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Alan Turing

Alan Turing is the foundational figure of computer science and artificial intelligence. He conceptualized the Turing Mac...

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9.2 Excellent

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John Dalton

John Dalton was an English chemist and early scientist whose work fundamentally shaped our understanding of matter. His...

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8.8 Great

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Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison was a prominent American scientist and engineer whose innovations fundamentally reshaped technology in the...

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8.8 Great

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Archimedes

Archimedes of Syracuse was the greatest mathematician and engineer of antiquity, applying rigorous mathematical principl...

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8.6 Great

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James Watt

James Watt was a Scottish-born inventor and mechanical engineer who fundamentally altered industrial processes during th...

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8.6 Great

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David Ricardo

David Ricardo was a prominent 19th-century British economist whose work fundamentally shaped modern economic thought. He...

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8.5 Great

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Joseph Lister

Joseph Lister was a British surgeon whose innovations revolutionized medical practice in the 19th century. He pioneered...

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8.4 Great

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Augusta Ada Lovelace

Augusta Ada Lovelace was a 19th-century English mathematician recognized for her notes on Charles Babbage’s Analytical E...

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8.3 Great

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Karl Benz

Karl Benz was a German engineer whose groundbreaking work fundamentally shaped transportation. He developed and patented...

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8.1 Great

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Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy was an English chemist pivotal to the development of electrochemistry during the 19th century. His pioneeri...

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8.0 Great

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George Stephenson

George Stephenson was a pivotal 19th-century English engineer whose work fundamentally transformed transportation. His d...

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7.9 Good

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Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a pivotal 19th-century British engineer renowned for his groundbreaking designs across multi...

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7.9 Good

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Sadi Carnot

Sadi Carnot was a French engineer and scientist whose work profoundly shaped the understanding of heat and motion in the...

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7.9 Good

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Konrad Zuse

Konrad Zuse was a German engineer instrumental in the development of early computers. He designed and constructed the Z1...

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7.6 Good

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Nikolaus Otto

Nikolaus Otto was a German engineer instrumental in developing the first commercially successful internal combustion eng...

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7.4 Good

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Maurice Wilkes

Maurice Wilkes was a British academic whose work fundamentally shaped computer science in the 20th century. His leadersh...

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7.4 Good

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John Atanasoff

John Atanasoff was a pioneering American physicist instrumental in the development of early computing. He designed and c...

Academic Computer Science Innovative 20TH Century

7.2 Good

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John Mauchly

John Mauchly was an American physicist instrumental in developing early computing technology. He collaborated on the des...

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7.1 Good

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J. Presper Eckert

J. Presper Eckert was an American engineer instrumental in developing early computing technology. His work alongside Joh...

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7.1 Good

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Jean Bartik

Jean Bartik was a pioneering American mathematician instrumental in the development of early computing. As one of the si...

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6.8 Fair