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96 famous people found

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  Nikola TESLA

  Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist

  1856 - 1943
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  John Stith PEMBERTON

  American biochemist and American Civil War veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola

  1831 - 1888
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  John Harvey KELLOGG

  American medical doctor, nutritionist, inventor, health activist, anti-masturbation advocate, and businessman

  1852 - 1943
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  Edwin HUBBLE

  American astronomer

  1889 - 1953
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  James Bond

  American ornithologist and expert on the birds of the Caribbean

  1900 - 1989
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  Nettie Stevens

  American geneticist who discovered sex chromosomes

  1861 - 1912
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  George Minot

  American medical researcher who shared the 1934 Nobel Prize with George Hoyt Whipple and William P. Murphy for their pioneering work on pernicious anemia

  1885 - 1950
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  Harvey FLETCHER

  American physicist, known as the "father of stereophonic sound"

  1884 - 1981
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  Florence BASCOM

  American geologist

  1862 - 1945
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  Francis PARKMAN

  American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America

  1823 - 1893
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  Robert Andrews MILLIKAN

  American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923

  1868 - 1953
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  Theodore William RICHARDS

  First American scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

  1868 - 1928
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  Crawford LONG

  American surgeon and pharmacist best known for his first use of inhaled diethyl ether as an anesthetic

  1815 - 1878
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  Leo BAEKELAND

  Belgian-born American chemist

  1863 - 1944
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  L. L. LANGSTROTH

  American apiarist, clergyman and teacher, considered the "Father of American Beekeeping."

  1810 - 1895
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  William H. PRESCOTT

  American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian

  1796 - 1859
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  Robert H. GODDARD

  American Engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket

  1882 - 1945
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  Henry David THOREAU

  American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist

  1817 - 1862
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  Mark HOPKINS

  American educator and Congregationalist theologian, president of Williams College from 1836 to 1872

  1802 - 1887
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  Alice HAMILTON

  First woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard University and was a leading expert in the field of occupational health

  1869 - 1970