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Avila, Charles F.
Charles Francis Avila was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, 17 September 1906. His facility for resolving seemin...

Babcock, George
George Babcock (1832-1893), an American inventor and mechanic who, along with Stephen Wilcox, invented an impr...

Bloch, Erich
Erich Bloch was confirmed by the Senate to be Director of the National Science Foundation ...

Brush, Charles F.
Charles Francis Brush , an American pioneer in the commercial ...

Cisternay Du Fay, Charles François de
Charles François de Cisternay Du Fay (1698-1739), French chemist who discovered that electrical charges have ...

De Forest, Lee
Lee de Forest (1873 1961), an American inventor who devised the first vacuum tube, a device that amplifies...

Doppler, Christian Andreas
Christian Andreas Doppler (1803-1853), Austrian physicist who first described how the observed frequency of li...

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