swap_horiz John O'Sullivan Alternatives

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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

3

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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Bob Metcalfe

Bob Metcalfe was an American engineer instrumental in the development of Ethernet networking technology. His work at Xer...

American Ethernet Networking 20TH Century

9.3 Excellent

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Edwin Howard Armstrong

Edwin Howard Armstrong was a pioneering 20th-century electrical engineer whose innovations fundamentally reshaped wirele...

Wireless Broadcast 20TH Century Electronics

9.3 Excellent

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Bob Kahn

Bob Kahn was a pivotal American inventor instrumental in developing the foundations of the internet. His work with Vint...

Internet American Networking 20TH Century

9.2 Excellent

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David Boggs

David Boggs was an American computer scientist instrumental in developing Ethernet. Working alongside Bob Metcalfe at Xe...

American Ethernet Networking 20TH Century

9.2 Excellent

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Leonard Kleinrock

Leonard Kleinrock was an American computer scientist instrumental in shaping digital networks. His 1961 development of p...

American Networking 20TH Century Packet Switching

9.1 Excellent

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Larry Roberts

Larry Roberts was an American computer scientist instrumental in pioneering network technology. He led the development o...

Internet American Networking 20TH Century

8.9 Great

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Robert Metcalfe

Robert Metcalfe was an American engineer whose work fundamentally shaped modern computing. He developed Ethernet, a netw...

Ethernet Networking 20TH Century Computing

8.9 Great

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Paul Baran

Paul Baran developed groundbreaking concepts in networking during the 1960s. His research at RAND Corporation outlined d...

Internet American Networking 20TH Century

8.8 Great

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Donald Davies

Donald Davies was a British computer scientist instrumental in developing packet switching technology during the 20th ce...

Internet Networking 20TH Century British

8.7 Great

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Vic Hayes

Vic Hayes is a Dutch electrical engineer who chaired the IEEE working group that developed the 802.11 family of wireless...

Wireless Wi Fi Networking 20TH Century

8.7 Great

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Martin Cooper

Martin Cooper was an American engineer instrumental in developing the first portable cellular telephone. His 1973 demons...

Wireless American 20TH Century Telecom

8.3 Great

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Jesse Russell

Jesse Russell is an American electrical engineer and inventor who made fundamental contributions to the development of w...

Wireless Mobile American 20TH Century

7.7 Good

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Ernst Alexanderson

Ernst Alexanderson was a Swedish-American electrical engineer who worked for General Electric and RCA. He is best known...

Wireless Radio 20TH Century Ge

7.7 Good

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George Antheil

George Antheil was an American composer and co-inventor with Hedy Lamarr of a 1942 frequency-hopping patent for secure r...

Wireless American 20TH Century Frequency Hopping

6.8 Fair