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Charles Julien Brianchon (1783-1864)
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Charles Julien Brianchon (1783-1864) was a French mathematician and chemist. He entered into the École Polytechnique in 1804 at the age of eighteen, and studied under Monge, graduating first in his class in 1808, after which he took up a career as a lieutenant in Napoleon's artillery. Brianchon is...
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Richard Erskine Frere Leakey
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Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (born 19 December 1944 in Nairobi) is a politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist. He is second of the three sons of the archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, and is the younger brother of Colin Leakey. Read more
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John Winthrop (1714 - 1779)
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John Winthrop (December 19, 1714 - May 3, 1779) was the 2nd Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Harvard College. He was a distinguished mathematician, physicist and astronomer, born in Boston, Mass. His great-great-grandfather, also named John Winthrop, was founder of th...
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Usimare Ramesses III
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King Ramesses III's throat was slit, analysis reveals Conspirators murdered Egyptian King Ramesses III by slitting his throat, experts now believe, based on a new forensic analysis. The first CT scans to examine the king's mummy reveal a cut to the neck deep enough to be fatal. [url=http://www.bb...
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Boris Volynov
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Boris Valentinovich Volynov (born December 18, 1934) is a Soviet cosmonaut who flew two space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 5, and Soyuz 21. He was the first halakhic (by mother) Jewish cosmonaut. Read more Spoiler
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Sir Joseph John "J. J." Thomson (1856 - 1940)
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Sir Joseph John "J. J." Thomson, OM, FRS (18 December 1856 - 30 August 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate. He is credited for the discovery of the electron and of isotopes, and the invention of the mass spectrometer. Thomson was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for the d...
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Friedrich Otto Schott (1851 - 1935)
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Friedrich Otto Schott (born 17 December 1851 in Witten; died 27 August 1935 in Jena) was a German chemist, glass technologist, and the inventor of borosilicate glass. Read more Spoiler
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Fred Talbot
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Frederick "Fred" Talbot (born 17 December 1949) is a Scottish-born British television presenter and meteorologist Talbot was a founding member of the Altrincham and District Astronomical Society, and remains involved today. He co-discovered a meteor shower, the June Lyrids, in Ju...
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Martin A. Pomerantz (1916 - 2008)
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Martin Arthur Pomerantz (December 17, 1916 - October 26, 2008) was an American physicist who served as Director of the Bartol Research Institute and who had been a leader in developing Antarctic astronomy. When the astronomical observatory at the United States Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station...
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Humphry Davy (1778 - 1829)
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Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet FRS MRIA FGS (17 December 1778 - 29 May 1829) was an English chemist and inventor. He is probably best remembered today for his discoveries of several alkali and alkaline earth metals, as well as contributions to the discoveries of the elemental nature of chlorine and io...
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Joseph Henry (1797 - 1878)
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Joseph Henry (December 17, 1797 - May 13, 1878) was an American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, as well as a founding member of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science, a precursor of the Smithsonian Institution. During his lifetime, he was hi...
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Mary Cartwright (1900 - 1998)
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Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright DBE FRS (17 December 1900 - 3 April 1998) was a British mathematician. With J. E. Littlewood she was the first to analyse a dynamical system with chaos. Read more
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Marius Sophus Lie (1842 - 1899)
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Marius Sophus Lie (17 December 1842 - 18 February 1899) was a Norwegian mathematician. He largely created the theory of continuous symmetry, and applied it to the study of geometry and differential equations. Lie's principal tool, and one of his greatest achievements, was the discovery that cont...
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Willard Frank Libby (1908 - 1980)
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Willard Frank Libby (December 17, 1908 - September 8, 1980) was an American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology. Read more
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Adam Guy Riess
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Adam Guy Riess (born 16 December 1969) is an American astrophysicist at The Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute and is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. Riess shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Phy...
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