|
|
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686 - 1736)
(Preview)
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (24 May 1686 - 16 September 1736) was a physicist, engineer, and glass blower who is best known for inventing the alcohol thermometer (1709) and the mercury thermometer (1714), and for developing a temperature scale now named after him. Read more
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
|
Johnny Ball
(Preview)
Johnny Ball (born 23 May 1938) is a British television personality, a great populariser of mathematics and the father of BBC Radio 2 DJ Zoë Ball. Read more Mars - The Red Planet (with Johnny Ball) Think of a Number[video=http://www.youtube...
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
|
H. Paul Shuch
(Preview)
Dr. H. Paul Shuch (May 23, 1946) is an American scientist and engineer who has coordinated radio amateurs to help in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Read more
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
|
John Bardeen (1908 - 1991)
(Preview)
John Bardeen FRS (May 23, 1908 - January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer, the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Neil Cooper and Jo...
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
|
Thomas Gold (1920 - 2004)
(Preview)
Thomas Gold (May 22, 1920 - June 22, 2004) was an Austrian-born astrophysicist, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (London). Gold was one of three young Cambridge scientists who in the 1950s proposed th...
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
|
William Sturgeon (1783 - 1850)
(Preview)
William Sturgeon (22 May 1783 - 4 December 1850) was an English physicist and inventor who made the first electromagnets, and invented the first practical English electric motor. Read more
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
|
Andrei Sakharov (1921 - 1989)
(Preview)
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (May 21, 1921 - December 14, 1989) was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Read more
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis (1792 - 1843)
(Preview)
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis or Gustave Coriolis (21 May 1792 - 19 September 1843) was a French mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist. He is best known for his work on the supplementary forces that are detected in a rotating frame of reference. Read more
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
|
Charles Lindbergh
(Preview)
Charles Lindbergh transatlantic flight As a 25-year-old U.S. Air Mail pilot Charles Lindbergh emerged suddenly from virtual obscurity to instantaneous world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight on May 20-21, 1927, made from Roosevelt Field located in Garden Cit...
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
|
Giuseppe Mercalli (1850 - 1914)
(Preview)
Giuseppe Mercalli (May 21, 1850 - March 19, 1914) was an Italian volcanologist. He is best remembered today for his Mercalli scale for measuring earthquakes which is still used today. Read more
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
|
Toyah Willcox
(Preview)
Toyah Ann Willcox (born 18 May 1958, Kings Heath, Birmingham) is an English actress and singer. In a career spanning more than thirty years, Toyah has had 13 Top 40 singles, released 22 studio albums, written two books, appeared in over forty stage plays and ten feature films, and voiced and presente...
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias, DBE (1919 - 1991)
(Preview)
Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias, DBE (18 May 1919 - 21 February 1991), was an English ballerina of the 20th century. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest classical ballet dancers of all time. Read more
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jeana Yeager
(Preview)
Jeana Yeager (born May 18, 1952 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA) is an aviatrix. She is most famous for co-piloting a non-stop, non-refuelled flight around the world in the Rutan Voyager aircraft from 14 to 23 December 1986. Read more
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
|
Julius Sumner Miller (1909 - 1987)
(Preview)
Julius Sumner Miller (May 17, 1909 - April 14, 1987) was an American physicist and television personality. He is best known for his work on children's television programs in North America and Australia. Read more
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dafydd Williams
(Preview)
Dafydd Rhys "Dave" Williams (born May 16, 1954) is a Canadian physician and a retired CSA astronaut. He had two spaceflights, both of which were Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflight, STS-90 in 1998, was a 16-day mission aboard Space Shuttle Columbia dedicated to neuroscience...
|
Blobrana
|
0
|
|
|
