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Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist who formulated the period…
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Michael Faraday
English scientist whose discoveries in el…
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Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand-born physicist regarded as th…
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Enrico Fermi
Italian-American physicist who built the…
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Omar Khayyám
Persian polymath whose geometric solution…
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David Hilbert
German mathematician whose 23 problems an…
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Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian theoretical physicist who founde…
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Alexander Graham Bell
Scottish-born scientist and inventor wide…
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James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist whose equations unifie…
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James Watt
Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer…
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Wilhelm Röntgen
German physicist who discovered X-rays an…
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Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist whose Feyn…
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Heraclitus
Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of Ephesus…
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Carl Sagan
American astronomer and author who became…
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James Prescott Joule
English physicist whose experiments estab…
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Henri Poincaré
French mathematician and theoretical phys…
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Pierre Curie
French physicist whose research on piezoe…
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Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and electrical engineer…
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Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist widely regarded as the fat…
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Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor,…
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Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer who a…
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Paul Dirac
British theoretical physicist who helped…
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John von Neumann
Hungarian-American polymath whose work re…
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Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astron…
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