Heinz Oberhummer (born 19 May 1941 in Bischofshofen) is an Austrian physicist. His main research area is nucleosynthesis. He is also involved in questions concerning the fine-tuning of the Universe. Oberhummer, Csótó und Schlattl were able to derive quantifiable results concerning the fine-t...
The Simplon Tunnel is a railway tunnel that connects Brig, Switzerland and Domodossola, Italy, through the Alps, but not under Simplon Pass itself. Read more
Brendan Kevin Patrick Scaife FTCD, MRIA, Boyle Laureate (born 19 May 1928), is an Irish academic engineer and physicist who carried out pioneering work on the theory of dielectrics. Read more
Mei Juecheng, Wade-Giles Mei Chüeh-cheng (born May 19, 1681, Xuan Cheng, Anhui province, China - died November 20, 1763, China), Chinese court official, mathematician, and astronomer. Read more
Jacques Cartier (December 31, 1491 - September 1, 1557) was a French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France. On April 20, 1534, Cartier set sail under a commission from the king, hoping to discover a western passage to the wealthy markets of Asia. Jacques Cartier set sail f...
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In this four-programme series, string theory pioneer Michio Kaku goes on an extraordinary exploration of the world in search of time. He discovers our sense of time passing and the clocks that drive our bodies. He reveals the forces of time that make and destroy us in a lifetime. He journeys to some of...
Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (28 May 1788 - 21 December 1862) was a German astronomer. Rümker served as a midshipman in the British East India Company and then in the British merchant navy from 1811 until 1817, where he met Austrian astronomer Baron Franz-Xaver de Zach, who influenced Rümker to stud...
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 - 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. Read more
Richard Tousey (May 18, 1908 - April 15, 1997) was an American astronomer. He was a pioneer in the observation of the sun from space, and took the first photographs of the sun's ultraviolet spectrum, using a captured V-2 rocket Read more