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Richard C. Meredith (1937 - 1979)
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Richard Carlton Meredith (October 21, 1937 - March 8, 1979), was an American writer, illustrator and graphic designer, best known as the author of science fiction short stories and novels including We All Died at Breakaway Station and The Timeliner Trilogy. Read more
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Harry Schultz Vandiver (1882 - 1973)
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Harry Schultz Vandiver (21 October 1882 - 9 January 1973) was an American mathematician, known for work in number theory. Vandiver won the Frank Nelson Cole Prize of the American Mathematical Society for his paper on Fermat's Last Theorem in 1931. Read more
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Srinagarindra (1900 - 1995)
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Srinagarindra (21 October 1900 - 18 July 1995) was a member of the Thai Royal Family and was a member of House of Mahidol, which is descended from Chakri Dynasty, originated by Prince Mahidol Adulyadej, the Prince of Songkla, son of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V). According to Princess Galyani Vadhan...
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Dara O Briain
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TWITTER banter between a Cardiff University astronomer and Irish comic Dara O Briain sparked a major online search for stars. Thousands of Twitter followers of the Irish TV presenter were treated to a lesson in stargazing after Dr Edward Gomez offered him the remote use of the Faulkes robotic teles...
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Sean Barrett (1976 - 2012)
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Family's tribute to Australia crash victim Sean Barrett The family of a scientist from London who was killed in a car crash soon after landing in Australia has described him as a "brilliant mind". Sean Barrett, 36, a doctor of quantum physics at Imperial College London, had taken a taxi fr...
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Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833 - 1896)
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Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 - 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. He is the inventor of dynamite. Nobel also owned Bofors, which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacture...
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Howard Tracy Hall (1919 - 2008)
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Howard Tracy Hall (October 20, 1919 - July 25, 2008) was an American physical chemist, and the first person who grew a synthetic diamond according to a reproducible, verifiable and witnessed process, using a press of his own design. Read more
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Julie Payette
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Julie Payette, OC, CQ (born October 20, 1963, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian engineer and a Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut. Payette has completed two spaceflights, STS-96 and STS-127, logging more than 25 days in space. She serves as Chief Astronaut for the CSA, and has served in other ro...
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Doug Schmitt
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Pro bono work with meteorite law inspires lawyer's TEDx talk A Vancouver lawyer is getting a chance to take his passion for meteors to a broader audience as a featured speaker part of TEDx Vancouver Oct. 21. Doug Schmitt is a partner with Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLP, and a former oceanographe...
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Sir James Chadwick
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Sir James Chadwick CH FRS (20 October 1891 - 24 July 1974) was an English Nobel laureate in physics awarded for his discovery of the neutron. Read more
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Nasir Al Deen Al Tusi
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Mohammad Ibn Mohammad Ibn Al Hassan Al Tusi, or Nasir Al Deen Al Tusi, stood out among Persian scholars. While true philosophical activities almost ceased after Ibn Rushd, at the end of the 12th century, a renewal occurred in Persia through the intellectual efforts and political involvement of Al T...
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Stanford R. Ovshinsky (1922 - 2012)
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Peter Tosh (1944 - 1987)
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Peter Tosh (born Winston Hubert McIntosh, 19 October 1944 - 11 September 1987), was a Jamaican reggae musician who was a core member of the band The Wailers (1963-1974), and who afterwards had a successful solo career as well as being a promoter of Rastafari. Read more Peter Tosh - Johnny Be Goode.[s...
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Demetrios Christodoulou
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Demetrios Christodoulou (born October 19, 1951) is a Greek mathematician and physicist, who first became well known for his proof, together with Sergiu Klainerman, of the nonlinear stability of the Minkowski spacetime of special relativity in the framework of general relativity. Read more
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Annie Smith Peck (1850 - 1935)
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Annie Smith Peck (19 October 1850 in Providence, Rhode Island - 18 July 1935 in New York, New York) was an American mountaineer. Read more
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