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Born May 29, 1767 • France
Died December 2, 1804 (aged 37) • Paris • France
Inventions thermolampe
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Georges Claude
French engineer
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist
Welsbach, Carl Auer, Freiherr von
Carl Auer, Freiherr von Welsbach
Austrian chemist and engineer
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Paul-Louis-Toussaint Héroult
French scientist
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Hilaire Bernigaud, count de Chardonnet
French chemist
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Paul Vieille
French chemist
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Sir Christopher Cockerell
British inventor
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Robert Moog
American electrical engineer
Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci drawn in red chalk, showing an elderly man with long hair and a flowing beard, with a serious, contemplative expression.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Sir Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy
English chemist
Richard Trevithick, detail of an oil painting by John Linnell, 1816; in the Science Museum, London.
Richard Trevithick
British engineer and inventor
James Lovelock
James Lovelock
English chemist, doctor, and author
Thomas Midgley, Jr.
Thomas Midgley, Jr.
American chemical engineer
Kary B. Mullis
Kary Mullis
American biochemist
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Frederick W. Taylor
American inventor and engineer
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Cheryl L. Shavers
American chemist and engineer
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Dean Kamen
American inventor
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Robert William Thomson, Scottish inventor; engraving after a photograph, 1873.
Robert William Thomson
Scottish engineer and entrepreneur
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Sir John A. Pople
British mathematician and chemist

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