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Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE, FRS (born 11 April 1953) is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specialising in number theory. He is most famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem. Read more...
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William Wallace Campbell (1862 - 1938)
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William Wallace Campbell (11 April 1862 - 14 June 1938) was an American astronomer, and director of Lick Observatory from 1900 to 1930. He specialised in spectroscopy. Read more
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Anna Maria Schwegelin (1729-1781)
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Anna Maria Schwegelin (or Schwägelin) (1729-1781) was an alleged German (Bavarian) witch, long considered the last person to be executed for witchcraft in Germany. She was judged guilty and sentenced to be executed on 11 April 1775. By July 1775, however, the case seems to have been forgotten, and...
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Dr Katharine Giles
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A cyclist killed in a crash in central London was a talented scientist doing research on global warming, her employer has said. Dr Katharine Giles, a lecturer at University College London (UCL), was on her way to work when she collided with a tipper truck in Victoria on Monday. [url=http://www.bbc....
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David A. Hardy
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David A. Hardy is the longest-established living space artist, having illustrated a book by Patrick Moore in 1954. Read more
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Richard Feynman
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, Richard Feynman Interview (1981) Spoiler BBC Horizon/PBS Nova The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, Richard Feynman Interview (1981)
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Shaikh Mohammad Razaullah Ansari
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Shaikh Mohammad Razaullah Ansari is a historian of science, physicist, astronomer and author from India. His works are extant in the field of Planet, Venus, Transit of Venus, Sun, Astronomy in medieval Islam and Indian astronomy where he is well cited. He was awarded Humbolt Fellowship, Alexande...
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Guillaume Bigourdan (1851 - 1932)
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Camille Guillaume Bigourdan (April 6, 1851 - February 28, 1932) was a French astronomer. In 1877 he was appointed by Félix Tisserand as assistant astronomer at the Toulouse Observatory, and in 1879 followed Tisserand to the Paris Observatory when the latter became director there. [url=http://e...
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Myleene Klass
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Myleene Angela Klass has been an amateur astronomer for most of her life, having been taught the basics by her father. She was one of only a handful of celebrities, engineers and scientists who were at the UK London "control centre" for the touch-down of the UK Mars probe Beagle 2 in the earl...
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Benjamin Peirce (1809 - 1880)
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Benjamin Peirce (April 4, 1809 - October 6, 1880) was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for approximately 50 years. He made contributions to celestial mechanics, statistics, number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/...
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Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (1892 - 1979)
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Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (April 4, 1892 in Heidelberg - May 6, 1979) was a German astronomer. He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids (almost 400 of them), beginning with 796 Sarita in 1914, working at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl astronomical observatory on the Königstuhl hill ab...
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Clément Ader (1841 - 1925)
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Clément Ader (2 April 1841 - 5 March 1925) was a French inventor and engineer born in Muret, Haute Garonne, and is remembered primarily for his pioneering work in aviation. Read more
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Friedrich Hasenöhrl (1874 - 1915)
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Friedrich Hasenöhrl (November 30, 1874 - October 7, 1915), was an Austro-Hungarian physicist. Read more
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Carlo Rubbia
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Carlo Rubbia OMRI (born on 31 March 1934) is an Italian particle physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer for work leading to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN. Read more
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Sin-Itiro Tomonaga (1906 - 1979)
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Sin-Itiro Tomonaga or Shin'ichir Tomonaga (March 31, 1906 - July 8, 1979) was a Japanese physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger. [url=http://...
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