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The Cassini-Huygens space probe was launched by NASA on Oct. 15, 1997, bound for Saturn. The probe was named after two of the early pioneers in the...

Chuck Yeager, an American test pilot, was born as Charles Elwood Yeager on Feb. 13, 1923, in Myra, West Virginia. He learned to fly in World War II...

Mary Henrietta Kingsley, an English traveler to West Africa, was born Oct. 13, 1862, in London.

Gabriele Falloppio, an Italian anatomist, died Oct. 9, 1562, in Padua, where he was professor of anatomy, following in the footsteps ...

Clemens Winkler, a German chemist, died on Oct. 8, 1904, in Dresden, at the age of 65. Winkler was born in 1838 in Freiberg in what was then Saxony...

Mario Molina, a Mexican physical and atmospheric chemist, died on Oct. 7, 2020, in Mexico City, where he has been born 77 years earlier, on Mar. 19...

George Westinghouse, an American machinist, inventor, entrepreneur, and manufacturer, was born Oct. 6, 1846, in Central Bridge, New York, whose...

Robert Hutchings Goddard, an American physicist and rocket pioneer, was born Oct. 5, 1882, in Worcester, Mass.  Goddard was the first American to...

Peter Brian Medawar, a biologist and writer, died on Oct. 2, 1987, at the age of 72, in London. He had been born in Brazil in 1915, the offspring...

Edwin Henry Landseer, a painter, sculptor, and animalier, died on Oct. 1, 1873, in London, at the age of 71. The son of an etcher, he was a child...

Michael Maestlin, a German astronomer, was born on Sep. 30, 1550, in Göppingen, near Stuttgart, in southern Germany. He studied with Philipp Apian...

Walther Hermann Ryff, a German writer about surgery, architecture, and machines, was born about 1500 in Strasbourg, and died on Sep. 29, 1548...