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Maurice Hilleman was a prominent American microbiologist whose groundbreaking work significantly advanced vaccine develo...

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Orville and Wilbur Wright were American inventors credited with inventing, building, and flying the world’s first succes...

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

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Seymour Cray

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Earle Dickson was an American inventor best known for creating the Band-Aid adhesive bandage in 1920. While working as a...

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Charles Darrow

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Marion Donovan

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