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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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  Jane GOODALL

  English primatologist and anthropologist

  1934
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  Howard CARTER

  British archaeologist and Egyptologist who became world-famous after discovering the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun

  1874 - 1939
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  Marie CURIE

  French-Polish chemist and physicist

  1867 - 1934
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  Alan TURING

  English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist

  1912 - 1954
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  Alexander Graham BELL

  Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone

  1847 - 1922
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  Arthur CONAN DOYLE

  Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes

  1859 - 1930
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  Sigmund FREUD

  Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

  1856 - 1939
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  Che Guevara

  Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist

  1928 - 1967
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  Salvador Allende

  Chilean physician and socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile

  1908 - 1973
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  Gabriel Narutowicz

  Polish professor of hydroelectric engineering and politician who served as the first President of Poland from 11 December 1922 until his assassination on 16 December

  1865 - 1922
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  Hubert REEVES

  French Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science

  1932
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  Pierre NORA

  French historian

  1931
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  André CITROËN

  French industrialist and freemason of Dutch and Polish extraction

  1878 - 1935
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  Yves COPPENS

  French anthropologist

  1934 - 2022
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  Germaine TILLION

  French ethnologist, and a member of the French resistance

  1907 - 2008
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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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  Philippe COUSTEAU

  French documentary filmmaker specializing in environmental issues, with a background in oceanography

  1940 - 1979
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  Steve WOZNIAK

  American computer engineer and programmer who co-founded Apple Computer

  1950