• Jerry Earl Nelson (January 15, 1944 – June 10, 2017) was an American astronomer known for his pioneering work designing segmented mirror telescopes, which...
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    Driver "Pinky" Nelson (born July 13, 1950) is an American physicist, astronomer, science educator, and retired NASA astronaut. Nelson was born on July...
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  • Jeremy Nelson, American visual artist Jermy Nelson (born 1994), Jamaican footballer Jerry Nelson (1934–2012), American puppeteer Jerry Nelson (astronomer) (1944–2017)...
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    Michael George Goodspaceguy Nelson. Outside of politics, Goodspaceguy describes himself as "an amateur economist and astronomer." In his 2010 campaign profile...
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  • anthropologist Jim Kent, bioinformatician Michael Nauenberg, physicist Jerry Nelson, astronomer Ted Taylor, theoretical physicist with a focus on nuclear energy and...
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    Marnay, who produced Dion's first five albums, and Nelson Angélil after former South African president Nelson Mandela. Angélil and Dion were huge fans of the...
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    John Nelson Robin Stockwell (10 April 1832 in Northampton, Massachusetts – 18 May 1920 in Shaker Heights, Ohio) was an American astronomer and mathematician...
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  • Hill Kay, law professor and academic administrator (b. 1934) Jerry Nelson, astronomer (b. 1944) Grace Berg Schaible, lawyer and politician (b. 1925) Samuel...
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    works, but which now began to develop new ideas. In 850, the Abbasid astronomer Al-Farghani wrote Kitab fi Jawami ("A compendium of the science of stars")...
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    The Nelson Monument is a commemorative tower in honour of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, located in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is situated on top of Calton...
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    the capital cities of Luoyang and Chang'an, he achieved success as an astronomer, mathematician, seismologist, hydraulic engineer, inventor, geographer...
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  • Nelson Peery (June 22, 1923 – September 6, 2015) was an American political activist and author. Peery spent over 60 years in the revolutionary movement...
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  • Professor Haley Blaster Blues John Stephenson Professor Haley is an elderly astronomer. Like all scientists, he wears a white lab coat. He created the Voltronic...
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  • David Nelson (died 20 July 1789) was gardener-botanist on the third voyage of James Cook, and botanist on HMS Bounty under William Bligh at the time of...
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    the same artist; a very large sundial designed by the astronomer Dandrel, in the jardin Nelson-Mandela (formerly the Jardin des Halles), above the Forum...
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    Ulugh Beg (category Astronomers of the medieval Islamic world)
    22 March 1394 – 27 October 1449), was a Timurid sultan, as well as an astronomer and mathematician. Ulugh Beg was notable for his work in astronomy-related...
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  • James Stanley Hey (category People from Nelson, Lancashire)
    MBE (3 May 1909 – 27 February 2000) was an English physicist and radio astronomer. With the targeted application of radar technology for astronomical research...
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  • Ahmad Nahavandi (category 9th-century Iranian astronomers)
    احمد نهاوندى), also called al-Nahawandi, was an 8th/9th century Persian astronomer. His name indicates that he was from Nahavand, now in modern Iran. Al-Nahawandi...
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    p. 305. Miller 1962, p. 27 Reynolds 1995, p. 352 Reynolds 1995, p. 311. Nelson, Randy F. (1981). The Almanac of American Letters. Los Altos, California:...
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    Giuseppe Donatiello (born 14 December 1967) is an Italian amateur astronomer. He is primarily known as the discoverer of eleven nearby dwarf galaxies in...
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  • Declan Recks Ian Jarvis 6 January 2023 (2023-01-06) 7.70 As a group of astronomers witness a rare stellar event on a cliff, one of the group falls to his...
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  • administratively on Comandante Ferraz station. It and Refuge Astronomer Cruls, located on Nelson Island, constitute the basic infrastructure to support the...
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  • Refuge Astronomer Cruls (Portuguese: Refúgio Astrônomo Cruls) is a Brazilian Antarctic summer facility named after astronomer Luis Cruls who set up an...
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  • Albert F. A. L. Jones (category People from Nelson, New Zealand)
    and in a car assembly factory. He died in Nelson, New Zealand, in 2013. In 1963 he became the sixth astronomer in history to make 100,000 observations of...
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  • economist Stanley Nelson, documentary filmmaker Lee Ann Newsom, paleoethnobotanist Daniela L. Rus, computer scientist Charles C. Steidel, astronomer Brian Tucker...
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    (c. 1702 – 23 August 1755) was a Scottish person who was active as an astronomer, merchant, mathematician, judge, politician and planter. Born in Scotland...
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  • on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB). Until his death in 2016, German astronomer Lutz D. Schmadel compiled these citations into the Dictionary of Minor...
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  • an homage to 1950s sci-fi movies, Dr. Thomas Becker (Troy Donahue), an astronomer, is upset that graduate student Paula (Belle Avery) hasn't been to his...
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    mathematics, formed part of the Fatih Mosque. It was founded by the Turkic astronomer Ali Qushji who had been invited by Mehmed to his court in Istanbul. The...
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  • Who's Who, "Press Release: Edward John Groth III Presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award" (January 31, 2020) Princeton University...
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