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Harry Eugene Drake
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Harry Eugene Drake (born in Kansas on 7 May 1915) was an archer and bowyer. Drake broke the world record for the longest shot with a footbow on 24 October 1971, with a shot that flew 1,854 m. Read more
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Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (63 BC - 12 BC)
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Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (c. 23 October or November 64/63 BC - 12 BC) was a Roman statesman and general. He was a close friend, son-in-law, lieutenant and defence minister to Octavian, the future Emperor Caesar Augustus and father-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, maternal grandfather of the Emper...
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William David Coolidge (1873 - 1975)
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William David Coolidge (October 23, 1873 - February 3, 1975) was an American physicist, who made major contributions to X-ray machines. He was the director of the General Electric Research Laboratory and a vice-president of the corporation. He was also famous for the invention of "ductile t...
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Felix Bloch (1905 1983)
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Felix Bloch (October 23, 1905 - September 10, 1983) was a Swiss physicist, working mainly in the U.S. Read more
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Ted Fujita (1920 - 1998)
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Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita (October 23, 1920 - November 19, 1998) was a prominent Japanese-American severe storms researcher. His research at the University of Chicago on severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes and typhoons revolutionized knowledge of each. Read more
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Michael Minovitch
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The maths that made Voyager possible Nasa's Voyager spacecraft have enthralled everyone with their exploits at the edge of the Solar System, but their launch in 1977 was only possible because of some clever maths and the persistence of a PhD student, Michael Minovitch, who worked out how to slingsh...
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Erasmus Reinhold (1511 - 1553)
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Erasmus Reinhold (October 22, 1511 - February 19, 1553) was a German astronomer and mathematician, considered to be the most influential astronomical pedagogue of his generation. He was born and died in Saalfeld, Saxony. Read more
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Daniel Boone (1734 - 1820)
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Daniel Boone (November 2, 1734 [O.S. October 22] - September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky, which was th...
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Georg Ernst Stahl (1659 - 1734)
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Georg Ernst Stahl (October 22, 1659 - May 24, 1734) was a German chemist and physician. Read more
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John Rackham (1682 - 1720)
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John Rackham (21 December 1682 - 18 November 1720), commonly known as Calico Jack, was an English pirate captain operating in the Bahamas during the early 18th century (Rackham is often spelled as Rackam or Rackum in historical documentation). Rackham is most remembered for two things: the design...
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Wolfgang Ketterle
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Wolfgang Ketterle (born 21 October 1957) is a German physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research has focused on experiments that trap and cool atoms to temperatures close to absolute zero, and he led one of the first groups to realise Bose-Ei...
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Nicolaus Bernoulli (1687 - 1759)
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Nicolaus Bernoulli (born 21 October 1687 in Basel, died 29 November 1759 in Basel; also spelled Nicolas or Nikolas), was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. Read more
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Edward Ball Knobel (1841 - 1930)
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Edward Ball Knobel (21 October 1841 - 25 July 1930) was an English businessman and amateur astronomer. He was born in London, England. In 1872, he purchased an 8.5 inch reflecting telescope to further his interest in astronomy. His work on a publication about the chronology of star catalogues in 187...
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Samuel W. Alderson (1914 - 2005)
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Samuel W. Alderson (October 21, 1914 - February 11, 2005) was an inventor best known for his development of the crash test dummy, a device that, during the last half of the twentieth century, was widely used by automobile manufacturers to test the reliability of automobile seat belts and other safet...
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Robert Sutton Harrington (1942 - 1993)
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Robert Sutton Harrington (October 21, 1942 - January 23, 1993) was an American astronomer who worked at the United States Naval Observatory (USNO). Harrington became a believer in the existence of a Planet X beyond Pluto and undertook searches for it, with positive results coming from the IRAD pro...
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