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Gaetano Faillace was born in New York City, New York back in 1904 to Marcello and Francesca. I have searched the world wide web and could not find anything about his early upbringing/education or other data.What I can tell you is that he joined the United States Army and saw action during WWII. H...
11/30/2019
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Kamal al-Din al-Farisi was born in Persia back in circa 1267. There is not much written about him so this one is going to be short. He is noted for a number of important contribution to the number theory concerning factorization and combinatorial methods. However, that is something that is way be...
11/29/2019
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David Grandlson Fairchild was born in Lansing, Michigan back in 1869. He graduated from the Kansas State College of Agriculture in 1888. He continued his studies at Iowa State, Rutgers and Oberlin College where he received his D.Sc. in 1915. After graduation, he worked for the US Department of Ag...
11/29/2019
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Anthony James Fairbrother was born in Coventry, England back in 1926. He was educated at Bablake School and at the Melton Mowbray Grammar School. He continued his education at the e Havilland Aeronautical Technical School. After graduation, he worked in the design and aerodynamics depart for de H...
11/28/2019
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Jacob Fahlstrom was born in Stockholm, Sweden back in 1785. When he was 14 he took a job as a cabin boy on a ship owned by his uncle. The same year he was involved in a shipwreck off the coast of England. He made his way to London where he signed up with Lord Selkirk’s expedition to Hudson Bay.On...
11/27/2019
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Federico Faggin was born in Vicenza, Italy back in 1941. He graduated for the I.T.I.S. in Vicenza when he was 19. He graduated from the University of Padua, Italy with a degree in physics, summa cum laude. After graduation, he taught the electronics laboratory course for the 3rd, year physics stu...
11/26/2019
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Maurice Paul Auguste Charles Fabry was born in Marseille, France back in 1867. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris afterward receiving his doctorate from the University of Paris in 1892. His specialty was in optics and spectroscopy. In 1904, he was appointed Professor of Physics at...
11/25/2019
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Evelyn Stone was born in Corbin, Kentucky back in 1909. She graduated from Tennessee Wesleyan College. After graduation, she taught school in Etowah, Tennessee before attending the University of Tennessee. She married Wyatt while he was serving in the Army Air Corps in 1944. When Wyatt died in 19...
11/24/2019
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Henri Fabre was born in Marseille, France back in 1882. Sorry I could not find anything about his family or upbringing. He attended the Jesuit College of Marseilles studying in advanced sciences. After graduation, he studied airplane and propeller designs. In 1910 patented something he had invent...
11/23/2019
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Evelyn Berezin was born in the East Bronx back in 1925. She attended Christopher Columbus High School, then to Hunter College in 1941. During WWII, she studied physics at New York University and at Brooklyn Polytech. She worked full-time at the International Printing Company while attending colle...
11/22/2019