Dilhan Eryurt Biography Turkish Astrophysicist

Prof. Dr. Dilhan Eryurt (29 November 1926, Izmir, 13 September 2012, Ankara) was a Turkish astrophysicist. She was a scientist who contribut...

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Joseph Plateau - First Widespread Animation

Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (14 October 1801 – 15 September 1883) was a Belgian physicist. Born in Brussels, he studied at the Universi...

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Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge Analytical Chemist

Friedlieb (or Friedlob, occasionally misnamed as "Friedrich") Ferdinand Runge (born near Hamburg on 8 February 1794, died in Orani...

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Lev Landau Biography Lev Davidovich Landau

Lev Davidovich Landau (22 January 1908 – 1 April 1968) was a Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretica...

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S. Chandrasekhar Biography Mathematician

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, FRS (Tamil: சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர் 19 October 1910 – 21 August 1995), was an Indian American astrophysicist w...

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Eva Ekeblad - Biography of Plant Scientist

Eva Ekeblad (10 July 1724 – 15 May 1786), née Eva De la Gardie , was a Swedish agronomist , scientist, Salonist and noble (Countess). Her mo...

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Carrie Derick - Canadian Botanist and Geneticist

Carrie Matilda Derick (January 14, 1862 – November 10, 1941) was a Canadian botanist and geneticist, the first female professor in a Canadia...

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Rømer's Determination of the Speed of Light

Rømer's determination of the speed of light was the demonstration in 1676 that light has a finite speed, and so doesn't travel insta...

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