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Henry Gellibrand (1597-1637)
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Henry Gellibrand (1597-1637) was an English mathematician. He is known for his work on the Earth's magnetic field. He discovered that magnetic declination - the angle of dip of a compass needle - is not constant but changes over time. He announced this in 1635, relying on previous observations by ot...
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August Ferdinand Möbius (1790 - 1868)
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August Ferdinand Möbius (November 17, 1790 - September 26, 1868) was a German mathematician and theoretical astronomer. He is best known for his discovery of the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Read...
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Eugene Wigner (1902 - 1995)
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Eugene Paul "E. P." Wigner (Hungarian Wigner Jen Pál; November 17, 1902 - January 1, 1995) FRS was a Hungarian American physicist and mathematician. Read more
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14th Dalai Lama
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The 14th Dalai Lama (religious name: Tenzin Gyatso, shortened from Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, born Lhamo Dondrub, 6 July 1935) is the 14th and current Dalai Lama. Read more
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Eugenio Beltrami (1835 - 1900)
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Eugenio Beltrami (November 16, 1835, Cremona - February 18, 1900, Rome) was an Italian mathematician notable for his work concerning differential geometry and mathematical physics. Read more
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Jules Louis Gabriel Violle (1841 - 1923)
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Jules Louis Gabriel Violle (November 16, 1841, Langres, Haute-Marne - September 12, 1923, Fixin) was a French physicist and inventor. He is notable for having determined the solar constant at Mont Blanc in 1875, and, in 1881, for proposing a standard for luminous intensity, called the Violle, equ...
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Louis Bertrand Castel (1688 - 1757)
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Louis Bertrand Castel (15 November 1688 - 9 January 1757) was a French mathematician born in Montpellier, and entered the order of the Jesuits in 1703. Having studied literature, he afterwards devoted himself entirely to mathematics and natural philosophy. He wrote several scientific works, th...
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Emil Racovitza (1868 - 1947)
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Emil Racovitza (15 November 1868 - 17 November 1947) was a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist, explorer of Antarctica and the first biologist in the world to study the arctic life. Read more Spoiler
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Erwin Rommel (1891 - 1944)
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Ngô Bảo Châu
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Ngô Bo Châu (born June 28, 1972) is a Vietnamese and French mathematician at the University of Chicago, best known for proving the fundamental lemma for automorphic forms proposed by Robert Langlands and Diana Shelstad. He is the first Vietnamese to receive the Fields Medal. Read more
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Fred Haise
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Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. (born November 14, 1933) is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut. He is one of only 24 humans to have flown to the Moon. Having flown on Apollo 13, Haise was to be the sixth human to walk on the Moon, but the mission did not land due to a failure aboard the spacecraft. Read m...
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Roger Apéry (1916 - 1994)
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Roger Apéry (November 14, 1916 - December 18, 1994) was a Greek-French mathematician most remembered for Apéry's theorem, that Zeta(3) is an irrational number where zeta denotes the Riemann zeta function. Read more
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Fritz Gunter Sachs (1932 - 2011)
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Fritz Gunter Sachs (14 November 1932 - 7 May 2011) was a German photographer, author, industrialist, and latterly head of an institute that researched claims of astrology. As a young man he became a sportsman, then gained international fame as a documentary film-maker and documentary photograph...
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Karen Armstrong
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Karen Armstrong FRSL (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator known for her books on comparative religion. A former Roman Catholic religious sister, she went from a conservative to a more liberal and mystical Christian faith. She first rose to prominence in 1993 with her book A Hi...
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Dieudonné Costes (1892 - 1973)
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Dieudonné Costes (14 November 1892 - 18 May 1973) was a French aviator, well known for long distance and record breaking flights, as well as being a fighter ace during World War I. Between 10 October 1927 and 14 April 1928 Costes and Joseph Le Brix flew 57,410 km around the world, in Breguet 19GR named Nu...
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