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134 famous people found

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  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  American theoretical physicist and director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II

  1904 - 1967
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  Nikola TESLA

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

  1856 - 1943
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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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  Steve WOZNIAK

  American computer engineer and programmer who co-founded Apple Computer

  1950
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  James Bond

  American ornithologist and expert on the birds of the Caribbean

  1900 - 1989
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  John MUIR

  Scottish-American:42 naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States of America

  1838 - 1914
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  Phil MCGRAW

  American television personality, author, psychologist, and the host of the television show Dr. Phil

  1950
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  Nettie Stevens

  American geneticist who discovered sex chromosomes

  1861 - 1912
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  William Shockley

  American physicist

  1910 - 1989
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  Walter Houser Brattain

  American physicist

  1902 - 1987
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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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  Grace HOPPER

  American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral

  1906 - 1992
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  Anthony FAUCI

  American physician and immunologist, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

  1940
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  Michael Stuart Brown

  American geneticist and Nobel laureate

  1941
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  Rachel CARSON

  American marine biologist, author, and conservationist

  1907 - 1964
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  Robert FURCHGOTT

  Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist

  1916 - 2009
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  Owsley STANLEY

  American audio engineer and clandestine chemist, key figure in the San Francisco Bay Area hippie movement

  1935 - 2011
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  Florence BASCOM

  American geologist

  1862 - 1945
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  James OLDS

  American psychologist

  1922 - 1976
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  Sherwood WASHBURN

  American physical anthropologist and pioneer in the field of primatology

  1911 - 2000