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Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe (1891 - 1957)
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Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe (8 January 1891 -8 February 1957) was a German nuclear physicist, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 with Max Born. Read more
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Seymour Laxon (1963-2013)
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Frank Watson Dyson (1868 - 1939)
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Sir Frank Watson Dyson, KBE, FRS (8 January 1868 - 25 May 1939) was an English astronomer and Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals ("pips") from Greenwich, England, and for the role he played in testing Einstein's theory of general relativity. R...
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Adrian Lewis Melott
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Adrian Lewis Melott (born 7 January 1947) is an American physicist. He is one of the pioneers of using large-scale computing to investigate the formation of large-scale structure in a Universe dominated by dark matter. He later turned his attention to an area he calls astrobiophysics, examining a...
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Johann Philipp Reis (1834 - 1874)
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Johann Philipp Reis (January 7, 1834 - January 14, 1874) was a self-taught German scientist and inventor. In 1861, he constructed the first make-and-break telephone, today called the Reis telephone. Read more
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Stephen Richard Bourne
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Stephen Richard Bourne (Steve) (born 7 January 1944) is a computer scientist, originally from the United Kingdom and based in the United States for most of his career. He is most famous as the author of the Bourne shell (sh), which is the foundation for the standard command line interfaces to Unix. R...
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Hudson Fysh (1895 - 1974)
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Sir Wilmot Hudson Fysh KBE, DFC (7 January 1895 - 6 April 1974) was an Australian aviator and businessman. A founder of the Australian airline company Qantas, Fysh was born in Launceston, Tasmania. Read more
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Valeri Kubasov
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Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov (born 7 January 1935 in Vyazniki - 19 February 2014) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19 (the Apollo-Soyuz mission), and commanded Soyuz 36 in the Intercosmos programme. Read more
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Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier (1745 - 1799)
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Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier (6 January 1745 - 2 August 1799) and his brother were the inventors of the Montgolfière-style hot air balloon, globe aérostatique. The brothers succeeded in launching the first manned ascent, carrying Étienne into the sky. Later, in December 1783, in recognition o...
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Colin Michael Foale
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Colin Michael Foale, CBE, PhD (born 6 January 1957) is a British-American astrophysicist with dual citizenship and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of six space shuttle missions and extended stays on both Mir and the International Space Station. He was the first Briton to perform a space walk, and u...
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Guy Spence Gardner
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Guy Spence Gardner (born January 6, 1948) is a United States Air Force officer and a former astronaut. He holds the rank of Colonel. He flew as pilot on two Space Shuttle missions, STS-27 and STS-35. Read more
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Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (1933 - 2003)
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Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (January 6, 1933 - May 28, 2003) was a Soviet cosmonaut. His first spaceflight was Soyuz 12 in 1973, a test flight to check the changes made to the Soyuz spacecraft after the Soyuz 11 disaster. His second flight was the abortive Soyuz 18a that made an emergency landing in the A...
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Heinrich Schliemann (1822 - 1890)
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Heinrich Schliemann (January 6, 1822 - December 26, 1890) was a German businessman and amateur archaeologist, and an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer. Read more Heinrich Schliemann and the discovery of Troy [spoiler][video=http://www.youtube.com...
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Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723 - 1788)
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Nicole-Reine Lepaute (née Etable; 5 January 1723 - 6 December 1788) was a French astronomer and mathematician. She predicted the return of Halley's Comet, calculated the timing of a solar eclipse and constructed a group of catalogues for the stars. She was a member of the Scientific Academy of Bezi...
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Harold Gatty (1903 - 1957)
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Harold Charles Gatty (5 January 1903 - 30 August 1957) was an Australian navigator, inventor, and aviation pioneer. Charles Lindbergh called Gatty the "Prince of Navigators." In 1931, Gatty served as navigator, along with pilot Wiley Post, on the flight which set the record for aerial...
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