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Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618 - 1663)
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Francesco Maria Grimaldi (2 April 1618 - 28 December 1663) was an Italian Jesuit priest, mathematician and physicist who taught at the Jesuit college in Bologna. In astronomy, he built and used instruments to measure lunar mountains as well as the height of clouds, and drew an accurate map or, selen...
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Juan Ponce de León (1474 - July 1521)
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Juan Ponce de León (1474 - July 1521) was a Spanish explorer. He led the first European expedition to Florida, which he named. On April 2, 1513, they sighted land which Ponce de León believed was another island. He named it La Florida in recognition of the verdant landscape and because it was the Easter...
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William James Sidis (1898 - 1944)
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William James Sidis (April 1, 1898 - July 17, 1944) was an American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic abilities. His IQ was estimated to be between 250 and 300 (measures of IQ have changed over time since then) - one of the highest ever recorded - he entered Harvard early at ag...
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Sophie Germain (1776 - 1831)
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Marie-Sophie Germain (April 1, 1776 - June 27, 1831) was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. Read more
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William Lawrence Bragg (1890 - 1971)
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Sir William Lawrence Bragg CH OBE MC FRS (31 March 1890 - 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, discoverer (1912) of the Bragg law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structure. Read more
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Etienne Bézout (1730 - 1783)
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Etienne Bézout (31 March 1730 - 27 September 1783) was a French mathematician who was born in Nemours, Seine-et-Marne, France, and died in Basses-Loges (near Fontainebleau), France. Read more
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Charles Cagniard de la Tour (1777 - 1859)
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Charles Cagniard de la Tour (March 31, 1777 - July 5, 1859) was a French engineer and physicist. Read more
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Adriaan van Maanen (1884 - 1946)
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Adriaan van Maanen (March 31, 1884, Sneek - January 26, 1946, Pasadena) was a Dutch-American astronomer. He discovered Van Maanen's star. Read more
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Cinthya Herrera
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Chilean astronomer makes her mark Chilean researcher Cinthya Herrera has not quite achieved her PhD in astronomy yet, but already she has notched up a notable success in her career. The 27-year-old student has the distinction of publishing the very first science paper to come out of the Alma radio t...
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Sergey Ilyushin (1894 - 1977)
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Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin (30 March [O.S. 18 March] 1894 - February 9, 1977) was a Soviet aircraft designer who founded the Ilyushin aircraft design bureau Read more
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Robert Bunsen (1811 - 1899)
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Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (30 March 1811[N1] - 16 August 1899) was a German chemist. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with Gustav Kirchhoff. Read more Ed ~ He also invented the ubiquitous Bunsen burner.
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Emilios T. Harlaftis (1965 - 2005)
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Emilios T. Harlaftis (29 March 1965, Kiato - 13 February 2005 Menalo) was an astrophysicist. His main research contribution is the co-discovery of spiral waves in a solar-size accretion disk, pioneering analysis determining mass ratios of black hole systems using the Keck-I telescope, contrib...
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William Oefelein
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William Anthony "Bill" Oefelein (born March 29, 1965) is an American businessman and a former test pilot instructor, naval officer and NASA astronaut who, on his only spaceflight, piloted the STS-116 Space Shuttle mission. Read more
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Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.
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Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. (born March 29, 1941) is an American astrophysicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery with Russell Alan Hulse of a "new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation." Read more
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Aleksei Gubarev
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Aleksei Aleksandrovich Gubarev (29 March 1931 - 21 February 2015) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on two space flights: Soyuz 17 and Soyuz 28. Read more
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