Christoph Scheiner was one of the discoverers of sunspots and discovered the rotation of the sun on its axis.

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Sirna has been in the news of late because Andrew Fire and Craig Mello, the discoverers of the technology upon which Sirna's drugs are based--RNA interference, or RNAi-- won a Nobel Prize for medicine last month.

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LGM1, because its discoverers half wondered whether they had come across the first trace of little green men in outer space.

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