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Fred Sanger

Frederick Sanger was a British biochemist renowned for his groundbreaking work in molecular biology. He developed pionee...

20TH Century British Biochemistry Genetics

9.8 Brilliant

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Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg developed a printing press utilizing movable type in the mid-15th century. This innovation dramatical...

German Press Printing 15TH Century

9.7 Brilliant

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Katalin Karikó

Katalin Karikó is a biochemist whose pioneering research on modified messenger RNA (mRNA) revolutionized biotechnology....

Medicine 21ST Century Biotech Hungarian American

9.7 Brilliant

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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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Mohamed Atalla

Mohamed Atalla was a pioneering electrical engineer instrumental in developing key technologies shaping the 20th century...

Bell Labs Mosfet Atm Pin 20THC

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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Wilhelm Röntgen

Wilhelm Röntgen was a German physicist whose accidental discovery of x-rays in 1895 revolutionized science and medicine....

German Physics Medicine 19TH Century

9.6 Brilliant

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André-Marie Ampère

André-Marie Ampère was a French physicist and mathematician whose work laid the foundations for electrodynamics. He inve...

18TH Century French Physics Electrical

9.6 Brilliant

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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

9.6 Brilliant

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Cai Lun

Cai Lun, a Chinese court official during the Han Dynasty, is recognized for pioneering paper production around 105 CE. H...

Chinese Paper Materials Han Dynasty

9.6 Brilliant

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Henry Maudslay

Henry Maudslay was a 19th-century English inventor primarily known for developing the first practical screw-cutting lath...

19TH Century English Machine Tools Lathe

8.9 Great

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William Henry Fox Talbot

William Henry Fox Talbot was a British photography pioneer whose 1841 calotype created paper negatives for reproducible...

Photography 19TH Century English Calotype

8.6 Great

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George Cayley

George Cayley was an English aeronautics pioneer who defined lift, drag, thrust, and weight and flew a manned glider in...

19TH Century English Glider Aeronautics

8.5 Great

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Thomas Newcomen

Thomas Newcomen developed a crucial early steam engine in the 18th century. His design, utilizing atmospheric pressure a...

18TH Century Mining Industrial English

8.4 Great

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John Kemp Starley

John Kemp Starley was an English inventor whose 1885 Rover Safety Bicycle set the pattern for the modern chain-driven bi...

19TH Century English Transport Safety Bicycle

8.4 Great

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Joseph Whitworth

Joseph Whitworth was a British engineer whose 1841 Whitworth screw thread became a major standard for machine tools and...

19TH Century English Machine Tools Screw Thread

8.3 Great

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John Kay

John Kay was an English inventor who patented the flying shuttle in 1733, accelerating broadcloth weaving with one opera...

18TH Century English Textiles Flying Shuttle

8.2 Great

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Denis Papin

Denis Papin was a French physicist who invented the steam digester in 1679, a pressure-cooker precursor with a safety va...

French Steam 17TH Century Pressure

8.1 Great

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Elijah McCoy

Elijah McCoy was a prolific 19th-century inventor renowned for his innovations in machinery lubrication. His automatic l...

19TH Century Railway Steam Engine Lubrication

8.0 Great

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Cornelis Drebbel

Cornelis Drebbel was a Dutch inventor who built an early navigable submarine in the 1620s, reportedly demonstrating it o...

Optics Submarine Mechanical Dutch

7.9 Good