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Galician-born American physicist and Nobel laureate born 29 July 1898. Worked on the 'Manhattan Project' (Trinity). Nobel laureate 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance.
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(born 1952, Indian-born American and British structural biologist, who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath, 'for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome'
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Engineer
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American Physicist.Born:05/13/1913
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1989 Nobel Prize Winning Physicist. Born:08/27/1915
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American theoretical physicist and leading expert on particle physics and cosmology
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Inventor, TIME's First-Ever Kid of the Year (2020)
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Scientist
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Flight scientist NASA Flight Director
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British Nobel Laureate physician-scientist. He is best known for his work on cellular reactions to hypoxia, for which he shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with William Kaelin Jr. and Gregg L. Semenza
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Scientist
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Scientist
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Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science
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Deemed the 'mother of comfort food,' Dorcas Reilly led the team that created the Green Bean Casserole in 1955, while working as a staff member in the Home Economics department of the Campbell Soup Company
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Israeli Professor of Chemistry and D.H.C. Enrique Berman Professor of Solar Energy at Institute of Chemistry of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, author of 532 scientific papers cited more than 30,000 times
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Firearm manufacturer and designer. Founder of the Remington Arms Company
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American polymer chemist, inventor, and professor emeritus. He is noted for his contribution to the development of Teflon. Born: 10/12/1910
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British engineer (Born: 1912) who worked as personal assistant to the creator of TV John Logie Baird in the 1930's. He is one of the great pioneering engineers of British television in the 1930's. He is now 104 and lives in East Anglia, UK
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'Dr. Werner Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member'
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Scientist, founder 'Community of Sant'Egidio'
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Fluconzaole ,anti-fungal drug inventor
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Nobel physics laureate 1996
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Nobel physics laureate 1976
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1900-1985. Seismologist and physicist, known in particular for creating the Richter magnitude scale of measuring earthquakes
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American Engineer, born 1927. JPL/NASA Project manager for first US satellite, Explorer I. First person to get it's communication that it was in orbit. Left for private career in engineering and consultation
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Pioneer in dolphin behavior and medicine research. Author
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Holly Ridings (2)Flight scientist, NASA flight director
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Professor of Astronomy & is the principal investigator for the near-infrared camera (NIRCam) on the James Webb Space Telescope
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American astrophysicist, 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt
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Has worked on the Hubble telescope
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Inventor - High resolution radar & sonar. Inducted into the National Inventors Hall Of Fame in 1994. Composer for Broadway & Off-Broadway productions. Retired lecturer from M.I.T
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nobel med. laureate 1954
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Larry Roberts (3)
Roberts and his team created packet switching and the ARPANET, which was the predecessor to the modern Internet -
1993 Winner for Nobel Prize in Medicine
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Author of the memoir Look Me in the Eye, detailing his life with undiagnosed Asperger syndrome and savant abilities. Created the signature special effects guitars played by the band KISS. Brother of memoirist Augusten Burroughs
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Engineer/Scientist during World War 2 and work on The Manhattan Project. Born 2/1924
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American Chemist who studied the effect of temperature on a baseball. In 2017 Rocks conducted an experiment studying the effect temperature has on a baseball, with Paul DeJong as his laboratory assistant.
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Flight scientist, Director of the European Space Agency
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94 laureate, medical with Alfred G.Gillman
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Scientist
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Nobel physics laureate 1986
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German born psychologist and parapsychologist who in 1958, alongside J.G Pratt defined a 'poltergeist' as a paranormal phenomenon which consists of events alluding to the manifestation of an imperceptible entity. He is now 85 and lives in Georgia, USA
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Noted archeologist...great-granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt
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American geneticist and chronobiologist. He received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine 2017
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Nobel prize laureate chemistry
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Known as the father of the geostationary satellite
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Chemist and Bridge Player lives in Mexico
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1921-2000 co-inventor zeolite catalyst that was commercially useful in petroleum industry for catalytic cracking of petroleum into products like gas. Inventor or co-inventor of 76 US patents & was inducted into the National Inventors HOF
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First known Native - American female Engineer, best remembered for her work on Aerospace design
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1995 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
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American economist. In 2012, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Lloyd Shapley 'for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design'
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Professor of Biomedical Sciences. Awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on vesicle trafficking (shared with Randy Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof)
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Nobel chemistry laureate 1995; his best-known work is the discovery that chlorofluorocarbons contribute to ozone depletion
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Nobel physics laureate 1984
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Hungarian inventor of the Rubik's Cube puzzle
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Benjamin Rubin (born 1917) Microbiologist, known as the inventor of the bifurcated vaccination needle
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American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. She is famous for uncovering the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves. She is now 84 and lives in U.S.A
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Scientist
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inventor of the compact disc
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Scientist
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Programmer and computer scientist most famous for creating Spacewar!, one of the earliest videogames, in 1961
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'Space Explorer', 'Private Space Entrepreneur'
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American molecular biologist. Ruvkun was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation
