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Fred Sanger

Frederick Sanger was a British biochemist renowned for his groundbreaking work in molecular biology. He developed pionee...

20TH Century British Biochemistry Genetics

9.8 Brilliant

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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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Erwin Schrödinger

Erwin Schrödinger was an Austrian theoretical physicist instrumental in developing quantum mechanics. His most significa...

Austrian Physics 20TH Century Quantum Mechanics

9.6 Brilliant

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Carl Djerassi

Carl Djerassi was an Austrian-American chemist whose work profoundly impacted medicine. He synthesized norethindrone in...

Chemistry Medicine 20TH Century Austrian American

9.5 Brilliant

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Bob Noyce

Robert Noyce (1927–1990) was an American physicist, inventor, and businessman nicknamed 'the Mayor of Silicon Valley.' H...

American Silicon Valley 20TH Century Microchip

9.5 Brilliant

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George Méliès

Georges Méliès was a French illusionist, filmmaker, and theatre owner who applied stage magic techniques to early cinema...

French 19TH Century Cinema Imaging

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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Nicéphore Niépce

Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833) was a French inventor credited with creating the world's first permanent photographic image...

French Photography 19TH Century Imaging

9.3 Excellent

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Louis Daguerre

Louis Daguerre was a French artist and inventor credited with developing the daguerreotype, an early form of photography...

French Photography 19TH Century Imaging

8.9 Great

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Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was a French artist, printmaker, and inventor who played a foundational role in the history...

French Photography 19TH Century Imaging

8.9 Great

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Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist who is best known for his invention of holography...

Optics 20TH Century Imaging Holography

8.9 Great

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Nicephore Niepce

Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor who made pioneering contributions to the field of photography in the early 19th c...

Camera French Photography 19TH Century

8.7 Great

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Henry Fox Talbot

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) was a British scientist, mathematician, and classical scholar who invented the calo...

Photography 19TH Century Imaging British

8.7 Great

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Louis Le Prince

Louis Le Prince was a French artist and inventor who worked on photographic motion-picture devices in the nineteenth cen...

Camera French 19TH Century Imaging

8.6 Great

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Harold Edgerton

Harold Edgerton was an American electrical engineer and photographer who spent his academic career at the Massachusetts...

Photography 20TH Century Imaging Strobe

7.9 Good

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Charles Francis Jenkins

Charles Francis Jenkins was an American inventor who worked on motion-picture projection and mechanical television. He d...

Television American 20TH Century Imaging

7.9 Good

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James Hillier

James Hillier was a Canadian-born physicist and electrical engineer who became a United States citizen and spent much of...

Science 20TH Century Imaging Instrumentation

7.6 Good

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Marie Van Brittan Brown

Marie Van Brittan Brown was an American inventor from Queens, New York, who, alongside her husband Albert Brown, designe...

Camera Security American 20TH Century

7.5 Good

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Valerie Thomas

Valerie Thomas is an American scientist and inventor who had a prominent career at NASA. She is best known for patenting...

American 20TH Century Imaging Nasa

7.1 Good