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

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Pyotr Shirshov

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Pyotr Shirshov, hydrobiologist, participant of many arctic expeditions including the first drifting ice station, North Pole-1, researched plankton in polar regions and proved there is life in high ...

Nikolai Vavilov

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Nikolai Vavilov, botanist and geneticist, gathered the world's largest collection of plant seeds, identified the centres of origin of main cultivated plants

Galileo Galilei

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Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564–8 January 1642), an Italian physicist,astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. He is noted for his ...

Isaac Newton

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Sir Isaac Newton (January 4, 1643 - March 31, 1727), an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher who is generally regarded as one of the greatest scientists ...

Charles Darwin

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Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882), an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific ...

Marie Curie

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Marie Curie, a Polish-born physicist and chemist who lived in France. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first person awarded two Nobel Prizes, and the first female professor at the ...

Leonardo da Vinci

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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519), an Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, ...

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