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Spacecraft Apollo 8 Christmas at the Moon
Awesome Christmas 1968 space exploration when NASA's Apollo 8 with three astronauts became first manned space mission to orbit the Moon at Yuletide season.
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Norbert Wiener and Cybernetics
Famous for inventing the discipline of Cybernetics and his communications theory, Norbert Wiener introduced the concept of feedback mechanism, and terms input and output.
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Ilya Prigogine Biography
Brief biography of Ilya Prigogine, 1977 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, best known for development of irreversible processes in thermodynamics, with "arrow of time."
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Paul Ehrlich Biography
Brief biography and work of Paul Ehrlich, German scientist in immunology and hematology. He coined the word chemotherapy, the chemical that kills cancerous cells.
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David Hilbert Biography
Brief biography of mathematician David Hilbert, who introduced the concepts of formalism into mathematics and the Invariant Theory.
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Kepler and the Star of Bethlehem
German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler came up with a planetary conjecture of planets Jupiter and Saturn, he called The Star of Bethlehem.
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Scientist Linus Pauling Biography
Brief biography of chemist Linus Pauling, so far the only Nobel laureate of two unshared Nobel Prizes, Chemistry and Peace, and known for The Nature of the Chemical Bond.
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Scientist James Lovelock Brief Biography
Brief biography of English scientist James Lovelock who introduced the Gaia hypothesis that the Earth is a single living organism evolving to sustain itself.
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Theory of Theodor Kaluza and Oskar Klein
Brief biographies and work of physicists Theodor Kaluza and Oskar Klein, who conceived the idea of the higher level fifth-dimension of unifying forces.
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Henry Ford Brief Biography
Brief biography of American car maker and automobile industrialist, Henry Ford, developed a working gasoline automobile, Model T, and founder of Ford Motors.
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Thomas Alva Edison Biography
Brief biography of inventor and scientist Thomas Alva Edison, with more than 1,000 patents, constructed a film studio, discovered the Edison Effect.
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Richard Feynman Brief Biography
Brief biography of physicist Richard Feynman, one of the founders of quantum electrodynamics (QED) and inventor of Feynman diagrams.
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First Baron Ernest Rutherford Brief Biography
Brief biography of scientist Baron Ernest Rutherford whose work formed the basis of nuclear physics, best known for atom planetary model and atomic nucleus discovery.
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Alfred Binet and His Intelligence Tests
Brief biography and works of psychologist Alfred Binet, pioneer in the practical intelligence tests and co-author of The Binet-Simon Test of Intelligence.
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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Life and Vitamin B12
Brief biography and work of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who determined the structures of Penicillin, Vitamin B12, Insulin, and other important biological compounds.
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John Watson on Behavior
Ideas and brief biography of John Watson, American psychologist who championed objective psychology in his behaviorism.
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James Watt Brief Biography
Eighteenth century Scottish technician James Watt is credited for improving Newcomen's steam pump design.
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Charles Lyell and Principles of Geology
Foremost geologist of his day, Charles Lyell's highly popular principles of geology had a huge influence on Charles Darwin.
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Chemist Edward Frankland
Life and works of Sir Edward Frankland who laid the foundation for the theory of valence and discovered the science of organometallic compounds.
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Lev Vygotsky and His Theory
Insights to ideas of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky, best-known for his emphasis on the role of social and cultural factors in the development of cognition.
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Gregor Mendel and Heredity
Brief biography of priest and scientist Gregor Mendel who laid the foundation for the modern science of genetics and discovered the Laws of Heredity.
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Heinrich Hertz Biography
A brief biography of Heinrich Hertz, who discovered the radio waves, and that heat and light are electromagnetic waves, a precursor to wireless telegraphy.
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Hipparchus Greek Astronomer
Hipparchus' precision and astronomical calculations led to his invention of trigonometry and discovery of precession, the compilation of the first Star Catalogue.
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Euclid's Life and the Elements
Brief account of Euclid's work in relation to geometry and the key postulates from his famous book the Elements.
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John Dalton Biography
Brief biography of John Dalton, scientist and weather pioneer who established the modern concept of atoms known as Dalton's Atomic Theory.
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