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Zenobia (240 - c. 275)
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Zenobia (240 - c. 275) was a 3rd-century Queen of the Palmyrene Empire in Roman Syria. She led a famous revolt against the Roman Empire. The second wife of King Septimius Odaenathus, Zenobia became queen of the Palmyrene Empire following Odaenathus' death in 267. By 269, Zenobia had expanded the emp...
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Rudolf Kippenhahn
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Rudolf Kippenhahn (born 24 May 1926, in Pernink, Czechoslovakia) is a German astrophysicist and science author. Read more
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Ronald A. Parise (1951 - 2008)
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Ronald Anthony Parise Ph.D. (May 24, 1951 - May 9, 2008) was an Italian American scientist who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload specialist. Read more
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Otto Lilienthal (1848 - 1896)
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Otto Lilienthal (23 May 1848 - 10 August 1896) was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the Glider King. He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful gliding flights. He followed an experimental approach established previously by Sir George Cayley. [url=http...
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Heinrich Rohrer (1933 - 2013)
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Heinrich Rohrer (6 June 1933 - 16 May 2013) was a Swiss physicist who shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst Ruska. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Rohr...
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Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. [url=http://en.wikip...
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Thomas Akers
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Thomas Dale Akers (born May 20, 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.) is a former astronaut in the United States Space Shuttle program. Read more
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R. J. Mitchell (1895 - 1937)
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Reginald Joseph Mitchell CBE, FRAeS, (20 May 1895 - 11 June 1937) was a British aeronautical engineer, best known for his design of the Supermarine Spitfire. Read more
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Alexei Tupolev (1925 - 2001)
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Alexei Andreyevich Tupolev (May 20, 1925 - May 12, 2001) was a Soviet aircraft designer who led the development of the first supersonic passenger jet, the failed Tupolev Tu-144. He also helped design the Buran space shuttle and the Tu-2000, which has been suspended because of the lack of funds. Read...
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Oliver Heaviside (1850 - 1925)
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Oliver Heaviside FRS (18 May 1850 - 3 February 1925) was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, invented mathematical techniques to the solution of differential equations (later found to be equi...
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Malcolm Sim Longair
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Malcolm Sim Longair FRS is a Scottish physicist. He was the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, from 1991 to 2008. His primary research interests are in the fields of high energy astrophysics and astrophysical cosmology. He has written...
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Heinz Oberhummer
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Heinz Oberhummer (born 19 May 1941 in Bischofshofen) is an Austrian physicist. His main research area is nucleosynthesis. He is also involved in questions concerning the fine-tuning of the Universe. Oberhummer, Csótó und Schlattl were able to derive quantifiable results concerning the fine-t...
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Brendan Scaife
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Brendan Kevin Patrick Scaife FTCD, MRIA, Boyle Laureate (born 19 May 1928), is an Irish academic engineer and physicist who carried out pioneering work on the theory of dielectrics. Read more
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Mei Juecheng (1681 - 1763)
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Mei Juecheng, Wade-Giles Mei Chüeh-cheng (born May 19, 1681, Xuan Cheng, Anhui province, China - died November 20, 1763, China), Chinese court official, mathematician, and astronomer. Read more
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Jacques Cartier (1491 - 1557)
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Jacques Cartier (December 31, 1491 - September 1, 1557) was a French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France. On April 20, 1534, Cartier set sail under a commission from the king, hoping to discover a western passage to the wealthy markets of Asia. Jacques Cartier set sail f...
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