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Fred Sanger

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20TH Century British Biochemistry Genetics

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Katalin Karikó

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Medicine 21ST Century Biotech Hungarian American

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Maurice Hilleman

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American Medicine 20TH Century Vaccines

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Wright brothers

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

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Wilhelm Röntgen

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Erwin Schrödinger

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Carl Djerassi

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Andrew Fire

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American Medicine 20TH Century Genetics

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American Medicine 20TH Century Genetics

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Peter Grünberg

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9.3 Excellent

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Robert Jarvik

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John Charnley

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Medicine 20TH Century British Hip Replacement

8.5 Great

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Jay Wright Forrester

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8.5 Great

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Baruch Blumberg

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8.5 Great

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Harold Edgerton

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Photography 20TH Century Imaging Strobe

7.9 Good

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Rune Elmqvist

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Rachel Fuller Brown

Rachel Fuller Brown was an American chemist who co-developed nystatin with Elizabeth Lee Hazen in the 1950s, the first u...

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7.4 Good

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