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Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891 - 1951)
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Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (24 March [O.S. 12 March] 1891 - January 25, 1951) was a Soviet physicist, the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences from July 1945 until his death. Read more
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Wilhelm Baade (1893 - 1960)
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Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade (March 24, 1893 - June 25, 1960) was a German astronomer who worked in the USA from 1931 to 1959. He took advantage of wartime blackout conditions during World War II, which reduced light pollution at Mount Wilson Observatory, to resolve stars in the center of the Androm...
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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874 - 1922)
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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO, OBE (15 February 1874 - 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish polar explorer, one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Read more Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure (2001) [video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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Sir Norman Pogson (1829 - 1891)
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Sir Norman Robert Pogson KBE (March 23, 1829 in Nottingham - June 23, 1891 in Chennai, India) was an English astronomer. His most notable contribution was to note that in the stellar magnitude system introduced by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus, stars of the first magnitude were a hundred times as...
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Henry Beam Piper (1904 - 1964)
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Henry Beam Piper (March 23, 1904 - c. November 6, 1964) was an American science fiction author. He wrote many short stories and several novels. He is best known for his extensive Terro-Human Future History series of stories and a shorter series of "Paratime" alternate history tales. Rea...
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Vasily Zaytsev (1915 - 1991)
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Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev (March 23, 1915 - December 15, 1991) was a Soviet sniper during World War II, notable particularly for his activities between November 10 and December 17, 1942, during the Battle of Stalingrad. Read more
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Valeri Polyakov
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Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov (born April 27, 1942) is a former Russian cosmonaut. He holds the record for the longest spaceflight in human history, staying aboard the Mir space station for more than 14 months (437 days 18 hours) during one trip On January 9, 1995, after 366 days in space, Polyakov...
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Alexander Mozhaysky (1825- 1890)
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Alexander Fedorovich Mozhaysky (March 21 [O.S. March 9] 1825, Rochensalm (current Kotka), southern Finland - 1 April [O.S. March 20] 1890, Saint Petersburg), was a Russian naval officer, aviation pioneer, researcher and designer of heavier-than-air craft." In 1884, Mozhaysky's monopl...
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Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900 - 1958)
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Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie (19 March 1900 - 14 August 1958), born Jean Frédéric Joliot, was a French physicist and Nobel laureate. Read more
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Philippe de La Hire (1640 - 1718)
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Philippe de La Hire (or Lahire or Phillipe de La Hire) (March 18, 1640 - April 21, 1718) was a French mathematician and astronomer. According to Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle he was an "academy unto himself". Read more
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Werner Mölders (1913 - 1941)
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Werner Mölders (18 March 1913 - 22 November 1941) was a World War II German Luftwaffe pilot and the leading German fighter ace in the Spanish Civil War. Mölders became the first pilot in aviation history to claim 100 aerial victories. Read more
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Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918)
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Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 - 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon and stood in stark contr...
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Ken Mattingly
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Thomas Kenneth "Ken" Mattingly II, (born March 17, 1936) is a retired American astronaut and rear admiral in the United States Navy who flew on the Apollo 16, STS-4 and STS-51-C missions. He had been scheduled to fly on Apollo 13, but was held back due to concerns about a potential illness (...
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David Peakall (1931 - 2001)
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David Beaumont Peakall (17 March 1931 - 18 August 2001) was an internationally recognised toxicologist. His research into the effects of DDE and DDT on eggshells contributed to the ban on DDT in the United States. Read more
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Walter Cunningham
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Ronnie Walter Cunningham (born March 16, 1932), known as Walt Cunningham, is a retired American astronaut. In 1968, he was the Lunar Module pilot on the Apollo 7 mission. He was NASA's third civilian astronaut (after Neil Armstrong and Elliot See), and has also been a fighter pilot, physicist, entr...
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