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Scott Altman
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Scott Douglas "Scooter" Altman, (born 15 August 1959) is a United States Navy Captain test pilot and former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of four space shuttle missions. His fourth mission on STS-125 was the last servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Read more
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Louis de Broglie (1892 - 1987)
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Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie, FRS (Dieppe, France, 15 August 1892 - Louveciennes, France, 19 March 1987) was a French physicist and a Nobel laureate in 1929. Read more
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Sergei Kapitsa (1928 - 2012)
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Sergei Kapitsa (14 February 1928 - 14 August 2012) was a Russian physicist and demographer. He is best known as host of the popular and long-running Russian scientific TV show, Evident, but Incredible. His father is the Nobel laureate (Soviet-era) physicist Pyotr Kapitsa, and his brother is the la...
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Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin (1866 - 1962)
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Charles-Jean Étienne Gustave Nicolas de la Vallée Poussin (14 August 1866 - 2 March 1962) was a Belgian mathematician. He is most well known for proving the Prime number theorem. Read more
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Brannon Braga
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Brannon Braga (born August 14, 1965) is an American television producer and screenwriter who most recently worked as showrunner and executive producer on Terra Nova. Braga is probably best known for his work with the Star Trek franchise, having worked on three of the four modern Star Trek televisi...
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Frank Friedman Oppenheimer (1912 - 1985)
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Frank Friedman Oppenheimer (August 14, 1912 - February 3, 1985) was an American particle physicist, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, and the founder of the Exploratorium in San Francisco. A younger brother of renowned physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, Frank Oppenheimer condu...
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Guido Castelnuovo (1865 - 1952)
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Guido Castelnuovo (14 August 1865 - 27 April 1952) was an Italian mathematician. Castelnuovo is best known for his contributions to the field of algebraic geometry, though his contributions to the study of statistics and probability are also significant. Read more
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Hans Christian Orsted (1777 - 1851)
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Hans Christian Orsted (14 August 1777 - 9 March 1851) was a Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, an important aspect of electromagnetism. Read more
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Herbert Hall Turner (1861 - 1930)
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Herbert Hall Turner (13 August 1861, Leeds - 20 August 1930, Stockholm) was a British astronomer and seismologist. Read more
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Rasmus Bartholin (1625 - 1698)
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Rasmus Bartholin (Latinised Erasmus Bartholinus; 13 August 1625, Roskilde - 4 November 1698, Kopenhagen) was a Danish scientist and physician. As part of his studies, he travelled in Europe for ten years. Professor at the University of Copenhagen, first in Geometry, later in Medicine. He was a yo...
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Nathaniel "Nat" Turner (1800 - 1831)
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Nathaniel "Nat" Turner (October 2, 1800 - November 11, 1831) was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 56 white deaths and over 55 black deaths, the largest number of fatalities to occur in one uprising prior to the American Civil War in t...
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Sir George Stokes (1819 - 1903)
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Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet FRS (13 August 1819 - 1 February 1903), was a mathematician and physicist. Born in Ireland, Stokes spent all of his career at University of Cambridge, where he served as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1849 until his death in 1903. Stokes made semina...
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Annie Oakley (1860 - 1926)
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Annie Oakley (August 13, 1860 - November 3, 1926), born Phoebe Ann Moses, was an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Oakley's amazing talent and timely rise to fame led to a starring role in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, which propelled her to become the first American female superstar....
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Jean Cabannes (1885 - 1959)
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Jean Cabannes (b. Marseille August 12, 1885 - d. Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer October 31, 1959) was a French physicist specialising in optics. The lunar crater Cabannes was named after him. Read more
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Metacomet (ca. 1639 - 1676)
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Metacomet (ca. 1639 - August 12, 1676), also known as King Philip or Metacom, or occasionally Pometacom, was a war chief or sachem of the Wampanoag Indians and their leader in King Philip's War, a widespread Native American uprising against English colonists in New England. Read more
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