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DatasetsMarconi scientists' deaths, 1982–1990Newspaper OCR search for the Marconi names: The Times 1982–90, Financial Times 1986–89, Guardian and Telegraph 1985–86
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Newspaper OCR search for the Marconi names: The Times 1982–90, Financial Times 1986–89, Guardian and Telegraph 1985–86

Raw hits from searching archive.org's OCR text of UK newspaper scans for the names on the lists, with the scripts that ran it.

MYS0DGG4XJWG8C3 · mystery · click to copy
Marconi scientists' deaths, 1982–1990
Version 1.0Licence CC BY 4.0 (scripts); excerpts © their publishersUpdated 3 Nov 2026

Use it

import pandas as pd

url = "https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0DGG961MG5FH/newspaper-ocr-search-for-the-marconi-names-the-times-198290/v1.0.txt"
tokens = pd.read_csv(url)
tokens.head()

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