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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

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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

9.6 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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Craig Mello

Craig Mello is an American biologist recognized for his pivotal role in identifying RNA interference. His research demon...

American Medicine 20TH Century Genetics

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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Edwin Land

Edwin Land was an American inventor pivotal to the development of modern photography. His creation, the Polaroid Land ca...

American Optics 20TH Century Polaroid

9.3 Excellent

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Leroy Hood

Leroy Hood was an American biologist whose invention of the automated DNA sequencer revolutionized biotechnology. His wo...

American 20TH Century Biotechnology Genomics

9.3 Excellent

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Seymour Cray

Seymour Cray was an American electrical engineer whose innovative designs revolutionized computer hardware. He created t...

Hardware American 20TH Century Computing

9.3 Excellent

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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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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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Charles F. Kettering

Charles Kettering was an American inventor most notably recognized for his development of the electric automobile starte...

American 20TH Century Automobile Gm

9.2 Excellent

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James L. Fergason

James L. Fergason was an American inventor instrumental in the development of practical twisted nematic liquid crystal d...

American 20TH Century LCD Display Materials

9.2 Excellent

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Dan Bricklin

Dan Bricklin is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur who co-created VisiCalc with Bob Frankston. VisiCalc wa...

Software American Spreadsheet 20TH Century

9.1 Excellent

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Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak was a pioneering American electronics designer instrumental in the creation of personal computers. His inn...

Apple Hardware American 20TH Century

8.9 Great

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Bob Frankston

Bob Frankston is an American computer programmer and software engineer who, with Dan Bricklin, co-created VisiCalc. Deve...

Software American Spreadsheet 20TH Century

8.8 Great

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Gary Kildall

Gary Arlen Kildall was an American computer scientist who created the CP/M operating system in 1974. He founded Digital...

Software American 20TH Century Computing

8.5 Great

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Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman was a pivotal 20th-century American inventor and software advocate. He spearheaded the GNU project, dev...

Software American 20TH Century Free Software

8.4 Great

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Adele Goldberg

Adele Goldberg was a pioneering American computer scientist instrumental in developing Smalltalk at Xerox PARC during th...

Software American GUI 20TH Century

8.2 Great

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Brendan Eich

Brendan Eich developed JavaScript in 1995 while working for Netscape. This language quickly became essential for interac...

Software American Javascript 20TH Century

8.2 Great