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Aleksandr Stoletov (1839 - 1896)
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Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov (August 10, 1839 - May 27, 1896) was a Russian physicist, founder of electrical engineering, and professor in Moscow University. Read more
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Erich Hückel (1896 - 1980)
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Erich Armand Arthur Joseph Hückel FRS (August 9, 1896, Berlin - February 16, 1980, Marburg) was a German physicist and physical chemist. He is known for two major contributions: The Debye-Hückel theory of electrolytic solutions and the Hückel method of approximate molecular orbital (MO) calcul...
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William Alfred Fowler (1911 - 1995)
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William Alfred "Willy" Fowler (August 9, 1911 - March 14, 1995) was an American astrophysicist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983. He should not be confused with the British astronomer Alfred Fowler. His seminal paper Synthesis of the Elements in Stars (Reviews of Modern P...
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Leonidas
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Leonidas (died 20 August 480 BC) was a hero-king of Sparta, the 17th of the Agiad line, one of the sons of King Anaxandridas II of Sparta, who was believed in mythology to be a descendant of Heracles, possessing much of the latter's strength and bravery. He is notable for his leadership at the Battle of T...
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Martin Fleischmann (1927 - 2012)
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Martin Fleischmann (29 March 1927 - 3 August 2012) was a British chemist noted for his work in electrochemistry. Premature announcement of his cold fusion research with Stanley Pons, regarding excess heat in heavy water, led to their names being identified with the frenzy, controversy, and backl...
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Matthew Henson (1866 - 1955)
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Matthew Alexander Henson (August 8, 1866 - March 9, 1955) was an African American explorer and associate of Robert Peary on various expeditions, the most famous being a 1909 expedition during which he may have been the first person to reach the Geographic North Pole. Read more
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS (1902 - 1984)
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS (8 August 1902 - 20 October 1984) was an English theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. Read more
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Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya
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Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya is a former Soviet female aviator and cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space some 19 years after Valentina Tereshkova. While on Salyut 7 space station, Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a space walk (on July 25, 198...
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Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS
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Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. Read more
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Dennis Anthony Tito
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Dennis Anthony Tito (born August 8, 1940 in Queens, New York) is an Italian American engineer and multimillionaire, most widely known as the first space tourist to fund his own trip into space. Read more
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John Herbert Chapman (1921 - 1979)
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John Herbert Chapman (August 28, 1921 - September 28, 1979) from London, Ontario, son of Lt. Col. Lloyd Chapman and Kathleen Chapman, was a Canadian space researcher. Chapman started his career with his work on radio propagation and the ionosphere. When the headquarters building of the Canadian S...
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Victor Francis Hess (1883 - 1964)
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Victor Francis Hess (24 June 1883 - 17 December 1964) was an Austrian-American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics, who discovered cosmic rays. Read more Wulf (Victor Hess) electroscope improved version TELESCOPES OF THE INVISIB...
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Cecil Howard Green (1900 - 2003)
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Cecil Howard Green (August 6, 1900 - April 11, 2003) was a British-born American geophysicist who trained at the University of British Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Gertrude Caroline Ederle (1905 - 2003)
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Gertrude Caroline Ederle (October 23, 1905 - November 30, 2003) was an American competitive swimmer. In 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel on the morning of August 6, 1926.
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Joseph Carey Merrick (1862 - 1890)
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Joseph Carey Merrick (5 August 1862 - 11 April 1890), sometimes incorrectly referred to as John Merrick, was an English man with severe deformities who was exhibited as a human curiosity named the Elephant Man. Read more
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