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John Sappington
John S. Sappington (1776-1856) was an American physician known for developing a quinine pill to treat malarial and other fever diseases in the Missouri and Mississippi valleys, where the disease was widespread. He later used the pill to prevent malaria. Because he both manufactured and sold "Dr. Sappington's Anti-Fever Pills", he became wealthy from his bestseller. From Maryland and Tennessee,
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Joseph Larmor
Sir Joseph Larmor FRS FRSE DCL LLD[1] (11 July 1857 – 19 May 1942) was an Irish[2] physicist and mathematician who made innovations in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter. His most influential work was Aether and Matter, a theoretical physics book published in 1900. He was born in Magheragall in County Antrim the son of Hugh Larmor,
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Bennett Ratliff
Bennett Ratliff (born August 18, 1961)[1] is a civil engineer and small business owner in Coppell, Texas , and served as a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 115 in Dallas County in the 83rd Session.[2] Born in Fort Worth, Ratliff is a son of former State Senator and Lieutenant Governor Bill Ratliff of Mount Pleasant in Titus County in northeastern Texas. Hi
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Ralph Alger Bagnold
Ralph Alger Bagnold, OBE,[1] FRS,[2] (3 April 1896 – 28 May 1990) was an English 20th-century desert explorer, geologist and soldier. In 1932, he staged the first recorded East-to-West crossing of the Libyan Desert. His work in the field of Aeolian processes was the basis for the book The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes, establishing the discipline of aeolian geomorphology, combining f
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Richard Garwin
Richard Lawrence Garwin (born April 19, 1928) is an United States physicist, widely known to be the author of the first hydrogen bomb design.[1][2] Garwin received his bachelor's degree from the Case Institute of Technology in 1947, and two years later his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago under the supervision of Enrico Fermi at the age of 21. Another of Fermi's students, Marvin L. Goldbe
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Edward Adrian Wilson
Edward Adrian Wilson FZS (23 July 1872 – 29 March 1912) was an English polar explorer, ornithologist, natural historian, physician and artist. Born in Cheltenham on 23 July 1872, Wilson was the second son and fifth child of physician Edward Thomas Wilson and his wife, Mary Agnes, née Whishaw.[1] A clever, sensitive, but boisterous boy, he developed a love of the countryside, natural histo
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Erich Schumann
Erich Schumann (5 January 1898 – 25 April 1985) was a Germany physicist who specialized in acoustics and explosives, and had a penchant for music. He was a general officer in the army and a professor at the University of Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin. When Adolf Hitler came to power he joined the Nazi Party. During World War II, his positions in the Army Ordnance Office and the
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Frederick Wollaston Hutton
Captain Frederick Wollaston Hutton, FRS, (16 November 1836 – 27 October 1905) was an English-New Zealand scientist who applied the theory of natural selection to explain the origins and nature of the natural history of New Zealand. An army officer in early life, he then had an academic career in geology and biology. He became one of the most able and prolific nineteenth century naturalists of
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Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky
Wolfgang Kurt Hermann "Pief" Panofsky (April 24, 1919 – September 24, 2007), was a German-American physicist who won many awards including the National Medal of Science. Panofsky was born in Berlin, Germany to a family of art historians Dorothea and Erwin Panofsky. His ancestors were of Jewish descent. He spent much of his early life in Hamburg, where his father was a Professor of Art Histo
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George Catlin
Sir George Edward Gordon Catlin (26 July 1896 – 7 February 1979)[1] was an English political scientist and philosopher. A strong proponent of Anglo-American co-operation, he worked for many years as a professor at Cornell University and other universities and colleges in the United States and Canada. He preached the use of a natural science model for political science. McMaster University Libr
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