LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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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