretical value, thus leading to rec...
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