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Maurice Hilleman

Maurice Hilleman was a prominent American microbiologist whose groundbreaking work significantly advanced vaccine develo...

American Medicine 20TH Century Vaccines

9.7 Brilliant

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Wright brothers

Orville and Wilbur Wright were American inventors credited with inventing, building, and flying the world’s first succes...

American 20TH Century Aviation Airplane

9.6 Brilliant

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André-Marie Ampère

André-Marie Ampère was a French physicist and mathematician whose work laid the foundations for electrodynamics. He inve...

18TH Century French Physics Electrical

9.6 Brilliant

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John Harrison

John Harrison was a British horologist and inventor of the 18th century. He dedicated his life to solving the challengin...

18TH Century Navigation British Horology

9.5 Brilliant

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Andrew Fire

Andrew Fire is an American biologist renowned for his pioneering work on RNA interference. His collaboration with Craig...

American Medicine 20TH Century Genetics

9.4 Excellent

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Craig Mello

Craig Mello is an American biologist recognized for his pivotal role in identifying RNA interference. His research demon...

American Medicine 20TH Century Genetics

9.4 Excellent

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Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush was an American engineer whose work profoundly influenced computing. He led scientific research efforts du...

American 20TH Century Computing Memex Concept

9.4 Excellent

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Herman Hollerith

Herman Hollerith was an American inventor whose innovations dramatically improved data processing. He developed a punch-...

American 19TH Century Computing Punch Card Tabulator

9.3 Excellent

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Edwin Land

Edwin Land was an American inventor pivotal to the development of modern photography. His creation, the Polaroid Land ca...

American Optics 20TH Century Polaroid

9.3 Excellent

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Leroy Hood

Leroy Hood was an American biologist whose invention of the automated DNA sequencer revolutionized biotechnology. His wo...

American 20TH Century Biotechnology Genomics

9.3 Excellent

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Seymour Cray

Seymour Cray was an American electrical engineer whose innovative designs revolutionized computer hardware. He created t...

Hardware American 20TH Century Computing

9.3 Excellent

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Bob Metcalfe

Bob Metcalfe was an American engineer instrumental in the development of Ethernet networking technology. His work at Xer...

American Ethernet Networking 20TH Century

9.3 Excellent

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Percy LeBaron Spencer

Percy LeBaron Spencer was an American engineer whose accidental discovery revolutionized food preparation. While working...

American 20TH Century Microwave Oven Radar

9.2 Excellent

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Jay Forrester

Jay Forrester was an American engineer who developed coincident-current magnetic core memory during his time at MIT in 1...

Hardware American 20TH Century Computing

9.2 Excellent

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David Boggs

David Boggs was an American computer scientist instrumental in developing Ethernet. Working alongside Bob Metcalfe at Xe...

American Ethernet Networking 20TH Century

9.2 Excellent

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Charles F. Kettering

Charles Kettering was an American inventor most notably recognized for his development of the electric automobile starte...

American 20TH Century Automobile Gm

9.2 Excellent

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James L. Fergason

James L. Fergason was an American inventor instrumental in the development of practical twisted nematic liquid crystal d...

American 20TH Century LCD Display Materials

9.2 Excellent

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Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney was an American inventor whose 1793 cotton gin made short-staple cotton processing faster and reshaped the U...

18TH Century American Manufacturing Interchangeable

8.3 Great

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Oliver Evans

Oliver Evans was an American inventor whose automated flour mill, patented in 1790, helped pioneer continuous industrial...

18TH Century American Steam Milling

8.0 Great

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David Bushnell

David Bushnell was an American inventor who built Turtle, a hand-powered submarine used in a failed attack on a British...

Military 18TH Century American Submarine

7.3 Good