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Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (1903 - 1995)
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Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (6 October 1903 - 25 June 1995) was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate for his work with John ****croft with "atom-smashing" experiments done at Cambridge University in the early 1930s, and so became the first person in history to artificially split the at...
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Jesse Ramsden FRSE (1735 - 1800)
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Jesse Ramsden FRSE (6 October 1735 - 5 November 1800) was an English astronomical and scientific instrument maker. Ramsden is responsible for the achromatic eyepiece named after him. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1786. The exit pupil of an eyepiece was once called the Ramsden disc in his hon...
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Meghnad Saha (1893 - 1956)
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Meghnad Saha FRS (6 October 1893 - 16 February 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars. Read more
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Giorgio Abetti (1882 - 1982)
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Giorgio Abetti (5 October 1882 - 24 August 1982) was an Italian solar astronomer. Giorgio Abetti is noted for having led expeditions to observe solar eclipses to Siberia (1936) and Sudan (1952). The crater Abetti on the Moon and asteroid 2646 Abetti are named to honour both him and his father. Read mo...
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Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg ForMemRS (1916 - 2009)
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Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg ForMemRS (October 4, 1916 - November 8, 2009) was a Soviet theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, Nobel laureate, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and one of the fathers of Soviet hydrogen bomb. Read more
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John Vincent Atanasoff (1903 - 1995)
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John Vincent Atanasoff (October 4, 1903 - June 15, 1995) was an American physicist and inventor. The 1973 decision of the patent suit Honeywell v. Sperry Rand named him the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer. His special-purpose machine has come to be called the Atanasoff...
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Cyril Stanley Smith (1903 - 1992)
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Cyril Stanley Smith (October 4, 1903-August 25, 1992) was a renowned metallurgist and historian of science. Smith is perhaps most famous for his work on the Manhattan Project where he was responsible for the production of fissionable metals. Read more
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Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (1841 - 1924)
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Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (October 4, 1841 - March 23, 1924) was an autodidact US physicist and meteorologist. Read more
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Christen Sørensen Longomontanus (1562 - 1647)
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Christen Sørensen Longomontanus (or Longberg) (4 October 1562 - 8 October 1647) was a Danish astronomer. Read more
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Ralph Steinman (1943 - 2011)
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Ralph Marvin Steinman (January 14, 1943 - September 30, 2011) was a Canadian immunologist and cell biologist at Rockefeller University, who in 1973 coined the term dendritic cells while working as a postdoc in the lab of Zanvil A. Cohn, also at Rockefeller University. [url=http://en.wikipedia....
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Michael J. Drake (1946-2011)
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Regents' Professor Michael J. Drake, 1946-2011 Michael J. Drake, Regents' Professor, director of the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and head of the department of planetary sciences, died Wednesday at The University of Arizona Medical Centre-University Campus in Tucson...
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Giovanni Battista Beccaria (1716 - 1781)
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Giovanni Battista Beccaria (3 October 1716 - 27 May 1781), Italian physicist, was born at Mondovì, and entered the religious order of the Pious Schools in 1732, where he studied, and afterward taught, grammar and rhetoric. At the same time, he applied himself with success to mathematics. Read more...
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Pierre René, Viscount Deligne
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Pierre René, Viscount Deligne (born 3 October 1944) is a Belgian mathematician. He is known for work on the Weil conjectures, leading finally to a complete proof in 1973. Read more
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Robert Julius Trumpler (1886 - 1956)
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Robert Julius Trumpler (born October 2, 1886 in Zürich, Switzerland; died September 10, 1956 in Berkeley, United States) was a Swiss-American astronomer. He is most noted for observing that the brightness of the more distant open clusters was lower than expected, and the stars appeared more red....
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Sir William Ramsay (1852 - 1916)
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Sir William Ramsay, KCB FRSE (2 October 1852 - 23 July 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" (along with Lord Rayleigh who received...
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