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Albert Ghiorso at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab holds the record for discovering the most of these

In MS-DOS, the .bak file extension meant the file was this type

An isohel on a weather map is a line showing connecting places with an equal amount of this

Eugene Dubois died in 1940 still believing his "Java Man" to be this legendary connector between man & ape

Sadly for science, when he was elected abbot in 1868 he had no more time for puttering around in the garden

In 1929 this Berkeley physicist bought a cabin in New Mexico; he'd spend lots of time in the state in the early '40s

In the 19th century Gerhard Hansen found out what causes this disease that goes back to Biblical times

Gottfried Leibniz likened this number system to God & the void

In 1925 this American anthropologist first visited Samoa; she wrote a book about it 3 years later

In 1909, after 7 years with the Swiss Patent Office, he became a professor at the University of Zurich