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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
George Biddell Airy
Astronomer
27-Jul-1801 2-Jan-1892 British Astronomer Royal
Edward Barnard
Astronomer
16-Dec-1857 16-Feb-1923 Self-taught scientist
Henri Becquerel
Physicist
15-Dec-1852 25-Aug-1908 Discoverer of radioactivity
Tycho Brahe
Astronomer
14-Dec-1546 24-Oct-1601 Copper-nosed Danish astronomer
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Novelist
1-Sep-1875 19-Mar-1950 Tarzan
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Astronomer
8-Jun-1625 14-Sep-1712 Italo-French astronomer
George Ellery Hale
Astronomer
29-Jun-1868 21-Feb-1938 Palomar Observatory founder, astronomer
Oliver Heaviside
Engineer
18-May-1850 3-Feb-1925 Kennelly-Heaviside layer
Robert A. Heinlein
Author
7-Jul-1907 8-May-1988 Starship Troopers
William Herschel
Astronomer
15-Nov-1738 25-Aug-1822 Mapped heavens, discovered Uranus
Arthur Holmes
Geologist
14-Jan-1890 20-Sep-1965 Father of the geological timescale
Christiaan Huygens
Physicist
14-Apr-1629 8-Jul-1695 Wave theory of light
James H. Jeans
Astronomer
11-Sep-1877 16-Sep-1946 Continuous creation theory
Johannes Kepler
Astronomer
27-Dec-1571 15-Nov-1630 Laws of Planetary Motion
Mikhail Lomonosov
Poet
19-Nov-1711 15-Apr-1765 Early father of Russian poetry
Gregor Mendel
Scientist
22-Jul-1822 6-Jan-1884 Discovered the laws of inheritance
Isaac Newton
Physicist
4-Jan-1643 31-Mar-1727 Father of the clockwork universe
Seth Barnes Nicholson
Astronomer
12-Nov-1891 2-Jul-1963 Four satellites of Jupiter
Lord Rayleigh
Physicist
12-Nov-1842 30-Jun-1919 Why the sky is blue
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli
Astronomer
14-Mar-1835 4-Jul-1910 Discovered canals on Mars
V. M. Slipher
Astronomer
11-Nov-1875 8-Nov-1969 Interstellar dust
George Gabriel Stokes
Physicist
13-Aug-1819 1-Feb-1903 Fluid dynamicist, optic waves
Alfred Wegener
Scientist
1-Nov-1880 Nov-1930 Continental drift


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