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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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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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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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Nolan Bushnell

Nolan Bushnell was an American inventor instrumental in shaping the modern video game industry. He co-founded Atari in 1...

American Consumer 20TH Century Atari

9.1 Excellent

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Gertrude B. Elion

Gertrude B. Elion was an American pharmacologist who co-developed drugs such as 6-mercaptopurine and shared the 1988 Nob...

American 20TH Century Medical Drugs

8.8 Great

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Charles Darrow

American game designer who commercialized Monopoly and licensed it to Parker Brothers in 1935, making it one of the worl...

American Consumer 20TH Century Board Game

8.3 Great

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Clarence Birdseye

Clarence Birdseye was an American inventor and entrepreneur who developed quick-freezing food methods in the 1920s, foun...

American Consumer 20TH Century Frozen Food

8.1 Great

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King C. Gillette

King C. Gillette was an American businessman who patented a safety razor using disposable thin blades in 1904, shaping m...

American Consumer 20TH Century Razor

7.8 Good

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Ruth Handler

Ruth Handler was an American businesswoman who co-founded Mattel and introduced the Barbie doll in 1959 after studying E...

American Consumer 20TH Century Toy

7.6 Good

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Jacob Schick

Jacob Schick was an American inventor and U.S. Army officer who patented an electric dry shaver in the 1920s and founded...

American Consumer 20TH Century Shaving

7.4 Good

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Marion Donovan

Marion Donovan was an American inventor who patented a waterproof diaper cover in 1951, helping inspire the later dispos...

American Consumer 20TH Century Parenting

7.3 Good

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Madam C. J. Walker

Madam C. J. Walker was an American entrepreneur who founded a hair-care company in 1910 and is recorded as the first U.S...

American Consumer 20TH Century Haircare

7.3 Good

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Beulah Louise Henry

Beulah Louise Henry was an American inventor nicknamed Lady Edison, holding dozens of patents for devices such as a 1924...

American Consumer 20TH Century Umbrella

7.2 Good

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Ann Tsukamoto

Ann Tsukamoto is an American stem-cell researcher named on a 1991 patent for isolating human hematopoietic stem cells, i...

American 20TH Century Medical Biotech

7.1 Good

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Bessie Blount Griffin

Bessie Blount Griffin was an American physical therapist who devised an electric self-feeding device for amputees and pa...

American 20TH Century Medical Assistive

6.9 Fair