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Nikolay Dollezhal (1899 - 2000)
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Nikolay Antonovich Dollezhal (October 27, 1899 - November 20, 2000) was a Soviet mechanical engineer, a key figure in Soviet atomic bomb project and chief designer of nuclear reactors from the first plutonium production reactor to the RBMK. Read more
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Thomas Gwyn Elger (1836 - 1897)
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Thomas Gwyn Empy Elger (27 October 1836 - 9 January 1897) was an English lunar mapper and the first director of the Lunar Section of the British Astronomical Association (BAA). Elger was a member of several astronomical associations, such as the Royal Astronomical Society, the short-lived Seleno...
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Theodor von Oppolzer (1841 - 1886)
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Theodor von Oppolzer (26 October 1841 - 26 December 1886) was an Austrian astronomer and mathematician of Bohemian origin. Read more
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James Curley (1796 - 1889)
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James Curley (Irish: Séamus MacThoirealaigh 26 October 1796 - 24 July 1889) was an Irish-American astronomer. Read more
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Gaetano Crocco (1877 - 1968)
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Gaetano Arturo Crocco (26 October 1877 - 19 January 1968) was an Italian scientist and aeronautics pioneer, the founder of the Italian Rocket Society, and went on to become Italy's leading space scientist. He was born in Naples. Read more
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Carl Christian Koldewey (1837 - 1908)
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Carl Christian Koldewey (born October 26, 1837 in Bücken near Hoya, Germany; died May 17, 1908 in Hamburg) was a German Arctic explorer. He led both German North Polar Expeditions. From 1869 to 1870 he was captain of the Germania and the leader of another expedition to Greenland and to the Arctic Sea w...
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Max Mason (1877 - 1961)
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Charles Max Mason (October 26, 1877, Madison, Wisconsin - March 23, 1961, Claremont, California, better known as Max Mason) was an American mathematician. Read more
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Frank Piasecki (1919 - 2008)
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Frank Piasecki (October 24, 1919 - February 11, 2008) was an American engineer and helicopter aviation pioneer. Piasecki pioneered tandem rotor helicopter designs and created the compound helicopter concept of vectored thrust using a ducted propeller. Read more
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William Higinbotham (1910 - 1994)
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William (Willy) A. Higinbotham (October 25, 1910 - November 10, 1994), an American physicist, is credited with creating one of the first computer games, Tennis for Two. Like Pong, it is a portrait of a game of tennis or ping-pong, but featured different game mechanics that have very little resembla...
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Rusty Schweickart
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Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart aka Schweikart (born October 25, 1935) is an American former astronaut, research scientist, US Air Force fighter pilot, business and government executive. Schweickart, chosen in NASA's third astronaut group, is best known as the Lunar Module pilo...
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Duncan Lunan
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Duncan Alasdair Lunan, born October 1945, is a Scottish author with emphasis on astronomy, spaceflight and science fiction, undertaking a wide range of writing and speaking on those and other topics as a researcher, tutor, critic, editor, lecturer and broadcaster. He is known for his science wri...
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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932 - 2007)
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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (October 24, 1932 - May 18, 2007) was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991. Read more
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Marcel-Paul Schützenberger (1920 - 1996)
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Marcel-Paul "Marco" Schützenberger (October 24, 1920 - July 29, 1996) was a French mathematician and Doctor of Medicine. His work had impact across the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory. In addition to his formal results in mathematics, he was "d...
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Anna Göldi (1734 - 1782)
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Anna Göldi (also Anna Göldin, October 24, 1734 - June 13, 1782) is known as the "last witch" in Switzerland. She was executed for murder in June 1782 in Glarus. Read more
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Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804 - 1891)
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Wilhelm Eduard Weber (24 October 1804 - 23 June 1891) was a German physicist and, together with Carl Friedrich Gauss, inventor of the first electromagnetic telegraph. Read more
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