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Sculpture honouring work of world renowned Durham maths professor to be unveiled The work of a former Durham University mathematician whose ideas are studied across the world will be commemorated with the unveiling of a new sculpture on Wednesday (March 14). Professor Tom Willmore, a former Hea...

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Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 - February 22, 1512) was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer. The Americas are generally believed to have derived their name from the feminised Latin version of his first name. Read more

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Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich FRS (8 March 1914 - 2 December 1987) was a prolific Soviet physicist born in Belarus. He played an important role in the development of Soviet nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, and made important contributions to the fields of adsorption and catalysis, shock waves, n...

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Alvan Clark (March 8, 1804 - August 19, 1887), born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, the descendant of a Cape Cod whaling family of English ancestry, was an American astronomer and telescope maker. He was a portrait painter and engraver (ca.1830s-1850s), and at the age of 40 became involved in telescop...

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Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH, FRS (7 March 1792 - 11 May 1871), was an English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and experimental photographer/inventor, who in some years also did valuable botanical work. He was the son of Mary Baldwin and astronomer Sir William Hersche...

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Henry Draper (March 7, 1837 - November 20, 1882) was an American doctor and amateur astronomer. He is best known today as a pioneer of astrophotography. The small crater Draper on the Moon is named in his honour. Read more

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Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr. (March 6, 1927 - October 4, 2004), also known as Gordon Cooper, was an American aeronautical engineer, test pilot and NASA astronaut. Cooper was one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first ma...

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Gerardus Mercator (Born 5 March 1512 in Rupelmonde in the Hapsburg County of Flanders, Holy Roman Empire, died 2 December 1594 in Duisburg, United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Holy Roman Empire) was a cartographer. He is remembered for the Mercator projection world map, which is named after hi...

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William Oughtred (5 March 1574 - 30 June 1660) was an English mathematician. After John Napier invented logarithms, and Edmund Gunter created the logarithmic scales (lines, or rules) upon which slide rules are based, it was Oughtred who first used two such scales sliding by one another to perform d...

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Jacques Babinet (5 March 1794 in Lusignan (Vienne), France - 21 October 1872 in Paris, France) was a French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer who is best known for his contributions to optics. Among Babinet's accomplishments are the 1827 standardization of the Angström unit for measurin...

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Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov (born 4 March 1965) is a Russian cosmonaut and a veteran of three space missions. He has spent 200 days in space and has conducted two career spacewalks. Read more

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Sir William Napier Shaw FRS, (March 4, 1854 - March 23, 1945), was a British meteorologist. He introduced the air pressure unit millibar, as well as the tephigram, a diagram of temperature changes. Read more

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Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (March 3 [O.S. February 19] 1845 - January 6, 1918) was a German mathematician, best known as the inventor of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Read more

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Sameera Moussa (March 3, 1917-August 5, 1952) was an Egyptian nuclear scientist who held a doctorate in atomic radiation and worked to make the medical use of nuclear technology affordable to all. She organized the Atomic Energy for Peace Conference and sponsored a call for setting an internation...

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Georgy Nikolayevich Flyorov (also written as Georgii Nikolayevich Flerov) (March 2, 1913 - November 19, 1990) was a prominent Soviet nuclear physicist. Read more

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	Tom Willmore (Preview) Sculpture honouring work of world renowned Durham maths professor to be unveiled The work of a former Durham University mathematician whose ideas are studied across the world will be commemorated with the unveiling of a new sculpture on Wednesday (March 14). Professor Tom Willmore, a former Hea...	Blobrana	0	Mar 10 00:03 2012 by Blobrana
	Amerigo Vespucci (1454 - 1512) (Preview) Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 - February 22, 1512) was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer. The Americas are generally believed to have derived their name from the feminised Latin version of his first name. Read more	Blobrana	0	Mar 9 08:01 2012 by Blobrana
	Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich (1914 - 1987) (Preview) Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich FRS (8 March 1914 - 2 December 1987) was a prolific Soviet physicist born in Belarus. He played an important role in the development of Soviet nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, and made important contributions to the fields of adsorption and catalysis, shock waves, n...	Blobrana	0	Mar 8 08:13 2012 by Blobrana
	Alvan Clark (1804 - 1887) (Preview) Alvan Clark (March 8, 1804 - August 19, 1887), born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, the descendant of a Cape Cod whaling family of English ancestry, was an American astronomer and telescope maker. He was a portrait painter and engraver (ca.1830s-1850s), and at the age of 40 became involved in telescop...	Blobrana	0	Mar 8 08:03 2012 by Blobrana
	John Herschel (1792 - 1871) (Preview) Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH, FRS (7 March 1792 - 11 May 1871), was an English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and experimental photographer/inventor, who in some years also did valuable botanical work. He was the son of Mary Baldwin and astronomer Sir William Hersche...	Blobrana	1	Mar 8 05:44 2012 by Blobrana
	Henry Draper (1837 - 1882) (Preview) Henry Draper (March 7, 1837 - November 20, 1882) was an American doctor and amateur astronomer. He is best known today as a pioneer of astrophotography. The small crater Draper on the Moon is named in his honour. Read more	Blobrana	0	Mar 7 08:03 2012 by Blobrana
	Gordon Cooper (1927 - 2004) (Preview) Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr. (March 6, 1927 - October 4, 2004), also known as Gordon Cooper, was an American aeronautical engineer, test pilot and NASA astronaut. Cooper was one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first ma...	Blobrana	0	Mar 6 08:02 2012 by Blobrana
	Gerardus Mercator (1512 - 1594) (Preview) Gerardus Mercator (Born 5 March 1512 in Rupelmonde in the Hapsburg County of Flanders, Holy Roman Empire, died 2 December 1594 in Duisburg, United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Holy Roman Empire) was a cartographer. He is remembered for the Mercator projection world map, which is named after hi...	Blobrana	0	Mar 5 08:03 2012 by Blobrana
	William Oughtred (1574 - 1660) (Preview) William Oughtred (5 March 1574 - 30 June 1660) was an English mathematician. After John Napier invented logarithms, and Edmund Gunter created the logarithmic scales (lines, or rules) upon which slide rules are based, it was Oughtred who first used two such scales sliding by one another to perform d...	Blobrana	0	Mar 5 08:03 2012 by Blobrana
	Jacques Babinet (1794 - 1872) (Preview) Jacques Babinet (5 March 1794 in Lusignan (Vienne), France - 21 October 1872 in Paris, France) was a French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer who is best known for his contributions to optics. Among Babinet's accomplishments are the 1827 standardization of the Angström unit for measurin...	Blobrana	0	Mar 5 08:02 2012 by Blobrana
	Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov (Preview) Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov (born 4 March 1965) is a Russian cosmonaut and a veteran of three space missions. He has spent 200 days in space and has conducted two career spacewalks. Read more	Blobrana	0	Mar 4 08:23 2012 by Blobrana
	Sir William Napier Shaw (1854 - 1945) (Preview) Sir William Napier Shaw FRS, (March 4, 1854 - March 23, 1945), was a British meteorologist. He introduced the air pressure unit millibar, as well as the tephigram, a diagram of temperature changes. Read more	Blobrana	0	Mar 4 08:22 2012 by Blobrana
	Georg Cantor (1845 - 1918) (Preview) Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (March 3 [O.S. February 19] 1845 - January 6, 1918) was a German mathematician, best known as the inventor of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Read more	Blobrana	0	Mar 3 08:03 2012 by Blobrana
	Sameera Moussa (1917- 1952) (Preview) Sameera Moussa (March 3, 1917-August 5, 1952) was an Egyptian nuclear scientist who held a doctorate in atomic radiation and worked to make the medical use of nuclear technology affordable to all. She organized the Atomic Energy for Peace Conference and sponsored a call for setting an internation...	Blobrana	0	Mar 3 08:01 2012 by Blobrana
	Georgy Flyorov (1913 - 1990) (Preview) Georgy Nikolayevich Flyorov (also written as Georgii Nikolayevich Flerov) (March 2, 1913 - November 19, 1990) was a prominent Soviet nuclear physicist. Read more	Blobrana	0	Mar 2 08:01 2012 by Blobrana
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