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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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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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Gerhard Domagk

Gerhard Domagk was a German pathologist who pioneered the use of sulfonamide drugs for treating bacterial infections. Hi...

German Chemistry Medicine 20TH Century

9.4 Excellent

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Albert Fert

Albert Fert was a French physicist whose independent discovery of giant magnetoresistance (GMR) revolutionized data stor...

French Physics 20TH Century Data Storage

9.4 Excellent

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Peter Grünberg

Peter Grünberg was a German physicist who revolutionized data storage technology. His independent 1988 discovery of gian...

German Physics 20TH Century Data Storage

9.4 Excellent

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Vannevar Bush

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American 20TH Century Computing Memex Concept

9.4 Excellent

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Akio Morita

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Sony Japanese 20TH Century Consumer Electronics

9.4 Excellent

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Ferdinand Porsche

Ferdinand Porsche was an Austrian-born inventor instrumental in shaping twentieth-century automotive design. His enginee...

Austrian Racing 20TH Century Automobile

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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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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Nicephore Niepce

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Camera French Photography 19TH Century

8.7 Great

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Harold Edgerton

Harold Edgerton was an American MIT engineer who developed the electronic stroboscope in the 1930s, making high-speed ph...

Photography 20TH Century Imaging Strobe

7.9 Good

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James Hillier

James Hillier was a Canadian-American physicist who helped build the first North American electron microscope in 1938 an...

Science 20TH Century Imaging Instrumentation

7.6 Good

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Marie Van Brittan Brown

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Camera Security American 20TH Century

7.5 Good

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Valerie Thomas

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American 20TH Century Imaging Nasa

7.1 Good