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Adelle Davis was a popular yet controversial American writer and nutritionist. She focused on the lack of proper nutrition in an average processed food American diet and advocated eating natural foods and vitamins supplements. Adelle Davis coined the well-known phrase, “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.”
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Archimedes was an ancient Greek mathematician and inventor. After studying in Alexandria, Archimedes returned to Syracuse. He wrote many works to explain his discoveries. Archimedes’ most-famous ideas include his explanations of how levers and pulleys can lift and move heavy objects.
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David Attenborough is an English broadcaster, writer and naturalist. He is best-known for his work on educational television programmes. He was knighted in 1985 and has won many other awards for his work, including dozens of honorary degrees from universities.
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Steve Jones is a geneticist and a world expert on the genetics of snails and has also studied evolution in fruit flies and humans. He is also most widely known as a highly successful broadcaster and writer.
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On 18th May 1991, Dr. Helen Sharman became Britain’s first astronaut in space and the first woman to visit the Mir space station, beating out 13,000 hopefuls after responding to a radio ad requesting ‘Astronaut Applications. No experience necessary’ for Project Juno.
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Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician and astronomer. He is well known for his work on the laws of motion, optics, gravity, and calculus.
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John Walker was a chemist at 59 High Street, in Stockton-on-Tees. He discovered that if he coated the end of a stick with certain chemicals and let them dry, he could start a fire by striking the stick anywhere.
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Marie Curie was a Polish physicist, chemist, and feminist. She researched radioactivity. She was the first woman professor at the University of Paris. She was also the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win two Nobel Prizes.
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Neil Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who became the first person to walk on the Moon in 1969. As he stepped onto the Moon’s dusty surface, he spoke the now famous words, “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor.
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Ruth Mary Rogan Benerito was an American chemist and inventor. She is best known for developing wrinkle-free cotton fabric. Benerito also invented a fat mixture that could provide nutrients through the veins of patients who could not eat.
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Lord Robert Winston is a British professor, medical doctor, scientist and television presenter. He pioneered new treatments and surgical techniques to improve fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF). He is well known to many as the presenter of several BBC television series, which include The Human Body, Superhuman, and Child of Our Time.
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Spencer Silver was a senior scientist working to develop new classes of adhesives at 3M when he discovered an acrylic adhesive with unique properties. Arthur Fry, a researcher at 3M, learned of the adhesive several years later. He coated paper with it and made repositionable notes, and the concept of Post-it® Notes was created.
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Tim Peake is the first British ESA astronaut, the second astronaut to bear a flag of the United Kingdom patch (following Helen Sharman), the sixth person born in the United Kingdom to go on board the International Space Station, and the seventh UK-born person in space.