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William Paul Thurston
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William Paul Thurston (born October 30, 1946) is an American mathematician. He is a pioneer in the field of low-dimensional topology. In 1982, he was awarded the Fields Medal for his contributions to the study of 3-manifolds.Read more
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Richard III
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Richard III dig: Leicester Cathedral burial confirmed The government has confirmed a skeleton that could be that of Richard III will be interred in Leicester if it is confirmed as the 15th Century king. The bones were found in September by archaeologists digging beneath a car park in Leicester. [ur...
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Richard Hawley Tucker (1859 - 1952)
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Richard Hawley Tucker (October 29, 1859 - March 31, 1952) was an American astronomer. The crater Tucker on the Moon is named after him. Read more
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Abram Ioffe (1880 - 1960)
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Abram Fedorovich (or Fyodorovich) Ioffe (29 October [O.S. 17 October] 1880 - 14 October 1960) was a prominent Russian/Soviet physicist. He received the Stalin Prize (1942), the Lenin Prize (1960) (posthumously), and the Hero of Socialist Labour (1955). Ioffe was an expert in electromagnetism,...
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Fredric Brown (1906 - 1972)
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Fredric Brown (October 29, 1906 - March 11, 1972) was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was born in Cincinnati. One of his most famous short stories, "Arena", was used as the basis for the episode of the same name in the original series of Star Trek. It was also the basis of a 1...
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Richard Dreyfuss
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Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an American actor best known for starring in a number of film, television, and theatre roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Always...
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Ian Don Marter (1944 - 1986)
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Ian Don Marter (28 October 1944 - 28 October 1986) was an English actor and writer, perhaps best known for his role as Harry Sullivan in the BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who, from December 1974 to September 1975 as a regular, with a one story return in November and December 1975. He som...
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Landon Curt Noll
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Landon Curt Noll (born October 28, 1960) is an American computer scientist, co-discoverer of the 25th Mersenne prime and discoverer of the 26th, which he found while still enrolled in high school and concurrently at Cal State Hayward. He was also a member of the Amdahl Six team which discovered anot...
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Friedrich Hopfner (1881 - 1949)
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Friedrich Hopfner (28 October 1881 - 5 September 1949) was an Austrian geodesist, geophysicist and planetary scientist. Read more
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Carlos Frenk
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Professor Carlos Silvestre Frenk (born October 27, 1951) is a Mexican-British cosmologist. His main interests lie in the field of cosmology, galaxy formation and computer simulations of cosmic structure formation. Read more
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Mary Moser (1744 - 1819)
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Mary Moser RA (27 October 1744 - 2 May 1819) was an English painter and one of the most celebrated women artists of 18th-century Britain. One of only two female founding members of the Royal Academy (1768), Moser is particularly noted for her depictions of flowers. Read more
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Charles Bailyn
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Charles David Bailyn (born October 27, 1959) is the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University and inaugural dean of faculty at Yale-NUS. Bailyn was awarded the 2009 Bruno Rossi Prize for his research on the masses of black holes. Read more
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William Maclure (1763 - 1840)
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William Maclure (27 October 1763 - 23 March 1840) was an Americanised Scottish geologist, cartographer and philanthropist. He is known as the 'father of American geology' and as a social experimenter on new types of community life, collaborating with British social reformer Robert Owen, (1771-...
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Chester Burleigh Watts (1889 - 1971)
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Chester Burleigh Watts (October 27, 1889 - July 17, 1971) was an American astronomer. He was born in Winchester, Indiana and he attended the Indiana University where he studied astronomy. In 1911 he joined the United States Naval Observatory, but returned to Indiana to complete his B.A. and gradu...
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Heinrich Scherk (1798 - 1885)
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Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk (27 October 1798 - 4 October 1885) was a German mathematician notable for his work on minimal surfaces and the distribution of prime numbers. He is also notable as the doctoral advisor of Ernst Kummer. Read more
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