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Rodney Cotterill (1933 - 2007)
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Rodney Michael John Cotterill Order of the Dannebrog (27 September 1933 - 24 June 2007) was an English-Danish physicist, and neuroscientist, who was educated at University College London (B.Sc., 1st), Yale (M.S.) and Cambridge University (Ph.D.). Read more
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Zhai Zhigang
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Zhai Zhigang (born October 10, 1966) is an officer in the People's Liberation Army Air Force and a CNSA astronaut. On 27 September 2008, Zhai became the first Chinese astronaut to spacewalk, completely outside the Shenzhou 7 craft. Read more
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Gaston Tarry (1843 - 1913)
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Gaston Tarry (September 27, 1843 - June 21, 1913) was a French mathematician. His most famous achievement being his confirmation in 1901 of Leonhard Euler's conjecture that no 6x6 Graeco-Latin square was possible. Read more
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Sir Martin Ryle (1918 - 1984)
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Sir Martin Ryle (27 September 1918 - 14 October 1984) was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems (see e.g. aperture synthesis) and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources. Read more
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Siegfried Fred Singer
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Siegfried Fred Singer (born September 27, 1924) is an Austrian-born American physicist and emeritus professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia. Singer trained as an atmospheric physicist and is known for his work in space research, atmospheric pollution, rocket and sate...
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Hans Hahn (1879 - 1934)
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Hans Hahn (September 27, 1879 - July 24, 1934) was an Austrian mathematician who made contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory. Read more
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Captain Milburn G. "Mel" Apt
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On the morning of 27 September, 1956, Captain Milburn G. "Mel" Apt flying a Bell X-2 research aircraft, became the first man to exceed Mach 3, reaching Mach 3.2 (3,370 km/h) at 19,960 m. Read more
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Sir Barnes Wallis (1887 - 1979)
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Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, CBE FRS, RDI, FRAeS (26 September 1887 - 30 October 1979), was an English scientist, engineer and inventor. He is best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the RAF in Operation Chastise (the "Dambusters" raid) to attack the dams of the Ruhr Valley durin...
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Bryan John Birch
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Bryan John Birch F.R.S. (born 25 September 1931) is a British mathematician. His name has been given to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. Read more
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Paul B. MacCready, Jr. (1925 - 2007)
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Paul B. MacCready, Jr. (September 25, 1925 - August 28, 2007) was an American aeronautical engineer. He was the founder of AeroVironment and the designer of the human-powered aircraft that won the Kremer prize. He devoted his life to developing more efficient transportation vehicles that could &...
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Harald Cramér (1893 - 1985)
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Harald Cramér (September 25, 1893 - October 5, 1985) was a Swedish mathematician, actuary, and statistician, specialising in mathematical statistics and probabilistic number theory. He was once described by John Kingman as "one of the giants of statistical theory". Read more
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Georges Claude (1870 - 1960)
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Georges Claude (September 24, 1870 - May 23, 1960) was a French engineer and inventor. He is noted for his early work on the industrial liquefaction of air, for the invention and commercialisation of neon lighting, and for a large experiment on generating energy by pumping cold seawater up from the d...
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Jack Dee
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James Andrew Innes "Jack" Dee (born 24 September 1961) is an English stand-up comedian, actor and writer known for his sarcastic, witty, and deadpan humour. Read more
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Richard Bong (1920 - 1945)
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Richard Ira "Dick" Bong (September 24, 1920 - August 6, 1945) is the United States' highest-scoring air ace, having shot down at least 40 Japanese aircraft during World War II. He was a fighter pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) and a recipient of the Medal of Honour. All of his aerial...
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Johann Franz Encke (1791 - 1865)
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Johann Franz Encke (23 September 1791 - 26 August 1865) was a German astronomer. Among his activities, he worked on the calculation of the periods of comets and asteroids, measured the distance from the earth to the sun, and made observations on the planet Saturn. Read more
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