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Highly respected parasitologist, veteran of the Polish Armia Krajowa during World War II, poet, fisherman, translator and scientific administrator
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Scientist
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American scientist (born: 1921) who worked on the Manhatten Project. He has been interviewed several times about his involment in the project
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American Nobel Laureate who is professor of medicine. He is a 2019 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine with Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza
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2006 Inductee of Inventor Hall of Fame; Co-inventor of TCP which is basis for modern internet
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Nobel economics laureate 2002
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Inventor of oxycontin
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Japanese physicist, known for neutrino experiments at the Kamiokande and its successor Super-Kamiokande. In 2015, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Arthur B. McDonald
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Author, Science guru
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AK-47 (Firearms Designer) Born: 11/10/1919
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Inventor of the Segway Human Transporter
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Coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their report, Climate Change 2007, assessing man-made global warming
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Tunisian computer scientist, one of the pioneers of the development of the Internet in Tunisia
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Nobel medicine laureate 2000
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Nobel laureate physics 2009
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German physical chemistry scientist
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Hungarian - American biochemist who specializes in RNA - mediated mechanisms, particularly in vitro - transcribed mRNA for protein therapies. 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Drew Weissman
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Scientist worked on the Manhattan Project with her husband Jerome Karle
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Nobel chemistry laureate 1985orn: 06/18/1918
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Austrian-born American theoretical chemist. Received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel for 'the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems'
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Canadian engineer whose achievements include designing the first digital game-playing machine, and the world's first automated traffic signalling system
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nobel med. laureate 1970
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Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Arts. He is best known for his pioneering work
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Invented optical fiber; Inventor Hall of Fame inductee
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Pharmacologist. Government reviewer who refused to authorize thalidomide
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US FDA reviewer. Refused to authorize thalidomide for the market. Born: 06/24/1914
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Inventor of the External Frame Backpack
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Dr. Werner Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member
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One of the captains of the 1981 North Carolina Tar Heel that reached the NCAA finals - was a chemistry major and attended medical school after graduation.
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Brazilian agricultural engineer and geneticist responsible for killer bees
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Flight scientist, NASA
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nobel physics laueate 2001
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Medical activis/Euthanasia Supporter - basis for the movie 'You Don't Know Jack.'
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American Scientist
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Indian-American Biochemist (1922-2011), 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for his work with Nucleic Acids. Honored on 2018-1-9 with a Google Doodle on his 96th birthdate
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Inventor of Microchip / Nobel Prize
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Scientist
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Jack King (2)
Former Chief of Public Information and Public Affairs Officer for NASA. Named 'the Voice of NASA' as he was the voice of launch control for every mission from Gemini 4 to Apollo 15 including Apollo 11 -
American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist who, in 1947, founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana U. Best known for writing Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), as well as the Kinsey scale
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Flight scientist nasa flight director cardinal flight
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Ukrainian-American scientist born November 18, 1900. Leader of X Division at 'Manhattan Project', later President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Science Advisor.
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physicist
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1969 professor at ucla, internet pioneer
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Scientist
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Sent test transmissions between the computer at UCLA and the first IMP (Interface Message Processor) to develop the earliest protocols (1969)
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(born 1918) is a retired Israeli scientist and the highest ranking Soviet spy ever caught in Israel. The case of Klingberg is regarded one of the most destructive spy scandals in the history of the State of Israel
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nobel Chemistry laureate 1982
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Flight scientist
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NASA flight director
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'Procet Manhattan' (Trinity); worked on the RaLa Experiment at Los Alamos, which was crucial to developing the spherical implosion necessary for the plutonium bomb
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Chemist. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001
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Scientist
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Nobel laureate physics 2008
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American Nobel Prize chemistry winning (with Robert Lefkowitz), professor in the departments of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
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Flight scientist
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NASA Flight director, STS-115
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NASA scientist and leader in the design of several robotic deep-space planetary missions.He is also an author, game developer, lecturer,photographer and environmentalist
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Austrian-born American physicist
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Invented the kidney dialysis machine
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ABMA/NASA. Joined the Werner von Braun rocket team in 1959. Worked on Mercury, Apollo, Skylab, and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Manning a console in the Firing Room for most of the Apollo launches, including Apollo 7 through 13
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Former U.S. Surgeon General
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Physicist - NASA
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Palynologist, author
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Polish-born American virologist and immunologist12/05/1916
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nobel med. laureate 1959
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006
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Flight Director at NASA
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Professor of physics at Brown University and the son of biochemist Hans Kosterlitz. He was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics along with David Thouless and Duncan Haldane for work on condensed matter physics
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Inventor of the Digital Audio Player
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Dr. Wernher Von Braun Rocket Team Scientist
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Theoretical physicist, advocate of scientific skepticism, science education, and the science of morality
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Hungarian-Austrian physicist working in attosecond science. In 2023, jointly with Pierre Agostini and Anne L'Huillier, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
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Scientist
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1992 Nobel Winner in Medicine
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American development economist. In 2019 he was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, together with Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, 'for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.'
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Discovered link between asteroid and mass extinction of dinosaurs; named crater Chicxulub
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nobel physics laureate 2000
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Flight scientist
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nobel chem. laureate 1996
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2008 Nobel Prize in Economics; NY Times columnist
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Born March 21 1909 - Master of engineering chemistry , captain of the cavalry of Polish Army .
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Daughter of Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik, best known for his expedition to investigate the Tunguska event, the largest impact event in history, which had occurred on June 30, 1908
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Invented optical character recognition (OCR), author, futurist, Inventor Hall of Fame inductee
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Discoverer of Kevlar
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Nobel Laureate Economics
