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Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist who dev…
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Isaac Newton
English mathematician and physicist whose…
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Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist, pion…
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Alan Turing
English mathematician and logician, a fou…
Computer scientists
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist who founded the modern m…
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Max Planck
German theoretical physicist and originat…
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Ada Lovelace
English mathematician regarded as the fir…
Computer scientists
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist and wartim…
Physicists