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Fact |
Category |
Date |
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1021 |
Venus is the second planet from the sun. |
Science > Astronomy |
05/20/08 |
|
1022 |
Venus' axial tilt is 177.3 degrees, the reason for its seemingly retrograde rotation. |
Science > Astronomy |
11/08/11 |
|
1023 |
Vernon B. Mountcastle won the National Medal of Science in 1986. |
Science |
08/04/09 |
|
1024 |
Vesto Slipher won the Henry Draper Medal in 1932. |
Science |
07/28/09 |
|
1025 |
Victor A. McKusick won the National Medal of Science in 2001. |
Science |
08/06/09 |
|
1026 |
Victor Francis Hess and Carl David Anderson were awarded equal shares of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936. |
Science > Physics |
07/06/09 |
|
1027 |
Victor Grignard and Paul Sabatier both won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912. |
Science > Physics |
07/07/09 |
|
1028 |
Viktor Hamburger won the National Medal of Science in 1989. |
Science |
08/04/09 |
|
1029 |
Vincent du Vigneaud won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1955. |
Science > Chemistry |
07/25/09 |
|
1030 |
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003. |
Science > Physics |
07/13/09 |
|
1031 |
W is the symbol for the chemical element tungsten. |
Science > Chemistry |
06/11/08 |
|
1032 |
Walter H. Stockmayer won the National Medal of Science in 1987. |
Science |
08/08/09 |
|
1033 |
Walter Houser Brattain won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956. |
Science > Physics |
07/06/09 |
|
1034 |
Walter Rudolf Hess won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1949. |
Science |
07/17/09 |
|
1035 |
Walter Sydney Adams won the Henry Draper Medal in 1918. |
Science |
07/26/09 |
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