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Atheist Activist
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Palaeontologist/geologist
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Designed the NSA ECHELON surveillance system
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Invented the PureWick external female catheter
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Physicist
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Nature on PBS, Arachnologist, consultant on 8 Legged Freaks
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Flight scientist NASA
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Nobel medicine laureate 1968
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German political scientist12/19/1916
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celebrity coroner
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Austrian-born Australian research biologist. He is famous for his contributions to the fields of antibody formation and immunological tolerance
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NatGeo TV show 'Meteorrite Men'
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first women and hispanic surgeon general/1990
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Nobel Prize 2004
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nobel chem. laureate 2001
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nobel med. laureate 2001 cell cycle studies
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Scientist
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T.V. show(Bill Nye the Science Guy), Guest on Stargate Atlantis and was in the historic Nye vs. Ham debate which was on international news
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Political Scientist
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995
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American neuroscientist and a professor He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014 together with May-Britt Moser, and Edvard Moser
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10th Administrator of NASA
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Sciencetist, New York Times Best-Selling Author of Mind For Numbers
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'Dr. Werner Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
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Author, horticulturist, and historian
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Sociologist in Japan, an outspoken proponent of women's equality, and one of the developers of the 'milieu' approach to social categories
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Japanese cell biologist specializing in autophagy. 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Physicist
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1994 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
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Filipino chemist known for discovery of many cone snail toxins important for neuroscience
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inventor (magnetic core memory)
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American astrophysicist, cosmologist, inventor, educator, science communicator, author, actor, and humanitarian
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Dr. Omalu was the first to identify, describe and name Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy [CTE] as a disease entity in football players and wrestlers. He is currently the Chief Medical Examiner of San Joaquin County, California, and is the President and Med
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Co-winner 2015 Nobel Medicine Prize/cited for discovering avermectin, derivatives of which helped lower incidence of river blindness & lymphatic filariasis 2 diseases caused by parasitic worms that affect millions of African & Asian people
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US-based software developer along with two others managed to crack Z340, a 340-character cipher that's one of four such codes attributed to the Zodiac Serial Killer. unknown for 51 years
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nobel physics laureate 1996
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Scientist
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2009 Nobel Prize winner for Economics; first woman to the prize in that field
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American writer of several comic books about the history of science. His best-known work, Two-Fisted Science: Stories About Scientists, features biographical stories about Galileo, Newton, Bohr, and stories about physicist Richard Feynman
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Dutch Engineer/Inventor - Compact Cassette Player/Recorder
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Scientist
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Psychiatrist (Born: 1914) who served in the United States Navy. She was one of the first women psychiatrists commissioned in the Navy, and she was one of seven women Navy psychiatrists who served during World War II
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Scientist
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Scientist
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American Nobel Prize Winner (Biologist)
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Inventor Hall of Fame Inductee; invented the first commercially-successful intravascular stent
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(born 1935) Indian anthropologist and author. He was the first outsider to make peace with the North Sentinel Island natives. He started in 1967 by giving gifts and offerings to the people and finally made contact in 1991
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Inventor
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Italian theoretical physicist, whose research has focused on quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and complex systems. He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics
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American solar astrophysicist, born 1927. Developed theory of solar wind in the 1950s. First living person to have NASA name a spacecraft after them, the Parker Solar Probe to the sun, launched in 2018
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Inventor; 'Father of GPS'
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American virologist, born 1932. Co-discovered the first widely applicable test for rubella antibodies and the vaccine for rubella. Isolated the vaccine in 1962, reported successful trials in 1966. Joined MMR in 70s
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Won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery of receptors in the skin that sense temperature and touch and could pave the way for new pain-killers
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(Born November 27, 1918) is the long-term chairman of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
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Botanist. Born November 26, 1907
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Scientist and Nobel Prize Winner
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Brazilian Biologist and Geneticist. Born: 12/01/1919
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Song of the humpback whale conservationist
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physicist
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Engineer & space scientist known for work on space elevators/Developed aircraft & spacecraft technology for Air Force, DARPA, NASA. Holds patents & author nearly 100 publications in aircraft, spacecraft, tethers & global climate control
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Canadian - American astrophysicist, astronomer, and theoretical cosmologist. Peebles was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019 shared with Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a sun - like star
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Has worked on the Hubble telescope
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Author, playwright, actress & animal activist. Invented cat anti-scratch deterrent, Sticky Paws® for Furniture to prevent declawing/Acted in one hundred television and radio commercials
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Non-fiction author and artificial intelligence researcher. Creator of the MTV documentary series The Buried Life and co-author of the book 'What Do You Want To Do Before You Die?', which became a No. 1 New York Times Best Seller
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Flight scientist
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American physicist, radio astronomer and Nobel laureate in physics (1978) who is co-discoverer of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which helped establish the Big Bang theory of cosmology
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Software designer and network engineer sometimes referred to as the 'Mother of the Internet.' She is most famous for her invention of the spanning-tree protocol (STP), which is fundamental to the operation of network bridges and the internet
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American astrophysicist, 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Scientist
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As a 15-year-old girl in post-war Britain Dorothy Peters (Born: 1931) joined newly-formed Land Rover to work on the very first off-roaders to be built. She is now 87 and lives in the UK
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2006 Nobel Prize in Economics
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Scientist
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'1997 Nobel Physics Prize'
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Famed psychologist
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Scientist- worked on early U.S. Space Program rockets
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An American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and pioneer of aviation; Secretary of the Smithsonian (1887-1906)
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Books for children include If All the Animals Came Inside and How to Share with a Bear, and he also has written several books about mountains and weather for adults
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AIDS researcher, and Co-Discoverer of the Ebola Virus
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Nobel prize
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nobel chem. laureate 1986
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2004 Nobel laureate physics
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American sexologist. He was a frequent co-author with Alfred C. Kinsey
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Roboticists James Pope of Shadow Robot Co. in England led the assembly of the bionic man from prosthetic body parts and artificial organs donated by laboratories around the world/First Fully Bionic Man Walks, Talks and Breathes
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American Chemist. Born: 08/22/1918
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Ronco, does a lot of infomercials
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Invented 'Pop - Tarts' for Kellogg's in 1964 (1927-2024)
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Flight scientist NASA chairman of the Board of Directors of the Astronauts
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Robert Pound, a Harvard physicist whose elegant experiments confirmed a key part of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and who helped lay the groundwork for the magnetic resonance imaging technology now widely used in medicine
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Internet scientist CYCLADES French Born April 20. 1931
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American environmental conservationist, mariner, writer and educator. He is the founder of Living Lands & Waters
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Nobel Laureate Economics
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One of the developers of the KH-9 Hexagon's panoramic camera system
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Nobel medicine laureate 1997
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An award-winning developer and authority in polymer concrete, Richard Prusinski is known as the 'father' of the polymer concrete industry
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American Senior Research Scholar of Economics at Swarthmore College, widely known for his role in a noted Cold War Spy swap depicted in Steven Spielberg's 2015 film 'Bridge of Spies'
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Reptile specialist, starred on wildboys
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World Renowned Lepidopterist
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Swedish geneticist specialising in the field of evolutionary genetics and a Nobel prize laureate
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Scientist
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Swiss astronomer. He is a professor at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as a professor at the University of Geneva. He shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics with James Peebles and Michel Mayor
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Galician-born American physicist and Nobel laureate born 29 July 1898. Worked on the 'Manhattan Project' (Trinity). Nobel laureate 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance.
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(born 1952, Indian-born American and British structural biologist, who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath, 'for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome'
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Engineer
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American Physicist.Born:05/13/1913
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1989 Nobel Prize Winning Physicist. Born:08/27/1915
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American theoretical physicist and leading expert on particle physics and cosmology
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Inventor, TIME's First-Ever Kid of the Year (2020)
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Scientist
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Flight scientist NASA Flight Director
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British Nobel Laureate physician-scientist. He is best known for his work on cellular reactions to hypoxia, for which he shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with William Kaelin Jr. and Gregg L. Semenza
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Scientist
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Scientist
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Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science
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Deemed the 'mother of comfort food,' Dorcas Reilly led the team that created the Green Bean Casserole in 1955, while working as a staff member in the Home Economics department of the Campbell Soup Company
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Israeli Professor of Chemistry and D.H.C. Enrique Berman Professor of Solar Energy at Institute of Chemistry of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, author of 532 scientific papers cited more than 30,000 times
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Firearm manufacturer and designer. Founder of the Remington Arms Company
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American polymer chemist, inventor, and professor emeritus. He is noted for his contribution to the development of Teflon. Born: 10/12/1910
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British engineer (Born: 1912) who worked as personal assistant to the creator of TV John Logie Baird in the 1930's. He is one of the great pioneering engineers of British television in the 1930's. He is now 104 and lives in East Anglia, UK
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'Dr. Werner Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
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Scientist, founder 'Community of Sant'Egidio'
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Fluconzaole ,anti-fungal drug inventor
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Nobel physics laureate 1996
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Nobel physics laureate 1976
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1900-1985. Seismologist and physicist, known in particular for creating the Richter magnitude scale of measuring earthquakes
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American Engineer, born 1927. JPL/NASA Project manager for first US satellite, Explorer I. First person to get it's communication that it was in orbit. Left for private career in engineering and consultation
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Pioneer in dolphin behavior and medicine research. Author
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Holly Ridings (2)Flight scientist, NASA flight director
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Professor of Astronomy & is the principal investigator for the near-infrared camera (NIRCam) on the James Webb Space Telescope
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American astrophysicist, 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt
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Has worked on the Hubble telescope
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Inventor - High resolution radar & sonar. Inducted into the National Inventors Hall Of Fame in 1994. Composer for Broadway & Off-Broadway productions. Retired lecturer from M.I.T
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nobel med. laureate 1954
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Larry Roberts (3)
Roberts and his team created packet switching and the ARPANET, which was the predecessor to the modern Internet -
1993 Winner for Nobel Prize in Medicine
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Author of the memoir Look Me in the Eye, detailing his life with undiagnosed Asperger syndrome and savant abilities. Created the signature special effects guitars played by the band KISS. Brother of memoirist Augusten Burroughs
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Engineer/Scientist during World War 2 and work on The Manhattan Project. Born 2/1924
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American Chemist who studied the effect of temperature on a baseball. In 2017 Rocks conducted an experiment studying the effect temperature has on a baseball, with Paul DeJong as his laboratory assistant.
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Flight scientist, Director of the European Space Agency
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94 laureate, medical with Alfred G.Gillman
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Scientist
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Nobel physics laureate 1986
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German born psychologist and parapsychologist who in 1958, alongside J.G Pratt defined a 'poltergeist' as a paranormal phenomenon which consists of events alluding to the manifestation of an imperceptible entity. He is now 85 and lives in Georgia, USA
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Noted archeologist...great-granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt
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American geneticist and chronobiologist. He received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine 2017
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Nobel prize laureate chemistry
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Known as the father of the geostationary satellite
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Chemist and Bridge Player lives in Mexico
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1921-2000 co-inventor zeolite catalyst that was commercially useful in petroleum industry for catalytic cracking of petroleum into products like gas. Inventor or co-inventor of 76 US patents & was inducted into the National Inventors HOF
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First known Native - American female Engineer, best remembered for her work on Aerospace design
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1995 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
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American economist. In 2012, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Lloyd Shapley 'for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design'
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Professor of Biomedical Sciences. Awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on vesicle trafficking (shared with Randy Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof)
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Nobel chemistry laureate 1995; his best-known work is the discovery that chlorofluorocarbons contribute to ozone depletion
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Nobel physics laureate 1984
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Hungarian inventor of the Rubik's Cube puzzle
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Benjamin Rubin (born 1917) Microbiologist, known as the inventor of the bifurcated vaccination needle
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American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. She is famous for uncovering the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves. She is now 84 and lives in U.S.A
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Scientist
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inventor of the compact disc
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Scientist
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Programmer and computer scientist most famous for creating Spacewar!, one of the earliest videogames, in 1961
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'Space Explorer', 'Private Space Entrepreneur'
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American molecular biologist. Ruvkun was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation
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Scientist, leads InVADER deep-sea project
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Director of CAMMP, Professor of Chemical Engineering
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Retired United States Air Force veteran, video game artist and game programmer. Sachs was the lead artist on the groundbreaking Amiga computer game Defender of the Crown from Cinemaware. He is also the author of the game Saucer Attack
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Amateur paleontologist, was responsible for the initial discovery of Stan's bone fragments, and as a result is the namesake for the T. rex. The Stan T.Rex is named after him
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Author. noted scientist and conservationist. Established the Blue Ocean Institute; works to sav the world's oceans
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Inventor/Married professors Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci developed science of Pfizer vaccine to treat Covid-19/German billionaire, physician, oncologist and entrepreneur of Turkish origin
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Nobel medicine laureate 1991
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American Biologist - Inventor of Vaccine for Polio
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Scientist
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Psychologist and writer
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Nobel Prize winning economist. Born: 05/15/1915
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Swedish nobelprize winner
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Turkish biochemist and molecular biologist. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair
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Scientist
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Nobel chemistry laureate 1958 & 1980. Only person alive to have won two Nobel Prizes. Born: 08/13/1918
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French scientist and oceanograph
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Organic Chemist,(1917-1999) Invented Process of Treating Pregnene Compounds Cortisone & the Sarett Oxidation process is named after him. Received the National Medal of Science in 1975 & Perkin Medal in 1976. 1980 was inducted into National Inventors HOF
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American economist, 2011 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
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Scientist
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French coordination chemist. He has specialized in supramolecular chemistry for which he has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa
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Mathamatician/Born:1915
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Noted author, scientist, and conservationist. Inspired Dian Fossey to study the mountain gorilla, now has a large conservationist organization
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Nobel medicine laureate 1977
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Works with Cloning
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American cell biologist at the University of California. Sheckman was one of three researchers sharing the 2013 award of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
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Nobel Laureate Economics
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Designer of the Taifun missile
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(16 July 1877 - 6 December 1967) was a Hungarian-born American pediatrician. He is the founder of the Schick test/invented between 1910 and 1911 is a test used to determine whether or not a person is susceptible to diphtheria
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German physicist and ESA astronaut
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American astrophysician, 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating
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Inventor of the Schmidt sting pain index. Has documented over 80 stings from different insects, describing the pain and the insect world through his book titled, The Sting Of The Wild
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Scientist
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Inventor of Prozac
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James A. Schoke was part of the Special Engineer Detachment that worked at the Met Lab at the University of Chicago on the Manhattan Project. He worked for the instrument group, inventing instruments to detect uranium, alpha rays, and more
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Canadian economist, Nobel Prize in Economics 1997
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Nobel physics laureate 1972
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Scientist Chemistry, 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Co-invented optical fiber; Inventor Hall of Fame inductee; President Natl Academy of Engineering
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President of the European University Viadrina
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Medical Expert, Founder of the Endocrinology Institute
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British mountaineer and explorer
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Scientist and TV presenter
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British born rocket scientist who worked on the construction of The Black Knight Rocket, the United Kingdom's first rocketry project after WW2. Lives on the Isle of Wight or in the UK
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NASA scientist in the 1960s whose worked included the patent for the Electrostatic Plasma Modulator for Space Vehicle Re-entry. b. 1906, d. 2006
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leading physicist of the Soviet Union
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Canadian Scientist. Member of the Order of Canada
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Nobel economics laureate 1994
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American Nobel Laureate who is the professor of pediatrics. He shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 'discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability' with William Kaelin Jr. and Peter J. Ratcliffe
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American physicist born March 14, 1909, at the 'Manhattan Project' (Trinity). Wrote 'The Los Alamos Primer' who was a printed project 'Wiki' for new team members.
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Paleontology superstar, discovered Afrovenator, Jobaria
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French mathematican, born 1926
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Chaired first meeting with the Network Working Group to create the final version of the Interface Message Processor (IMP) specifications. Pioneer of the internet
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Merican mathematician and economist. With Alvin E. Roth, Shapley won the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 'for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design
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2015 inductee for National Inventors Hall of Fame
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nobel med. laureate 1993
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Californian geologist, best known for his studies of The Moving Rocks of Death Valley
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nobel chemistry laureate 2001 and 2022
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(born 1949) is an American freelance writer and UFO skeptic. He is a paranormal investigator of unidentified flying objects, having researched many sightings and written critiques of the hypothesis that UFOs are alien spacecraft
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Israel professor of Materials Science. He was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 'the discovery of quasicrystals'.[3]
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English scientist. He is known for having proposed an unorthodox account of morphogenesis and for his research into parapsychology and telepathy
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Scientist and author that invented the Shepard's Tone
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Co-Inventor of Scotchgard
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Nobel Chemistry 2008
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nobel chem. laureate 2000
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JFK - trauma surgeon; operated on John Connally and Lee Harvey Oswald after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Also known for his research on shock, which initiated the current practice of giving saline to trauma and surgical patients
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(born 1947 in what is now Tanzania) was the primary designer of the 1985 Atari ST computer, and one of the engineers of the Commodore 64
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Chinese biologist. 'The Father of Chinese Biophysicics' Born: 10/10/1903
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geologist astronomer
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Planetary Scientist, born 1957. Has so far discovered 3 new rings and six new moons of the solar system, among the outer planets of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and (now dwarf planet) Pluto
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(born 19 October 1917) is an Indian mathematician with achievements in combinatorial mathematics. He is notable for his breakthrough work with R. C. Bose and E. T. Parker in their disproof of the famous conjecture made by Leonhard Euler
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Born June 17, 1925, pharmacologist, chemist, artist, and drug developer. known as the Godfather of Ecstacy
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Inventor of Helicoptor
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Co-inventor of Post-It notes with Arthur Fry; developed the adhesive for the notes
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Early NASA
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Flown to Space on Missions Soyuz TMA-10 / TMA-9 & Soyuz TMA-14 / TMA-13. Built the organization and applications for Microsoft Word, Excel, & Multiplan. Holds 11 Patents. Active Philanthropist
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First woman to ever receive a Ph.D. in meteorology. She eventually became NASA's lead weather researcher and has authored or co-authored over 190 articles
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Meteorologist, hurricane specialist, first director of the National Hurricane Research Project (1955-1959), and a former director (1967-1974) of the National Hurricane Center.
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American econometrician and macroeconomist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2011
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British entrepreneur and inventor, most commonly known for his work in consumer electronics in the late 1970s and early 1980s
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Born October 8, 1918 is a Danish chemist and Nobel laureate
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chemnist, winner of the 1996 Nobel Price in Chemistry
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Scientist - CHarge-Coupled Device (CCD) with Willard Boyle
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American chemist and Nobel laureate. He is the Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri
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nobel medicine laureate
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oceanographer cartologist
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Nobel medicine laureate 2007
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American theoretical physicist, a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo
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2006 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Retired rocket engineer, born 1937, hired to work with Von Braun's team in 1958. Worked on the recently launched Explorer I satellite project, and then a career at NASA, with contributions to the Apollo and Skylab missions
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Nobel economics laureate 1987
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American author and inventor most notable for being the U.S. prosecution team's chief interpreter during the Nuremberg Trials. Fought at Battle of the Bulge. Part of the RCA team that invented color tv. Worked for NASA on the moon landings
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Astrophysicist, co-wrote Carl Sagan's monumental 1980 astronomy documentary series Cosmos. Since then, he has also acted as advisor on a number of science documentaries, such as the IMAX films Blue Planet and Cosmic Voyage
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nobel economics laureate 2001
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Pioneer in underwater archaeology (Born: 1947) who studies shipwrecks and sunken treasure. He is also a published author. He was twelve years old when he found his first five shipwrecks. He discovered the SS Georgiana in 1965
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Electrical engineer. Father of Steven Spielberg
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Cassini Project Scientist Enceladus Moon around Saturn and its rings
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Inventor of the board game Operation
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Forensic pathologist and author; worked on investigations of assassinations of John F. Kennedy & Martin Luther King Jr. Also testified at Phil Spector, OJ Simpson, and JonBenét Ramsey trials
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Norwegian psycologist specializing in sex
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flight scientist
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'Nobel Prize for Physics'
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Centenarian American scientist specializing in preventive cardiology and the study of the influence of various risk factors on coronary heart disease and other cardiovascular diseases
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Doctor/Pioneer in Organ Transplant. Performed the first human liver transplant. Called 'The Father of Modern Transplant'
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Liechtenstein Scientist, memory training
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Astrophysicist, SETI
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Astronomer, planetary scientist. Co-discoverer of Pluto's moons Nix and Hydra in 2005
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One of the last surviving members of The Manhattan Project. Chemical engineer. In 1945, transferred to Los Alamos (Manhattan Project) where he worked under Dr. Morris Kolodney to produce plutonium for the Gadget and Fat Man bombs
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Ukrainian atomic engineer, was present at Chernobyl, is now living in Israel
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Jack Steinberger (2) Nobel physics laureate 1988
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Former Surgeon General 1969-1973
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Scientist
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Nobel Prize 2009
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Astrophysicist, planetary scientist. Leader of the New Horizons mission to the planet Pluto in 2015
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Invented magnetic computer disc drive
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Scottish tv presenter of the BBC show 'Earth : The Power Of The Planet' Iain Stewart is also a lecturer in geology in the school of the Earth,Ocean and Environmental Sciences at the University of Plymouth
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Former Surgeon General 1965-1969
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nobel enconomics laureate 2001
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Inventor of Koosh toy ball made of rubber filaments (strands) radiating from steel-bound core, patented 1987. Company later expanded product line to include 50 other Koosh-related products, including keyrings, baseball sets, and yo-yos
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Scottish chemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Ben Feringa and Jean-Pierre Sauvage in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines
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Flight scientist
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Ed Stone (2) Worked on the Voyager 1 and 2 that went into Space in 1977
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Noted aeronautical and hydrodynamics engineer and consultant. Stout was the designer of the world's first ever supersonic seaplane, the Navy F2Y-1 Sea Dart
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Flight scientist, NASA Flight Director
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(born 18 July 1917) is an economics professor. He was a professor at Boston University, US until his retirement. He has been a distinguished academic working on development economics since the 1950s. Published 7+ books
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Canadian physicist, academic, and Nobel laureate, who is a pioneer in the field of lasers. She is the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with her former PhD adviser, Gérard Mourou of France
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Designed and implemented the C++ programming language. Professor of Computer Science in Columbia University in New York City
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'Dr. Wernher Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
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Physicist who played an important part in the development of rocket intrumentation
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Nobel Prize winner: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1998
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American professor, UCSD
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Invented the CPAP machine; essential to premie birth survival
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2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Icthyologist for 'Finding Nemo'
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American Science Populariser - Childrens Television
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American theoretical physicist, Professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
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2016 Inductee of National Inventors Hall of Fame
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Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate (2010), who first published the Suzuki reaction, the organic reaction of an aryl- or vinyl-boronic acid with an aryl- or vinyl-halide catalyzed by a palladium(0) complex, in 1979
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Scientist, Environmentalist
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Psychic Spy for the CIA. From 1978-1991 worked as the head of the CIA's ''remote Viewing'' department, very covert.Info was declassified about five or six years ago.
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German-American biochemist. He is the co-awardee of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with James Rothman and Randy Schekman) for work on vesicle trafficking.)
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Nobel Prize 2009 of Medicine
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Inductee of National Inventors Hall of Fame
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002
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Noted American Zoologist. Associated with BYU for most of his teaching and career. Born: 12/17/1909
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American astronomer and the current director of the Center for SETI Research. She is credited with coining the term 'brown dwarf' for the classification of stars with insufficient mass to sustain hydrogen fusion
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British-born American paleoanthropologist, author and curator emeritus with the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. Tattersall is currently working with the Templeton Foundation
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nobel chem. laureate 1983
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nobel physics laureate 1993
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nobel physics laureate 1990
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Internet pioneer, who led teams that made major contributions to the personal computer, and other related technologies
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physicist/scientist
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Flight scientist, NASA/Voyager scientist , discovered several moons of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
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Clinical Sexologist-Sex Therapist to the Stars,Playboy April 1996
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Part of the Wernher von Braun Rocket team; arrived in the USA in 1953 as part of then still active 'Operation Paperclip'
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American economist and the Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics. In 2017, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to Behavioral economics
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nobel med. laureate 1990
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Creator of the first computer virus known as 'Creeper' at BBN in 1971
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David Thompson (8)2012 inductee for National Inventors Hall of Fame
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Beekeeper 2024 Allen & Ginter
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Mark Thompson (6)TV Presenter/Astronomer
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Australian Politician
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American theoretical physicist. In 2017, Thorne was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish 'for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves'
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First person to count cards in Blackjack. Invented the system
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British condensed-matter physicist. 2016 Nobel Prize for physics along with F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter
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1931-2018. Finnish psychiatrist and professor at the University of Oulu. Responsible for the Finnish Adoptive Study, which studied schizophrenia rates compared to adoption (nature versus nurture)
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Canadian Scientist best known for demonstrating, with Ernest McCulloch, the existence of stem cells
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French philanthropist
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Nobel physics laureate 1976
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French professor of economics. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2014 for his analysis of market power and regulation of large companies
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Hungarian Physicist Born: 07/07/1907
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'Father' of e-mail; came up with the idea of using the '@' sign in e-mail addresses
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Nobel medicine laureate 1987
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World renowned polygrapher, frequent Howard Stern guest
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Inventor of Laser, Nobel laureate in Physics, Born July 28, 1915
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John Townsend (2) Former Goddard Space Flight Center director
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Scientist national medal of science 2011
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NASA astronaut (retired), Administrator of NASA 1989-1992
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Political Scientist
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Inventor of N-95 Mask technology
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German entrepreneur and billionaire who co-founded the German software giant SAP AG in 1972 together with Hans-Werner Hector, Dietmar Hopp, Hasso Plattner and Claus Wellenreuther
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Nobel Laureate Chemistry 2008
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nobel physics laurate 1998
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Visual psychophysicist and Head of the Smith-Kettlewell Brain Imaging Center; invented the autostereogram, also known as 'Magic Eye' 3D pictures in 1979
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Inventor/Married professors Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci developed science of Pfizer vaccine to treat Covid-19
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Astrophysicist and author. President of the Hayden Planetarium
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Polish-American mathematician born 13 April 1909 ; participated in 'Manhattan Project', originated the Teller?Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons, invented the Monte Carlo method of computation.
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John Underwood (2) One of a team who worked on the construction of The Black Knight Rocket, the United Kingdom's first rocketry project after WW2. Lives on the Isle of Wight or in the UK
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Flight scientist
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President of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence)
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International scientist, astronomer, UFO expert, author
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Physicist and author
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nobel physics laureate 1984
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Born: 21/04/1976 Belgian scientist
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Born: 20/06/1965 (Bornem) Belgium Viroligist
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Centenarian American physicist and author of textbooks on thermodynamics. Chair of the physics department at the University of Michigan from 1969 to 1972 and President of Hope College in Holland, Michigan, from 1972 to 1987
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Climate specialist
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nobel med. laureate 1982
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nobel med. laureate 1989
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Vaughan Medical
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nobel physics laurate 1999
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Belgian meteorologist Born: 14/01/1987 (Aarschot) Be'lgium He works for the Belgian army and he works also for radio MNM and Television (EEN VRT)
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German-born rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, space architect, & leading figure in development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany during World War II & the United
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German anatomist who invented the plastination technique to preserve specimen and is heavily involved in its promotion. He developed the Body Worlds exhibition of human bodies and body parts
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nobel physics laureate 1985
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German/American rocket scientist, born 1914. German WWII vet, and last living member of the Werner Von Braun team for the US Army and NASA. Produced the first complete design of the lunar rover while at NASA
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American astronomer and Proffesor of astrophysical and planetary sciences. He is best known for discovering Saturn's elusive F ring
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Actor/River Biologist/Extreme Fisherman - River Monsters
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Norwegian physicist and tv host--contestant on norways dancing with the stars 2020
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Inventor of the Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie, which she invented in 1930
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American physician-scientist who is the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
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nobel chem. laureate 1997
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Roboticists Rich Walker of Shadow Robot Co. in England led the assembly of the bionic man from prosthetic body parts and artificial organs donated by laboratories around the world/First Fully Bionic Man Walks, Talks and Breathes
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American oceanographer, explorer and marine policy specialist
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2005 Nobel Prize in Medicine
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Israeli-American Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus for 'the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems'
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The world's first cyborg
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American geologist and Professor of Geology and Geophysics at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for his work in the fields of cosmochemistry, meteoritics and astrophysics
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nobel prize 1962
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Optometrist from British Columbia believes heâ-?s invented the holy grail of corrective lenses: A device that lets you see â-?three times better than 20/20 visionâ- without wearing any contacts or glasses at all â-' for an entire
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cononer kennedy assassination expert
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Inventor on 14 U.S. patents related to online financial services
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'Dr. Wernher Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
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Has worked on the Hubble telescope
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nobel physics laureate 1979
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Scientist
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American physicist. In 2017, Weiss was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Kip Thorne and Barry Barish, 'for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves'
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Current director of the Genoscope and one of the pioneers of the sequencing and analysis of the genomes
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American physician-scientist and Nobel Prize laureate best known for his contributions to RNA biology with his research colleague Katalin Karikó
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businesswoman/physician
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Physiologist
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James West (3)Inventor
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Inductee for National Inventors Hall of Fame
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American video game programmer and software developer, known for 1983's Archon: The Light and the Dark, originally written for the Atari 8-bit family
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Sex Therapist
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Invented the ATM
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Coined term black hole
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British engineer (Born: 1927) who was instrumental in Britain's successful development of rocket launchers and hovercraft. He worked on the Black Arrow rocket programme. He is now 89. Lives in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK
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Astronomer
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Joshua White (2)Invented trip sceen projection process with a overhead projuector, a clock face, water and oil
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British-American chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 with John B. Goodenough and Akira Yoshino
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Sri Lankan born Astronomer and Mathematician. He was a student and collaborator of Sir Fred Hoyle and is best known for his work on cosmic dust. He now lives in Cardiff, Wales, UK
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2006 genius award winner
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Canadian astronomer and professor at the University of Western Ontario. He is best known for the discovery of Earth's second moon and the orbits of minor planets in the Solar System
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nobel physics laureate 2001
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nobel med. laureate 1995
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nobel med. laureate 1981
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Israeli biochemist. He is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science
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Nobel Laureate Physics
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British Computer Scientist. Born: 06/26/1913
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nobel med. laureate 1962
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Physicist, author, and professor
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Inventor
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Author/Inventor/U.S. Air Force Cold War spy, nearly getting shot down by Russian MIGs, and landing in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis/makes his fortune working for computer software magnate Bill Gates
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2013 National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee
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Scientist/Entomologist - Known for his work in myrmecology born 1929/Pulitzer Prize Winner
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Nobel physics laureate 1982
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American economist and the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at Stanford University. He was jointly awarded the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, together with his Stanford colleague Paul R. Milgrom
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American physicist; head of the Cyclotron Group (R-1) at 'Project Manhattan' (Trinity); director of Fermi National Laboratory (Fermilab) 1967-1978
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Nobel physics laureate 1978
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Flight scientist. Began his work with NASA (then NACA) on Project Mercury in 1959. NASA Maroon Flight Director Apollo 8, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 15; Space Shuttle Project Office 1973-1978
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American Nobel Prize-winning physicist 2012 with Serge Haroche
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English psychiatrist and physician, famous for her work on the Asperger's Syndrome, living in the East Sussex, UK with her husband John
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'Dr. Werner Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
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In 2004, the Winklevoss brothers sued Mark Zuckerberg for $65 million, claiming he stole their ConnectU idea to create the much more popular social networking service site Facebook
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A Nobel Prize winning British biochemist best known for his pioneering work on the therapeutic use of monoclonal antibodies
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NASA Shuttle Weather Officer
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Researcher In String Theory (as The Founder Of M-theory) And Quantum Field Theory
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Professor of Microbiology
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Scientist
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British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman. He is known for his work in computer science, mathematics, and in theoretical physics. In 2012, he was named a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[
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Works with Cloning
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One of the early developer's of barcode technology and inductee of the National Inventors' Hall of Fame. He is now 90
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Apple computers co-founder, built first personal computer
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German game inventor - Carcassonne, Pompeji
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Professor at Columbia Law School, director of the Poliak Center at Columbia Journalism School and a contributing writer at NewYorker.com. He is best known for his work on Net Neutrality theory
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Inductee for National Inventors Hall of Fame
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002
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heart surgeon
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nobel medicine 1977
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Japanese physician. In 2012 he along with John Gurdon were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells
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Japanese-born American scientist, who was a pioneer in the cloning and fertilization. Led the team that cloned the first animal cloned from adult cells that survived adulthood. Also pioneered in vitro fertilization
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nobel physics 1957
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Inventor of PSP
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Works With Cloning
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2015 National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee
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Invented the Router
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2009 Nobel Prize chemistry
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Japanese chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 alongside Stanley Whittingham and John B. Goodenough
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2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Jeffrey C. Hall and Michael Rosbash 'for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm
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Co-winner 2015 Nobel Medicine Prize/cited for discovering avermectin, derivatives of which helped lower incidence of river blindness & lymphatic filariasis 2 diseases caused by parasitic worms that affect millions of African & Asian people
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American inventor, whose most famous invention is the modern ice resurfacer, with his surname being registered as a trademark for these resurfacers
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Professor in Natural Science and a Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University.[6] Throughout his career, Zare has made a considerable impact in physical chemistry and analytical chemistry
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Austrian quantum physicist who in 2022 received the Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Alain Aspect and John Clauser
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nobel chem. laureate 1999
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Nobel medicine laureate 1996
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Nuclear physicist @ University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory/worked on Manhattan Project & credited starting World?s self-sustaining nuclear reaction by withdrawing a control rod from world?s 1st nuclear reactor on 12/2/1942
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German virologist, 2008 co-Nobel Prize in Medicine
