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Relating to public figures or personalities, celebrities or otherwise, who have made significant progress in their particular professional field, or who have helped or influenced wider society to an outstanding degree.

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Evan O'Neill Kane

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Evan O'Neill Kane was a 20th century surgeon who was most famous for the multiple surgeries he performed on himself. His first surgery was an appendectomy that he initiated ...

Manuel Jalón

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Manuel Jalón Corominas (1925 - 2011) was a Spanish inventor. He was an Aeronautical engineer and officer of the Air Force in Zaragoza Air Base. He invented the mop with wringer ...

Nicolas Steno

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Nicolas Steno (11 January 1638 – 25 November 1686) was a Danish pioneer in both anatomy and geology. By 1659 he had decided not to accept anything simply written in a book, ...

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857 -1894) was a German physicist who clarified and expanded the electromagnetic theory of light that had been put forth by Maxwell. He was the first to ...

Jean Piaget

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(August 9, 1896 - September 17, 1980) A Swiss psychologist and philosopher best known for his work in developmental psychology, more specifically the cognitive development of ...

Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 - September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and is commonly known as the founding father of psychoanalysis. Most of his research focuses on the ...

Ivan Pavlov

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(September 26, 1849 - February 27, 1936) A famous Russian physiologist focusing most of his research in conditioning and involuntary reflex actions. He is most famous for his ...

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