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Excellent meteoritic Leonard Medal 2013 for Prof. Dr. Ahmed El Goresy He is recognised as an outstanding expert in extraterrestrial rocks, and an asteroid is even named after him: Prof. Dr. Ahmed El Goresy, who since 2005 has been a visiting researcher at the University of Bayreuth Bavarian Geoins...
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Robert Heinlein
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He is probably the only Missourian with both a crater on Mars and an asteroid named after him. See more
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Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873 - 1967)
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Ejnar Hertzsprung (8 October 1873 - 21 October 1967) was a Danish chemist and astronomer. Read more
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Harold Geiger (1884 - 1927)
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Major Harold C. Geiger (October 7, 1884 - May 17, 1927), born in East Orange, New Jersey, was a pioneer in US military aviation and ballooning who was killed in an airplane crash in 1927. Spokane International Airport is designated with the International Air Transport Association airport code GEG i...
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Harry Kroto
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Sir Harold (Harry) Walter Kroto, FRS (born 7 October 1939 as Harold Walter Krotoschiner - 30 April 2016) was a British chemist and one of the three recipients to share the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley. Read more [spoiler][video=http://www.youtube.com/watc...
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Lady K'abel
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Tomb of a Maya Holy Snake Lord found in Guatemala Archaeologists discover the tomb of one of the greatest queens of Classic Maya civilization piecing together for the first time Maya archaeological and historical records. The tomb of Lady K'abel, a seventh-century Maya Holy Snake Lord, was discov...
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Maria Pauer (1734-6 - 1750)
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Maria Pauer (October 1734-6 - 1750 in Salzburg), was an alleged Austrian witch. She was the last person to be executed for witchcraft in Austria. Read more
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Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803 - 1879)
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Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (6 October 1803 - 4 April 1879) was a Prussian physicist and meteorologist. In 1828, Dove observed that tropical cyclones rotate counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, but clockwise in the Southern. Read more
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Nikolay Stepanovich Chernykh (1931 - 2004)
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Nikolay Stepanovich Chernykh (October 6, 1931 - May 26, 2004) was a Soviet and Russian astronomer. Chernykh worked with his wife and colleague Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh. The asteroid 2325 Chernykh discovered in 1979 by Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos was named in their honour. Read more
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Richard Dedekind (1831 - 1916)
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Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind (October 6, 1831 - February 12, 1916) was a German mathematician who did important work in abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the foundations of the real numbers. Read more
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Sergei Sobolev (1908 - 1989)
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Sergei Lvovich Sobolev (6 October 1908 - 3 January 1989) was a Soviet mathematician working in mathematical analysis and partial differential equations. Read more
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Evgenii Landis (1921 - 1997)
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Evgenii Mikhailovich Landis (Yevgeny Mikhaylovich Landis; October 6, 1921-December 12, 1997) was a Soviet mathematician who worked mainly on partial differential equations. Read more
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Thor Heyerdahl (1914 - 2002)
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Thor Heyerdahl (October 6, 1914, Larvik, Norway - April 18, 2002, Colla Micheri, Italy) was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a background in zoology and geography. He became notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition, in which he sailed 8,000 km by raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islan...
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Elena Sergeevna Katina
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Elena Sergeevna Katina (Yelena Sergeyevna Katina), born October 4, 1984, better known as Lena Katina, is a Russian singer and songwriter who is best known for her work with Russian duo t.A.T.u. Read more
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Caitlin Casey
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Astronomer credits career to Rock Bridge planetarium Caitlin Casey knows just when the stars aligned in her life to reveal her destiny to be an astronomer: It was on a field trip to the Rock Bridge High School planetarium. She doesn't remember exactly how old she was the first time she stepped into the...
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