20th Century Geniuses

Brilliant minds born in the 20th century

267 Geniuses

20th Century Geniuses

Explore 267 geniuses born in the 20th Century (1900–1999), a transformative era in human knowledge and achievement.

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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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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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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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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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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Richard G. Rosner
b. 1960 · United States
IQ 192
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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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Garry Kasparov
b. 1963 · AZ
Being the top chess player from 1984 until 2005
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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Linus Pauling
1901–1994 · United States
Alpha sheet • Ancestral sequence reconstruction • Backbonding • Beta sheet • Bond order
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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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 • Turing's proof • Turing machine • Turing test • Unorganised machine •
IQ 185
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Norman Dolloff
b. 1928
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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Nikola Poljak
b. 1982
IQ 183
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Claude Shannon
1916–2001 · United States
Information theory
IQ 180
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Henry Bray
b. 1916
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 Tukey
1915–2000 · United States
Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm and box plot
IQ 180
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John Bardeen
1908–1991 · United States
Transistor BCS theory Superconductivity
IQ 180
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John Forbes Nash Jr.
1928–2015 · United States
Nash equilibrium • Nash embedding theorem • Nash functions • Nash–Moser theorem • Hilbert's nineteen
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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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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Frederick Sanger
1918–2013 · United Kingdom
Determining the amino acid sequence of insulin • Sanger sequencing • Sanger Centre
IQ 175
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Salvador Dalí
1904–1989 · Spain
Painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, writing, film, jewelry
IQ 175
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William Shockley
1910–1989 · United States
Point-contact transistor and GJT • Diffused-base transistor • Heterojunction bipolar transistor • Th
IQ 175
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Wolfgang Pauli
1900–1958 · Austria
Pauli exclusion principle
IQ 175
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Christopher Langan
b. 1952 · United States
Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe
IQ 174
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Ivan Ivec
b. 1976 · Croatia
IQ 174
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Francis Crick
1916–2004 · England
DNA structure Central Dogma Consciousness Adaptor hypothesis
IQ 173
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Christopher Hitchens
1949–2011 · England
God Is Not Great and Hitch-22: A Memoir
IQ 170
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Howard Robard Hughes
1905–1976 · United States
Hughes Aircraft Company
IQ 170
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Ilya Prigogine
1917–2003 · Russia
Dissipative structures Brusselator
IQ 170
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Isaac Asimov
1920–1992 · United States
The Foundation series
IQ 170
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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.
IQ 170
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Judit Polgár
b. 1976 · Hungary
Being the strongest female chess player of all time.
IQ 170
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Kurt Gödel
1906–1978 · Czech Republic
Gödel numbering
IQ 170
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Marion Tinsley
1927–1995 · United States
Never losing a world championship match
IQ 170
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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)
IQ 170
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1910–1995 · India
Chandrasekhar limit • Chandrasekhar number • Chandrasekhar friction • Chandrasekhar–Kendall function
IQ 170
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Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
1934–2012 · United States
IQ 168
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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
IQ 168
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Charles H. Townes
1915–2015 · United States
Lasers
IQ 165
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Karl Popper
1902–1994 · Australia
IQ 165
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Theodore Maiman
1927–2007 · United States
Inventing the laser
IQ 165
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Ayn Rand
1905–1982 · Russia
The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged
IQ 160
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Bill Gates
b. 1955 · United States
Co-founding Microsoft
IQ 160
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Acharya S
1960–2015 · United States
The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold (1999) • Did Moses Exist? The Myth of the Israel
IQ 160
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Erich Fromm
1900–1980 · Germany
Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics and Escape from Freedom
IQ 160
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Marvin Minsky
1927–2016 · United States
Artificial intelligence • Confocal microscope • Useless machine • Triadex Muse • Perceptrons • The
IQ 160
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Paul Allen
1953–2018 · United States
Co-founder of Microsoft
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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Albert Camus
1913–1960
The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall, and The Rebel.
IQ 155
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Elon Musk
b. 1971 · South Africa
Elon Musk is known for founding Tesla Motors and SpaceX, which launched a landmark commercial spacec
IQ 155
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Jean-Paul Sartre
1905–1980 · France
Being and Nothingness and Existentialism Is a Humanism
IQ 155
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John F. Kennedy
1917–1963 · United States
Being the 35th president of the United States
IQ 155
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Milton Friedman
1912–2006 · United States
For explaining the role of money supply in economic and inflation fluctuations
IQ 155
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Muhammad Ali
1942–2016 · United States
Being one of the greatest boxers in human history.
IQ 150
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Stanley Kubrick
1928–1999 · United States
Spartacus • The Shining • 2001: A Space Odyssey • A Clockwork Orange
IQ 150
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Truman Capote
1924–1984 · United States
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood (1966)
IQ 150
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Nolan Gould
b. 1998 · United States
The Modern Family
IQ 150
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Akrit Jaswal
b. 1993 · India
Performing a surgery on his neighbour at the age of seven.
IQ 146
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Alan Watts
1915–1973 · United Kingdom
IQ 145
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Warren Buffett
b. 1930 · United States
Leadership of Berkshire Hathaway with Charlie Munger
IQ 145
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Willem Klein
1912–1986 · Netherlands
Doing mathematical calculations in his head
IQ 145
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Frank Drake
b. 1930 · United States
SETI • Drake equation
IQ 140
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Hannah Arendt
1906–1975 · Germany
The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition and Eichmann in Jerusalem.
IQ 140
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Martin Luther King Jr.
1929–1968 · United States
Civil rights movement, Peace movement
IQ 140
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Sylvia Plath
1932–1963 · United States
The Bell Jar and Ariel
IQ 140
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Carl Sagan
1934–1996 · United States
Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, The Dragons of Eden, Th
IQ 130
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Walt Disney
1901–1966 · United States
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Old Mill and Pinocchio
IQ 123
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Kim Peek
1951–2009 · United States
Being able to memorize the content of at least 12,000 books.
IQ 87
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Leslie Lemke
b. 1952 · United States
Being able to play any musical piece on a piano after hearing it once.
IQ 58
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Stephen Wiltshire
b. 1974 · United Kingdom
His ability to draw a landscape from memory after seeing it just once
IQ 52
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Aage Niels Bohr
1922–2009 · Denmark
Explained the structure of the atomic nucleus, unifying the liquid-drop and shell models to produce
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Abdus Salam
1926–1996 · Pakistan
An architect of the second great unification in physics, uniting the electromagnetic force with the
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Akshay Venkatesh
b. 1981 · India
Mathematical Work, Former Child Prodigy
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Alan Guth
b. 1947 · United States
Cosmic inflation • Borde–Guth–Vilenkin theorem • Inflaton
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Andrew Wiles
b. 1953 · United Kingdom
Proving Fermat's Last Theorem
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Anish Kumar Giri
b. 1994 · Russia
Achieving the title of Grandmaster at the age of 14 years.
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Arfa Karim
1995–2012 · Pakistan
World's youngest Microsoft Certified Professional, 2004–2006
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Barbara McClintock
1902–1992 · United States
Work in genetic structure of maize
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Bobby Fischer
1943–2008 · United States
Being the World Chess Champion
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Bu Xiangzhi
b. 1985 · China
Becoming a chess grandmaster in 1999
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Burrhus Frederic Skinner
1904–1990 · United States
Operant conditioning • Radical behaviorism • Behavior analysis • Verbal behavior
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Carl David Anderson
1905–1991 · United States
Discovery of the positron and discovery of the muon
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Carl Woese
1928–2012 · United States
Discovery of Archaea
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
1900–1979 · United States
Explanation of stellar spectra and composition of the Sun, more than 3,000,000 observations of varia
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Yang Chen-Ning
b. 1922 · China
Yang–Mills theory • Gauge theory • Yang–Mills–Higgs equations
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Claudio Arrau
1903–1991 · CL
Could read notes before letters
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Craig Venter
b. 1946 · United States
Metagenomics • Synthetic genomics • Shotgun approach to genome sequencing
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Daniel Barenboim
b. 1942 · Argentina
Giving his first formal concert in his hometown at the age of seven
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Daniil Dubov
b. 1996 · Russia
Being a chess Grandmaster at the age of 14.
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Dariusz Świercz
b. 1994 · United States
Achieving the rank of Grandmaster at 14.
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Donald Knuth
b. 1938 · United States
The Art of Computer Programming • TeX • METAFONT • Computer Modern
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Edmund Thomas Clint
1976–1983 · India
Having drawn over 25,000 paintings
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Edward Witten
b. 1951 · United States
M-theory • Seiberg–Witten theory • Seiberg-Witten map • Seiberg–Witten invariants • Wess–Zumino–Witt
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Ernest Lawrence
1901–1958 · United States
Invention of the cyclotronManhattan Project
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Ernest Walton
1903–1995 · United Kingdom
The first disintegration of an atomic nucleus by artificially accelerated protons ("splitting the at
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Erwin Chargaff
1905–2002 · Hungary
Chargaff's rules
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Étienne Bacrot
b. 1983 · France
Becoming a Grandmaster in March 1997 at the age of 14 years and 2 months
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Evgeny Kissin
b. 1971 · Russia
Entered music school at age six
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Fabiano Caruana
b. 1992 · Italy
Becoming a grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, and 20 days.
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Frances Oldham Kelsey
1914–2015 · Canada
Preventing thalidomide from being marketed in the United States
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Fred Hoyle
1915–2001 · United Kingdom
Coining the phrase 'Big Bang'Stellar nucleosynthesis theoryHoyle's fallacyB2FH paperHoyle-Narlikar t
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Eugene Merle Shoemaker
1928–1997 · United States
Planetary science • Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9
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George Wald
1906–1997 · United States
Pigments in the retina
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Gian Carlo Menotti
1911–2007 · Italy
Composed first opera at age eleven
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Giulio Natta
1903–1979 · Italy
Ziegler–Natta catalyst, Natta projection
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Glenn Gould
1932–1982 · Canada
Attending The Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto) at age 10
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Glenn T. Seaborg
1912–1999 · United States
His contributions to the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of ten transuranium elements
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Grace Hopper
1906–1992 · United States
Pioneer of electronic computers: invented the first compiler; was the principal architect of COBOL,
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Grigori Perelman
b. 1966 · Russia
Riemannian geometry • Geometric topology • Proof of the soul conjecture • Proof of the Poincaré conj
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György Cziffra
1921–1994 · Hungary
Entered the Franz Liszt Academy at age nine, after some four years performing in a traveling circus
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Hou Yifan
b. 1994 · China
Being the youngest female player to qualify for the title of grandmaster (at the age of 14 years 6 m
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Koneru Humpy
b. 1987 · India
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Illya Nyzhnyk
b. 1996 · Ukraine
Achieving the title of grandmaster at the age of 2015.
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Jack Horner (paleontologist)
b. 1946 · United States
Popularizer of science: discovered that dinosaurs cared for their young and some nested in colonies.
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Jacques Cousteau
1910–1997 · France
The Silent World
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James Lovelock
b. 1919 · United Kingdom
Electron capture detector and Gaia hypothesis
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Jane Goodall
b. 1934 · England
Study of chimpanzees, conservation, animal welfare
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Jascha Heifetz
1901–1987 · Russia
Being one of the greatest violin players of the 20th century
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Jerry Newport
b. 1948 · United States
Being a public speaker with Asperger syndrome
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John Eccles (neurophysiologist)
1903–1997 · Australia
Work on the synapseInteractionism
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John Sulston
1942–2018 · United Kingdom
Genome sequencing of Caenorhabditis elegans and humans
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Jorge Cori
b. 1995 · PE
Achieving the title of Grandmaster at 14.
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Kishan Shrikanth
b. 1996 · India
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Kit Armstrong
b. 1992 · United States
Concerto debut at eight; Morton Gould Young Composer Award for five consecutive years
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Lang Lang
b. 1982 · China
Entering the Beijing Conservatory at age eight
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Larry Page
b. 1973 · United States
Co-founding Google Co-founding Alphabet Inc. Co-creator PageRank
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Leslie Howard (musician)
b. 1948 · Australia
Perfect pitch, and ability to recall anything by ear, first cited in The Herald, Melbourne, when he
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Lev Landau
1908–1968 · AZ
Quantum mechanical theory of diamagnetism • Theory of superfluidity • Theory of second-order phase t
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Linda B. Buck
b. 1947 · United States
Olfactory receptors
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Luis Walter Alvarez
1911–1988 · United States
Design of a liquid hydrogen bubble chamber
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Magnus Carlsen
b. 1990 · Norway
Being the current World Chess Champion, World Rapid Chess Champion, and World Blitz Chess Champion.
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Marguerite Perey
1909–1975 · France
Francium discovery
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Martha Argerich
b. 1941 · Argentina
Orchestral debut at age six, being one of the best pianists in the world.
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Martin Gardner
1914–2010 · United States
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science; "Mathematical Games" (Scientific American column); The An
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Maurice Hilleman
1919–2005 · United States
Developing several important vaccines
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Maurice Wilkins
1916–2004 · New Zealand
X-ray diffraction, DNA
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Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
b. 1990 · France
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Michio Kaku
b. 1947 · United States
String field theory • Physics of the Impossible • Physics of the Future • The Future of the Mind
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Minou Drouet
b. 1947 · France
Arbre, mon ami
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
b. 1958 · United States
PBS show NOVA
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Nino Rota
1911–1979 · Italy
Composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of
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Noam Chomsky
b. 1928 · United States
Writing in excess of 100 books and was named the “world’s top public intellectual” in a poll conduct
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Parimarjan Negi
b. 1993 · India
Being the seventh youngest grandmaster in history.
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Peter Leko
b. 1979 · Hungary
Being the world's youngest grandmaster in 1994
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Priyanshi Somani
b. 1998 · India
Mental calculator
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Rachel Carson
1907–1964 · United States
Under the Sea Wind (1941) • The Sea Around Us (1951) • The Edge of the Sea (1955) • Silent Spring (1
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Ray Robson
b. 1994 · United States
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R. J. Hollingdale
1930–2001 · United Kingdom
Translator of German Literature
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Richard Feynman
1918–1988 · United States
Manhattan Project Acoustic
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Richárd Rapport
b. 1996 · Hungary
Hungarian Chess Champion in 2017.
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Roger Wolcott Sperry
1913–1994 · United States
Split-brain research and Chemoaffinity hypothesis
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Rosalind Franklin
1920–1958 · United Kingdom
Structure of DNA • Fine structure of coal and graphite • Virus structures
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Ruslan Ponomariov
b. 1983 · Ukraine
Being the FIDE World Chess Champion from 2002 to 2004
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Ruth Lawrence
b. 1971 · United Kingdom
Lawrence–Krammer representation
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Samuel Barber
1910–1981 · United States
Attempted an opera at age ten; attended the Curtis Institute of Music at age fourteen
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Samuel Reshevsky
1911–1992 · Poland
Eight-time winner of the US Chess Championship
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Saul Kripke
b. 1940 · United States
Kripke-Platek set theory.
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Scott Aaronson
b. 1981 · United States
Quantum Turing machine with postselection • Algebrization • Boson sampling
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Sergey Karjakin
b. 1990 · Russia
Becoming a grandmaster at the age of 12.
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Shahriar Afshar
b. 1971 · Iran
Afshar experiment, KOR-fx, SoundKix, and acousto-haptics
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Shakuntala Devi
1929–2013 · India
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Sheila Sri Prakash
b. 1955 · India
Founding the Shilpa Architects
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Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son
b. 1990 · VN
Becoming a Grandmaster at the age of 11 years.
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Stephanie Kwolek
1923–2014 · United States
Kevlar
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Stephen Jay Gould
1941–2002 · United States
Punctuated equilibrium Non-overlapping magisteria Spandrel Exaptation
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Steven Pinker
b. 1954 · Canada
The Language Instinct (1994) • How the Mind Works (1997) • The Blank Slate (2002) • The Better Angel
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Susumu Tonegawa
b. 1939 · Japan
Antibody diversity, E-boxV(D) and J recombination
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Teimour Radjabov
b. 1987 · AZ
Starting playing chess at the age of 3
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Wei Yi
b. 1999 · China
The fifth-youngest grandmaster in history
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Wesley So
b. 1993 · United States
The fifth-highest-rated player in history.in March of 2017
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Yu Yangyi
b. 1994 · China
Chinese chess grandmaster
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Yehudi Menuhin
1916–1999 · United States
Playing the Soil Stradivarius,
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Yeshayahu Leibowitz
1903–1994 · Israel
Encyclopaedia Hebraica
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Tu Youyou
b. 1930 · China
Discovering artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin
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Yuriy Kuzubov
b. 1990 · Ukraine
Chess Grandmaster
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Ariel Lanyi
b. 1997 · Israel
Music Prodigy Pianist
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Flo and Kay Lyman
b. 1956 · United States
Their Memory • World's only female autistic savant twins
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Daniel Tammet
b. 1979 · England
Born on a Blue Day (2006)
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Yaakov Ziv
1931–2023 · Israel
LZ77, LZ78
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Akiane Kramarik
b. 1994 · United States
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Santiago Gonzalez
b. 1997 · United States
Graduating from university at 17.
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Jason Padgett
b. 1970 · United States
Being a mathematical savant & Artist
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Matt Savage
b. 1992 · United States
Matt Savage Groove Experiment – Splash Variations (2018)
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Jack Andraka
b. 1997 · United States
His method of detecting cancer at early stages
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Shree Bose
b. 1994 · United States
Cofounding Piper, a STEM education company creating engineering kits for children.
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Marian Bechtel
b. 1997 · United States
Creating a landmine detector
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Colin Carlson
b. 1995 · United States
Winning the Harry S. Truman Scholarship at 14
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Nick D'Aloisio
b. 1995 · United Kingdom
Summly
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Kelvin Doe
b. 1996 · SL
Teaching himself engineering at the age of 12 and building his own radio station in Sierra Leone
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Saheela Ibraheem
b. 1996 · United States
Enrolling into Harvard at the age of 15.
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Talia Leman
b. 1995 · United States
Creating the RandomKid organization
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Dalumuzi Mhlanga
b. 1995 · ZW
Founder & CEO of Notto Inc
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Raghav Sood
b. 1997 · India
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Adora Svitak
b. 1997 · United States
Writing stories since the age of 6
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Brittany Wenger
b. 1994 · United States
Winning the first-place winner of the Google Science Fair in 2012
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Taylor Wilson
b. 1994 · United States
Achieving nuclear fusion using an inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) device
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Esther Lederberg
1922–2006 · United States
Lambda phage, specialized transduction, replica plating, fertility factor F, Plasmid Reference Cente
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Elias James Corey
b. 1928 · United States
Retrosynthetic analysis
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Banksy
b. 1974 · United Kingdom
Ozone's Angel
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Jackie Chan
b. 1954 · HK
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Robert Christgau
b. 1942 · United States
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Coen brothers
b. 1954 · United States
Raising Arizona (1987), Miller's Crossing (1990), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother,
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Natalie Zemon Davis
b. 1928 · United States
Trickster Travels (2006)
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Richard Dawkins
b. 1941 · United Kingdom
Gene-centred view of evolution Concept of the meme Middle World Extended phenotype Advocacy of scie
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Plácido Domingo
b. 1941 · Spain
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Bob Dylan
b. 1941 · United States
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Ashton Eaton
b. 1988 · United States
Holding the world record in the indoor heptathlon
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b. 1941 · United States
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b. 1980 · United States
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b. 1957 · United Kingdom
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b. 1961 · Canada
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b. 1935 · China
Religious leader of Tibet
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b. 1966 · United States
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b. 1968 · United States
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b. 1946 · United States
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b. 1949 · United States
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b. 1963 · United States
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b. 1979 · YE
Winning the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize
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Stan Lee
1922–2018 · United States
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b. 1955 · United States
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b. 1933 · United States
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Ian McKellen
b. 1939 · United Kingdom
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies
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Barack Obama
b. 1961 · United States
Being in the 44th president of the United State
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Conan O'Brien
b. 1963 · United States
Saturday Night Live (writer, 1987–1991) • The Simpsons(writer, producer, 1991–1993) • Late Night wit
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Amartya Sen
b. 1933 · India
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Tom Stoppard
b. 1937 · United Kingdom
Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Professional Foul, The Real Thing, Tra
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b. 1945 · Myanmar
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McCoy Tyner
1938–2020 · United States
Being a five-time Grammy winner.
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b. 1954 · United States
The Oprah Winfrey Show
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b. 1978 · United States
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Maya Plisetskaya
1925–2015 · Russia
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b. 1967 · Germany
Founding PayPal
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b. 1949 · United Kingdom
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b. 1984 · United States
Co-founding and leading Facebook, Inc.
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b. 1958 · United States
Becoming a math genius after a car crash
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1938–2015 · GH
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b. 1961 · Romania
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b. 1985 · United States
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1923–2015
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b. 1947 · Iran
Defenders of Human Rights Center
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1904–1971 · United States
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1931–2019 · United States
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1928–2016 · Romania
Night (1960)
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b. 1954 · Japan
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b. 1931 · Canada
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1940–2011 · KE
Green Belt Movement
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1914–1998 · Mexico
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1904–1967 · United States
Atomic bomb Oppenheimer–Snyder model Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff equation Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff
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