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Adam Smith

Adam Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations' (1776) remains the cornerstone of modern economics. His articulation of the 'invisi...

18TH Century Classic Philosophy Intellectual

9.5 Brilliant

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Max Planck

Max Planck was a German physicist whose groundbreaking work fundamentally shaped modern physics. He established quantum...

Germany Physics Academic Theoretical Physics

9.5 Brilliant

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Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman was a pioneering 20th-century American theoretical physicist. His work fundamentally shaped quantum elec...

Iconic Physics Theoretical Physics Nobel Prize

9.4 Excellent

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Erwin Schrodinger

Erwin Schrödinger was an Austrian theoretical physicist whose work fundamentally shaped the development of quantum mecha...

Austria Physics Academic Nobel Prize

9.3 Excellent

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Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford was a pioneering 20th-century physicist born in New Zealand. His groundbreaking experiments with alpha...

Physics New Zealand Nobel Prize 20TH Century

9.2 Excellent

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Lise Meitner

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Austria Physics Nobel Prize Radioactivity

9.1 Excellent

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Alexander Fleming

Alexander Fleming was a Scottish bacteriologist whose accidental observation led to the discovery of penicillin in 1928....

Nobel Prize Scotland Medicine Microbiology

9.1 Excellent

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Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman was a leading proponent of free markets and limited government, profoundly influencing economic policy w...

Academic Intellectual Influential Scientist Historical

9.0 Excellent

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Wolfgang Pauli

Wolfgang Pauli was an Austrian theoretical physicist profoundly influential in 20th-century science. His work shaped qua...

Austria Physics Academic Nobel Prize

9.0 Excellent

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John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes was a prominent British economist who significantly impacted the study of economics during the 20th...

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9.0 Excellent

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Wilhelm Rontgen

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8.9 Great

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Francis Crick

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Nobel Prize Biology 20TH Century Historical

8.9 Great

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Frederick Sanger

Frederick Sanger was a British biochemist renowned for his groundbreaking work in sequencing biological molecules. His d...

Nobel Prize Biology 20TH Century Pioneer

8.9 Great

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Kurt Godel

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Austria Philosophy Mathematics Logic

8.9 Great

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Karl Marx

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Germany Philosophy 19TH Century Economics

8.7 Great

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John Nash

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Mathematics Nobel Prize Economics Intellectual

8.6 Great

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Paul Samuelson

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Nobel Prize Economics Intellectual 20TH Century

8.5 Great

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Amartya Sen

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Academic India Nobel Prize Economics

8.4 Great

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Karl Landsteiner

Karl Landsteiner was an Austrian physician whose groundbreaking research revolutionized medicine. He identified and clas...

Austria Nobel Prize Medicine 20TH Century

8.3 Great

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Karl von Frisch

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Austria Nobel Prize Biology 20TH Century

7.6 Good