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Ahmed Zewail facts

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zewail-went-on-to-complete-a-post-doctoral-fellowship-at-the-university-of-california-berkley-before-accepting-a-professorship-at-the-california-institute-of-technology-in-1976
he-was-educated-through-college-at-alexandria-university-and-received-two-degrees-in-chemistry-before-moving-to-the-us-to-complete-his-doctorate-at-the-university-of-pennsylvania
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Adalbert Czerny facts

adalbert-czerny-was-born-in-a-town-in-poland-that-was-then-under-austrian-rule
adalbert-czernys-most-highly-regarded-published-work-deals-with-the-nutrition-of-newborns-and-nutrition-as-a-therapeutic-process-in-children-and-is-still-known-for-its-groundbreaking-work-today
adalbert-czerny-founded-the-international-school-of-pediatrics-to-help-train-doctors-in-the-field
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Agnes Arber facts

agnes-arber-was-one-of-four-children-born-to-painter-henry-robertson-and-as-such-learned-to-draw-at-an-early-age
agnes-arber-was-the-first-woman-to-receive-the-gold-medal-of-the-linnean-society-of-london-for-her-contributions-to-botanical-science
at-the-age-of-eight-arber-began-attending-the-north-london-collegiate-school-founded-and-run-by-frances-buss-one-of-the-leading-proponents-for-girls-education
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Al-Battani facts

abdallah-muhammad-ibn-jabir-ibn-sinan-al-battani-al-harrani-was-born-around-858-ce-in-harran
al-battani-discovered-that-the-direction-of-the-suns-apogee-as-recorded-by-ptolemy-was-changing
al-battani-calculated-the-values-for-the-precession-of-the-equinoxes-545-per-year-or-1-in-66-years-and-the-obliquity-of-the-ecliptic-23-35
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Leonardo DiCaprio facts

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Alan Turing facts

english-scientist-alan-turing-was-born-alan-mathison-turing-on-june-23-1912-in-maida-vale-london-england
after-the-second-world-war-he-worked-at-the-national-physical-laboratory-where-he-designed-the-ace-among-the-first-designs-for-a-stored-program-computer
in-1949-he-became-deputy-director-of-the-computing-machine-laboratory-there-working-on-software-for-one-of-the-earliest-stored-program-computersthe-manchester-mark-1
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Albert A. Michelson facts

in-1907-albert-a-michelson-had-the-honor-of-being-the-first-american-to-receive-a-nobel-prize-in-physics
albert-a-michelson-determined-that-the-speed-of-light-in-air-is-29986451-kilometers-per-second-and-that-the-speed-of-light-in-a-vacuum-is-299940-kms-or-186380-mis
in-1892-albert-a-michelson-was-appointed-professor-and-the-first-head-of-the-department-of-physics-at-the-newly-organized-university-of-chicago
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Alberto Santos-Dumont facts

alberto-santos-dumont-was-a-brazilian-aviation-engineer-who-designed-the-first-flight-worthy-dirigible
alberto-santos-dumont-was-educated-at-home-with-private-tutors-until-he-was-old-enough-to-attend-high-school-in-a-farther-city
one-of-alberto-santos-dumont-most-famous-planes-was-the-fixed-wing-14-bis-which-he-flew-under-its-own-takeoff-power-before-the-wright-brothers-developed-such-a-wheeled-system
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Albrecht von Haller facts

albrecht-von-haller-was-born-on-16th-october-1708-in-bern-switzerland
albrecht-von-haller-who-had-been-three-times-married-left-eight-children
albrecht-von-haller-was-appointed-professor-of-anatomy-surgery-and-botany-at-the-newly-found-university-of-gottingen-where-he-stayed-until-1753
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