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Ibn Jubayr (1145 - 1217)
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Ibn Jubayr (1 September 1145 - 1217) was a geographer, traveller and poet from al-Andalus. His travel chronicle describes the pilgrimage he made to Mecca from 1183 to 1185, in the years preceding the Third Crusade. His chronicle describes Saladin's domains in Egypt and the Levant which he passed th...
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Theodore von Kármán (1881 - 1963)
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Theodore von Kármán (May 11, 1881 - May 7, 1963) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics. Read more
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Guillaume Amontons (1663 - 1705)
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Guillaume Amontons (31 August 1663 - 11 October 1705) was a French scientific instrument inventor and physicist. He was one of the pioneers in tribology, along with Leonardo da Vinci, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Leonard Euler and Charles-Augustin de Coulomb. Read more
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Hermann von Helmholtz (1821 - 1894)
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Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (August 31, 1821 - September 8, 1894) was a German physician and physicist who made significant contributions to several widely varied areas of modern science. Read more
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Pavel Vinogradov
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Pavel Vladimirovich Vinogradov (born August 31, 1953 in Magadan, USSR) is a cosmonaut. As of June 2010, he has flown into space twice and is one of the top 20 astronauts in terms of total time in space. Vinogradov has also conducted six spacewalks in his cosmonaut career. Read more
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Hugh David Politzer
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Hugh David Politzer (born 31 August 1949) is an American theoretical physicist. He shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Gross and Frank Wilczek for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics. Read more
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Helen Levitt (1913 - 2009)
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Helen Levitt (August 31, 1913 - March 29, 2009) was an American photographer. She was particularly noted for "street photography" around New York City, and has been called "the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time." Read more
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Commodus (161 - 192)
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Commodus (Latin: Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus; 31 August 161 - 31 December 192), was Roman Emperor from 180 to 192. He also ruled as co-emperor with his father Marcus Aurelius from 177 until his father's death in 180. Read more
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Edward Lear (1812 - 1888)
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Edward Lear: poetic science He is perhaps best known for his nonsense poetry - including The Owl and the Pussycat - but Edward Lear's career began as a scientific artist. From owls and turtles, to lemurs and giant squirrels - he created colourful illustrations to help scientists with their research...
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Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856-1927)
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Carl David Tolmé Runge (1856-1927) was a German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist. The crater Runge on the Moon is named after him. Read more
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Edward Mills Purcell (1912 - 1997)
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Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson (1890 - 1918)
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Captain Samuel Frederick Henry "Siffy" Thompson MC DFC was a World War I two-seater fighter ace who, in conjunction with his observer-gunners, was credited with 30 victories ( 18 destroyed, 12 'out of control'). He was shot down and killed in action on 27 September 1918. [url=http://en...
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Mary Shelley (1797 - 1851)
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Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 - 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). Read more
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John E. Heuser
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John E. Heuser (born August 29, 1942) is a Professor of Biophysics in the department of Cell Biology and Physiology at the Washington University School of Medicine as well as a Professor at the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) at Kyoto University. Heuser created quick-fre...
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Ishi (1860 - 1916)
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Ishi (ca. 1860 - March 25, 1916) was the last member of the Yahi, the last surviving group of the Yana people of the U.S. state of California. Widely acclaimed in his time as the "last wild Indian" in America, Ishi lived most of his life completely outside European American culture. Finall...
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