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Karl Richard Lepsius (1810 - 1884)
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Karl (or Carl) Richard Lepsius (23 December 1810 - 10 July 1884) was a pioneering Prussian Egyptologist and linguist and pioneer of modern archaeology. Read more
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Jean-François Champollion (1790 - 1832)
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Jean-François Champollion (23 December 1790 - 4 March 1832) was a French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs. Champollion published the first translation of the Rosetta Stone hieroglyphs in 1822, showing that the Egyptian writing system wa...
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James Burke
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James Burke (born 22 December 1936) is a British broadcaster, science historian, author and television producer known amongst other things for his documentary television series Connections (1978) and its more philosophical oriented companion production, The Day the Universe Changed (1985)...
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Herman Potocnik (1892 - 1929)
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Herman Potocnik (December 22, 1892 - August 27, 1929) was an Austro-Hungarian rocket engineer and pioneer of cosmonautics (astronautics). He is chiefly remembered for his work addressing the long-term human habitation of space. Read more
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Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan (1887 - 1920)
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Srnivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan FRS, better known as Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan (22 December 1887 - 26 April 1920) was a Indian mathematician and autodidact who, with almost no formal training in pure mathematics, made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infin...
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Grote Reber (1911 - 2002)
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Grote Reber (December 22, 1911 - December 20, 2002) was an amateur astronomer and pioneer of radio astronomy. He was instrumental in investigating and extending Karl Jansky's pioneering work, and conducted the first sky survey in the radio frequencies. His 1937 radio antenna was the second ever t...
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Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko
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Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko (born December 22, 1961) is a Ukrainian-Russian cosmonaut. Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space, on 10 August 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was in Texas, while he was 240 miles over New Zealand, on the International Space Station. Read...
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Graeme Segal
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Graeme Bryce Segal FRS (born 21 December 1941) is a British mathematician, and professor at the University of Oxford. His thesis was in the area of equivariant K-theory and the Atiyah-Segal completion theorem in that subject was a major motivation for the Segal conjecture, which he formulated. He...
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Ira Sprague Bowen (1898 - 1973)
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Ira Sprague Bowen (December 21, 1898 - February 6, 1973) was an American astronomer. In 1927 he discovered that nebulium was not really a chemical element but instead doubly ionised oxygen. Read more
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David Joseph Bohm (1917 - 1992)
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David Joseph Bohm FRS (20 December 1917 - 27 October 1992) was an American theoretical physicist who contributed innovative and unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, philosophy of mind, and neuropsychology. Read more
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Oronce Fine (1494 - 1555)
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Oronce Fine (or Finé; in Latin, Orontius Finnaeus or Finaeus; Italian: Oronzio Fineo) (20 December 1494 - 8 August 1555) was a French mathematician and cartographer. Read more
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Robert Jemison Van de Graaff (1901 - 1967)
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Robert Jemison Van de Graaff, (December 20, 1901 - January 16, 1967) was an American physicist, noted for his design and construction of high voltage generators, who taught at Princeton University and MIT. Read more
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Walter Sydney Adams (1876 - 1956)
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Walter Sydney Adams (December 20, 1876 - May 11, 1956) was an American astronomer. Read more
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Eric Allin Cornell
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Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961) is an American physicist who, along with Carl E. Wieman, was able to synthesise the first Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995. For their efforts, Cornell, Wieman, and Wolfgang Ketterle shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001. Read more[spoiler][video...
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Albert Abraham Michelson (1852 - 1931)
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Albert Abraham Michelson (December 19, 1852 - May 9, 1931) was an American physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light and especially for the Michelson-Morley experiment. In 1907 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics. He became the first American to receive the Nobel Prize...
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