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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

Hedy Lamarr, Inventors
Hedy Lamarr
Inventors
Claudia Sheinbaum, Political leaders
Claudia Sheinbaum
President of Mexico
Alfred North Whitehead, Philosophers
Alfred North Whitehead
English mathematician and philosopher
Lev Landau, Physicists
Lev Landau
Soviet physicist
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Chemists
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Dutch chemist
Edmond Halley, Mathematicians
Edmond Halley
English astronomer
Philipp Lenard, Physicists
Philipp Lenard
German physicist
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Physicists
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist
Louis de Broglie, Physicists
Louis de Broglie
French physicist
James Chadwick, Physicists
James Chadwick
English physicist
Theophrastus, Biologists
Theophrastus
Ancient Greek botanist
Eugene Paul Wigner, Mathematicians
Eugene Paul Wigner
Hungarian-American physicist
Sergey Brin, Computer scientists
Sergey Brin
American computer scientist
Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Inventors
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
American inventor
Hans Christian Ørsted, Physicists
Hans Christian Ørsted
Danish physicist
William of Ockham, Philosophers
William of Ockham
English Franciscan philosopher
Anders Celsius, Astronomers
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer
Évariste Galois, Mathematicians
Évariste Galois
Mathematicians
Jabir ibn Hayyan, Chemists
Jabir ibn Hayyan
Chemists
Francis Crick, Biologists
Francis Crick
Biologists
David Ricardo, Economists
David Ricardo
Economists
Amedeo Avogadro, Chemists
Amedeo Avogadro
Chemists
Peter Higgs, Physicists
Peter Higgs
Physicists
Paul Samuelson, Economists
Paul Samuelson
Economists