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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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Karl Ernst von Baer

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Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer, Edler von Huthorn, also known in Russia as Karl Maksimovich Baer, was an Estonian naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, a ...

Ralph H. Baer

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Ralph H. Baer is a German-born American video game pioneer, inventor, engineer, known as "The Father of Video Games", who is noted for his many contributions to games and the ...

Spanman Hungermann

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Spanman Hungermann was a German physisist. He was born in 1900 in Breslau and moved to Berlin in his early twenties. He invented a lot of machines, e.g. the egg machine and the ...

Stephen Hawking

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Prominent scientist, professor and author of multiple popular science books, including ‘A Brief History of Time’. Particularly famous for his theorems related to gravitational ...

Benjamin Carson

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Benjamin Solomon Carson was born in Detroit, Michigan, on September 18, 1951. He is the second son of Sonya and Robert Solomon Carson. Ben grew up in a tough environment of ...

Albert Einstein

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Developer of the theories of special and general relativity, which changed the way scientists see our world. In 1950 he published five landmark scientific papers, any one of which ...

Isaac Newton

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Scientist who summarized all of the findings of all great scientists before him, such as Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, and Tyco Brahe. The author of the revolutionary work, ...