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Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger (30 September 1882 – 24 September 1945) was a German physicist. He is best known as the co-inventor of the detector component of the Geiger counter and for the Geiger–Marsden experiment which discovered the atomic nucleus. He was the brother of meteorologist and climatologist Rudolf Geiger.
Wolverine is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, mostly in association with the X-Men.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C for short) is the committee for the standardization of techniques in the World Wide Web. It was founded by Tim Berners Lee on 1 October 1994.
Captain John Price, callsign Bravo Six, is a British special forces soldier and a protagonist of the Modern Warfare franchise
Sir William Ramsay (2 October 1852 – 23 July 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air".
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 to support the free software movement, which promotes the universal freedom to study, distribute, create, and modify computer software,[4] with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft ("share alike") terms,[5] such as with its own GNU General Public License.
On 4 October 1957, Sputnik 1 was the first artificial earth satellite in orbit and is regarded as the starting signal for Soviet space travel.
Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Since 1996, he has been the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City.
Maniac Mansion is a 1987 graphic adventure video game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games. It follows teenage protagonist Dave Miller as he attempts to rescue his girlfriend from a mad scientist, whose mind has been enslaved by a sentient meteor.
The 6th of October is all about hats and a literary figure who has a close relationship to these garments. In concrete terms, this date is celebrated in the United States as the so-called Day of the Crazy Hatmaker.
Man is already a strange animal. While some of them jump out of bed in a good mood right after waking up, others are simply not usable during the first hours of the day or hardly approachable. The latter group is therefore popularly referred to as the affectionately mockingly morning muffle.
Susan Alexandra "Sigourney" Weaver (born October 8, 1949) is an American actress. Dubbed "the Sci-Fi Queen", Weaver is considered to be a pioneer of action heroines in science fiction films. She is primarily known for her role as Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise.
Guillermo del Toro Gómez (born October 9, 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker, author, actor, and former special effects makeup artist.