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Anders Celsius
male, deceased - Anders Celsius (November 27, 1701 - April 25, 1744) was a Swedish astronomer. Celsius was born in Uppsala in Sweden. He was professor of astronomy...
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Gabriel Fahrenheit
male, deceased - Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was a German physicist and engineer who worked most of his life in the Dutch Republic. The °F Fahrenheit scale of t...
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James Prescott Joule
male, deceased - James Prescott Joule, FRS (December 24, 1818 - October 11, 1889) was an English physicist, born in Salford, Lancashire. Joule studied the nature of...
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Wilhelm Wien
male, deceased - Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien (January 13, 1864 - August 30, 1928) was a German physicist who, in 1893, used theories about heat and...
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Gilbert Walker
male, deceased - Sir Gilbert Thomas Walker FRS (14 June 1868 - 4 November 1958) was a British physicist and statistician of the 20th Century. He is best known for...
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Sanctorius
male, deceased - Santorio Santorio (March 29 1561-February 22 1636), also called Santorio Santorii, Sanctorius of Padua, and various combinations of these names,...
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Williamina Fleming
female, deceased - Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming (May 15, 1857 - May 21, 1911), astronomer, was born in Dundee, Scotland, to Robert Stevens and Mary Walker...
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Jane Barbe
female, deceased - Jane Barbe (July 29, 1928-July 18, 2003) had one of the most recognized voices in the U.S. even though few know her name or face, because she made...
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Harry Swinney
male - Harry L Swinney (born 1939) is an American physicist noted for his contributions to the field of nonlinear dynamics. He is currently the director...
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John Herapath
male, deceased - John Herapath (May 30, 1790 - February 24, 1868) was an English physicist who gave a partial account of the kinetic theory of gases in 1820 though...
