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Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking was a renowned British theoretical physicist whose work profoundly impacted our understanding of cosmolo...

Iconic Physics Cosmology Intellectual

9.0 Brilliant

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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 Excellent

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James Watson

James Watson was a prominent American molecular biologist instrumental in advancing our understanding of genetics. His c...

Nobel Prize Biology 20TH Century Pioneer

8.8 Excellent

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Ronald Fisher

Ronald Fisher was a prominent British scientist whose work fundamentally shaped the fields of statistics and genetics. H...

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8.8 Excellent

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Barbara McClintock

Barbara McClintock was a 20th-century American geneticist whose research fundamentally reshaped our understanding of her...

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8.6 Excellent

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Thomas Hunt Morgan

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8.5 Excellent

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E. O. Wilson

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8.4 Excellent

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Theodosius Dobzhansky

Theodosius Dobzhansky was a Ukrainian-born American geneticist whose work profoundly shaped evolutionary biology. He cha...

Academic Biology Evolution Intellectual

8.3 Excellent

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Alfred Russel Wallace

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8.3 Excellent

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Ernst Mayr

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8.2 Excellent

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Sydney Brenner

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8.1 Excellent

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Gerty Cori

Gerty Cori was a pioneering biochemist whose research fundamentally advanced our understanding of carbohydrate metabolis...

Nobel Prize Biology 20TH Century Pioneer

8.1 Excellent

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Paul Nurse

Paul Nurse was a pioneering British geneticist whose research fundamentally advanced our understanding of cell biology a...

Nobel Prize Biology 21ST Century Pioneer

7.8 Very Good

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Richard Dawkins

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Classic Biology Evolution Intellectual

7.8 Very Good

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John Maynard Smith

John Maynard Smith was a highly influential British academic whose research fundamentally shaped our understanding of ev...

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7.7 Very Good

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Maurice Wilkins

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Nobel Prize Biology Researcher 20TH Century

7.6 Very Good

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Sewall Wright

Sewall Wright was a pivotal 20th-century American biologist known for his foundational work in population genetics. He s...

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7.6 Very Good

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William Hamilton

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Classic Academic Biology Evolution

7.6 Very Good

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Motoo Kimura

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7.4 Very Good

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William Bateson

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Classical Academic England Biology

7.2 Very Good