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Helmut Hasse (1898 - 1979)
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Helmut Hasse (25 August 1898 - 26 December 1979) was a German mathematician working in algebraic number theory, known for fundamental contributions to class field theory, the application of p-adic numbers to local classfield theory and diophantine geometry (Hasse principle), and to local zeta...
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Saburo Sakai (1916 - 2000)
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Sub-Lieutenant Saburo Sakai (August 25, 1916 - September 22, 2000) was a Japanese naval aviator and flying ace ("Gekitsui-O") of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Sakai was the Imperial Navy's fourth-ranking ace and Japan's second leading fighter pilot to survive the wa...
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Herbert Kroemer
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Herbert Kroemer (born August 25, 1928), a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1952 from the University of Göttingen, Germany, with a dissertation on hot electron effects in the then-new tr...
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Antonio Stoppani (1824 - 1891)
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Antonio Stoppani (24 August 1824 - 1 January 1891) was an Italian geologist and palaeontologist. He died in 1891 aged 67 Read more
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Salizhan Sharipov
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Salizhan Shakirovich Sharipov (born 24 August 1964 in Uzgen, Osh oblast, Kirghiz SSR, now in Kyrgyzstan) is a Kyrgyz cosmonaut of Uzbek ancestry. Sharipov is a co-author and investigator for the Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity project. He has been to space twice and has conducted...
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James Weddell (1787 - 1834)
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James Weddell (Ostend, August 24, 1787 - September 9, 1834) was a British sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in the early Spring of 1823 sailed to latitude of 74°15' S (a record 7.69 degrees or 532 statute miles south of the Antarctic Circle) and into a region of the Southern Ocean that later became k...
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Sir William Wallace
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Sir William Wallace (Medieval Gaelic: Uilliam Uallas; modern Scottish Gaelic: Uilleam Uallas; died 23 August 1305) was a Scottish knight and landowner who became one of the main leaders during the Wars of Scottish Independence. Read more Expand (354kb, 1024 x 768) Expand (306kb, 1024 x 768) Expan...
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Sarah Frances Whiting (1847 - 1927)
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Sarah Frances Whiting (August 23, 1847 - September 12, 1927), American physicist and astronomer, was the instructor to several astronomers, including Annie Jump Cannon. Read more
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Lev Zeleny
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Lev Matveevich Zeleny (born August 23, 1948) is Soviet and Russian physicist. He is currently serving as director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI) since 2002. Read more
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Ray Bradbury (1920 - 2012)
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Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 - June 5, 2012) was an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (195...
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Hannspeter Winter (1941 - 2006)
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Hannspeter Winter (born in Wels on August 22, 1941; died in Vienna on November 8, 2006) was an Austrian plasma physicist who did research on hollow atoms. Read more
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Gerald Paul Carr
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Gerald Paul Carr (born August 22, 1932) is an engineer, retired United States Marine Corps colonel and former NASA astronaut. He was commander of Skylab 4, the third and final manned visit to the Skylab Orbital Workshop, from November 16, 1973 to February 8, 1974. Read more
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James Hillier, OC (1915 - 2007)
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James Hillier, OC (August 22, 1915 - January 15, 2007) was a Canadian-born scientist and inventor who designed and built, with Albert Prebus, the first successful high-resolution electron microscope in North America in 1938. Read more
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Denis Papin (1647 - 1712)
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Denis Papin (22 August 1647 - c. 1712) was a French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the steam engine and of the pressure cooker. Read more
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Bruno Pontecorvo (1913 - 1993)
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Bruno Pontecorvo (Marina di Pisa, Italy, August 22, 1913 - Dubna, Russia, September 24, 1993) was an Italian-born nuclear physicist, an early assistant of Enrico Fermi and then the author of numerous studies in high energy physics, especially on neutrinos. According to Oleg Gordievsky (the high...
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