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Discover the people who shaped the world — and the extraordinary stories that inspire us to shape what comes next.

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Notable people

Georg Simon Ohm, Physicists
Georg Simon Ohm
German physicist
Steve Wozniak, Computer scientists
Steve Wozniak
American engineer and inventor
John D. Rockefeller, Business & industry
John D. Rockefeller
Business & industry
Pieter Zeeman, Physicists
Pieter Zeeman
Dutch physicist
William Henry Bragg, Physicists
William Henry Bragg
British physicist
Tennessee Williams, Playwrights
Tennessee Williams
Playwrights
Humphry Davy, Chemists
Humphry Davy
British chemist
Maria Göppert Mayer, Physicists
Maria Göppert Mayer
German-American physicist
Gustave Eiffel, Engineers
Gustave Eiffel
Engineers
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, Physicists
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
French physicist
Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Physicists
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Dutch physicist
Hedy Lamarr, Inventors
Hedy Lamarr
Inventors
Alfred North Whitehead, Philosophers
Alfred North Whitehead
English mathematician and philosopher
Claudia Sheinbaum, Political leaders
Claudia Sheinbaum
President of Mexico
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Physicists
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist
Lev Landau, Physicists
Lev Landau
Soviet physicist
James Chadwick, Physicists
James Chadwick
English physicist
Philipp Lenard, Physicists
Philipp Lenard
German physicist
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Chemists
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Dutch chemist
Louis de Broglie, Physicists
Louis de Broglie
French physicist
Edmond Halley, Mathematicians
Edmond Halley
English astronomer
Theophrastus, Biologists
Theophrastus
Ancient Greek botanist
Sergey Brin, Computer scientists
Sergey Brin
American computer scientist
Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Inventors
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
American inventor