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Kelallur Nilakantha Somayaji (1444-1544)
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Kelallur Nilakantha Somayaji (1444-1544) (also referred to as Kelallur Comatiri) was a major mathematician and astronomer of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. One of his most influential works was the comprehensive astronomical treatise Tantrasamgraha completed in 1501. Rea...
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Erwin Wilhelm Müller (1911 - 1977)
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Erwin Wilhelm Müller (or Mueller) (June 13, 1911, in Berlin - May 17, 1977, in Washington D.C.) was a German physicist who invented the Field Emission Electron Microscope (FEEM), the Field Ion Microscope (FIM), and the Atom-Probe Field Ion Microscope. He was the first person to experimentally obs...
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Thomas Young (1773 - 1829)
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Thomas Young (13 June 1773 - 10 May 1829) was an English polymath. He is famous for having partly deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics (specifically the Rosetta Stone) before Jean-François Champollion eventually expanded on his work. He was admired by, among others, Herschel, Helmholtz, Maxwell...
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Sir Oliver Lodge (1851 - 1940)
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Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, FRS (12 June 1851 - 22 August 1940) was a British physicist and writer involved in the development of key patents in wireless telegraphy. In his 1894 Royal Institution lectures ("The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors"), Lodge coined the term "coherer...
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Vladimir Arnold (1937 - 2010)
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Vladimir Igorevich Arnold (12 June 1937 - 3 June 2010) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. While he is best known for the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable Hamiltonian systems, he made important contributions in several areas including dynamical syste...
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Albert
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The first ever monkey astronaut was Albert, a Rhesus Monkey, who on June 11, 1948 rode to over 63 km on a V2 rocket. Albert died of suffocation during the flight.
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Charles Fabry (1867-1945)
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Maurice Paul Auguste Charles Fabry FRS (11 June 1867, Marseille - 11 December 1945, Paris) was a French physicist. He and Henri Buisson discovered the ozone layer in 1913. In optics, he discovered an explanation for the phenomenon of interference fringes. Together with his colleague Alfred Pérot...
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Henry Darcy (1803 - 1858)
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Henry Philibert Gaspard Darcy (June 10, 1803 - January 3, 1858) was a French engineer who made several important contributions to hydraulics. Read more
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Frederick Albert Cook (1865 - 1940)
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Frederick Cook (June 10, 1865 - August 5, 1940) was an American explorer and physician, noted for his claim of having reached the North Pole on April 21, 1908. This would have been a year before April 6, 1909, the date claimed by Robert Peary. Read more
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James Short (1710 - 1768)
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James Short (10 June O.S. (21 June N.S.) 1710 - 15 June 1768) was a Scottish mathematician, optician and telescope maker. In Short's first telescopes the specula were made of glass, as suggested by James Gregory, but later he used metallic specula only, and thus succeeded in giving them true parabol...
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Bridget Bishop (1632 - 1692)
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Bridget Bishop (ca. 1632, England - 10 June 1692 Salem, Massachusetts) was the first person executed for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials of 1692. Read more
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Pierre Duhem (1861 - 1916)
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Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (9 June 1861 - 14 September 1916) was a French physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science, best known for his writings on the indeterminacy of experimental criteria and on scientific development in the Middle Ages. Duhem also made major contributions to the sc...
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Johann Gottfried Galle (1812 - 1910)
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Johann Gottfried Galle (9 June 1812 - 10 July 1910) was a German astronomer at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune, and know what he was looking at. He used the calculations of Urbain L...
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James Newton Howard
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James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is an American composer best known for his scores to motion pictures. He is one of the most popular and respected composers for cinema, and has scored over 100 films. Read moreSpoiler[s...
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Nicholas Piantanida (1932 - 1966)
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Nicholas Piantanida (August 15, 1932 - August 29, 1966) was a New Jersey truck driver who died after his third attempt to set a record for high-altitude parachute jumping. On May 5, 1966, during his ascent for a planned super-sonic free fall from over 120,000 feet, Piantanida's face mask depressuri...
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