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Scientists are people who study topics relating to hard sciences such as chemistry, biology and physics.

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Rudolf Diesel

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Diesel was born in Paris, France in 1858 the second of three children of Elise (née Strobel) and Theodor Diesel. His parents were Bavarian immigrants living in Paris. Theodor Diesel, a bookbinder by ...

Christian Doppler

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Christian Andreas Doppler was an Austrian mathematician and physicist. Christian Doppler was raised in Salzburg, Austria, the son of a stonemason. Doppler could not work in his father's business ...

Walter Dornberger

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Major-General Dr Walter Robert Dornberger was a German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World Wars I and II. He was a leader of Germany's V-2 rocket program and other projects at the ...

Karl Drais

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Karl Drais was a German inventor, who invented the Laufmaschine ("running machine"), also later called the velocipede, draisine (English) or "draisienne" (French), also nicknamed the dandy horse. ...

Peter Drucker

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Peter Ferdinand Drucker was an influential writer, management consultant, and self-described “social ecologist. Drucker's books and scholarly and popular articles explored how humans are organized ...

Paul Ehrlich

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Paul Ehrlich was a German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy. He invented the precursor technique to Gram staining bacteria, and the methods ...

Hugo Erdmann

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Hugo Wilhelm Traugott Erdmann (8 May 1862 – 25 June 1910) was the German chemist who discovered, together with his doctoral advisor Jacob Volhard, the Volhard-Erdmann cyclization. In 1898 he was the ...

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