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Fred Sanger

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20TH Century British Biochemistry Genetics

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Maurice Hilleman

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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

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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

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Carl Djerassi

Carl Djerassi was an Austrian-American chemist whose work profoundly impacted medicine. He synthesized norethindrone in...

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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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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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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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Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush was an American engineer whose work profoundly influenced computing. He led scientific research efforts du...

American 20TH Century Computing Memex Concept

9.4 Excellent

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Akio Morita

Akio Morita was a Japanese inventor and key figure in establishing Sony Corporation. His most significant contribution w...

Sony Japanese 20TH Century Consumer Electronics

9.4 Excellent

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Sergei Korolev

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9.1 Excellent

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Bradford Parkinson

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Navigation Aerospace 20TH Century GPS

8.9 Great

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Ivan A. Getting

Ivan A. Getting was an American physicist and electrical engineer who played a crucial role in the development of modern...

Navigation Aerospace 20TH Century GPS

8.5 Great

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Charles Stark Draper

Charles Stark Draper was an American scientist and engineer who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT...

Navigation Aerospace 20TH Century Controls

8.3 Great

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Harold Rosen

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Aerospace Space 20TH Century Telecom

8.1 Great

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Werner von Braun

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Aerospace Space 20TH Century Rocketry

8.1 Great

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George Carruthers

George Carruthers (1939–2020) was an American astrophysicist and inventor who worked at the United States Naval Research...

American Space 20TH Century Nasa

7.8 Good

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Yvonne Brill

Yvonne Brill was a Canadian-American rocket engineer whose work focused on propulsion systems for spacecraft. She is par...

Canadian 20TH Century Spaceflight Rocket Thruster

7.3 Good

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Valerie Thomas

Valerie Thomas is an American scientist and inventor who had a prominent career at NASA. She is best known for patenting...

American 20TH Century Imaging Nasa

7.1 Good

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Mary Sherman Morgan

Mary Sherman Morgan was an American chemist and rocket-fuel specialist who developed Hydyne, a liquid propellant used in...

American 20TH Century Spaceflight Rocket Fuel

7.1 Good