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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch tradesman and self-taught scientist…
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Wernher von Braun
German-American aerospace engineer who pi…
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Ibn al-Haytham
Medieval Arab polymath whose Book of Opti…
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Albert Abraham Michelson
American physicist whose exact measuremen…
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Robert Andrews Millikan
American experimental physicist whose oil…
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist whose…
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Dorothy Hodgkin
British chemist whose X-ray crystallograp…
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Svante August Arrhenius
Swedish scientist and a founder of physic…
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Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Italian-French mathematician and astronom…
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Robert Hooke
English polymath who pioneered microscopy…
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Georg Simon Ohm
German physicist and mathematician who fo…
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Pieter Zeeman
Dutch physicist whose discovery of the Ze…
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William Henry Bragg
British physicist who co-founded X-ray cr…
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Humphry Davy
British chemist who used electrolysis to…
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Maria Göppert Mayer
German-born American theoretical physicis…
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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
French physicist and military engineer wh…
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Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate whose…
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Alfred North Whitehead
English mathematician and philosopher who…
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James Chadwick
English physicist who discovered the neut…
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Philipp Lenard
German physicist awarded the 1905 Nobel P…
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Lev Landau
Soviet theoretical physicist whose work s…
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Edmond Halley
English astronomer and mathematician who…
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Louis de Broglie
French theoretical physicist whose hypoth…
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Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Dutch chemist whose theory of the tetrahe…
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