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Alexei Vladimir Filippenko (born July 25, 1958, Oakland, California) is an American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on supernovae and active galaxies at optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared wavelengths. Read mo...

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Christoph Scheiner SJ (25 July 1573 (or 1575) in Markt Wald near Mindelheim in Swabia, earlier markgravate Burgau, possession of the House of Habsburg - 18 July 1650 in Neisse in Silesia) was a Jesuit priest, physicist and astronomer in Ingolstadt. Read more

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Francis Edwin Close OBE (born 24 July 1945) is a noted particle physicist who is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Read more Frank Close talks about nothing

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Charles Emile Picard FRS (24 July 1856 - 11 December 1941) was a French mathematician. He was elected the fifteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie Française in 1924 Read more

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Etienne-Louis Malus (23 July 1775 - 24 February 1812) was a French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician. His mathematical work was almost entirely concerned with the study of light. He studied geometric systems called ray systems, closely connected to Julius Plücker's line geometr...

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Major-General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet GCH, GCB, FRS, FRSE (23 July 1773 - 27 January 1860) was Governor of New South Wales (1821-25), as recommended by the Duke of Wellington, with whom he had seen military service. Brisbane was born at Brisbane House in Noddsdale, near Largs in...

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Walter Hermann Schottky (23 July 1886, Zürich, Switzerland - 4 March 1976, Pretzfeld, West Germany) was a German physicist who played a major early role in developing the theory of electron and ion emission phenomena. Read more

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Georg Wilhelm Richmann (July 22, 1711 - August 6, 1753 (old style: July 11, 1711 - July 26, 1753)) was a German physicist who lived in Russia. He did pioneering work on electricity and atmospheric electricity, and also worked on calorimetry, in doing so collaborating with Mikhail Lomonosov. He was...

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Gustav Ludwig Hertz (22 July 1887 - 30 October 1975) was a German experimental physicist and Nobel Prize winner, and a nephew of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. Read more

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Snooty is a Florida Manatee (a sub-species of the West Indian Manatee), that resides at the South Florida Museum's Parker Manatee Aquarium in Bradenton, Florida. Born at the Miami Aquarium and Tackle Company on July 21, 1948 (age 63), Snooty was one of the first recorded captive manatee births. Sno...

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Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822 - January 6, 1884) was an Austrian scientist and Augustinian friar who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics. Read more

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Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE (20 July 1919 - 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed as having reached the summit of Mount Everest. They we...

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Gerd Binnig (born 20 July 1947) is a German physicist, and a Nobel laureate. In 1978, he accepted an offer from IBM to join their Zürich research group. There, he met Heinrich Rohrer, with whom he shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for their design of the scanning tunnelling microscope (S...

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Wilgefortis is a female saint of popular religious imagination whose cult arose in the 14th century. Art historians have argued that the origins of the cult can be found with the Volto Santo of Lucca, a large eleventh century carved wooden figure of Christ on the Cross (now replaced by a 13th century c...

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Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 - 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of Macedon, a state in northern ancient Greece. Born in Pella in 356 BC, Alexander was tutored by Aristotle until the age of 16. By the age of thirty, he had created one of the largest empires of...

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	Alexei Filippenko (Preview) Alexei Vladimir Filippenko (born July 25, 1958, Oakland, California) is an American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on supernovae and active galaxies at optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared wavelengths. Read mo...	Blobrana	0	Jul 25 06:11 2012 by Blobrana
	Christoph Scheiner (1573 - 1650) (Preview) Christoph Scheiner SJ (25 July 1573 (or 1575) in Markt Wald near Mindelheim in Swabia, earlier markgravate Burgau, possession of the House of Habsburg - 18 July 1650 in Neisse in Silesia) was a Jesuit priest, physicist and astronomer in Ingolstadt. Read more	Blobrana	0	Jul 25 05:50 2012 by Blobrana
	Francis Edwin Close (Preview) Francis Edwin Close OBE (born 24 July 1945) is a noted particle physicist who is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Read more Frank Close talks about nothing	Blobrana	0	Jul 24 05:40 2012 by Blobrana
	Charles Emile Picard (1856 - 1941) (Preview) Charles Emile Picard FRS (24 July 1856 - 11 December 1941) was a French mathematician. He was elected the fifteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie Française in 1924 Read more	Blobrana	0	Jul 24 05:39 2012 by Blobrana
	Etienne-Louis Malus (1775 - 1812) (Preview) Etienne-Louis Malus (23 July 1775 - 24 February 1812) was a French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician. His mathematical work was almost entirely concerned with the study of light. He studied geometric systems called ray systems, closely connected to Julius Plücker's line geometr...	Blobrana	0	Jul 23 06:00 2012 by Blobrana
	Thomas Brisbane (1773 - 1860) (Preview) Major-General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet GCH, GCB, FRS, FRSE (23 July 1773 - 27 January 1860) was Governor of New South Wales (1821-25), as recommended by the Duke of Wellington, with whom he had seen military service. Brisbane was born at Brisbane House in Noddsdale, near Largs in...	Blobrana	0	Jul 23 05:59 2012 by Blobrana
	Walter H. Schottky (1886 - 1976) (Preview) Walter Hermann Schottky (23 July 1886, Zürich, Switzerland - 4 March 1976, Pretzfeld, West Germany) was a German physicist who played a major early role in developing the theory of electron and ion emission phenomena. Read more	Blobrana	0	Jul 23 05:58 2012 by Blobrana
	Georg Wilhelm Richmann (1711 - 1753) (Preview) Georg Wilhelm Richmann (July 22, 1711 - August 6, 1753 (old style: July 11, 1711 - July 26, 1753)) was a German physicist who lived in Russia. He did pioneering work on electricity and atmospheric electricity, and also worked on calorimetry, in doing so collaborating with Mikhail Lomonosov. He was...	Blobrana	0	Jul 22 05:42 2012 by Blobrana
	Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887 - 1975) (Preview) Gustav Ludwig Hertz (22 July 1887 - 30 October 1975) was a German experimental physicist and Nobel Prize winner, and a nephew of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. Read more	Blobrana	0	Jul 22 05:41 2012 by Blobrana
	Snooty (Preview) Snooty is a Florida Manatee (a sub-species of the West Indian Manatee), that resides at the South Florida Museum's Parker Manatee Aquarium in Bradenton, Florida. Born at the Miami Aquarium and Tackle Company on July 21, 1948 (age 63), Snooty was one of the first recorded captive manatee births. Sno...	Blobrana	0	Jul 21 05:32 2012 by Blobrana
	Gregor Johann Mendel (1822 - 1884) (Preview) Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822 - January 6, 1884) was an Austrian scientist and Augustinian friar who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics. Read more	Blobrana	0	Jul 20 05:51 2012 by Blobrana
	Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (1919 - 2008) (Preview) Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE (20 July 1919 - 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed as having reached the summit of Mount Everest. They we...	Blobrana	0	Jul 19 22:50 2012 by Blobrana
	Gerd Binnig (Preview) Gerd Binnig (born 20 July 1947) is a German physicist, and a Nobel laureate. In 1978, he accepted an offer from IBM to join their Zürich research group. There, he met Heinrich Rohrer, with whom he shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for their design of the scanning tunnelling microscope (S...	Blobrana	0	Jul 20 05:50 2012 by Blobrana
	Wilgefortis (Preview) Wilgefortis is a female saint of popular religious imagination whose cult arose in the 14th century. Art historians have argued that the origins of the cult can be found with the Volto Santo of Lucca, a large eleventh century carved wooden figure of Christ on the Cross (now replaced by a 13th century c...	Blobrana	0	Jul 20 05:49 2012 by Blobrana
	Alexander the Great (Preview) Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 - 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of Macedon, a state in northern ancient Greece. Born in Pella in 356 BC, Alexander was tutored by Aristotle until the age of 16. By the age of thirty, he had created one of the largest empires of...	Blobrana	1	Jul 19 14:54 2012 by Blobrana
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