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Ozzy Osbourne

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Every single one of his solo albums (of original material) has gone multi-platinum. Honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on April 12th, 2002. Formed a band ...

Sarah Geronimo

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Sarah's first music lessons came from her father. Sarah Geronimo would have her practice everyday to develop her singing prowess. Sarah first sang on stage at age two at ...

Prince

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From his early material, rooted in R&B, soul and funk, Prince has expanded his musical palette throughout his career, absorbing many other genres including New Wave, ...

Margot Kidder

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The film made branded Margot as a major talent, and in the following years Margot Kidder starred in a string of critically acclaimed pictures, such as Black Christmas (19 ...

Layne Staley

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During the band's appearance on MTV Unplugged, Staley was visibly weak and emaciated and had problems singing at times, including stopping songs due to forgetting the wor ...

Marisa Tomei

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In 1996, Tomei made a guest appearance on the sitcom Seinfeld, playing herself in "The Cadillac, Part 1" and "2". Marisa Tomei has also made an appear ...

Salma Hayek

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The amazing Salma Hayek was born on September 2, 1966, in the oil boomtown of Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. Hayek has freely admitted that Salma Hayek and her brother, Sami, wer ...

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

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Leaving for New York, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio took part in "West Side Story" in 1981. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio also made it into movies, starring alongsi ...

Valeria Golino

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The second child of an Italian germanist and a Greek painter. Golino obtained her first starring role in 1985's Little Fires and won the Best Actress Award at the Venice ...

Madonna

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Madonna made her acting debut with the low-budget film A Certain Sacrifice (1979) and went on to star in the 1985 box office hit Desperately Seeking Susan. Madonna has st ...

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Ernst Karl Abbe

Ernst_Karl_Abbe Ernst Karl Abbe biography: 1840 - Born on the 23th of January in Eisenach, Germany.  1861 - Studied physics and mathematics as an undergraduate at the University of Jena and went to graduate school at the University of Gottingen, where Ernst Karl Abbe received a doctorate in thermodynamics. 1863 - Ernst Karl Abbe jo ...

Philip Hauge Abelson

Philip_Hauge_Abelson Philip Hauge Abelson biography: 1913 - Born on the 27th 0f April  in Tacoma, Washington.1939 - Philip Hauge Abelson was among the first American scientists to verfiy Nuclear Fission in an            article submitted to the Physical Review in February.1940 - Philip Hauge Abelson was the ...

Max Abraham

Max_Abraham Max Abraham biography: 1875 - Max Abraham was born on the 26th of March in Danzig, Germany.1897 - Max Abraham studied under Max Planck and Max Abraham graduated.1900 - Max Abraham worked as Planck's assistant.        - Max Abraham worked at Gottingen as a privatdozent, an unpaid lecturin ...

Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov

Alexei_Alexeyevich_Abrikosov Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov biography:  1928 - Born on the 25th of June in Moscow, Russian.1948 - Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov graduated from the Moscow State University.       - Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov worked in the Institute for Physical Problems of the USSR Academy       ...

Harold Melvin Agnew

Harold_Melvin_Agnew Harold Melvin Agnew biography: 1921 - Agnew was born in Denver, Colorado. 1942 - Received his Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from the University of Denver and joined Fermi's research group at Chicago.  1946-1949 - Returned to Chicago to finish his graduate studies and received his Ph.D. under Fermi's direction. 1955 ...

Zhores Ivanovich Alferov

Zhores_Ivanovich_Alferov Zhores Ivanovich Alferov biography: 1930 - Alferov was born in Vitebsk, Belarus, USSR on the 15th of March. 1952 - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov graduated from the Department of Electronics of V.I. Ulyanov Electrotechnical Institute in Leningrad. 1953 - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov was a staff member of the Physico-Technical Institut ...

Luis Walter Alvarez

Luis_Walter_Alvarez Luis Walter Alvarez biography: 1911 - Born on the 13th of June in San Francisco, California. An American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for work that included the discovery of many resonance particles. 1932 - Luis Walter Alvarez received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University o ...

Carl David Anderson

Carl_David_Anderson Carl David Anderson biography: 1905 - Born on September 3rd in New York, New York. American physicist who, with Victor Francis Hess of Austria, won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the positron, or positive electron, the first known particle of antimatter.1930 - Anderson received his Ph.D. from the California Inst ...

Philip Warren Anderson

Philip_Warren_Anderson Philip Warren Anderson biography: 1923 - Born on December 13th in Indianapolis, Indiana. American physicist and corecipient, with John H. Van Vleck and Sir Nevill F. Mott, of the Nobel Prize for Physics for his research on semiconductors, superconductivity, and magnetism.1949 - Educated at Harvard University, Anderson received his d ...

Anders Jonas Angstrom

Anders_Jonas_Angstrom Anders Jonas Angstrom biography: 1814 - Born on the 13th of August in Sweden.1839 - Anders Jonas Angstrom was educated at Uppsala University, where Anders Jonas Angstrom became docent in physics. 1842 - Anders Jonas Angstrom went to the Stockholm Observatory in order to gain experience in practical astronomical work, and in the fol ...

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