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Max Born
German-British physicist who helped found…
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André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician regard…
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Joseph John Thomson
British physicist who discovered the elec…
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Hendrik Lorentz
Dutch theoretical physicist whose electro…
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Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist and chemist who invente…
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Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist who discovered the Raman…
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Charles Babbage
English mathematician and inventor who or…
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William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and telesc…
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Rosalind Franklin
British chemist and X-ray crystallographe…
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Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French Enlightenment mathematician and ph…
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Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher and pione…
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John Dalton
English chemist and physicist who introdu…
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Andrei Sakharov
Soviet physicist who helped build the hyd…
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Heinrich Hertz
German physicist who first produced and d…
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Anaxagoras
Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who brough…
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Linus Pauling
American chemist and peace activist whose…
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Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician whose incomple…
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Anaximander
Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of the Mil…
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Antoine Henri Becquerel
French physicist who discovered radioacti…
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Irène Joliot-Curie
French physicist and chemist who, with he…
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Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician whose ideas on geome…
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James Watson
American molecular biologist who co-disco…
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Al-Biruni
One of the greatest scholars of the medie…
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Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath whose work in chemistry,…
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