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Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (1856 - 1894)
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Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (29 December 1856 - 31 December 1894) was a Dutch mathematician. He was born in Zwolle and died in Toulouse, France. He was a pioneer in the field of moment problems and contributed to the study of continued fractions. Read more
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Nancy J. Currie
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Nancy Jane Sherlock Currie is an engineer, United States Army officer and a NASA astronaut Read moreSpoiler
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Yusuke Funaki
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Japanese rocket scientist gives up lucrative career to join Cirque du Soleil Born in Okayama, Yusuke Funaki became an engineer in the Research & Development department at Bridgestone, a world leader in tire technology, before he gave it all up to pursue his dream to join the circus. [url=http:...
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Jesco Freiherr von Puttkamer (1933 – 2012)
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Jesco Freiherr von Puttkamer (September 22, 1933 - December 27, 2012) was a German-American aerospace engineer and senior NASA manager from Leipzig. Read more
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Kofun-period warrior
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Japanese archaeologists find 1,400 year old Kofun-period warrior still in armour A 1,400 year old Kofun-period warrior, still dressed in his lamellar suit of armour, was unearthed at the Harunayama Futatsudake excavation site. The warrior, together with an infant, were probably killed and bur...
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Akihiko Hoshide
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Akihiko Hoshide (born December 28, 1968) is a Japanese engineer and a JAXA astronaut. He was born in 1968 in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, but grew up in New Jersey. He received an International Baccalaureate Diploma from the United World College of South East Asia in 1987, a Bachelors degree in Mechanica...
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Maarten Schmidt
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Maarten Schmidt (born December 28, 1929) is a Dutch astronomer who measured the distances of quasars. Born in Groningen, The Netherlands, Schmidt studied with Jan Hendrik Oort. He earned his Ph.D. degree from Leiden Observatory in 1956. Read more
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Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882 - 1944)
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Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, OM, FRS (28 December 1882 - 22 November 1944) was a British astrophysicist of the early 20th century. He was also a philosopher of science and a populariser of science. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accr...
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Archibald Geikie (1835 - 1924)
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Sir Archibald Geikie, OM, KCB, PRS, FRSE (28 December 1835 - 10 November 1924), was a Scottish geologist and writer. Read more
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Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
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Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 - September 28, 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist who was one of the most important founders of medical microbiology. Read more
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George Cayley (1773 - 1857)
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Sir George Cayley, 6th Baronet of Brompton (27 December 1773 - 15 December 1857) was a prolific English engineer and one of the most important people in the history of aeronautics. Many consider him the first true scientific aerial investigator and the first person to understand the underlying pri...
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Gerry Anderson (1929 - 2012)
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Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson dies Gerry Anderson, creator of the Thunderbirds and Joe 90 puppet superhero TV shows, has died at the age of 83, his son has announced. Anderson had been suffering from Alzheimer's Disease since early 2010, and his condition had worsened in the past six months,...
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Michael Phillip Anderson (1959 - 2003)
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Michael Phillip Anderson (December 25, 1959 - February 1, 2003) was a United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut, who was killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster when the craft disintegrated after reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. Read more
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James Prescott Joule (1818 - 1889)
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James Prescott Joule FRS (24 December 1818 - 11 October 1889) was an English physicist and brewer, born in Salford, Lancashire. Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work. This led to the theory of conservation of energy, which led to the development of the...
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William Hayward Pickering (1910 - 2004)
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William Hayward Pickering ONZ KBE (24 December 1910 - 15 March 2004) was a New Zealand born rocket scientist who headed Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for 22 years, retiring in 1976. He was a senior NASA luminary and pioneered the exploration of space. Read more
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