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Charles Joseph Precourt
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Charles Joseph Precourt (born June 29, 1955) is a retired NASA astronaut. His career in flight began at an early age, and spans his entire lifetime. He served in the US Air Force, piloted numerous jet aircraft, and piloted and commanded the Space Shuttle. Read more
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Klaus von Klitzing
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Klaus von Klitzing (28 June 1943 in Schroda) is a German physicist known for discovery of the integer quantum Hall Effect, for which he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics. The von Klitzing constant, RK = h/e² = 25,812.807449(86) omega, is named in honour of von Klitzing's discovery of the qu...
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Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906 - 1972)
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Maria Goeppert-Mayer (June 28, 1906 - February 20, 1972) was a German-born American theoretical physicist, and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus. She is the second female laureate in physics, after Marie Curie. Read more[video=http://www.y...
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Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912 - 2007)
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Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker (June 28, 1912 - April 28, 2007) was a German physicist and philosopher. He was the longest-living member of the research team which performed nuclear research in Germany during the Second World War, under Werner Heisenberg's leadership. There is ongoing d...
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Martinus Veltman
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Martinus Justinus Godefriedus Veltman (born June 27, 1931 in Waalwijk) is a Dutch theoretical physicist. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in physics with his former student Gerardus 't Hooft for their work on particle theory. Read more
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Jørgen Pedersen Gram (1850 - 1916)
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Jørgen Pedersen Gram (June 27, 1850 - April 29, 1916) was a Danish actuary and mathematician who was born in Nustrup, Duchy of Schleswig, Denmark and died in Copenhagen, Denmark. Read more
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A. E. J. Collins (1885 - 1914)
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Arthur Edward Jeune "James" Collins (18 August 1885 - 11 November 1914), typically now known by his initials A. E. J. Collins, was an English cricketer and soldier. He is most famous for achieving the highest-ever recorded score in cricket: as a 13-year-old schoolboy, he scored 628 not o...
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Alexis Bouvard (1767 - 1843)
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Alexis Bouvard (27 June 1767 - 7 June 1843) was a French astronomer. He is particularly noted for his careful observations of the irregularities in the motion of Uranus and his hypothesis of the existence of an eighth planet in the solar system. Read more
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William Thomson (1824 - 1907)
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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, PRSE, (26 June 1824 - 17 December 1907) was a mathematical physicist and engineer. At the University of Glasgow he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and...
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Robert Coleman Richardson
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Robert Coleman Richardson (born June 26, 1937 in Washington D.C.) is an American experimental physicist whose area of research includes sub-millikelvin temperature studies of helium-3. Richardson, along with David Lee, as senior researchers, and then graduate student Douglas Osheroff, sha...
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Georg Brandt (1694 - 1768)
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Georg Brandt (26 June 1694 - 29 April 1768) was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist who discovered cobalt (c.1735). He was the first person to discover a metal unknown in ancient times Read more
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Frank Scott Hogg (1904 - 1951)
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Frank Scott Hogg (June 26, 1904 - January 1, 1951) was born to Dr. James Scott Hogg and Ida Barberon in Preston, Ontario. After earning and undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto, Hogg received the second doctorate in astronomy awarded at Harvard University in 1929 where he pioneered i...
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Pavel Belyayev (1925 - 1970)
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Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev (June 26, 1925 - January 10, 1970), was a Soviet fighter pilot with extensive experience in piloting different types of aircraft. He was the first commander of the cosmonaut corps and the cosmonaut who commanded the historic Voskhod 2 mission which saw the first man walk...
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Wilhelm Messerschmitt (1898 - 1978)
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Wilhelm Emil "Willy" Messerschmitt (June 26, 1898 - September 15, 1978) was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer. He was born in Frankfurt am Main, the son of a wine merchant. His stepfather was the American painter and Munich Academy Professor Carl von Marr. Read more
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Hermann Oberth (1894 - 1989)
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Hermann Julius Oberth (25 June 1894 - 28 December 1989) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and engineer. He is considered one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics. Read more
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