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Edward Higgins White, II (1930 - 1967)
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Edward Higgins White, II (Lt Col, USAF) (November 14, 1930 - January 27, 1967) was an engineer, United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut. On June 3, 1965, he became the first American to "walk" in space. Read more
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Sir Charles Lyell (1797 - 1875)
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Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt FRS (14 November 1797 - 22 February 1875) was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day. He is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which popularised James Hutton's concepts of uniformitarianism - the idea that the earth was shaped by slow-...
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Eugene Burton Ely (1886 - 1911)
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Eugene Burton Ely (October 21, 1886 - October 19, 1911) was an aviation pioneer, credited with the first shipboard aircraft take off and landing. Read more
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Augustine of Hippo (354 - 430)
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Augustine of Hippo (November 13, 354 - August 28, 430), also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, St. Austin, St. Augoustinos, Blessed Augustine, or St. Augustine the Blessed, was Bishop of Hippo Regius (present-day Annaba, Algeria). He was a Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian who lived i...
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Janna Levin
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Janna Levin: Black holes and the universe's secrets Chaos, black holes and the early universe. These are the pre-occupations of one of the world's leading astrophysicists, Janna Levin. Professor Levin's study and research have taken her on an academic journey through the Massachusetts Institu...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 - October 26, 1902) was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often c...
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Yutaka Taniyama (1927 - 1958)
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Yutaka Taniyama (November 12, 1927, Kisai near Tokyo - November 17, 1958, Tokyo) was a Japanese mathematician known for the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture. Read more
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Sinyan Shen
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Sinyan Shen (born 1949) is an American physicist and classical composer. His dual career in music and physics culminated in the development of cultural acoustics, a discipline addressing scientifically the cultural molding of our ears and brain to music. Shen's life work centers on the essence o...
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Qi Jiguang (1528 - 1588)
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Qi Jiguang (November 12, 1528 - January 5, 1588) was a Chinese military general and national hero during the Ming Dynasty. He was best remembered for his courage and leadership in the fight against Japanese pirates along the east coast of China, as well as his reinforcement work on the Great Wall of Ch...
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Audouin Charles Dollfus (1924 - 2010)
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Audouin Charles Dollfus (November 12, 1924 - October 1, 2010) was a French astronomer and aeronaut, specialist in studies of the solar system and discoverer of Janus, a moon of Saturn. Read more
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Seth Barnes Nicholson (1891 - 1963)
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Seth Barnes Nicholson (November 12, 1891 - July 2, 1963) was an American astronomer. He spent his entire career at Mount Wilson Observatory, where he discovered three more Jovian moons: Lysithea and Carme in 1938 and Ananke in 1951, as well as a Trojan asteroid 1647 Menelaus, and computed orbits of s...
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John William Strutt (1842 - 1919)
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John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM (12 November 1842 - 30 June 1919) was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered the element argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. He also discovered the phenomenon now called Rayleigh scattering, e...
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Nadia Elena Comaneci
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Nadia Elena Comaneci (born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian gymnast, winner of three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the first female gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. Read more [spoiler][video=http://www.youtube.com/watc...
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John L. Stull (1930 - 2012)
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John L. Stull, 82, of Almond died Friday (Nov. 9, 2012) with Paula, his wife of 60 years, by his side. During his career he resurrected the Alfred University's observatory by building or rebuilding almost all of the telescopes in use there. In 1989, against his mild objection, the Observatory was nam...
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James Gilbert Baker (1914 - 2005)
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James Gilbert Baker (November 11, 1914 - June 29, 2005) was an American astronomer and designer of optics systems. He and Edwin Land were instrumental in persuading President Dwight Eisenhower to have the U-2 spy plane built. Baker also designed the lenses and most of the cameras used on the U-2 spy p...
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