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Charles Babbage (1791- 1871)
A biography from the BBC of Charles Babbage, who invented a machine that could perform some mathematical calculations to twenty decimal places and paved the way for the modern computer.
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Charles Augustin de Coulomb
Charles Augustin de Coulomb (1736 - 1806) developed a theory of attraction and repulsion between bodies of the same and opposite electrical charge. He demonstrated an inverse square law for such ...
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Charles Glover Barkla
Charles Glover Barkla (1877 - 1944) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1917 for his comprehensive research into the nature of radiation, in particular secondary radiation.
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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869 - 1959) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927 for his discovery of the expansion method of rendering visible the tracks of electrically charged particles.
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Charles Hard Townes
Charles Hard Townes (1911 - ) received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1964 along with Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov and Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov for the invention of the maser and the laser. ...
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Charles-Edouard Guillaume
Charles-Edouard Guillaume (1861 - 1938). A chance observation by Guillaume on the coefficient of expansion of nickel-iron alloys led to a systematic investigation of a whole series of alloys and the ...
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The Babbage Pages: Biography
An interesting biography, written with a human interest slant, of Charles Babbage who played a key role in the invention of computers.
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Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov
Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov (1911 - ) received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1964 along with Charles Hard Townes and Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov for the invention of the maser and the laser. ...
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