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Fact |
Category |
Date |
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1 |
Alfred Nobel was the inventor of dynamite. |
People > Scientists |
06/03/08 |
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2 |
Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, an antibiotic that kills bacteria. |
People > Scientists |
06/15/08 |
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3 |
In 1901, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen. |
People > Scientists |
06/21/08 |
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4 |
Hipparchus was a Greek astronomer. |
People > Scientists |
08/17/08 |
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5 |
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, had a deaf wife and mother. |
People > Scientists |
03/13/09 |
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6 |
Richard Feynman, famous for his work on the Manhattan Project (in which the first atomic bomb was developed), was a member of the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. |
People > Scientists |
04/10/09 |
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7 |
Stephen Hawking, famous for his work in theoretical physics in spite of a severe handicap which confines him to a wheelchair, has appeared on the television show "Star Trek: The Next Generation", playing a hologram of himself. |
People > Scientists |
04/11/09 |
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8 |
Isaac Newton quantified gravitation mathematically, creating a formula for the gravitational attraction between any two bodies. |
People > Scientists |
04/11/09 |
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9 |
Albert Einstein published (his) General Theory of Relativity in 1916. |
People > Scientists |
06/11/09 |
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10 |
Ronald Ross won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1902. |
People > Scientists |
07/12/09 |
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11 |
Emil von Behring won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1901. |
People > Scientists |
07/12/09 |
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12 |
Niels Ryberg Finsen won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1903. |
People > Scientists |
07/13/09 |
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13 |
Emil Theodor Kocher won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1909. |
People > Scientists |
07/13/09 |
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14 |
Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsberry, England on February 12, 1809 at his family home, the Mount. |
People > Scientists |
01/08/11 |
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15 |
Charles Darwin had ten children. |
People > Scientists |
04/18/11 |
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