Robert Norton Noyce

Robert Norton Noyce, nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He was born on December 12, 1927 and died on June 3, 1990. 

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Giovanni Giorgi

Giovanni Giorgi was born on 27 November 1871 and died on 19 August 1950. He was an Italian electrical engineer who invented the Giorgi system of measurement, the precursor to the International System (SI).

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Roberto Cavalli

Roberto Cavalli is an Italian fashion designer from Florence. He is known for detailed exotic prints and for creating the sand-blasted look for jeans which are now a standard style for the majority of jean makers. He was born on November 15, 1940.

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Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov

Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov is a Russian small arms designer, most famous for developing the AK-47, AKM, and AK-74 assault rifles. He was born on November 10, 1919.

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Jack William Szostak

Jack William Szostak was born November 9, 1952, he is a Canadian American biologist of Polish British descent and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol W. Greider, for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres.

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Edwin Herbert Hall

Edwin Herbert Hall was an American physicist who discovered the "Hall effect". He was born on November 7, 1855 and died on November 20, 1938. 

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James Naismith was born on November 6, 1861, he was a Canadian-American sports coach and innovator. He invented the sport of basketball in 1891 and he died on November 28, 1939.

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Nick Holonyak

Nick Holonyak invented the first practically useful visible LED in 1962 and has been called "the father of the light-emitting diode". He was born on November 3, 1928.

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Alfred Bernhard Nobel

Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. He was born on October 21, 1833. He was the inventor of dynamite and he died on December 10, 1896.

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Jacques Edwin Brandenberger

Jacques Edwin Brandenberger was a Swiss chemist and textile engineer who in 1908 invented cellophane(Cellophane is a thin, transparent sheet made of regenerated cellulose. Its low permeability to air, oils, greases, bacteria and water makes it useful for food packaging). He was born on October 19, 1872 and died on July 13, 1954.

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Father of refrigeration and air conditioning

John Gorrie was born on October 3, 1803. He was a physician, scientist, inventor, and humanitarian. He is considered the father of refrigeration and air conditioning. Born on the Island of Nevis to Scottish parents on October 3, 1803. He died on June 29, 1855.

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Emile Baudot

Jean-Maurice Emile Baudot September was born on 11, 1845, French telegraph engineer and inventor of the first means of digital communication Baudot code, was one of the pioneers of telecommunications. He died on March 28, 1903. 

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Steam engine innovator

Denis Papin was a French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the steam engine. He was born on 22 August 1647.

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Paul Kammerer

Paul Kammerer was born on August 17, 1880, he was an Austrian biologist who studied and advocated the now largely abandoned Lamarckian theory of inheritance(the notion that organisms may pass to their offspring characteristics they have acquired in their lifetime). He died on September 23, 1926. 

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Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt

Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt was Born on  August 16, 1832, he was a German physician, psychologist, physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. He died on August 31, 1920.

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Hans Christian Orsted

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Hans Christian Orsted was born on August 14, 1777 and he was a Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, an important aspect of electromagnetism. He died on March 9, 1851.

Ernest Orlando Lawrence

Ernest Orlando Lawrence was born August 8, 1901. He was an American physicist and Nobel Laureate, known for his invention, utilization, and improvement of the cyclotron atom-smasher beginning in 1929, based on his studies of the works of Rolf Widerøe, and his later work in uranium-isotope separation for the Manhattan Project.He died on August 27, 1958.

Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey

Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was born on August 7, 1903. He was a British archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa, particularly through his discoveries in the Olduvai Gorge. He died on October 1, 1972. 

 

Jesse Wilford Reno

Jesse Wilford Reno was born on August 4, 1861. He was invented the first working escalator in 1891 used at the Old Iron Pier, Coney Island, New York City. His invention was referred to as the "inclined elevator." He died on June 2, 1947.