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Edward Condon (1902 - 1974)
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Edward Uhler Condon (March 2, 1902 - March 26, 1974) was a distinguished American nuclear physicist, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, and a participant in the development of radar and nuclear weapons during World War II. Read more
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Donald Kent Slayton (1924 - 1993)
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Donald Kent Slayton (March 1, 1924 - June 13, 1993), better known as Deke Slayton, was an American World War II pilot and later, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts. Read more
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Jack Robert Lousma
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Jack Robert Lousma (born February 29, 1936) is a former NASA astronaut and politician. He was a member of the second manned crew on the Skylab space station and also commanded the third space shuttle mission. Read more
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Daniel Chee Tsui
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Daniel Chee Tsui (born February 28, 1939, Henan Province, China) is a Chinese-born American physicist whose areas of research included electrical properties of thin films and microstructures of semiconductors and solid-state physics. Read more [video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv...
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Steven Chu
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Steven Chu (born February 28, 1948) is an American physicist and the 12th United States Secretary of Energy. Chu is known for his research at Bell Labs in cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, along with his scientific colleagues Claude Cohen...
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Bernard Lyot (1897 - 1952)
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Bernard Ferdinand Lyot (27 February 1897 in Paris - 2 April 1952 in Cairo) was a French astronomer. Throughout the 1930s, he laboured to perfect the coronagraph, which he invented to observe the corona without having to wait for a solar eclipse. In 1938, he showed a movie of the corona in action to the I...
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Natalie Batalha
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NASA astronomer Natalie Batalha is one of the leaders of the space agency's Kepler mission. During a recent visit to Houston to speak at Rice University, Batalha sat down with science writer Eric Berger to discuss her career and breakthroughs. [url=http://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/ar...
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Camille Flammarion (1842-1925)
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Nicolas Camille Flammarion (26 February 1842-3 June 1925) was a French astronomer and author. He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels, and several works about Spiritism and related topics...
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John Evershed (1864 - 1956)
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John Evershed (26 February 1864 - 17 November 1956) was an English astronomer. He was the first to observe radial motions in sunspots, a phenomenon known as the Evershed effect. The crater Evershed on the Moon is named in his honour. Read more
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Anatoly Vasilyevich Filipchenko
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Anatoly Vasilyevich Filipchenko (born February 26, 1928 in Davydovka, Voronezh Oblast, RSFSR) was a Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. He flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 16 missions. Read more
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Emile Clapeyron (1799 - 1864)
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Benoît Paul Emile Clapeyron (26 February 1799 - 28 January 1864) was a French engineer and physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics. Read more
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Ida Noddack (1896 - 1978)
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Ida Noddack (25 February 1896 - 29 October 1978), née Ida Tacke, was a German chemist and physicist. She was the first to mention the idea of nuclear fission in 1934. With her husband Walter Noddack she discovered element 75 rhenium. She was nominated three times for Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Read mor...
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Lev Artsimovich (1909 - 1973)
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Lev Andreevich Artsimovich (February 25, 1909 (NS) - March 1, 1973) was a Soviet physicist, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1953), member of the Presidium of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (since 1957), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1969). Artsimovich worked on the field of nuclear f...
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Roddam Narasimha
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Scientist resigns over blacklisting of ISRO stalwarts Eminent Scientist Roddam Narasimha, the seniormost member of the Space Commission, has resigned to protest the blacklisting of former Indian space agency chairman G. Madhavan Nair and three others in connection with the Antrix-Devas spec...
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Kurt Tank (1898 - 1983)
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Kurt Waldemar Tank (February 24, 1898 - June 5, 1983) was a German aeronautical engineer and test pilot, heading the design department at Focke-Wulf from 1931-45. Read more
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