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Allan Chapman FRAS (born 30 May 1946) is a British historian of science. He is also a television presenter, notably Gods in the Sky, covering astronomical religion in early civilizations, and Great Scientists, presenting the lives of five of the greatest thinkers. [url=http://en.wikipedia.or...
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John Herapath (1790 - 1868)
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John Herapath (30 May 1790 - 24 February 1868) was an English physicist who gave a partial account of the kinetic theory of gases in 1820 though it was neglected by the scientific community at the time. Read more
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Carol Kirkwood
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Carol Kirkwood (born 29 May 1962) is a Scottish weather presenter, employed by the Met Office and best known for forecasting the weather for BBC Breakfast. Read more
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Chien-Shiung Wu
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Chien-Shiung Wu ( May 31, 1912 - February 16, 1997) was a Chinese-American physicist with expertise in the techniques of experimental physics and radioactivity. Wu worked on the Manhattan Project (she helped to develop the process for separating uranium metal into the U-235 and U-238 isotopes by...
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Peter Higgs
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Higgs: Edinburgh Award is a great surprise One of the world's most influential physicists, Professor Peter Higgs, who rarely gives interviews, has spoken to the BBC about his achievements. In the 1960s, when Professor Higgs lectured at Edinburgh University, he proposed the existence of a sub-a...
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Luca Parmitano
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Luca Parmitano gets his chance to fly in space The Sicilian is about to fulfil a dream by flying on a Russian Soyuz vehicle to the International Space Station on Tuesday. Read more Luca Parmitano (born in Paternò 27 Septem...
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William Petty (1623 - 1687)
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Sir William Petty FRS (26 May 1623 - 16 December 1687) was an English economist, scientist and philosopher. Read more
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Muhammed Faris
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Muhammed Ahmed Faris (born 26 May 1951) is a Syrian military aviator. He was the first Syrian and the second Arab in space. Read more
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Abraham de Moivre (1667 - 1754)
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Abraham de Moivre (26 May 1667 in Vitry-le-François, Champagne, France) was a French mathematician famous for de Moivre's formula, which links complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham...
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Richard Christopher Carrington (1826 - 1875)
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Richard Christopher Carrington (26 May 1826 - 27 November 1875) was an English amateur astronomer whose 1859 astronomical observations demonstrated the existence of solar flares as well as suggesting their electrical influence upon the Earth and its aurorae; and whose 1863 records of sunspot o...
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Jack Steinberger
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Hans Jakob "Jack" Steinberger (born May 25, 1921) is a German-American-Swiss physicist currently residing near Geneva, Switzerland. He co-discovered the muon neutrino, along with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, for which they were given the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics. [url=ht...
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Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (1889 - 1972)
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Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky (May 25, 1889 - October 26, 1972), was a Russian American aviation pioneer in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. He designed and flew the world's first multi-engine fixed-wing aircraft, the Russky Vityaz in 1913, and the first airliner, Ilya Muromets, in 1914. [ur...
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Daniel Moreau Barringer (1860 - 1929)
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Daniel Moreau Barringer (May 25, 1860 - November 30, 1929) was a geologist best known as the first person to prove the existence of an impact crater on the Earth, the Meteor Crater in Arizona. The site has been renamed the Barringer Crater in his honor, although this name might mainly be used by the scie...
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Richard Salisbury Ellis
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Pieter Zeeman (1865 - 1943)
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Pieter Zeeman (25 May 1865 - 9 October 1943) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect. Read more
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