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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer who define…
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse
American painter turned inventor who co-d…
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Hans Christian Ørsted
Danish physicist and chemist who discover…
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William of Ockham
English Franciscan friar and philosopher…
Physicists
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer whose name lives on in…
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Eugene Paul Wigner
Hungarian-American physicist whose symmet…
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Theophrastus
Ancient Greek philosopher and naturalist…
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George Boole
English mathematician and logician whose…
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Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist who created t…
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Paul Allen
American businessman who co-founded Micro…
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Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and U.S. Navy…
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Benoit Mandelbrot
Polish-born French-American mathematician…
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Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist whose shortest-p…
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Jack Kilby
American electrical engineer who invented…
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Katherine Johnson
American mathematician whose orbital calc…
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Andrey Kolmogorov
Soviet mathematician who gave probability…
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Max Euwe
Dutch mathematician who became the fifth…
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Norbert Wiener
American mathematician and philosopher wh…
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Claude Shannon
American mathematician and engineer whose…
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Herbert Simon
American economist and cognitive scientis…
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Konrad Zuse
German engineer and inventor who built th…
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John McCarthy
American computer scientist who coined th…
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Marvin Minsky
American cognitive and computer scientist…
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Niklaus Wirth
Swiss computer scientist who designed the…
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