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A notable scientist who carried out important experiments in electricity. He invented the lighting rod and a stove.
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790
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a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin.
Sir Alexander Fleming
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an American painter from Rhode Island Colony who is widely considered one of America's foremost portraitists. His best-known work is an unfinished portrait of George Washington, begun in 1796, which is sometimes referred to as the Athenaeum Portrait.
Gilbert Charles Stuart
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He was an American medical researcher and physician. While serving as the head of the Virus Research Lab at the University of Pittsburgh, he discovered and perfected the first vaccine found to be safe and effective in preventing polio or infantile paralysis, one of the most-feared and crippling diseases of the early 20th century.
Jonas Salk (October 28, 1914 – October 28, 1995)
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English Franciscan philosopher and educational reformer who was a major medieval proponent of experimental science. He studied mathematics, astronomy, optics, alchemy, and languages. He was the first European to describe in detail the process of making gunpowder.
Roger Bacon
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He was an English naturalist and geologist. he described the process of natural selection and is known for his contributions to evolutionary theory. He is the author of the boo ''On the Origin of Species"
Charles Darwin
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is famous as the inventor of the telegraph and THIS Code, but what he really wanted to do was paint. He was a well-established artist when his youthful interest in electronics resurfaced, leading to the communications invention that changed humanity until it was overshadowed by the telephone, radio, television, and, finally, the internet.
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791–April 2, 1872)
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He was an English Romantic painter, printmaker, and watercolorist.
He is well-known for his expressive colorizations, innovative landscapes, and stormy, sometimes violent maritime paintings.
Joseph Mallord William Turner
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On June 18, 1983, NASA Astronaut Sally K. Ride became the first American woman in space
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Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and business magnate. He was the founder of Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. Ford was the first to manufacture an automobile that was affordable for middle-class Americans.
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He invented a cotton gin, one of the first to design a milling machine.
Eli Whitney
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He was an American engineer and inventor who is
widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat. In 1807, that steamboat travelled on the Hudson River with passengers from New York City to Albany and back again
Robert Fulton (1765 –1815)
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Ophelia is an 1851–52 painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais in the collection of Tate Britain, London. /ˈmɪleɪ/
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He was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream. After a decade of experiments in photography, he patented and sold a roll film camera, making amateur photography accessible to the general public for the first time.
George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932)
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He was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement. He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)
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An American chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author and educator. For his scientific work he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and for his peace activism in 1962.
Linus Carl Pauling (1901-1994)
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an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927. There she started her career as the leader of the development of maize cytogenetics, the focus of her research for the rest of her life.
Barbara McClintock (June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992)
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He was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home
John Constable RA (/ˈkʌnstəbəl, ˈkɒn-/
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He is an American singer-songwriter. Generally regarded as one of the greatest songwriters ever, he also has been a major figure in popular culture over his 60-year career. In 2016 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan;[3] born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941)
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Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director, screenwriter, producer and editor. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema.[1] In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films,[a] many of which are still widely watched and studied today.
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a Welsh scientist who served as the project leader of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Based at CERN, in 2012 he became the director of the Linear Collider Collaboration, an international organisation managing development of next generation particle colliders, including the International Linear Collider and the Compact Linear Collider.
Lyn Evans
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an American chemist, physicist, and engineer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1932 for his work in surface chemistry. While at General Electric from 1909 to 1950, he advanced several fields of physics and chemistry, inventing the gas-filled incandescent lamp and the hydrogen welding technique.
Irving Langmuir
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He was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was widely noticed for his "drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles.
Paul Jackson Pollock (/ˈpɒlək/; January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956)
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He directed thirteen feature films and three short documentaries over the course of his career. Such as EYES WIDE SHUT, THE SHINING, LOLITA
Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999)
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Who is this and what are his most famous masterpieces?
George Gershwin (/ˈɡɜrʃ.wɪn/; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928) as well as the opera Porgy and Bess (1935).