Fact 1
He received several awards for his work: the Copley Medal, the Wollaston Medal and the Clarke Medal.
Fact 2
At the age of 17 he attended Yale College and graduated three years later.
Fact 3
For two years, he taught math to officer cadets in the Navy after he graduated.
An English physicist who discovered the neutron.
Was a biologist from Germany known best for his work in evolution and his influential work in the history of science.
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences
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Antony Hewish FRS is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his work on the development of radio aperture synthesis and its role in the discovery of pulsars
Was a British lawyer and the leading geologist of his day.
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