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Jeannette Piccard (1895 - 1981)
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Jeannette Ridlon Piccard (January 5, 1895 - May 17, 1981) was an American high-altitude balloonist, and in later life an Episcopal priest. She held the women's altitude record for nearly three decades, and according to several contemporaneous accounts was regarded as the first woman in space. Re...
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The Queen of Shebah
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The Queen of Shebah was a monarch of the ancient kingdom of Sheba and is referred to in Habeshan history, the Bible, the Qur'an, Yoruba customary tradition, and Josephus. She is thought to have been born on January 5, sometime in the 10th century BC. Read more [spoiler][video=http://www.youtube...
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Julio Garavito Armero (1865 - 1920)
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Julio Garavito Armero (January 5, 1865 - March 11, 1920) was a Colombian astronomer. Born in Bogotá, he was a child prodigy in science and mathematics. A crater on the Moon's far side is named Garavito after him. Read more
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Amy Johnson
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Amy Johnson achieved worldwide recognition when, in 1930, she became the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia. Flying her "Jason" Gipsy Moth, she left Croydon, south of London, on 5 May of that year and landed in Darwin, Australia on 24 May after flying 18,000 km. Read more [vi...
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Brian David Josephson
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Brian David Josephson, FRS (born 4 January 1940; Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh physicist. He became a Nobel Prize laureate in 1973 for the prediction of the eponymous Josephson effect. Read more
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J.R.R. Tolkien
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University celebrates J.R.R.Tolkien[url=http://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/3297/university_celebrates_jrrtolkien]Read
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Vasilis Kanatas
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Vasilis A. Kanatas (born 3 January 1967) is a Greek physicist. He is an amateur astronomer and member of the Amateur Astronomy Association "Achyrostrata" (named for an ancient word for our galaxy used by local people), based in the Delphi Municipality. Read more
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William Wilson Morgan (1906 – 1994)
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Title: W. W. Morgan and the Discovery of the Spiral Arm Structure of our Galaxy Authors: William Sheehan William Wilson Morgan was one of the great astronomers of the twentieth century. He considered himself a morphologist, and was preoccupied throughout his career with matters of classificatio...
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Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819 - 1900)
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Charles Piazzi Smyth (3 January 1819 - 21 February 1900), was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888, well-known for many innovations in astronomy and his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Read more
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Sergei Avdeyev
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Sergei Avdeyev (born 1 January 1956) is a Russian engineer and cosmonaut. He retired as a cosmonaut on 14 February 2003. Avdeyev at one point held the record for cumulative time spent in space with 747.59 days in earth orbit, accumulated through three tours of duty aboard the Mir Space Station. He ha...
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Raghunath Anant Mashelkar
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Raghunath Anant Mashelkar (born January 1, 1943 in Mashel, Goa) is also known as Ramesh Mashelkar. He is the former Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), a chain of 38 publicly funded industrial research and development institutions in India. Read more
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Jule Gregory Charney (1917 - 1981)
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Jule Gregory Charney (January 1, 1917 - June 16, 1981) was an American meteorologist who played an important role in developing weather prediction. He developed a set of equations (The Quasi-Geostrophic Vorticity Equation) for calculating the large-scale motions of planetary-scale waves. He...
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Harriet Brooks (1876 - 1933)
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Harriet Brooks (January 1, 1876 - April 17, 1933) was the first Canadian woman nuclear physicist. She is most famous for her research on nuclear transmutations and radioactivity. Ernest Rutherford, who guided her graduate work, regarded her as being next to Marie Curie in the calibre of her aptitu...
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Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi
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Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi discovered the asteroid (1) Ceres on the 1st January, 1801.
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Satyendra Nath Bose (1894 - 1974)
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Satyendra Nath Bose FRS (1 January 1894 - 4 February 1974) was an Indian mathematician and physicist noted for his collaboration with Albert Einstein in developing a theory regarding the gaslike qualities of electromagnetic radiation. Read more
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