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Junko Tabei
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Klim Churyumov
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Joseph L. Birman (1927 - 2016)
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Lord of the rings When University of Cincinnati researchers uncovered the tomb of a Bronze Age warrior - left untouched for more than 3,500 years and packed with a spectacular array of precious jewellery, weapons and riches - the discovery was hailed by experts as "the find of a lifetime." Shari Stoc...
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Alan Turing papers on code breaking released by GCHQ Two 70-year-old papers by Alan Turing on the theory of code breaking have been released by the government's communications headquarters, GCHQ. It is believed Mr Turing wrote the papers while at Bletchley Park working on breaking German Enigma...
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William Pendry Bidelman (1918-2011)
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Title: William Pendry Bidelman (1918-2011) Author: Howard E. Bond (Pennsylvania State Univ.) William P. Bidelman--Editor of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific from 1956 to 1961--passed away on 2011 May 3, at the age of 92. He was one of the last of the masters of visual stellar...
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William 'Guglielmo' Thomson (1760 - 1806)
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Alice Grace Cook (1887 - 1958)
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Fiammetta Wilson (1864 - 1920)
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Edgar Dean Mitchell
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Edgar Dean Mitchell, Sc.D. (born September 17, 1930) is an American pilot, retired Captain in the United States Navy and NASA astronaut. As the lunar module pilot of Apollo 14, he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, making him the sixth person to walk on th...
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Jill Tarter
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ET Hunter Calls it Quits -- Search for Funding Instead A lead scientist in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, has decided to step aside to track down something equally elusive -- long-term funding. Jill Tarter, director of the Center for SETI Research at the California-based...
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