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1	Albert Hoyt Taylor	1879–1961	82	An American physicist and radio engineer known as the “father of navy radar,” whose work laid the foundation for U.S. radar development
2	Isaac Asimov	1920 -1992	72	Bridged science and sci-fi with over 500 books.
3	William Wilson Morgan	1906–1994	88	An American astronomer who developed the UBV System of magnitudes and colors and was the first to provide evidence that the Milky Way galaxy has spiral arms.
4	Louis Braille	1809-1852	43	a French educator and the inventor of a reading and writing system named after him, braille, intended for use by visually impaired people. His system is used worldwide and remains virtually unchanged to this day.
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7	Zora Neale Hurston	1891-1960	69	An American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She preserved Black heritage through science and story.
8	Stephen Hawking	1942 – 2018	76	turned mind-bending ideas about black holes and the big bang into stories the public could understand. He predicted that black holes can leak radiation — a wild idea that changed cosmology.
	Johannes Fabricius	1587-1616	29	Caught the Sun in action.
	Jack Kilby	1923-2005	82	Made modern tech possible.
	Gregor Mendel	1822-1884	62	Bred peas, discovered genes.
9	Har Gobind Khorana	1922-2011	89	Helped decode DNA.
10	Norman Heatley	1911-2004	93	Scaled penicillin to save millions.
	Robert W. Wilson	1936-		Heard the echo of the Big Bang.
11	Nicholas Steno	1638-1686	48	Laid down the laws of Earths layers.
	Max Born	1882-1970	88	quantum pioneer
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15	Alexander Butlerov	1828-1886	58	Drew maps of molecules.
	William Herschel	1738-1822	84	Found planets and invisible light.
	Edward Teller	1908-2003	95	Unleashed the power of the atom.
16	Caroline Herschel	1750-1848	98	a German astronomer, whose most significant contributions to astronomy were the discoveries of several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel–Rigollet, which bears her name.
17	Benjamin Franklin	1706-1790	84	Lightning, libraries, and lightbulbs.
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19	Blaise Pascal	1623-1662	39	From vacuums to probability.
	Percy Spencer	1894-1970	76	Turned radar into popcorn.
	James Watt	1736-1819	83	Powered the Industrial Revolution.
20	Buzz Aldrin	1930-		Walked where few ever will…on the Moon
	André-Marie Ampère	1775-1836	61	French physicist and mathematician, one of the founders of classical electromagnetism; the unit of electric current, the ampere, is named after him.
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23	David Hilbert	1862-1943	81	Shaped the future of math.
	John Polanyi	1929-		Caught molecules mid-dance.
	Ernst Abbe	1840-1905	65	Sharpened how we see the small.
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25	Ilya Prigogine	1917-2003	86	Made order from chaos.
26	Polykarp Kusch	1911-1993	82	An American nuclear physicist known for his Nobel Prize-winning work on the magnetic moment of the electron.
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29	Friedrich Mohs	1773-1839	66	Ranked the rock stars of geology.
30	Douglas Engelbart	1925-2013	88	Clicked us into the future.
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1	George Washington Carver	1864-1943	79	American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted crop rotation and alternative crops to improve farming sustainability.
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4	Friedrich Hund	1896-1997	101	a German physicist from Karlsruhe known for his work on atoms and molecules. Hund’s rules are used to predict the electron configuration of chemical elements.
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6	Mary Leakey	1913-1996	83	British paleoanthropologist who discovered fossilized footprints and important hominid fossils in East Africa.
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8	Dmitri Mendeleev	1834-1907	73	Russian chemist who created the periodic table of elements, organizing elements by atomic mass.
	Jacques Hadamard	1865-1963	98	French mathematician known for contributions to number theory, functional analysis, and partial differential equations.
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11	Thomas Edison	1847-1931	84	American inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and practical electric light bulb.
12	Charles Darwin	1809-1882	73	sailed on the HMS Beagle and built the idea of natural selection from observations — finches, fossils, and islands.
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14	Fritz Zwicky	1898-1974	76	Swiss astronomer who proposed the existence of dark matter and discovered numerous supernovae.
15	Galileo Galilei	1564-1642	78	Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer known as the ‘father of modern science’; improved the telescope and championed heliocentrism.
	Henri Becquerel	1852-1908	56	French physicist who discovered radioactivity, shared the Nobel Prize with Pierre and Marie Curie.
	Gerty Cori	1896-1957	61	Czech-American biochemist, first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on carbohydrate metabolism.
	Jocelyn Bell Burnell	1943-		Northern Irish astrophysicist who discovered the first radio pulsars.
16	Johan Kjeldahl	1849-1900	51	Danish chemist who developed the Kjeldahl method for determining nitrogen content in organic compounds.
	André Michelin	1853-1931	78	French industrialist and co-founder of the Michelin tire company, known for applying science to transportation.
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18	Ernst Mach	1838-1916	78	Austrian physicist and philosopher known for work in mechanics, wave dynamics, and optics; ‘Mach number’ named after him.
19	Svante Arrhenius	1859-1927	68	Swedish scientist who founded physical chemistry and proposed the greenhouse effect theory.
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24	Victor Hess	1883-1964	81	Austrian-American physicist who discovered cosmic rays, Nobel Prize in Physics.
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10	Georg Wilhelm Steller	1709-1746	37	German botanist, zoologist, and physician who explored Alaska with Vitus Bering and described many species.
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12	Gustav Kirchhoff	1824-1887	63	a German physicist and mathematician who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.
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14	Albert Einstein	1879		reshaped physics with relativity.
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20	Walter M. Elsasser	1904-1991	87	A German-American physicist credited with developing the dynamo theory to explain the Earth’s magnetic field
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9		Tom Lehrer	1928-2025	97	was an American musician, singer-songwriter, satirist and mathematician, who later taught mathematics and musical theater. Wrote a humorous song about the names of the Elements.
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23		Max Planck	1858		introduced the quantum — tiny energy packets that changed physics forever.
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30		Carl Friedrich Gauss	1777-1855	77	A German mathematician and physicist who made fundamental contributions to many fields of mathematics.
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11	Richard Feynman	1918 – 1988	69	an American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics.
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29	Peter Higgs	1929-2024	94	A British theoretical physicist, Higgs is best known for proposing the Higgs mechanism, which explains how particles acquire mass.
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31	Jean-Pierre Christin	1683 – 1755	71	A French physicist and mathematician born in 1683, he is credited with adjusting the Celsius thermometer scale. 0O Celsius originally was the boiling point of water. He changed that to 100O Celsius.

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1	Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot			gave heat its rules
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4	Heinrich Otto Wieland	1877-1957	80	A German organic chemist, Wieland was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1927 for his research into the constitution of bile acids and related substances.
5	Jean Antoine Chaptal	1756 – 1832		A French chemist who introduced the name “nitrogen” and made contributions to growing grapes, dyeing, and the manufacture of sulfuric acid.
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9	Patrick Steptoe	1913-1988	74	A British physician who worked with Robert Edwards to develop the in vitro fertilization (IVF) technique.
10	Henry Darcy	1803–1858	55	A French scientist famous for the Darcy’s law, which describes the flow of fluids through a porous medium.
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23	Alan Turing	1912		laid computing foundations and cracked wartime codes. Visual idea: punchcards
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29	George Ellery Hale	1868-1938	69	He provided evidence that sunspots were magnetic in nature and played a critical role in founding several observatories, including the Yerkes Observatory and the Mount Wilson Observatory
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1	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	1646-1716	70	Credited, alongside Isaac Newton, with the creation of calculus in addition to many other branches of mathematics, such as binary arithmetic and statistics.
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7	Nettie Maria Stevens	1861-1912		An American biologist and geneticist who first discovered the significance of the X and Y set of chromosomes
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10	Nikola Tesla	1856-1943	86	a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, and futurist, best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electrical system.
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18	Robert Hooke	1635-1703	68	English scientist, architect, and polymath who discovered cells using a microscope and contributed to physics and biology.
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1	Maria Mitchell	1818-1889	71	American astronomer who discovered a comet in 1847 and was the first professional female astronomer in the United States.
	Jean-Baptiste Lamarck	1744-1829	85	French naturalist known for his theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics.
2	John Tyndall	1820-1893	73	Irish physicist who explained the scattering of light by atmospheric particles, known as the Tyndall effect.
	Elisha Gray	1835-1901	66	American inventor who co-founded Western Electric and was an early pioneer in telegraphy and telephony.
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5	Niels Henrik Abel	1802-1829	27	Norwegian mathematician who proved the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation by radicals.
6	Alexander Fleming	1881-1955	74	Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin, revolutionizing medicine.
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8	William Bateson	1861-1926	64	An English biologist recognized as the first professor of genetics at the University of Cambridge. He invented the term “genetics” and was a major proponent of Mendel’s work.
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13	Fredrick Sanger	1918 – 2013	95	Born in 1918, Sanger was an English biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice, in 1958 for determining the structure of insulin and in 1980 for developing the first DNA sequencing technique.
13	Anders Jonas Ångström	1814-1874	59	A Swedish physicist born in 1814, he is known for his work on spectroscopy and the measurement of the wavelengths of light.
13	Richard Willstätter	1872-1942	69	Born in 1872, this German chemist won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1915 for his research on plant pigments, particularly chlorophyll.
14	Hans Christian Ørsted	1777-1851	73	Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, a fundamental principle of electromagnetism.
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16	Ernst Haeckel	1834-1919	85	German biologist, naturalist, and artist who promoted Darwin’s work and created detailed biological illustrations.
17	Konstantin Tsiolkovsky	1857-1935	78	Russian rocket scientist and pioneer of astronautic theory.
18	Robert Hooke	1635-1703	68	English scientist, architect, and polymath who discovered cells using a microscope and contributed to physics and biology.
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23	Pierre-Simon Laplace	1749-1827	78	French mathematician and astronomer who made significant contributions to statistics, celestial mechanics, and mathematical astronomy.
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30	Ernest Rutherford	1871-1937	66	New Zealand-born physicist who discovered the concept of the nuclear structure of the atom and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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7	John C. Mather	1946		An American physicist and Nobel laureate who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite.
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11	Ulisse Aldrovandi	1522-1605	82	An Italian naturalist that was a key figure in the development of modern botany. He founded a natural history museum and library in Bologna, Italy.
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17	Konstantin Tsiolkovsky	1857-1935	78	Russian rocket scientist and pioneer of astronautic theory.
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22	Michael Faraday	1791-1867	76	discovered electromagnetic induction — the idea behind motors and generators.
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3	John Gorrie	1803-1855	52	An American physician and scientist who invented the cold-air process of refrigeration.
3	Kathryn D. Sullivan	1951		An American astronaut and oceanographer who was the first American woman to perform a spacewalk.
3	Kip Thorne	1940-		An American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate who made key contributions to the understanding of gravitational waves and black holes.
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15	Evangelista Torricelli	1608-1647	39	Italian physicist and mathematician who invented the first mercury barometer. The “torr” unit of pressure is named after him.
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24	Emmett W. Chappelle	1925		developed bioluminescence techniques used in life-detection and medicine.
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7		Marie Curie	1867		pioneered radioactivity research and was the first person to win two Nobels. First woman to earn a doctorate of science in Europe.
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5	Cecil Frank Powell	1903-1969	66	English physicist who developed the photographic method of studying nuclear processes, Nobel Prize in Physics.
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10	Ada Lovelace	1815		wrote the first algorithm for a machine that wasn’t built — the Analytical Engine.
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15	Maurice Wilkins	1916-2004	88	New Zealand-born British physicist and molecular biologist, awarded the Nobel Prize for work on the structure of DNA.
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25	Isaac Newton (Jan 4th Gregorian)	1642		Isaac Newton discovered gravity, invented calculus, and basically wrote the rulebook for motion.
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28	Arthur Eddington	1882-1944	61	An English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician. He is known for his work on stellar structure and relativity, and for confirming Einstein’s theory of general relativity by observing a solar eclipse.
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