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On this day in 1919 – November 1st – Anglo-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist Hermann Bondi was born in Vienna, Austria.

Bondi was a distinguished academic and Fellow of the Royal Society. Among many positions outside academia, from 1967-1971, he served as Director-General of the European Space Research Organisation (ESRO) which later became the European Space Agency, (ESA).

Mona Evans
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