Haroun Tazieff , né à Varsovie le 11 mai 1914 et mort à Paris le 2 février 1998, est un ingénieur agronome, géologue, volcanologue et écrivain de nationalité russe naturalisé successivement belge puis ...

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Walter Otheman Snelling (December 13, 1880 – September 10, 1965) was a chemist who contributed to the development of explosives and liquefied petroleum gas. Early career Snelling studied at Harva...

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Sir Hermann Bondi, KCB, FRS (1 November 1919 – 10 September 2005) was an Anglo-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist. He is best known for developing the steady-state theory of the universe with Fred ...

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Biologiste française née en 1905. Etudes de sciences naturelles à la faculté des sciences de Paris. 1926 Licenciée ès sciences. 1927 Entre, à l'Institut Pasteur, comme boursière dans le Service de prot...

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André Michael Lwoff , né le 8 mai 1902 à Ainay-le-Château et mort le 30 septembre 1994 à Paris, est un chercheur en biologie français. Il reçoit le Prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine en 1965, avec F...

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François Jacob , né le 17 juin 1920 à Nancy et mort le 19 avril 20131, est un chercheur en biologie français. En 1965, il est récompensé du prix Nobel de physiologie ou médecine. Il est par ailleurs Co...

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Taken from the International Space Hall of Fame at the museum of Space History. Guido von Pirquet Austria Identified the most efficient trajectories for inter-planetary travel. Baron Guido von ...

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Taken from Wikipidia. Clemens von Pirquet was from a noble family. He completed his education in Vienna, where he graduated in 1892. With the intention to become a priest, he studied theology two y...

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William and Elizabeth Robie were inhabitants of Boston as early as 1689, when their son Thomas was born on March 20th of that year. He graduated at Harvard College in 1708, and died in 1729. He was tut...

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Antoine Hyacinthe Anne, comte de Chastenet de Puységur , né le 14 février 1752 et mort en 1809, est un officier de marine français du XVIIIe siècle. Cultivé, il s'intéressera à des domaines aussi varié...

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Amand Marie Jacques de Chastenet, marquis de Puységur (1751-1825), fut un officier-général d’artillerie, connu pour ses expériences retranscrites de la pratique du magnétisme animal sur l'homme. Il éta...

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Louis Agassiz Fuertes (February 7, 1874 Ithaca, New York – August 22, 1927 Unadilla) was an American ornithologist, illustrator and artist. He set new standards for ornithological art and is consider...

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George Kruck Cherrie (1865–1948) was an American naturalist and explorer. Cherrie was born in Iowa. He took part in about forty expeditions, mostly to Central and South America, including Theodor...

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Simon Stevin (1548/49 – 1620) was a Flemish mathematician and military engineer. He was active in a great many areas of science and engineering, both theoretical and practical. Stevin wrote his Arith...

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John Motley Morehead III (November 3, 1870 – January 7, 1965) was a chemist whose work provided much of the foundation for the business of Union Carbide Corporation. He was a noted philanthropist who...

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Alexandre Gustave Eiffel , né Bönickhausen1 le 15 décembre 1832 à Dijon et mort le 27 décembre 1923 à Paris, est un ingénieur, un industriel français ayant notamment participé à la construction de la s...

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Wikipedia Biographical Summary "...Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy (21 August 1789 – 23 May 1857; was a French mathematician who was an early pioneer of analysis. He started the project of formulating an...

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Jacques Lucien Monod , né à Paris le 9 février 1910 et mort à Cannes le 31 mai 1976, est un biologiste et biochimiste français de l'Institut Pasteur de Paris, lauréat en 1965 du Prix Nobel de physiolog...

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Jean Edmond Cyrus Rostand , né le 30 octobre 1894 à Paris (17e arrondissement) et mort le 4 septembre 1977 à Ville-d'Avray (Hauts-de-Seine)1, est un écrivain, moraliste, biologiste, historien des scien...

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Fulgence Marie Auguste Bienvenüe , né le 27 janvier 1852 à Uzel (Côtes-du-Nord) et mort le 3 août 1936 à Paris, fut un inspecteur général des Ponts et Chaussées et père du métro de Paris avec Edmond Huet.

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Louis-César-Victor-Maurice, duc de Broglie , né à Paris 8e le 27 avril 1875 et mort à Neuilly-sur-Seine le 14 juillet 19601, fils de Victor de Broglie (1846-1906), est un physicien français.-----------...

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Inventor of Quinine Directeur de l'ecole de pharmacie de Paris, Decouvre la quinine et la strichnine Pierre-Joseph Pelletier est né à Paris, le 22 mars 1788, et était le petit-fils de Bertrand Pell...

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Arno Penzias Website Biography Arno Allan Penzias (born 26 April 1933) is an American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. Penzias was born in Munich, Germany, the son of Justine (née Eisen...

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Claude Louis Berthollet (né à Talloires, en duché de Savoie, alors État du royaume de Sardaigne, le 9 décembre 1748 et mort à Arcueil le 6 novembre 1822) est un chimiste français.

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Joseph-Louis Lagrange born Giuseppe Lodovico (Luigi) Lagrangia, born January 25, 1736 died April 10, 1813, buried in the Panthéon Joseph-Louis Lagrang, was a mathematician and astronomer, who was bor...

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Pierre-Simon Laplace From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about Pierre-Simon Laplace. Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827). Posthumous portrait by Ma...

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Henri Poincaré est un mathématicien, physicien, philosophe et ingénieur français né le 29 avril 1854 à Nancy et mort le 17 juillet 1912 à Paris. Il a réalisé des travaux d'importance majeure en optique...

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Leonardo da Vinci Most famous Works: Mona Lisa , The Last Supper , The Vitruvian Man Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath : painter, sculptor, archi...

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Louis Jacques Thénard (4 May 1777 in the village of La Louptière, Aube - 21 June 1857 in Paris), was a French chemist. Links Louis Jacques Thénard

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- Web site / Site Web: - Jacques Benveniste (12 mars 1935 - 3 octobre 2004), médecin et immunologiste français, connu du grand public pour avoir publié en 1988 des travaux de recherche sur la mémoire...

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Paul Langevin , né à Paris 18e le 23 janvier 1872 et décédé dans cette même ville (5e arrondissement) le 19 décembre 19461, est un physicien français, connu notamment pour sa théorie du magnétisme et l...

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William Rowan Hamilton Hamilton became professor of astronomy at TCD and royal astronomer of Ireland. Hamilton was a prodigy and knew 13 languages by the age of 9. He introduced the terms ‘scalar’ an...

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John Thomas Gulick (1832–1923) was an American missionary and naturalist. He is credited with some of the first modern evolutionary study, starting with a collection of Hawaiian land snails. Life...

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Rosalind Venetia Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, née Rosalind Venetia Henley (4 March 1907 – 14 January 1990) was a biochemist and Fellow of the Royal Society. Life and work She was born on 4 March 190...

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Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford (18 March 1833 – 17 June 1896), was a British aristocrat and ornithologist. Lilford was the eldest son of Thomas Powys, 3rd Baron Lilford, and Hon. Mary ...

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John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley FRS FRAS (5 August 1798 – 27 October 1867) was an English astronomer. Wrottesley was the son of John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley, and his first wife Lad...

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Sándor_Ferenczi Sandor Ferenczi timeline ‪ The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi: 1908-1914‬ By Sigmund Freud, Sándor Ferenczi

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Sir John Douglas Cockcroft OM KCB CBE FRS (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967 ) was a British physicist. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics for splitting the atomic nucleus with Ernest Walton, and ...

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electrogravimetric analyses, 1st -------------------- Oliver Wolcott Gibbs (February 21, 1822 – December 9, 1908) was an American chemist. He is known for performing the first electrogravimetric an...

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Antoine Henri Becquerel (15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and the discoverer of radioactivity along with Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie, for which all...

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Richard Archbold (April 9, 1907 – August 1, 1976) was an American zoologist, explorer, and philanthropist. He was independently wealthy, being the grandson of the capitalist John Dustin Archbold. He ...

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Julian Huxley Julian Huxley as Fellow of New College, Oxford 1922 Born 22 June 1887 (1887-06-22) London Died 14 February 1975 (1975-02-15) (aged 87) Residence London Nationality British Fields E...

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Lyman Strong Spitzer, Jr. (June 26, 1914 – March 31, 1997) was an American theoretical physicist and astronomer best known for his research in star formation, plasma physics, and in 1946, for conceivin...

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David Rittenhouse (April 8, 1732 – June 26, 1796) was a renowned American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman and public official. Rittenhouse w...

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John Clarkson Jay (11 September 1808 New York City – 15 November 1891 Rye, New York) was a United States physician and conchologist. Life and career He was the son of Peter A. Jay and grandso...

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Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet KCB DCL FRS FRSE FLS PRGS PBA MRIA (22 February 1792 – 22 October 1871) was a Scottish geologist who first described and investigated the Silurian system. Du...

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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the ph...

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Edmond Halley FRS Biography from: Biography of Edmond Halleyl Edmond (or Edmund) Halley's father was also called Edmond (or Edmund) Halley. He came from a Derbyshire family and was a wealthy so...

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Roger A. Morse, Ph.D. (July 5, 1927 - May 12, 2000) was a bee biologist who taught many beekeepers both the rudiments and the finer practices, through his research and publications. During his long c...

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John Henry Comstock (1849–1931) was an eminent researcher in entomology and arachnology and a leading educator. His work provided the basis for classification of butterflies, moths, and scale insects...

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) Theodore Brewster Taylor (July 11, 1925 – October 28, 2004), was a Mexican-born, American theoretical physicist and prominent nuclear weapon designer who later in life became a nuclear disarmament ...

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Chapman Grant (March 27, 1887, Salem Center, New York - January 5, 1983, Escondido, California) was an American herpetologist, historian, and publisher. He was the last living grandson of United Stat...

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Dr. Vikram A. Sarabhai, (left) Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and head of India's Department of Atomic Energy and Dr. Thomas O. Paine, NASA Administrator, sign an agreement t...

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Albert Smith Bickmore (March 1, 1839 – August 12, 1914) was an American naturalist and one of the founders of the American Museum of Natural History. Childhood Bickmore was born in the town o...

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Titian Ramsay Peale (November 2, 1799 – March 13, 1885) was a noted American artist, naturalist, entomologist and photographer. He was the sixteenth child and youngest son of noted American naturalis...

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Homi Jehangir Bhabha, FRS (Hindi: होमी भाभा; 30 October 1909 – 24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist, founding director, and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Researc...

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Charles Augustus Young (December 15, 1834 – January 4, 1908) one of the foremost solar spectroscopist astronomers in the United States, died of pneumonia after a brief illness, at his home in Hanover...

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Dr. Rudolf Vrba's Biography Heroic Mastermind of the Legendary Vrba-Wetzler report Deaf Ears, Blind Eyes . Holocaust Archives ------------------------------ ------ New York Times

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, FRS (i/ˌtʃʌndrəˈʃeɪkɑr/; Tamil: சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர்; October 19, 1910 – August 21, 1995), was an Indian-American astrophysicist who, with William A. Fowler, won the 19...

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C.V. Raman Nobel Laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Rāman, FRS, (Tamil: சந்திரசேகர வெங்கட ராமன்), (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was a Tamil physicist whose work was influential in the growt...

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Elmer Samuel Riggs (January 23, 1869 – March 25, 1963) was an American paleontologist known for his work with the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. He was born in Trafalgar, Indiana...

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Britton Chance (July 24, 1913 – November 16, 2010) was the Eldridge Reeves Johnson University Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics, as well as Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry an...

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Samuel George Morton (1799–1851) was an American physician and natural scientist. Morton, reared a Quaker but became Episcopalian in midlife, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated fro...

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Alexander Duncan Langmuir (12 September 1910 – 22 November 1993) was an American epidemiologist. He is renowned for creating the Epidemic Intelligence Service. Biography Alexander D. Langmuir...

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Alan Tower Waterman (June 4, 1892 – November 30, 1967) was an American physicist. Born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, he grew up in Northampton, Massachusetts. His father was a professor of phy...

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Charles Wardell Stiles (May 15, 1867 – January 24, 1941) was an American parasitologist born in Spring Valley, New York. Biography He studied at Wesleyan University in Connecticut (1885-86), ...

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Cleveland Abbe (December 3, 1838 – October 28, 1916) was an American meteorologist and advocate of time zones. While director of the Cincinnati Observatory in Cincinnati, Ohio, he developed a system ...

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Karl Taylor Compton (September 14, 1887 – June 22, 1954) was a prominent American physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948. The early years (18...

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) Daniel Moreau Barringer (May 25, 1860 – November 30, 1929) was a geologist best known as the first person to prove the existence of a meteorite crater on the Earth, the Meteor Crater in Arizona. Th...

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Ernest Ingersoll (March 13, 1852—November 13, 1946) was a renowned American naturalist, writer and explorer. A native of Monroe, Michigan, Ingersoll studied for a time at Oberlin College and afte...

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Roger Adams (January 2, 1889 – July 6, 1971) was an American organic chemist. He is best known for the eponymous Adams' catalyst, and his work did much to determine the composition of naturally occur...

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William Wallace Campbell (11 April 1862 – 14 June 1938) was an American astronomer, and director of Lick Observatory from 1900 to 1930. He specialized in spectroscopy. Biography He was born on a ...

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Percy Williams Bridgman (21 April 1882 – 20 August 1961) was an American physicist who won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures. He also wrote extensively on th...

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Major Charles E. Woodworth, Ph.D., (1897–1966), served as a major in the United States Army during World War II and as an entomologist for the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Res...

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Charles W. Woodworth (April 28, 1865 – November 19, 1940) was an American entomologist. He founded the Entomology Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and made many valuable contribu...

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Clarence R. King (January 6, 1842 – December 24, 1901) was an American geologist, mountaineer, and art critic. First director of the United States Geological Survey, from 1879 to 1881, King was noted...

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Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903) was an American scientist who made important theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics. His work on the applications o...

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Henrietta Swan Leavitt (July 4, 1868 – December 12, 1921) was an American astronomer. A graduate of Radcliffe College, in 1893 Leavitt started working at the Harvard College Observatory as a "compute...

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Isabel Bassett Wasson (1897–1994) was one of the first female petroleum geologists in the United States, the first female ranger at Yellowstone National Park, and also one of the first interpretive r...

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Rebecca Craighill Lancefield (January 5, 1895 – March 3, 1981) was a prominent American microbiologist. She joined the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York in 1918, and was associat...

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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, Ho...

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Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg, CC (1 August 1905 – 28 January 1993) was a prolific astronomer noted for her research into globular clusters. She is best remembered for her astronomy column, which ran fro...

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Margaret Morse Nice (December 6, 1883 – June 26, 1974) was an American ornithologist who made an extensive study of the life history of the Song Sparrow and was author of Studies in the Life History ...

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Cornelia Maria Clapp (March 17, 1849 - December 31, 1934) was an American zoologist and academic specializing in marine biology. Born in Montague, Massachusetts, Clapp was educated at Mount Holyo...

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Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM (7 March 1886 – 27 June 1975) was a British physicist, mathematician and expert on fluid dynamics and wave theory. His biographer and one-time student, George Batchelor,...

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Julia Anna Gardner (January 26, 1882–November 15, 1960), a geologist with the United States Geological Survey for 32 years, was known worldwide for her work in stratigraphy and mollusc paleontology. ...

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Katharine Burr Blodgett (January 10, 1898 – October 12, 1979) was the first woman to be awarded a Ph.D. in Physics from University of Cambridge in 1926. After receiving her master's degree, she was h...

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1924 was awarded to Manne Siegbahn "for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy". Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn was born on the 3rd of December, 1886, a...

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Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn (20 April 1918 – 20 July 2007) was a Swedish physicist. Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1981 (Jointly) "for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectrosc...

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Charles Édouard Guillaume (15 February 1861, Fleurier, Switzerland – 13 May 1938, Sèvres, France) was a Swiss physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920, "in recognition of the service h...

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Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien (13 January 1864 – 30 August 1928) was a German physicist who, in 1893, used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law, which ...

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Otto Stern (17 February 1888 – 17 August 1969) was a German physicist and Nobel laureate in physics in 1943, "for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of th...

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Wikipedia Biographical Summary: Sir Joseph John "J. J." Thomson , OM, FRS (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate. He is credited for the discovery of the elect...

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Isidor Isaac Rabi (29 July 1898 – 11 January 1988) was a Galician-born American physicist and Nobel laureate recognized in 1944 "for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic...

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Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution); 26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794), the "father of modern chemistry" , was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of c...

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Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze (20 January 1758 – 10 February 1836), was a French chemist. She was born in the town of Montbrison, Loire, in a small province in France. She is most commonly known as the s...

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In August 1774 he isolated an "air" that appeared to be completely new (oxygen). In his paper "Observations on Respiration and the Use of the Blood", Priestley was the first to suggest a connection b...

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He was a famous mathematician, physicist and astronomer. He invented the pendulum clock, the principal of the steamengine and a gunpowder engine. Jan Jansz Stampioen was for two years (1643-1645) his t...

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Jonathan Dwight V (1858–1929) was an American ornithologist. Life Jonathan Dwight was born December 8, 1858 in New York City. His father was civil engineer Jonathan Dwight (1831–1910), grandfathe...

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William North Rice (1845–1928) was an American geologist, educator, and Methodist minister and theologian concerned with reconciliation of science and religious faith. Early life and education ...

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