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Sylvia Earle

Sylvia Earle is a world-renowned marine biologist, explorer, and author. Known as 'Her Deepness,' she has spent over 7,0...

Conservation Pioneer Oceanography Marine Biology

9.8 Brilliant

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Victor Vescovo

Victor Vescovo is a retired US Navy Rear Admiral and explorer renowned for his Five Deeps Expedition, where he piloted t...

Technology Geography Records Oceanography

9.8 Brilliant

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Jennifer Doudna

Jennifer Doudna is a pioneer in the field of genome editing. Her co-discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9 system has fundamentall...

Innovation Nobel Prize Medicine Genetics

9.8 Brilliant

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Fabien Cousteau

Fabien Cousteau, Jacques Cousteaus grandson, continues his familys legacy of ocean exploration. Through his organization...

Legacy Research Conservation Oceanography

9.8 Brilliant

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Robert Ballard

Robert Ballard is a retired US Navy officer and professor of oceanography, best known for his discovery of the RMS Titan...

Mapping Archaeology Oceanography Deep Sea

9.4 Excellent

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Abhijit Banerjee

Abhijit Banerjee, along with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, was awarded the Nobel Prize for his experimental approach...

Economics Social Science Policy Research Poverty Alleviation

9.4 Excellent

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Esther Duflo

Esther Duflo has transformed development economics by championing the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to eval...

Economics Social Science Policy Research Poverty Alleviation

9.2 Excellent

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Denis Mukwege

Dr. Denis Mukwege is a Congolese gynecologist and human rights activist who has dedicated his life to treating victims o...

Medicine Activism Human Rights Peace

9.0 Excellent

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James Cameron

James Cameron is the ultimate technological pioneer in filmmaking, consistently pushing the boundaries of what is possib...

Action Technology Innovation Filmmaking

9.0 Excellent

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Mike Horn

Mike Horn is a South African-born Swiss professional explorer and adventurer. He is famous for his solo circumnavigation...

Adventure Mountaineering Endurance Expedition

9.0 Excellent

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Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall is a world-renowned primatologist and ethologist whose long-term study of chimpanzees in Gombe Stream Natio...

Science Wildlife Conservation Anthropology

9.0 Excellent

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Børge Ousland

Børge Ousland is a Norwegian polar explorer known for his record-breaking expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctic. He wa...

Endurance Expedition Polar Arctic

8.9 Very Good

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Barry Barish

Barry Barish is an experimental physicist whose leadership of the LIGO project was instrumental in the first detection o...

Physics Experimental Physics Astrophysics Gravitational Waves

8.9 Very Good

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Svante Pääbo

Svante Pääbo is the founder of paleogenetics. His groundbreaking work in sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal and di...

Anthropology Human Evolution Genetics Evolutionary Biology

8.9 Very Good

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Ranulph Fiennes

Sir Ranulph Fiennes is a British explorer and holder of several endurance records. He is widely considered one of the wo...

History Mountaineering Endurance Expedition

8.8 Very Good

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Nadia Murad

Nadia Murad is a Yazidi human rights activist and a survivor of genocide at the hands of ISIS. Her tireless advocacy for...

Activism Human Rights Peace Genocide Prevention

8.8 Very Good

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Ed Viesturs

Ed Viesturs is an American high-altitude mountaineer and the only American to have climbed all 14 of the world's 8,000-m...

Mountaineering Climbing Endurance Altitude

8.7 Very Good

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Andrea Ghez

Andrea Ghez is an observational astronomer who provided the most convincing evidence for a supermassive black hole at th...

Astronomy Astrophysics Black Holes Observational Astronomy

8.7 Very Good

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Nimsdai Purja

Nimsdai Purja is a Nepalese mountaineer who gained global fame for his 'Project Possible,' where he climbed all 14 of th...

Speed Mountaineering Climbing Records

8.6 Very Good

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Reinhard Genzel

Reinhard Genzel is an astrophysicist whose work on the center of the Milky Way has been instrumental in identifying the...

Astronomy Astrophysics Black Holes Galactic Center

8.6 Very Good