Geniuses Who Changed the World

The minds behind humanity's greatest breakthroughs

516 Geniuses

Geniuses Who Changed the World

Discover 516 geniuses whose ideas, inventions, and discoveries fundamentally changed the course of human history.

Marnen Laibow-Koser
b. 1970 · United States
Being a child prodigy, proficient with multiple musical instruments and programming techniques.
IQ 268
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Ainan Celeste Cawley
b. 1999 · SG
Being a child prodigy with estimated IQ of 250.
IQ 250
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William James Sidis
1898–1944 · United States
The Animate And The Inanimate
IQ 250
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Chris Hirata
b. 1982 · United States
Being the youngest U.S. citizen to receive an International Physics Olympiad gold medal. Starting wo
IQ 225
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Terence Chi-Shen Tao
b. 1975 · Australia
When he was two years old, he was able to perform simple arithmetic. By the time he was nine, he was
IQ 220
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Kim Ung-yong
b. 1962 · South Korea
Having one of the biggest IQs in the world.
IQ 210
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Aristotle
b. 384 · Greece
A genius whose philosophical ideas are still taught, but his contributions to physics retarded progr
IQ 200
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Edith Stern
b. 1952 · United States
Holding over 100 US patents and being awarded the ASME Kate Gleason Award.
IQ 200
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749–1832 · Germany
Faust
IQ 200
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Leonardo Da Vinci
1452–1519 · Italy
Painting, drawing, sculpting, science, engineering, architecture, anatomy
IQ 200
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Michael Grost
b. 1954 · United States
Starting university at the tender age of 10, the maths prodigy is now a computer scientist, accordin
IQ 200
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Michael Kearney
b. 1984 · United States
Child prodigy, youngest person to ever graduate from college (age 10)
IQ 200
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Nadia Camukova
b. 1976 · Russia
It's been previously reported Camukova has the highest IQ in the world, and the talented linguist ha
IQ 200
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Leopold and Loeb
1905–1971 · United States
Being murderer obsessed with committing the “perfect crime.” Their murder of a 14 years old was the
IQ 200
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Sho Yano
b. 1990 · United States
The youngest student at the University of Chicago to receive an MD, Yano had one degree under his be
IQ 200
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Vitalik Buterin
b. 1994 · Russia
Ethereum founder, Bitcoin Magazine
IQ 200
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Evangelos Katsioulis
b. 1976 · Greece
<br> Highest adult IQ in the world (2012): IQ 198, sd 15 or IQ 205, sd 16 <br>
IQ 198
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Walter O'Brien (Obrien)
b. 1975 · Ireland
Inspiration of the television series Scorpion
IQ 197
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Empedocles
b. 490 · Greece
An ancient theory of natural selection; mass conservation; and the four elements which are now often
IQ 195
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Gilbert N. Lewis
1875–1946 · United States
Covalent bondLewis dot structuresValence bond theoryElectronic theory of acids and basesChemical the
IQ 195
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Henry Adams
1838–1918 · United States
The Education of Henry Adams, The History of the United States of America 1801–1817
IQ 195
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Hermann von Helmholtz
1821–1894 · Germany
His mathematics of the eye, theories of vision, ideas on the visual perception of space, color visio
IQ 195
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Ludwig Boltzmann
1844–1906 · Austria
The development of statistical mechanics
IQ 195
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Nikola Tesla
1856–1943 · Croatia
Inventing the Tesla coil, alternating current machinery, and a transatlantic communications system.
IQ 195
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Pierre-Simon Laplace
1749–1827 · France
Predicting the existence of black holes
IQ 195
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Ramón Campayo
b. 1964 · Spain
Speed-Memory program, World Memory Records
IQ 194
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Mislav Predavec
b. 1967 · Croatia
His remarcable IQ test scores and considered therefore as one of the smartest people alive.
IQ 192
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Archimedes
b. 287 · Greece
Archimedes' principleArchimedes' screwhydrostaticsleversinfinitesimalsNeuseis constructions
IQ 190
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
1777–1855 · Germany
Gaussian elimination, also known as "row reduction" or "Gaussian method" <br> Gauss–Jordan eliminati
IQ 190
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Christiaan Huygens
1629–1695 · Netherlands
Explanation of Saturn's rings <br> Centrifugal force <br> Collision formulae <br> Gambler's ruin <br
IQ 190
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Enrico Fermi
1901–1954 · Italy
Demonstrating first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction Fermi–Dirac statistics Fermi's golden ru
IQ 190
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Erwin Schrödinger
1887–1961 · Austria
Schrödinger's cat
IQ 190
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Voltaire
1694–1778 · France
The novel Candide
IQ 190
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Friedrich Nietzsche
1844–1900 · Germany
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good & Evil
IQ 190
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Garry Kasparov
b. 1963 · AZ
Being the top chess player from 1984 until 2005
IQ 190
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Giordano Bruno
1548–1600 · Italy
His cosmological theories, which conceptually extended the then-novel Copernican model
IQ 190
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Isaac Newton
1643–1727 · England
Newtonian mechanics <br> Universal gravitation <br> Calculus <br> Newton's laws of motion <br> Optic
IQ 190
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John von Neumann
1903–1957 · Hungary
Abelian von Neumann algebra Affiliated operator Amenable group Arithmetic logic unit Artificial visc
IQ 190
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Joseph-Louis Lagrange
1736–1813 · Italy
Analytical mechanics, celestial mechanics, mathematical analysis, number theory, theory of equations
IQ 190
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Henri Poincaré
1854–1912 · France
Poincaré conjecture
IQ 190
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Leonhard Euler
1707–1783 · Switzerland
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IQ 190
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Linus Pauling
1901–1994 · United States
Alpha sheet <br> Ancestral sequence reconstruction <br> Backbonding <br> Beta sheet <br> Bond order
IQ 190
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Max Planck
1858–1947 · Germany
On the Second Principles of Mechanical Heat Theory (1879)
IQ 190
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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
1796–1832 · France
Carnot cycle <br> Carnot efficiency <br> Carnot theorem<br> Carnot heat engine
IQ 190
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Paul Dirac
1902–1984 · England
Sharing the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive
IQ 190
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Philip Emeagwali
b. 1954 · NG
being the "Bill Gates of Africa"
IQ 190
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Pierre Gassendi
1592–1655 · France
Calor vitalis (vital heat)
IQ 190
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Vilfredo Pareto
1848–1923 · Italy
The Pareto Principle
IQ 190
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Wilhelm Ostwald
1853–1932 · LV
Catalysis, Coining the term 'Mole' and HSL and HSV
IQ 190
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William Shakespeare
1564–1616 · United Kingdom
Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, King Lyr
IQ 190
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Marilyn vos Savant
b. 1946 · United States
Penning the 'Ask Marilyn' column in Parade magazine and solving the 'Monty Hall Problem' in the proc
IQ 186
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Adragon Eastwood De Mello
b. 1976 · United States
Graduating from college at the age of 11.
IQ 185
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Alan Turing
1912–1954 · England
Cryptanalysis of the Enigma <br> Turing's proof <br> Turing machine <br> Turing test <br> Unorganise
IQ 185
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Alfred J. Lotka
1880–1949 · United States
The Lotka–Volterra equations
IQ 185
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Arthur Schopenhauer
1788–1860 · Germany
The World as Will and Representation (1818)
IQ 185
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Auguste Comte
1798–1857 · France
Formulating the doctrine of positivism.
IQ 185
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Blaise Pascal
1623–1662 · France
Pascal's law
IQ 185
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Democritus
b. 460 · Greece
Atomism and Aetiology
IQ 185
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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
1775–1854 · Germany
Naturphilosophie
IQ 185
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Gerald Massey
1828–1907 · United Kingdom
The Ballad of Babe Christabel (1854), War Waits (1855), Havelock's March (1860), and A Tale of Etern
IQ 185
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Hero of Alexandria
10–70 · Greece
Aeolipile <br> Heron's fountain <br> Heron's formula <br> Vending machine
IQ 185
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Humphry Davy
1778–1829 · United Kingdom
Electrolysis, aluminium, sodium, potassium, calcium, strontium, magnesium, barium, boron, Davy lamp
IQ 185
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Immanuel Kant
1724–1804 · Germany
Critique of Pure Reason
IQ 185
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James Clerk Maxwell
1831–1879 · Scotland
Statistical mechanics <br> Maxwell's equations <br> Displacement current <br> Maxwell relations
IQ 185
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Jean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales
1741–1816 · France
The Philosophy of Nature: Treatise on Human Moral Nature
IQ 185
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Jean le Rond d'Alembert
1717–1783 · France
D'Alembert criterion <br> D'Alembert force <br> D'Alembert's form of the principle of virtual work
IQ 185
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Leon Winiarski
1865–1915 · Poland
Essay on Social Mechanics
IQ 185
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Otto von Guericke
1602–1686 · Germany
vacuum, atmospheric pressure, Electrostatics
IQ 185
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792–1822 · England
"Ozymandias" (1818), "Ode to the West Wind" (1819), "To a Skylark" (1820), and “The Mask of Anarchy”
IQ 185
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Percy Williams Bridgman
1882–1961 · United States
High-pressure physics <br> Operationalism <br> Operational definition
IQ 185
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Pierre Louis Maupertuis
1698–1759 · France
Principle of least action, precursor of transmutation
IQ 185
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Robert Boyle
1627–1691 · Ireland
Boyle's law and Corpuscularianism
IQ 185
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Roger Joseph Boscovich
1711–1787 · Croatia
Precursor of the atomic theoryFounder of Brera Observatory
IQ 185
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Satyendra Nath Bose
1894–1974 · India
Bose–Einstein condensateBose–Einstein statisticsBose–Einstein distributionBose–Einstein correlations
IQ 185
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Sigmund Freud
1856–1939 · Austria
Psychoanalysis, including the theories of id, ego and super-ego, oedipus complex, repression, defens
IQ 185
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Thomas Edison
1847–1931 · United States
The phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb
IQ 185
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Thomas Young
1773–1829 · United Kingdom
Wave theory of light <br> Double-slit experiment <br> Astigmatism <br> Young–Dupré equation <br> You
IQ 185
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Thomas Hobbes
1588–1679 · United Kingdom
The Leviathan
IQ 185
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William Gilbert (physician)
1544–1603 · United Kingdom
Studies of magnetism, De Magnete
IQ 185
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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
1824–1907 · United Kingdom
Joule–Thomson effect Thomson effect (thermoelectric) Mirror galvanometer Siphon recorder Kelvin mat
IQ 185
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Ettore Majorana
1906–1938 · Italy
The Italian theoretical physicist was an expert in electrically neutral subatomic particles created
IQ 183
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
1646–1716 · Germany
Discourse on Metaphysics,Théodicée, integral calculus
IQ 182
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Theodor Schwann
1810–1882 · Germany
Cell theory, Schwann cells, Pepsin
IQ 182
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Arthur Conan Doyle
1859–1930 · Scotland
Stories of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World
IQ 180
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Albertus Magnus
1200–1280
Systematic study of mineralsdiscovery of the element arsenic
IQ 180
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Alexander Graham Bell
1847–1922 · Scotland
Invention of the telephone.
IQ 180
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Alexander von Humboldt
1769–1859 · Germany
Biogeography, Kosmos (1845–1862), Humboldt Current, magnetic storm, Humboldtian science, Berlin Roma
IQ 180
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Alexander Pope
1688–1744 · United Kingdom
The Dunciad, The Rape of the Lock, An Essay on Criticism, His translation of Homer.
IQ 180
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Alexander the Great
356–323 · MK
Creating one of the largest empires by the age of 30.
IQ 180
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Anaxagoras
500–428 · Greece
The idea of Cosmic Mind (Nous) ordering all things and the Milky Way (Via Lactea) as a concentration
IQ 180
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Anaximander
610–546 · Greece
The first person in history to recognize that our planet is free in space and does not need to sit o
IQ 180
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André-Marie Ampère
1775–1836 · France
Ampère's circuital law <br> Ampère's force law <br> Ampère's right hand grip rule <br> Avogadro-Ampè
IQ 180
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Antoine Lavoisier
1743–1794 · France
Combustion <br> Identified oxygen <br> Identified hydrogen <br> Stoichiometry
IQ 180
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Augustin-Jean Fresnel
1788–1827 · France
His research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light.
IQ 180
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Augustine of Hippo
354–430 · DZ
Confessions <br> On Christian Doctrine <br> On the Trinity <br> The City of God
IQ 180
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Avicenna
980–1037 · UZ
The Book of Healing <br> The Canon of Medicine
IQ 180
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Barthold Georg Niebuhr
1776–1831 · Denmark
Germany's leading historian of Ancient Rome, Father of modern scholarly historiography.
IQ 180
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Benjamin Franklin
1706–1790 · United States
Being the founding father of the USA <br> Shaping the understanding of electricity <br> Inventing th
IQ 180
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George Bernard Shaw
1856–1950 · Ireland
Man and Superman (1902) Pygmalion (1912) The Doctor's Dilemma (1906) Saint Joan (1923) Caesar an
IQ 180
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Bernhard Riemann
1826–1866 · Germany
Riemann–von Mangoldt formula, Riemann bilinear relations, Cauchy–Riemann equations, Free Riemann gas
IQ 180
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Carl Linnaeus
1707–1778 · Sweden
Binomial nomenclature Scientific classification Taxonomy
IQ 180
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Charlemagne
742–814 · France
Uniting the majority of western and central Europe.
IQ 180
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Charles Darwin
1809–1882 · United Kingdom
The Voyage of the Beagle <br> On the Origin of Species <br> The Descent of Man
IQ 180
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Claude Shannon
1916–2001 · United States
Information theory
IQ 180
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David Hume
1711–1776 · Scotland
His highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism
IQ 180
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Denis Diderot
1713–1784 · France
La Religieuse
IQ 180
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Denis Papin
1647–1713 · France
Steam digester
IQ 180
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Edward Gibbon
1737–1794 · United Kingdom
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
IQ 180
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Ernst Haeckel
1834–1919 · Germany
Mapping a genealogical tree relating all life forms
IQ 180
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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
1772–1844 · France
Philosophie anatomique
IQ 180
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Filippo Brunelleschi
1377–1446 · Italy
Architecture, sculpture, mechanical engineering
IQ 180
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Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
1845–1926 · United Kingdom
Being the founding editor of The Economic Journal.
IQ 180
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François Fénelon
1651–1715 · France
The Adventures of Telemachus
IQ 180
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Frederick Rossini
1899–1990 · United States
Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances
IQ 180
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
1821–1881 · Russia
Notes from Underground <br> Crime and Punishment <br> The Idiot <br> Demons <br> The Brothers Karama
IQ 180
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Galileo Galilei
1564–1642 · Italy
Analytical dynamics, heliocentrism, kinematics, observational astronomy
IQ 180
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Genghis Khan
1155–1227 · MN
Creating one of the greatest empires in history.
IQ 180
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George Green
1793–1841 · United Kingdom
Green measure <br> Green's function <br> Green's identities <br> Green's law <br> Green's matrix <br
IQ 180
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George Berkeley
1685–1753 · United Kingdom
An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
IQ 180
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Giacomo Leopardi
1798–1837 · Italy
The Idilli
IQ 180
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Hans Christian Ørsted
1777–1851 · Netherlands
Discovery of electromagnetism and Aluminium
IQ 180
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Heinrich Hertz
1857–1894 · Germany
Proving the existence of the electromagnetic waves
IQ 180
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Hendrik Lorentz
1853–1928 · Netherlands
Zeeman effect
IQ 180
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Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
1778–1868 · United Kingdom
Playing a prominent role in passing the 1832 Reform Act and 1833 Slavery Abolition Act.
IQ 180
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Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
1749–1791 · France
A leader of the early stages of the French Revolution
IQ 180
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Ivan Pavlov
1849–1936 · Russia
Being the founder of modern behavior therapy
IQ 180
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James Anthony Froude
1818–1894 · England
History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada
IQ 180
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James Prescott Joule
1818–1889 · England
First law of thermodynamicsDisproving caloric theory
IQ 180
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James Madison
1751–1836 · United States
Being the drafter of the US constitution.
IQ 180
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Jean Sylvain Bailly
1736–1793 · France
Being a political leader of the early part of the French Revolution
IQ 180
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1712–1778 · Switzerland
Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract
IQ 180
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Joseph Fourier
1768–1830 · France
Fourier number <br> Fourier series <br> Fourier transform <br> Fourier's law of conduction <br> Four
IQ 180
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Jeremy Bentham
1748–1832 · United Kingdom
Being the founder of modern utilitarianism
IQ 180
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Johannes Kepler
1571–1630 · Germany
Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae.
IQ 180
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John H. Sununu
b. 1939 · United States
Being White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush.
IQ 180
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John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
1842–1919 · United Kingdom
Discovery of argon
IQ 180
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John Toland
1670–1722 · Ireland
Christianity not Mysterious (1696)
IQ 180
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John Tukey
1915–2000 · United States
Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm and box plot
IQ 180
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John Stuart Mill
1806–1873 · United Kingdom
On Liberty, The Subjection of Women
IQ 180
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John Bardeen
1908–1991 · United States
Transistor BCS theory Superconductivity
IQ 180
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John Locke
1632–1704 · United Kingdom
Being known as the "Father of Liberalism"
IQ 180
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John Forbes Nash Jr.
1928–2015 · United States
Nash equilibrium <br> Nash embedding theorem <br> Nash functions <br> Nash–Moser theorem <br> Hilber
IQ 180
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Jöns Jacob Berzelius
1779–1848 · Sweden
Atomic weights and Chemical notation
IQ 180
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Jorge Luis Borges
1899–1986 · Argentina
A Universal History of Infamy (1935), Ficciones (1944), El Aleph (1949), Labyrinths (1962) and The B
IQ 180
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Joseph John Thomson
1856–1940 · United Kingdom
Discovery of the electron
IQ 180
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Julius von Mayer
1814–1878 · Germany
The first law of thermodynamics and Mayer's reagent
IQ 180
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Karl Marx
1818–1883 · Germany
The fact that his teachings lead to revolutions in Russia, China, Cuba, Vietnam, and Cambodia.
IQ 180
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Lawrence Joseph Henderson
1878–1942 · United States
The Fitness of the Environment, Henderson–Hasselbalch equation
IQ 180
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Leo Tolstoy
1828–1910 · Russia
War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Kingdom of God Is Within You, Resurrecti
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Leon Battista Alberti
1404–1472 · Italy
Tempio Malatestiano, Palazzo Rucellai, and Santa Maria Novella.
IQ 180
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Leucippus
b. 460 · Greece
Creating the philosophical theory of atomism.
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Lord Byron
1788–1824 · England
Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
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Louis de Broglie
1892–1987 · France
Wave nature of electrons <br> De Broglie–Bohm theoryde <br> Broglie wavelength
IQ 180
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Ludwig Büchner
1824–1899 · Germany
Kraft und Stoff
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Marie Curie
1867–1934 · Poland
Radioactivity Polonium Radium
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Marquis de Condorcet
1743–1794 · France
Girondin constitutional project and Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Min
IQ 180
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Mary Somerville
1780–1872 · United Kingdom
Self-taught mathematician and polymath; bestselling popularizer of science; acclaimed for her transl
IQ 180
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Michel de Montaigne
1533–1592 · France
Essais
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Mimar Sinan
1488–1588 · Turkey
Turkish architect.
IQ 180
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Napoleon Bonaparte
1769–1821 · France
<br> Military genius <br> First emperor of france <br> conqueror
IQ 180
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Niccolò Machiavelli
1469–1527 · Italy
The Prince
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Niels Bohr
1885–1962 · Denmark
Bohr magneton <br> Bohr model <br> Bohr radius <br> Bohr–Einstein debates <br> Bohr–Kramers–Slater t
IQ 180
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Oliver Heaviside
1850–1925 · England
Heaviside cover-up method <br> Heaviside step function <br> Heaviside condition <br> Heaviside-Feynm
IQ 180
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Phidias
480–430 · Greece
Greek sculptor; noted for statue of Zeus at Olympia, considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Anci
IQ 180
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
1881–1955 · France
Co-developing the concept of the noosphere.
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Plato
428–348 · Greece
Apology <br> Crito <br> Euthyphro <br> Meno <br> Parmenides <br> Phaedo <br> Phaedrus <br> Republic
IQ 180
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Pythagoras
b. 570 · Greece
Communalism <br> Metempsychosis <br> Musica universalis
IQ 180
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Stephen Hawking
1942–2018 · United Kingdom
Hawking radiation, A Brief History of Time, Penrose–Hawking theorems, Black hole information paradox
IQ 180
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Strabo
63–24 · Turkey
Geographica
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Thales of Miletus
b. 626 · Greece
The first scientist in history, Thales looked for patterns in nature to explain the way the world wo
IQ 180
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Thomas Wolsey
1473–1530 · United Kingdom
Remembered second to Henry VIII, Wolsey was a seriously smart statesman who masterfully controlled t
IQ 180
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Thomas Paine
1737–1809 · United Kingdom
Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783
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Lucretius
Italy
On the Nature of Things
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Tommaso Campanella
1568–1639 · Italy
Metaphysica
IQ 180
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Torbern Bergman
1735–1784 · Sweden
Chemical affinity tables
IQ 180
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Victor Hugo
1802–1885 · France
Les Misérables <br> Ruy Blas <br> The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
IQ 180
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Werner Heisenberg
1901–1976 · Germany
The creation of quantum mechanics
IQ 180
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Wernher von Braun
1912–1977 · Germany
Chief architect of the Apollo Saturn V rocket; development of the V-2 rocket
IQ 180
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Willem Jacob 's Gravesande
1688–1742 · Netherlands
Developing experimental demonstrations of the laws of classical mechanics.
IQ 180
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William Harvey
1578–1657 · England
Discovering how the human bloodflow works
IQ 180
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Macquorn Rankine
1820–1872 · United Kingdom
Rankine scale Laws of thermodynamics Rankine–Hugoniot relation
IQ 180
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William Pitt the Younger
1759–1806 · United Kingdom
Becoming the youngest prime minister of Great Britain in 1783 at the age of 24
IQ 180
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Abu al Ala Al Ma'arri
973–1057 · SY
The Tinder Spark, Unnecessary Necessity, and The Epistle of Forgiveness.
IQ 178
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Erasmus
1469–1536 · Netherlands
In Praise of Folly <br> Handbook of a Christian Knight <br> On Civility in Children <br> Julius Excl
IQ 177
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Michelangelo
1475–1564 · Italy
Pietà (1498–1499) <br> David (1501–1504) <br> Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508–1512) <br> Moses (1513–15
IQ 177
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Abraham Lincoln
1809–1865 · United States
16th American president Noted for his Emancipation Proclamation (1863) which ended slavery and br
IQ 175
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Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan
721–813 · Iran
His ‘three principles’ theory of generalized chemical properties, one of which, sulphur representati
IQ 175
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Adolphe Quetelet
1796–1874 · Belgium
<br> First to apply the statistical normal distribution to characteristics of human populations <br>
IQ 175
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Adrien Marie Legendre
1752–1833 · France
Legendre transformation, Legendre polynomials, Legendre transform, Elliptic functions
IQ 175
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Albrecht von Haller
1708–1777 · SZ
Being the father of modern physiology
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Alessandro Volta
1745–1827 · Italy
Invention of the electric cell <br> Discovery of methane <br> Volt <br> Voltage <br> Voltmeter
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Alfred Russel Wallace
1823–1913 · United Kingdom
Co-discovery of natural selection, Pioneering work on biogeography, Wallace Line Wallace effect
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Ibn al-Haytham
965–1040 · Iraq
Book of Optics, Doubts Concerning Ptolemy, Alhazen's problem.
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Andrew Carnegie
1835–1919 · United States
Founding and leading the Carnegie Steel Company, the Carnegie Library, Carnegie Institution for Scie
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Antoine Arnauld
1612–1694 · France
Being one of the leading intellectuals of the Jansenist group of Port-Royal.
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
1632–1723 · Netherlands
Being the first acknowledged microbiologist.
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Aristarchus of Samos
310–230 · Greece
Being the first to propose the heleocentric model.
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Arnold Sommerfeld
1868–1951 · Germany
Being nominated for the Nobel Prize 84 times but never wining it.
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Averroes - Ibn Rushd
1126–1198 · Spain
Andalusian polymath, Aristotle commentator, and middle ages genius; his work on atheism was influent
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Baruch Spinoza
1632–1677 · Netherlands
Ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, Hebrew grammar
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Boethius
477–524 · Italy
The Consolation of Philosophy
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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
1707–1788 · France
Histoire Naturelle
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Ptolemy
100–170 · Egypt
Almagest
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Dante Alighieri
1265–1321 · Italy
Divine Comedy
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Dmitri Mendeleev
1834–1907 · Russia
Formulating the periodic table of chemical elements
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Edmond Halley
1656–1742 · United Kingdom
For the prediction of Halley’s comet, solving the riddle of accurate navigation for all sea-going ve
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Elizabeth I
1533–1603 · United Kingdom
Queen of England (reign: 1558 to 1603); educated by renowned scholar, Roger Ascham; as a student, sh
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Eratosthenes
276–194 · Egypt
Sieve of EratosthenesFounder of Geography
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Ernst Mach
1838–1916 · Austria
Mach number <br> Mach's principle <br> Shock waves <br> Mach waves <br> Mach reflection effects <br>
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Petrarch
1304–1374 · Italy
Triumphs <br> Il Canzoniere
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Frederick Sanger
1918–2013 · United Kingdom
Determining the amino acid sequence of insulin <br> Sanger sequencing <br> Sanger Centre
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Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
1194–1250 · Italy
Italian-born German king who became the head of the Holy Roman Empire during its greatest territoria
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George Boole
1815–1864 · England
Laying the foundations for the information age
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George Gore (electrochemist)
1826–1908 · England
His research with phosphorus
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George Stephenson
1781–1848 · England
'Stephenson gauge
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Germaine de Staël
1766–1817 · France
Delphine (1802) <br> Corinne (1807) <br> De l'Allemagne (1813)
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Gerolamo Cardano
1501–1576 · Italy
Cardano–Tartaglia formulaFirst systematic use of negative numbers in Europe
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Gustav Kirchhoff
1824–1887 · Germany
Kirchhoff's circuit laws Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation Kirchhoff's laws of spectroscopy Ki
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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
1853–1926 · Netherlands
Liquid helium <br> Onnes-effect <br> Superconductivity <br> Virial equation of state
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Marcel Duchamp
1887–1968 · France
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912) <br> Fountain (1917) <br> The Bride Stripped Bare By Her B
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Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
1678–1751 · United Kingdom
Supporting the Jacobite rebellion of 1715
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Henry Thomas Buckle
1821–1862 · United Kingdom
History of Civilisation in England
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Hernán Cortés
1485–1547 · Spain
Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
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Herodotus
484–425 · Turkey
The Histories
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Hipparchus
b. 190 · Greece
Discovery of precession of the equinoxes.
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Hippocrates
460–370 · Greece
Being referred to as the "Father of Medicine"
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Imhotep
b. 27 · Egypt
architect of Djoser's step pyramid (probable)
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Jacob Bernoulli
1655–1705 · Switzerland
Ars Conjectandi
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Jacques Auguste de Thou
1553–1617 · France
History of his own Times
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James Thomson (poet, born 1700)
1700–1748 · Scotland
Writing the lyrics for the song "Rule, Britannia!".
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Jean-François Champollion
1790–1832 · France
Decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs
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John Witherspoon
1723–1794 · United States
Being a Founding Father of the United States.
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John Adams
1735–1826 · United States
Being the 2nd president of the United States
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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
1778–1850 · France
Gay-Lussac's law
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Justus von Liebig
1803–1873 · Germany
Law of the Minimum and Liebig condenser
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Lope de Vega
1562–1635 · Spain
Fuenteovejuna <br> The Dog in the Manger <br> Punishment Without Revenge
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Louis Pasteur
1822–1895 · France
Created the first vaccines for rabies <br> Cholera vaccine <br> Anthrax vaccines <br> Pasteurization
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Louis Agassiz
1807–1873 · Switzerland
Ice age, Polygenism
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Lucian
125–180 · SY
A True History, Dialogues of the Dead, Lover of Lies, Dialogues of the Gods, Dialogues of the Courte
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Lucilio Vanini
1585–1619 · Italy
Nomological determinism,
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
1889–1951 · Austria
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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Luigi Galvani
1737–1798 · Italy
Bioelectricity (animal electricity)
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Marcus Terentius Varro
116–27 · Italy
The most learned of the Romans
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Xavier Bichat
1771–1802 · France
The concept of tissue
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Michael Faraday
1791–1867 · England
Faraday's law of induction <br> Faraday effect <br> Faraday cage <br> Faraday constant <br> Faraday
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Nicolas Malebranche
1638–1715 · France
His doctrines of vision in God, occasionalism and ontologism.
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Origen
184–253 · Egypt
Alexandrian-born heretical theologian, referred to as the "great" (Voltaire, 1764), in comparison to
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Pablo Picasso
1881–1973 · Spain
Painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, stage design, writing
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Paracelsus
1493–1541 · Switzerland
Noted for his 1524 combination of Aristotle’s c.350 BC four element theory with Geber’s c.790 three
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Pherecydes of Syros
580–520 · Greece
Forming a bridge between the mythological thought of Hesiod and pre-Socratic philosophy.
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Pierre de Fermat
b. 1607 · France
Fermat's Last Theorem
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Pitirim Sorokin
1889–1968 · Russia
Leaves of a Russian Diar
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Polybius
200–118 · Greece
The Histories
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R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
1887–1961 · France
Esotericism, alternative Egyptology
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Richard Wagner
1813–1883 · Germany
The Ring of the Nibelung
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Robert Bunsen
1811–1899 · Germany
Discovery of cacodyl radical Discoveries of caesium and rubidium Discovery of use of the Bunsen burn
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Robert Andrews Millikan
1868–1953 · United States
Oil drop experiment measuring the charge of the electron <br> Photoelectric effect <br> Cosmic ray p
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Rudolf Clausius
1822–1888 · Germany
Second law of thermodynamics <br> Originator of the concept of entropy <br> Clausius-Mossotti relati
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Salvador Dalí
1904–1989 · Spain
Painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, writing, film, jewelry
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772–1834 · England
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Conversation poems, Biographia Literaria
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Margaret Fuller
1810–1850 · United States
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
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Srinivasa Ramanujan
1887–1920 · India
Landau–Ramanujan constant, Mock theta functions, Ramanujan conjecture, Ramanujan prime, Ramanujan–So
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Theodorus the Atheist
340–250 · Greece
On The Gods
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Theophrastus
371–287 · Greece
Greek philosopher, not to be confused with the Anon Theophrastus (c.1609-1665), pupil and successor
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Thomas Browne
1605–1682 · England
Religio Medici, Urne-Burial and The Garden of Cyrus, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Christian Morals
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Walther Nernst
1864–1941 · Germany
Third Law of Thermodynamics
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Wilhelm von Humboldt
1767–1835 · Germany
Founding the Humboldt University of Berlin
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William Stanley Jevons
1835–1882
Marginal utility theoryJevons paradox
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William Shockley
1910–1989 · United States
Point-contact transistor and GJT <br> Diffused-base transistor <br> Heterojunction bipolar transisto
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William Kingdon Clifford
1845–1879 · United Kingdom
Clifford algebra
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William Whewell
1794–1866 · United Kingdom
Coining the words scientist and physicist
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Wolfgang Pauli
1900–1958 · Austria
Pauli exclusion principle
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Xenophanes
570–478 · Greece
Founding Pyrrhonism
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Christopher Langan
b. 1952 · United States
Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe
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Aeschylus
524–455 · Greece
Oresteia, The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliants
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Francis Crick
1916–2004 · England
DNA structure Central Dogma Consciousness Adaptor hypothesis
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Nicolaus Copernicus
1473–1543 · Poland
HeliocentrismQuantity theory of moneyGresham–Copernicus law
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Sophocles
497–406 · Greece
Ajax <br> Antigone <br> Oedipus Rex <br> Electra <br> Oedipus at Colonus
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Adam Smith
1723–1790 · United Kingdom
Invisible hand theory, The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments
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Akhenaten
Egypt
Being the first Egyptian pharaoh to introduce monotheism.
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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
1727–1781 · France
Being an early advocate for economic liberalism.
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Ben Jonson
1572–1637 · England
Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and Bartholomew
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Benjamin Constant
1767–1830 · Switzerland
Principes de Politique Applicables a Tous les Gouvernements (1810)Adolphe (1816)De la religion consi
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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
1736–1806 · France
Coulomb's law
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Charles Babbage
1791–1871 · United Kingdom
Originating the concept of a digital programmable computer.
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Christian Doppler
1803–1853 · Austria
Discovering the Doppler effect
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Christian Thomasius
1655–1728 · Germany
Essays on Church, State, and Politics <br> Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence: With Selections from
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Christopher Hitchens
1949–2011 · England
God Is Not Great and Hitch-22: A Memoir
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Confucius
551–479 · China
Confucianism, Golden Rule
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Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney
1757–1820 · France
The Ruins: a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires (1791)
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Daniel Sennert
1572–1637 · Germany
Serving as the physician to many aristocrats and rulers, including John George I, Elector of Saxony
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David Strauss
1808–1874 · Germany
Pioneering in the historical investigation of Jesus.
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Émile Durkheim
1858–1917 · France
Being the architect of modern social science
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Diego Velázquez
1599–1660 · Spain
The Surrender of Breda <br> Rokeby Venus <br> Portrait of Innocent X <br> Las Meninas <br> Las Hilan
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Diogenes
412–323 · Turkey
Wandering streets with a lamp during the day and looking for an honest man.
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Edmund Husserl
1859–1938 · Germany
"Phenomenology, epoché (also bracketing, transcendental reduction, or phenomenological reduction), e
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Edmund Spenser
1552–1599 · England
The Faerie Queene
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Edwin Hubble
1889–1953 · United States
Hubble sequence <br> Hubble's law
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Epictetus
50–135 · Greece
Greek stoicism philosopher; ranked by Thomas Jefferson as on par with Epicurus; he tends to be read
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Ernest Renan
1823–1892 · France
Life of Jesus
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Ernest Hemingway
1899–1961 · United States
A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea
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Eudoxus of Cnidus
408–355 · Greece
Kampyle of Eudoxus <br> Concentric spheres
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François Rabelais
1483–1553 · France
Gargantua and Pantagruel
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François de La Rochefoucauld (writer)
1613–1680 · France
MemoirsMaximes
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François de La Mothe Le Vayer
1588–1672 · France
Being the tutor of Louis XIV
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Friedrich August Wolf
1759–1824 · Germany
German classicist; noted as founder of modern philology;
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Julius Caesar
100–44 · Italy
Roman general, statesman, Latin prose author; noted for his critical role in the events that led to
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Pliny the Elder
24–79 · Italy
His 10-volume Natural History which is considered the world's first encyclopedia.
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Galen
129–200 · Greece
Began his practice as a physician to gladiators and established a link between diet and health. Gale
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Georg Ernst Stahl
1659–1734 · Germany
Phlogiston theory <br> Fermentation
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1742–1799 · Germany
Discovery of tree-like electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1770–1831 · Germany
Phenomenology of Spirit
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Georges Cuvier
1769–1832 · France
Establishing the fields of stratigraphy and comparative anatomy, and the principle of faunal success
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807–1882 · United States
Being the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy
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Herman Hollerith
1860–1929 · United States
Electromechanical tabulation of punched card data
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Howard Robard Hughes
1905–1976 · United States
Hughes Aircraft Company
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Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais
1782–1854 · France
One of the most influential intellectuals of Restoration France
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Hypatia
350–415 · Egypt
The greatest mathematician of her time, Hypatia’s murder signaled the coming of the dark ages.
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Ilya Prigogine
1917–2003 · Russia
Dissipative structures Brusselator
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Isaac Asimov
1920–1992 · United States
The Foundation series
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Jacob Barnett
b. 1998 · United States
Becoming a doctorate student at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada at 18 years old.
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Jean Meslier
1664–1729 · France
Being one of the earliest proponents of atheism
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Jean Racine
1639–1699 · France
Andromaque, Phèdre, Athalie
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Jean-Paul Marat
1743–1793 · France
French politial theorist, physician, and scientist; did 166 experiments on fire and 214 on electrici
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Johann Reuchlin
1455–1522 · Germany
German-born humanist and Greek and Hebrew scholar.
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Johann Joachim Becher
1635–1682 · Germany
Phlogiston theory
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Regiomontanus
1436–1476 · Germany
Publishing the first printed astronomical textbook and the first trigonometric tables.
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John Dewey
1859–1952 · United States
Reforming the American educational system.
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John Napier
1550–1617 · Scotland
Logarithms Napier's bones Decimal notation
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John Ray
1627–1705 · United Kingdom
Being one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists
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John Quincy Adams
1767–1848 · United States
Son of John Adams (2nd president); his grandson was Henry Adams, the leading social Newton
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John Burroughs
1837–1921 · United States
Being an active in the U.S. conservation movement.
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John Maynard Keynes
1883–1946 · England
Changing the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments
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John Tyndall
1820–1893 · Ireland
Atmosphere, physics education, Tyndall effect, diamagnetism, infrared radiation, Tyndallization
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Judit Polgár
b. 1976 · Hungary
Being the strongest female chess player of all time.
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Julien Offray de La Mettrie
1709–1751 · France
Machine Man
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Kurt Gödel
1906–1978 · Czech Republic
Gödel numbering
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Laozi
6–4 · China
Supposed author of Tao Te Ching, the book that founded of Taoism ("Daoism")
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Lazare Carnot
1753–1823 · France
Founder of the Ecole Polytechnique; father to Sadi Carnot, initiator of thermodynamics.
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Ludwig Feuerbach
1804–1872 · Germany
The Essence of Christianity
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Lycurgus of Sparta
b. 820 · Greece
Establishing or promoting the three Spartan virtues: equality (among citizens), military fitness, an
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Marion Tinsley
1927–1995 · United States
Never losing a world championship match
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Martin Luther
1483–1546 · Germany
Being the key figurine in Reformation.
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Max Weber
1864–1920 · Germany
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905)
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Maximilien Robespierre
1758–1794 · France
Playing an important part in the agitation which brought about the fall of the French monarchy on 10
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Maimonides
1138–1204 · Spain
The Guide for the Perplexed
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Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi
854–932 · Iran
The first to write up limited or extensive notes on diseases such as smallpox and chickenpox, a pion
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Nicolaas Hartsoeker
1656–1725 · Netherlands
Contributions to microscopy, preformationism
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Norbert Wiener
1894–1964 · United States
Cybernetics
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Novalis
1772–1801 · Germany
Hymns to the Night and The Novices at Sais
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Oswald Spengler
1880–1936 · Germany
The Decline of the West
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Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud
1753–1793 · France
French lawyer, statesman, and revolutionist.
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Pietro Metastasio
1698–1782 · Italy
Demetrio, Olimpiade, Demofoonte, La clemenza di Tito, and Attilio Regolo
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Virgil
b. 70 · Italy
Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid.
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Pyrrho
Greece
Founding Pyrrhonism
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Raphael
1483–1520 · Italy
PaintingArchitecture
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Richard Bentley
1662–1742 · England
Dissertation on the Letters of Phalaris (1699)
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Robert Southey
1774–1843 · England
English romantic poet
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Robert M. Pirsig
1928–2017 · United States
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991)
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Mark Twain
1835–1910 · United States
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer <br> Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Solon
Greece
Greek statesman, lawmaker, philosopher, and poet, one of the seven sages (Ѻ); credited with being th
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1910–1995 · India
Chandrasekhar limit <br> Chandrasekhar number <br> Chandrasekhar friction <br> Chandrasekhar–Kendall
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Thomas Henry Huxley
1825–1895 · United Kingdom
Evolution, science education, agnosticism
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Thomas Chatterton
1752–1770 · United Kingdom
Committed suicide age 17
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Thomas Chalmers
1780–1847 · Scotland
On political economy
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Wilder Penfield
1891–1976 · United States
Prompting memory recall during surgery via temporal lobe stimulationTreatment of epilepsy by surgery
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William James
1842–1910 · United States
Will to believe doctrine
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William Butler Yeats
1865–1939 · Ireland
Leda and the Swan
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Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet
1788–1856 · United Kingdom
Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic
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William of Ockham
1285–1347 · England
Occam's razor
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William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
1708–1778 · United Kingdom
Serving as Prime Minister of Great Britain
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756–1791 · Austria
Serenade No. 13 “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”, Requiem, The Magic Flute, Clarinet Concerto and Symphony N
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Zeno of Citium
334–262 · CY
Being the founder of stoicism
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Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli
870–941 · Turkey
Kitab Al-Awraq and Kitab al-Shitranj
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Manahel Thabet
b. 1981 · YE
the youngest person to receive a financial engineering Ph.D. magna cum laude. In 2012 she came up wi
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Benjamin Disraeli
1804–1881 · United Kingdom
Being elected twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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Callimachus
500–429 · Greece
Writing the Pinakes and being a scholar at the Library of Alexandria
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Carl Jung
1875–1961 · Switzerland
Analytical psychology <br> Psychological types <br> Collective unconscious <br> Complex <br> Archety
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Charles Dickens
1812–1870 · England
The Pickwick Papers <br> Oliver Twist <br> Nicholas Nickleby <br> A Christmas Carol <br> David Coppe
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Montesquieu
1689–1755 · France
Separation of state powers: executive, legislative, judicial <br> Classification of systems of gover
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
1804–1869 · France
Port-Royal
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Charles H. Townes
1915–2015 · United States
Lasers
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Charlotte Brontë
1816–1855 · England
Jane Eyre <br> Villette
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Christopher Wren
1632–1723 · United Kingdom
Designer of 54 London churches, including St Paul's Cathedral, as well as many notable secular build
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Daniel Webster
1782–1852 · United States
American politician, orator, and lawyer.
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Daniel Defoe
1660–1731 · United Kingdom
Robinson Crusoe
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Edward Jenner
1749–1823 · United Kingdom
Smallpox vaccine and Vaccination
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Emanuel Swedenborg
1688–1772 · Sweden
Hs book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell (1758)
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Évariste Galois
1811–1832 · France
Work on the theory of equations and Abelian integrals
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Felix Mendelssohn
1809–1847 · Germany
grandson of Moses Mendelssohn; student of Carl Zelter; Mendelssohn first appeared in concert at the
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Francesco Guicciardini
1483–1540 · Italy
Italian historian and statesman; friend and critic of Machiavelli.
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Francisco Suárez
1548–1617 · Spain
De incarnatione, pars prima
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François Guizot
1787–1874 · France
French historian, orator, and statesman.
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Frédéric Chopin
1810–1849 · Poland
Publishing two polonaises by the age of seven
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William Herschel
1738–1822 · Germany
Discovery of Uranus
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Frederick the Great
1712–1786 · Germany
Prussian king, from 1740 to 1786
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Geoffrey Chaucer
1340–1400 · England
The Canterbury Tales
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George Frideric Handel
1685–1759 · Germany
Messiah
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Giuseppe Mazzini
1807–1872 · Italy
Italian politician, journalist, and revolutionist.
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Gottlob Frege
1848–1925 · Germany
Begriffsschrift (1879) <br> The Foundations of Arithmetic (1884) <br> Basic Laws of Arithmetic (1893
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Gregor Mendel
1822–1884 · Czech Republic
Creating the science of genetics
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Guglielmo Marconi
1874–1937 · Italy
Radio
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Gustav Fechner
1801–1887 · Germany
Weber–Fechner law
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Heinrich Heine
1797–1856 · Germany
Reisebilder <br> Germany. A Winter's Tale <br> Atta Troll <br> Romanzero
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Henri de Saint-Simon
1760–1825 · France
Saint-Simonianism
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Henry Ford
1863–1947 · United States
Founding and leading the Ford Motor Company
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Herman Boerhaave
1668–1738 · Netherlands
Founder of clinical teaching
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Igor Stravinsky
1882–1971 · Russia
The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913)
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James Watt
1736–1819 · Scotland
Watt steam engine
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Jean de La Bruyère
1645–1696 · France
French philosopher, moralist, and satirist,
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Johann Sebastian Bach
1685–1750 · Germany
Goldberg Variations, The Well-Tempered Clavier and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1762–1814 · Germany
Founding the philosophical movement known as German idealism,
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann
1717–1768 · Germany
Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (The History of Art in Antiquity; 1764)
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Johann Gottfried Herder
1744–1803 · Germany
Volksgeist
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Johannes Brahms
1833–1897 · Germany
Hungarian Dance No. 5
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John Law
1671–1729 · Scotland
Scottish economist; believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth
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John Henry Newman
1801–1890 · United Kingdom
Anglican priest, poet, and theologian.
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Joseph Addison
1672–1719 · England
Founding the The Spectator magazine.
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Joseph Lister
1827–1912 · United Kingdom
Surgical sterile techniques
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Joseph Fouché
1759–1820 · France
French statesman and Napoleon-siding revolutionist.
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Joseph Priestley
1733–1804 · England
Discovery of oxygen (O2) and nine other gases (including carbon monoxide (CO), nitric oxide (NO), n
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Karl Pearson
1857–1936 · England
Common Sense of the Exact Sciences and History of the Theory of Elasticity
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Carl Maria von Weber
1786–1826 · Germany
German composer; creator of the romantic opera.
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Lise Meitner
1878–1968 · Austria
Discovery of protactinium Discovery of nuclear fission
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Seneca the Younger
4–65 · Italy
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
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Ludvig Holberg
1684–1754 · Norway
Norwegian writer, essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright.
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Marcello Malpighi
1628–1694 · Italy
Complete Works
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Martin Heidegger
1889–1976 · Germany
Being and Time (1927)
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Moses Mendelssohn
1729–1786 · Germany
Haskalah
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Pierre Beaumarchais
1732–1799 · France
Le Barbier de Séville, Le Mariage de Figaro, and La Mère coupable
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Pierre Bayle
1647–1706 · France
Various Thoughts on the Occasion of the Comet
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Ennius
239–169 · Italy
The Annales
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Samuel Johnson
1709–1784 · England
A Dictionary of the English Language <br> A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
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Sappho
630–570 · Greece
Tithonus poem
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Sun Tzu
544–496 · China
The Art of War
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Theodore Maiman
1927–2007 · United States
Inventing the laser
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Theodore Beza
1519–1605 · France
French Protestant Christian; disciple of John Calvin; played a role in the reformation.
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Tycho Brahe
1546–1601 · Denmark
Tychonic system and Rudolphine Tables
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Huldrych Zwingli
1484–1531 · Switzerland
Being the leader of the Protestant religious reformation in Switzerland.
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Vincenzo Galilei
1520–1591 · Italy
The astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei
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Walter Scott
1771–1832 · Scotland
Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Waverley, Old Mortality, The Heart of Mid-Lothian and The Bride of Lammermoor,
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Walter Raleigh
1552–1618 · England
Playing a leading part in English colonisation of North America,
IQ 165
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Warren Hastings
1732–1818 · United Kingdom
British statesman and general governor of India.
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Wright brothers
1867–1948 · United States
Inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane, the Wright Fly
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William Robertson (historian)
1721–1793 · United Kingdom
Principal of the University of Edinburgh;Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
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William Wordsworth
1770–1850 · United Kingdom
Lyrical Ballads
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Giuseppe Verdi
1813–1901 · Italy
1. Aida 2. Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco 3. La Donna è Mobile from Rigoletto 4. La
IQ 165
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Antoni Gaudí
1852–1926 · Spain
Sagrada Família <br> Organic Architecture<br> Innovative Structural Techniques<br> Symbolism
IQ 165
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Lydia Sebastian
b. 2003 · India
started speaking when she was just six months old and at the age of four, she started playing the vi
IQ 162
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Mahnoor Cheema
b. 2007 · United Kingdom
achieving 34 GCSE subjects & IQ score of 161
IQ 161
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Ada Lovelace
1815–1852 · United Kingdom
The mother of computing science; contributed to the first published computer program; was the first
IQ 160
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Albert Einstein
1879–1955 · Germany
Einstein’s theories of special & general relativity delivered a remarkable transformation in our und
IQ 160
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Sandro Botticelli
Italy
The Birth of Venus
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Alfred Wegener
1880–1930 · Germany
Continental drift theory.
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Alphonse de Lamartine
1790–1869 · France
Graziella (1852)
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André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin
1783–1865 · France
Serving in as President of the Chamber of Deputies for 7 years.
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Antonio Canova
1757–1822 · Italy
Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss <br> The Three Graces <br> Napoleon as Mars <br> the Peacemaker <br>
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Augustin-Louis Cauchy
1789–1857 · France
Binet–Cauchy identity <br> Bolzano–Cauchy theorem <br> Cauchy's argument principle <br> Cauchy–Binet
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Ayn Rand
1905–1982 · Russia
The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged
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Bede
672–735 · England
The Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
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Bill Gates
b. 1955 · United States
Co-founding Microsoft
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Cardinal Richelieu
1585–1642 · France
Being the lead villain in Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel The Three Musketeers.
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Charles-Guillaume Étienne
1778–1845 · France
Coining the phrase "If you want something done right, do it yourself"
IQ 160
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Charles Sumner
1811–1874 · United States
American politician, lawyer, and senator.
IQ 160
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Christian Wolff
1679–1754 · Germany
Theoretical philosophy has for its parts ontology (also philosophia prima or general metaphysics) an
IQ 160
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Christoph Martin Wieland
1733–1813 · Germany
Oberon and Bildungsroman
IQ 160
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Claude Adrien Helvétius
1715–1771 · France
On Mind
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Claude Bernard
1813–1878 · France
Physiology
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Cornelius Jansen
1585–1638 · Netherlands
Jansenism
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Demosthenes
384–322 · Greece
His orations
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Diodorus Siculus
90–30 · Greece
Bibliotheca historica
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Acharya S
1960–2015 · United States
The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold (1999) <br> Did Moses Exist? The Myth of the Isr
IQ 160
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Elizabeth Gaskell
1810–1865 · England
Cranford (1851–53), North and South (1854–55), and Wives and Daughters (1865)
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Erich Fromm
1900–1980 · Germany
Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics and Escape from Freedom
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François-René de Chateaubriand
1768–1848 · France
Atala <br> Génie du christianisme <br> René <br> Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
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Joseph Haydn
1732–1809 · Austria
Austrian composer.
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Frederick Douglass
1818–1895 · United States
Being a proponent of abolishing slavery and giving women the right to vote
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Friedrich Schleiermacher
1768–1834 · Germany
His attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional Protestant Christianit
IQ 160
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George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon
1800–1870 · United Kingdom
Being British representative at the Congress of Paris which ended the Crimean War.
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George Grote
1794–1871 · United Kingdom
History of Greece
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George Eliot
1819–1880 · England
The Mill on the Floss (1860) <br> Silas Marner (1861) <br> Romola (1862–1863) <br> Middlemarch (1871
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
1729–1781 · Germany
Miss Sara Sampson; Emilia Galotti; Minna von Barnhelm; Nathan the Wise; Laocoön; Hamburg Dramaturgy
IQ 160
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Harriet Martineau
1802–1876 · United Kingdom
Illustrations of Political Economy (1834) <br> Society in America (1837) <br> Deerbrook (1839) <br>
IQ 160
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
1486–1535 · Germany
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
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Henry David Thoreau
1817–1862 · United States
Walden
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Jacob Grimm
1785–1863 · Germany
Being the editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales.
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Léon Foucault
1819–1868 · France
Foucault pendulum <br> Foucault's currents <br> Foucault knife-edge test <br> Fizeau–Foucault appara
IQ 160
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John Hunter (surgeon)
1728–1793 · Scotland
Scientific method in medicineMany discoveries in surgery and medicine
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John Bunyan
1628–1688 · England
The Pilgrim's Progress, The Life and Death of Mr. Badman, The Holy War
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John Dryden
1631–1700 · England
The Hind and the Panther
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John Wesley
1703–1791 · England
Creating the Methodism movement.
IQ 160
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Joseph Marie Jacquard
1752–1834 · France
Programmable loom
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Cardinal Mazarin
1602–1661 · Italy
French statesman.
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Lancelot Andrewes
1555–1626 · England
Being the general editor of the King James Bible.
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Hector Berlioz
1803–1869 · France
Symphonie fantastique and Harold in Italy
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Macrobius
370–430 · TN
Commentary on the Dream of Scipio and Saturnalia.
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Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné
1626–1696 · France
Her 1,120 letters, addressed to her daughter over the course of 30 years, noted for their wit and vi
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Marvin Minsky
1927–2016 · United States
Artificial intelligence <br> Confocal microscope <br> Useless machine <br> Triadex Muse <br> Percep
IQ 160
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Michel de l'Hôpital
1507–1573 · France
French statesman, humanist, jurist, lawyer; was called on by Catherine de Médicis to try to establis
IQ 160
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Mahatma Gandhi
1869–1948 · India
Indian Independence Movement and Nonviolent resistance
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Molière
1622–1673 · France
Tartuffe; The Misanthrope; The Learned Women; The School for Wives; L'Avare
IQ 160
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Omar Khayyam
1048–1131 · Iran
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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Paul Allen
1953–2018 · United States
Co-founder of Microsoft
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Peter Abelard
1079–1142 · France
French scholastic philosopher, theologian, and logician, characterized a “fine genius” (Bayle, c.169
IQ 160
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Peter Paul Rubens
1577–1640 · Netherlands
Painting, drawing, tapestry design, print design
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Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope
1805–1875 · England
Contributions to cultural causes and for his historical writings
IQ 160
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Pierre Corneille
1606–1684 · France
Le Cid
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Samuel Clarke
1675–1729 · United Kingdom
English philosopher and Anglican clergyman; was a Boyle anti-atheism lecturer for two years.
IQ 160
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Steve Jobs
1955–2011 · United States
Pioneer of the personal computer revolution with Steve Wozniak as Apple founders. Co-creator of the
IQ 160
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Tertullian
155–240 · TN
Apologeticus
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Vittorio Alfieri
1749–1803 · Italy
Cleopatra
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William Ellery Channing
1780–1842 · United States
American Unitarian preacher.
IQ 160
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William Godwin
1756–1836 · United Kingdom
Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams
IQ 160
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William Cowper
1731–1800 · United Kingdom
Light Shining out of Darkness
IQ 160
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Xenophon
430–354 · Greece
Hellenica and Anabasis
IQ 160
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Brielle Milla
b. 2012 · United States
Child Prodigy who attended the Allen Show
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