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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

Albert Abraham Michelson, Physicists
Albert Abraham Michelson
American physicist
Thomas Robert Malthus, Economists
Thomas Robert Malthus
Economists
John Forbes Nash, Mathematicians
John Forbes Nash
Mathematicians
Edwin Hubble, Astronomers
Edwin Hubble
Astronomers
Robert Andrews Millikan, Physicists
Robert Andrews Millikan
American physicist
Wolfgang Pauli, Physicists
Wolfgang Pauli
Physicists
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Engineers
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian rocket scientist
Dorothy Hodgkin, Chemists
Dorothy Hodgkin
British chemist
Svante August Arrhenius, Astronomers
Svante August Arrhenius
Swedish physical chemist
Harriet Tubman, Activists & reformers
Harriet Tubman
Activists & reformers
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Mathematicians
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Italian-French mathematician
Robert Hooke, Physicists
Robert Hooke
English polymath
Steve Wozniak, Computer scientists
Steve Wozniak
American engineer and inventor
Georg Simon Ohm, Physicists
Georg Simon Ohm
German physicist
Larry Page, Business & industry
Larry Page
American computer scientist
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
Humphry Davy, Chemists
Humphry Davy
British chemist
Maria Göppert Mayer, Physicists
Maria Göppert Mayer
German-American physicist
Tennessee Williams, Playwrights
Tennessee Williams
Playwrights
Gustave Eiffel, Engineers
Gustave Eiffel
Engineers
Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Physicists
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Dutch physicist
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, Physicists
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
French physicist