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J. Hans D. Jensen (1907 - 1973)
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Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen (25 June 1907 in Hamburg - 11 February 1973 in Heidelberg) was a German nuclear physicist. During World War II, he worked on the German nuclear energy project, known as the Uranium Club, in which he made contributions to the separation of uranium isotopes. Jensen shared h...
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Sir John Ross (1777 - 1856)
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Sir John Ross, CB, (24 June 1777 - 30 August 1856) was a Scottish rear admiral and Arctic explorer. Sir John was the uncle of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, who explored the Arctic with him, and later led expeditions to the south pole. Read more
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Ellison Shoji Onizuka (1946 - 1986)
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Ellison Shoji Onizuka (Onizuka Shoji?, June 24, 1946 - January 28, 1986) was a Japanese American astronaut from Kealakekua, Kona, Hawaii, who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C, before losing his life to the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger, whe...
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Martin Lewis Perl
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Martin Lewis Perl (born June 24, 1927 in New York) is an American physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton. Read more
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André Tacquet (1612 - 1660)
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André Tacquet (23 June 1612 Antwerp - 22 December 1660 Antwerp) was a Flemish mathematician and Jesuit Priest. His work prepared ground for the eventual discovery of the calculus. Read more
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Dr Helen Geake
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Dr Helen Geake is one of the key members of Channel 4's popular and long-running archaeology series Time Team, presented by Tony Robinson, along with Mick Aston and Phil Harding. She is a cousin of the late John E Geake, for whom the asteroid 9298 Geake is named. Read more
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Kern the Gnome
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The travelling garden gnome "After Kern the Gnome's visit to the South Pole, we got up to three invitations a minute on our web site for visits from all over the world" - James Nester from the Kern and Sohn company in Germany. Given the physics involved in this experiment, it gave the Gnome T...
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Liu Yang
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Liu Yang, a 33-year-old former pilot, has been selected as China's first female taikonaut, taking her place as one of three members of China's Shenzhou-9 spacecraft crew. As the long-awaited threesome was unveiled on Friday, it was revealed that the crew also includes Jing Haipeng, who will becom...
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Omid Kokabee
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Scientists protest against prison sentence for Iranian student The 10-year prison sentence imposed on physics PhD student Omid Kokabee in Iran for conspiring with foreign countries has triggered protests by scientific organizations around the world. The Committee of Concerned Scientists i...
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Yury Artyukhin (1930 - 1998)
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Yury Petrovich Artyukhin (June 22, 1930 - August 4, 1998) was a Soviet Russian cosmonaut and engineer who made a single flight into space. Read more
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Siméon Denis Poisson (1781 - 1840)
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Siméon Denis Poisson (21 June 1781 - 25 April 1840), was a French mathematician, geometer, and physicist. Read more
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Yáng Lìwei
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Yáng Lìwei (born June 21, 1965 in Suizhong, Huludao, Liaoning) is a Chinese major general and military pilot and a CNSA astronaut. He was the first man sent into space by the Chinese space program and his mission, Shenzhou 5, made China the third country to independently send people into space. Rea...
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Ilan Ramon (1954 - 2003)
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Ilan Ramon (June 20, 1954 - February 1, 2003) was a fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force, and later the first Israeli astronaut. Ramon was the space shuttle payload specialist of STS-107, the fatal mission of Columbia, where he and six other crew members were killed in the re-entry accident. Read mo...
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Viktor Patsayev (1933 - 1971)
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Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev (June 19, 1933 - June 30, 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on theSoyuz 11 mission and had the unfortunate distinction of being part of the second crew to die during a space flight. On board the space station Salyut 1 he operated the Orion 1 Space Observatory, he became...
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Joseph Diaz Gergonne (1771 - 1859)
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Joseph Diaz Gergonne (19 June 1771 Nancy, France - 4 May 1859 Montpellier, France) was a French mathematician and logician. Gergonne was the first mathematician to employ the word polar. In a series of papers beginning in 1810, he discovered the principle of duality in projective geometry, by noti...
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