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Alfred Wegener (1880 - 1930)
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Alfred Lothar Wegener (November 1, 1880 - November 1930) was a German polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist. During his lifetime he was primarily known for his achievements in meteorology and as a pioneer of polar research, but today he is most remembered for advancing the theory of co...
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Robert Betts Laughlin
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Robert Betts Laughlin (born November 1, 1950) is a professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. Along with Horst L. Störmer of Columbia University and Daniel C. Tsui of Princeton University, he was awarded a share of the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for their explanation of the fr...
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Hermann Bondi (1919 - 2005)
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Sir Hermann Bondi, KCB, FRS (1 November 1919 - 10 September 2005) was an Anglo-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist. He is best known for developing the steady-state theory of the universe with Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold as an alternative to the Big Bang theory, but his most lasting legacy will pr...
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Donald William Kerst (1911 - 1993)
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Donald William Kerst (November 1, 1911-August 19, 1993) was an American physicist. In 1940, Dr. Kerst developed the betatron and became the first person to accelerate electrons using magnetic induction, reaching energies of 2.3-MeV. Read more
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Dan Alderson (1941 - 1989)
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Daniel John "Dan" Alderson (October 31, 1941 - May 17, 1989) was a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, and a prominent participant in science fiction fandom. A high school science fair project on the gravitational fields of non-spherical bodies won him a college...
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Juliette Gordon Low (1860 - 1927)
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Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of Girl Scouts in the United States, was a remarkable achiever. Juliette Gordon was born in Savannah, Georgia on Halloween (October 31) in 1860. On Jan. 17, 1927, Juliette Gordon Low died of cancer in Savannah, at the age of sixty-six. Read more[spoiler][video=h...
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Paul Frampton
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Paul Frampton (born 31 October 1943) is a particle phenomenologist. Since 1996, he is the Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Distinguished Professor of physics and astronomy, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He is also Senior Scientist and Principal Investigator at the U.S. Department of Ener...
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Charles Leroux (1856 - 1889)
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Charles Leroux (born as Joseph Johnson; 31 October 1856 in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States - 24 September [O.S. 12 September] 1889 in Reval, Estonia) was an American balloonist and parachutist. He died on his 239th jump after water landing in the Bay of Reval (now Tallinn), Estonia. Monumen...
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Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass (1815 - 1897)
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Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass (October 31, 1815 - February 19, 1897) was a German mathematician who is often cited as the "father of modern analysis". Read more
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Galileo Ferraris (1847 - 1897)
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Galileo Ferraris (31 October 1847 - 7 February 1897) was an Italian physicist and electrical engineer, noted mostly for the studies and independent discovery of the rotating magnetic field, a basic working principle of the induction motor. Read more
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Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (1828 - 1914)
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Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (31 October 1828 - 27 May 1914) was a British physicist and chemist, most famous for the invention of the incandescent light bulb for which he received the first patent in 1878. Read more
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Narinder Singh Kapany
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Narinder Singh Kapany (born 12 October 1926 in Moga, Punjab) is an Indian born American physicist known for his work in fibre optics. Read more
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Charles Duke
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Charles Moss Duke, Jr. (born October 3, 1935) is a retired US Air Force brigadier general, and a former United States astronaut for NASA. As lunar module pilot for Apollo 16 in 1972, he became the tenth and youngest of the 12 people who have walked on the Moon. Read more
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Robert L. Gibson
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Robert Lee "Hoot" Gibson (born October 30, 1946) is a retired Captain and Naval Aviator in the United States Navy and a retired NASA astronaut. Read more
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Homi Jehangir Bhabha, FRS (1909 - 1966)
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Homi Jehangir Bhabha, FRS (30 October 1909 - 24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist, founding director, and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Colloquially known as "father of Indian nuclear programme", Bhabha was the founding director of t...
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