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Born October 31, 1847 • Italy
Died February 7, 1897 (aged 49) • Turin • Italy
Galileo
Galileo
Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
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Alessandro Volta
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Italian physicist
Evangelista Torricelli
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Italian physicist and mathematician
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Werner Karl Heisenberg sits at a desk in a suit with his hands folded, bookshelves in the background.
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German physicist and philosopher
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
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Marie Curie
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Teller, Edward
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Hungarian-born American physicist
Robert Goddard
Robert Goddard
American professor and inventor
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Auguste Piccard, 1961
Auguste Piccard
Swiss-Belgian physicist
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Indian plant physiologist and physicist
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Jack Kilby
American engineer
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist
Aleksandr Popov, detail of a painting by P.D. Korin
Aleksandr Popov
Russian engineer
Fresnel, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a contemporary portrait, 1825
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
French physicist
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Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov
Soviet physicist
Edwin H. Land
Edwin Herbert Land
American inventor and physicist

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