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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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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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Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace is recognized as the first computer programmer for her notes on Charles Babbages Analytical Engine. Her ins...

Software Algorithm Mathematics Computer Science

9.5 Brilliant

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John Harrison

John Harrison was a British horologist and inventor of the 18th century. He dedicated his life to solving the challengin...

18TH Century Navigation British Horology

9.5 Brilliant

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James Naismith

James Naismith was a Canadian-American physical educator responsible for inventing basketball in 1891. His creation, dev...

19TH Century Sport Basketball Educator

9.4 Excellent

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Auguste Lumière

Auguste Lumière was a French inventor instrumental in the development of early cinema. He collaborated with his brother...

French Photography 19TH Century Film

9.3 Excellent

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Louis Lumière

Louis Lumière was a French inventor instrumental in the development of motion picture technology. He and his brother Aug...

French Photography 19TH Century Film

9.3 Excellent

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George Eastman

George Eastman was an American inventor instrumental in transforming photography. He established Eastman Kodak in 1892,...

American Photography 19TH Century Kodak

9.0 Excellent

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Henry Bessemer

Henry Bessemer was a British engineer instrumental in transforming industrial manufacturing. His 1856 Bessemer process d...

19TH Century Steel Industrial British

8.9 Great

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Louis Daguerre

Louis Daguerre was a French artist and inventor credited with developing the daguerreotype, an early form of photography...

French Photography 19TH Century Imaging

8.9 Great

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Sidney Gilchrist Thomas

British metallurgist who invented the basic steelmaking process in 1878, enabling efficient mass production of steel fro...

19TH Century Steel British Metallurgy

8.7 Great

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Nicephore Niepce

Nicephore Niepce was a French inventor who developed heliography and made the earliest surviving camera photograph of a...

Camera French Photography 19TH Century

8.7 Great

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William Perkin

British chemist who accidentally synthesized mauveine, the world's first synthetic dye, in 1856 at age 18, founding the...

Chemistry 19TH Century British Synthetic Dye

8.6 Great

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Richard Trevithick

Richard Trevithick was a 19th-century British inventor renowned for pioneering advancements in steam technology. He desi...

Engine 19TH Century British Transport

8.5 Great

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Frederick Lanchester

British engineer who built one of the earliest British petrol-driven cars in the 1890s and made foundational theoretical...

19TH Century Mechanical British Aerodynamics

8.4 Great

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John Walker

English chemist who invented the friction match around 1826 in Stockton-on-Tees, producing fire by striking a chemical-c...

Consumer Chemistry 19TH Century British

8.3 Great

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Robert Stephenson

Robert Stephenson was an English railway engineer whose firm built Rocket, the locomotive that won the 1829 Rainhill Tri...

Civil Engineering 19TH Century British Railway

8.2 Great

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Joseph Aspdin

Joseph Aspdin was an English bricklayer who patented Portland cement in 1824, naming it for its resemblance to Portland...

19TH Century Construction British Cement

8.2 Great

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Joseph Swan

Joseph Swan was a British physicist and inventor who demonstrated a practical incandescent electric lamp in England befo...

Light 19TH Century Electric British

7.8 Good

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Alexander Parkes

Alexander Parkes was an English metallurgist who created Parkesine, an early man-made plastic exhibited at the 1862 Inte...

19TH Century Plastic British Materials

7.6 Good