Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Gilbert N. Lewis

Gilbert Newton Lewis

United States

1875 – 1946 (70 years old)

Colossal physical chemist who discovered the covalent bond, created Lewis dot structures, and generalized acid-base theory.

El Cerrito, California, United States

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2,983

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Thomas Hunt Morgan

Thomas Hunt Morgan

United States

1866 – 1945 (79 years old)

American geneticist whose 'Fly Room' experiments proved that chromosomes carry the physical units of heredity, winning the 1933 Nobel Prize.

Altadena, California, United States

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Stefan Banach

Stefan Banach

Austria-Hungary

1892 – 1945 (53 years old)

Polish mathematician widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential figures, who founded modern functional analysis and introduced complete normed vector spaces (Banach spaces).

Lviv, Ukraine

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Robert H. Goddard

Robert Hutchings Goddard

United States

1882 – 1945 (62 years old)

Father of modern rocketry who designed, constructed, and successfully launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926.

Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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Vladimir Vernadsky

Владимир Иванович Вернадский

Russian Empire

1863 – 1945 (81 years old)

Russian and Ukrainian mineralogist and geochemist who founded biogeochemistry and popularized the concept of the Biosphere, theorizing its evolution into the human-guided Noosphere.

Moscow, Russia

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Arthur Eddington

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

United Kingdom

1882 – 1944 (61 years old)

British astrophysicist who led the historic 1919 solar eclipse expedition confirming Einstein's General Relativity.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

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David Hilbert

David Hilbert

Kingdom of Prussia (Russia)

1862 – 1943 (81 years old)

Colossal German mathematician whose 23 Problems set the agenda for 20th-century mathematics, creator of Hilbert space.

Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany

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Nikola Tesla

Никола Тесла

Croatia

10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943 (86 years old)

Serbian-American inventor and electrical genius who patented alternating current (AC) polyphase power, designed the induction motor, and pioneered radio, remote control, and high-frequency coils.

New York City (New York), United States

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1

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George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver

United States

c. 1864 – 1943 (79 years old)

American agricultural scientist and inventor who developed crop-rotation techniques and hundreds of peanut, sweet potato, and soybean products to restore depleted Southern soils and empower impoverished farmers.

Tuskegee (Alabama), United States

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William Henry Bragg

William Henry Bragg

United Kingdom

1862 – 1942 (79 years old)

British physicist and mineralogist who co-invented X-ray crystallography with his son Lawrence Bragg, winning the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics for deciphering crystal lattice structures.

Wigton (Cumbria), United Kingdom

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Paul Sabatier

Paul Sabatier

France

1854 – 1941 (86 years old)

French chemist who discovered catalytic hydrogenation of organic compounds with finely divided nickel, winning the 1912 Nobel Prize.

Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France

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Annie Jump Cannon

Annie Jump Cannon

United States

1863 – 1941 (77 years old)

Pioneering astronomer who manually classified over 350,000 stars and created the Harvard Spectral Classification system (OBAFGKM).

Dover, Delaware, United States

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J. J. Thomson

Joseph John Thomson

United Kingdom

1856 – 1940 (83 years old)

English physicist who discovered the electron—the first subatomic particle ever identified—and invented mass spectrometry, winning the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics.

London, United Kingdom

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1

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Jagadish Chandra Bose

জগদীশ চন্দ্র বসু

Bengal Presidency

1858 – 1937 (78 years old)

Indian polymath who pioneered millimeter-wave radio transmission, invented the semiconductor crystal radio detector, and invented the crescograph to prove that plants respond physiologically to electrical, chemical, and emotional stimuli.

Kolkata (West Bengal), India

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Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson

New Zealand

30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937 (66 years old)

New Zealand-British physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, identified alpha and beta radiation, proved radioactive transmutation, and achieved humanity's first artificial nuclear transmutation.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Victor Grignard

François Auguste Victor Grignard

France

1871 – 1935 (64 years old)

French chemist who discovered Grignard reagents, the indispensable organomagnesium tools for forming carbon-carbon bonds.

Lyon, Rhône, France

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1

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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Константин Эдуардович Циолковский

Russian Empire

1857 – 1935 (78 years old)

Russian visionary schoolteacher and aerospace theorist acclaimed as the 'Father of Theoretical Astronautics', who derived the Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation and conceived multi-stage rockets, space stations, and airlocks.

Kaluga, Russia

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1

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Hugo de Vries

Hugo Marie de Vries

Netherlands

1848 – 1935 (87 years old)

Dutch botanist who independently rediscovered Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity in 1900 and formulated the revolutionary Mutation Theory, introducing the concept of sudden genetic changes as the raw material of evolution.

Lunteren (Ede, Gelderland), Netherlands

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