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Germany Classic Academic Mathematics

9.5 Brilliant

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Jonas Salk

Jonas Salk was a pioneering American medical researcher whose development of an inactivated poliovirus vaccine in 1955 m...

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9.4 Excellent

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Louis Pasteur

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Biology Medicine Microbiology Germ Theory

9.2 Excellent

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Dmitri Mendeleev

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9.2 Excellent

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Wilhelm Rontgen

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8.9 Great

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Heinrich Hertz

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8.7 Great

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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8.7 Great

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Fritz Haber

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8.4 Great

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Alfred Wegener

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8.4 Great

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Paul Ehrlich

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8.3 Great

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Otto Hahn

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8.3 Great

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Friedrich Wohler

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8.2 Great

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Hermann von Helmholtz

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8.2 Great

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Karl Benz

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8.1 Great

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August Kekule

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8.0 Great

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Rudolf Virchow

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8.0 Great

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Rudolf Clausius

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8.0 Great

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Robert Bunsen

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7.8 Good

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Justus von Liebig

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