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Alexander von Humboldt facts

alexander-von-humboldt-was-a-prussian-explorer-geographer-and-naturalist
alexander-von-humboldts-quantitative-work-on-botanical-geography-laid-the-foundation-for-the-field-of-biogeography
alexander-von-humboldt-was-elected-to-the-prussian-academy-of-sciences-in-1805
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Alexandre Brongniart facts

alexandre-brongniart-was-born-in-paris-the-son-of-the-architect-alexandre-theodore-brongniart-and-father-of-the-botanist-adolphe-theodore-brongniart
alexandre-brongniart-introduced-a-new-classification-of-reptiles-and-wrote-several-treatises-on-mineralogy-and-the-ceramic-arts
in-1823-alexandre-brongniart-was-elected-a-foreign-member-of-the-royal-swedish-academy-of-sciences
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Alfred Binet facts

alfred-binet-was-a-french-psychologist-who-invented-the-first-practical-iq-test-the-binet-simon-test
in-1884-alfred-binet-got-married-to-laure-balbiani-the-daughter-of-the-famous-embryologist-edouard-gerard-balbiani
alfred-binet-had-done-a-series-of-experiments-to-see-how-well-chess-players-played-when-blindfolded
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Alfred Blalock facts

alfred-blalock-was-born-in-culloden-georgia-the-son-of-martha-mattie-davis-and-george-zadock-blalock-a-merchant
alfred-blalock-was-nominated-several-times-for-the-prestigious-nobel-prize-in-medicine
in-1944-alfred-blalock-with-thomas-by-his-side-performed-the-first-blue-baby-operation-on-eileen-saxon-a-15-month-old-baby
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Alfred Kinsey facts

alfred-kinsey-was-born-on-june-23-1894-in-hoboken-new-jersey-the-son-of-sarah-ann-nee-charles-and-alfred-seguine-kinsey
alfred-kinsey-work-has-influenced-social-and-cultural-values-in-the-united-states-as-well-as-internationally
alfred-kinsey-was-bisexual-he-and-his-wife-agreed-that-both-could-have-sex-with-other-people-as-well-as-with-each-other
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Alfred Nobel facts

alfred-bernhard-nobel-was-a-swedish-chemist-engineer-inventor-businessman-and-philanthropist
though-alfred-nobel-remained-unmarried-his-biographers-note-that-he-had-at-least-three-loves
alfred-nobel-held-355-different-patents-dynamite-being-the-most-famous
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Alfred Russel Wallace facts

alfred-russel-was-a-british-naturalist-explorer-geographer-anthropologist-and-biologist
alfred-russel-wallace-had-financial-difficulties-throughout-much-of-his-life
in-1854-aged-31-he-set-off-on-a-new-voyage-to-malaysia-singapore-indonesia-and-new-guinea
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Alfred Wegener facts

alfred-lothar-wegener-was-a-german-polar-researcher-geophysicist-and-meteorologist
alfred-wegener-was-delighted-to-be-appointed-as-the-official-meteorologist-for-the-danmark-scientific-expedition-to-the-worlds-largest-island-greenland
alfred-wegener-an-astronomer-who-had-become-a-meteorologist-encountered-vigorous-resistance-to-his-ideas-from-a-large-majority-of-geologists
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Amedeo Avogadro facts

lorenzo-romano-amedeo-carlo-avogadro-count-of-quaregna-and-cerreto-was-an-italian-scientist
in-honor-of-amedeo-avogadros-contributions-to-molecular-theory-the-number-of-molecules-in-one-mole-was-named-avogadros-number-na-or-avogadros-constant
amedeo-avogadro-is-hailed-as-a-founder-of-the-atomic-molecular-theory
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Anaximander facts

anaximander-was-a-pre-socratic-greek-philosopher-who-lived-in-miletus-a-city-of-ionia-in-modern-day-turkey
in-physics-anaximander-postulation-that-the-indefinite-or-apeiron-was-the-source-of-all-things-led-greek-philosophy-to-a-new-level-of-conceptual-abstraction
anaximanders-theories-were-influenced-by-the-greek-mythical-tradition-and-by-some-ideas-of-thales-the-father-of-philosophy-as-well-as-by-observations-made-by-older-civilizations-in-the-east
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Anders Celsius facts

anders-celsius-was-a-swedish-astronomer-physicist-and-mathematician
anders-celsius-studied-at-uppsala-university-where-his-father-was-a-teacher-and-in-1730-he-too-became-a-professor-of-astronomy-there
in-1730-anders-celsius-published-the-nova-methodus-distantiam-solis-a-terra-determinandi-new-method-for-determining-the-distance-from-the-earth-to-the-sun
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André-Marie Ampère facts

andre-marie-ampere-was-a-french-physicist-and-mathematician
andre-marie-ampere-took-his-first-regular-job-in-1799-as-a-mathematics-teacher
after-the-death-of-his-wife-in-july-1803-andre-marie-ampere-moved-to-paris-where-he-began-a-tutoring-post-at-the-new-ecole-polytechnique-in-1804
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