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Born February 17, 1740 • Geneva • Switzerland
Died January 22, 1799 (aged 58) • Geneva • Switzerland
Notable Works “Voyages dans les Alpes”
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Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
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James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Auguste Piccard, 1961
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Swiss-Belgian physicist
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Jacques Piccard
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Charles Édouard Guillaume
French physicist
Hermann von Helmholtz
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German scientist and philosopher
Galileo
Galileo
Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
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Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
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British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace
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British naturalist
Guglielmo Marconi
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Italian physicist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American physicist
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
Teller, Edward
Edward Teller
Hungarian-born American physicist
Robert Goddard
Robert Goddard
American professor and inventor
Karl Ernst von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist
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English naturalist
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Lord Rayleigh
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