Template:Are You Sure/February 20
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• ... that the Soviet Union's Mir spacecraft orbited the Earth for 15 years, and was occupied for ten of those years?
• ... that physicist and academic Laura Bassi championed Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy in Italy?
• ... that physicist and academic Maria Goeppert-Mayer developed a mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells, for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963, which she shared with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner?
• ... that geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan pioneered the study of what is now known as biological circadian rhythms?