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Ellsworth Kelly
American painter, sculptor, and printmaker
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David Smith
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Jean Tinguely
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Sir Anthony Caro
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William E. Dodge
American industrialist
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Alberto Burri
Italian painter
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Nicolas Schöffer
French sculptor
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Seymour Lipton
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Gustav Tammann
Russian chemist
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Ernst Julius Cohen
Dutch chemist
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Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen
British metallurgist
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Arnold Sommerfeld
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Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
Swedish mineralogist and chemist
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Richard C. Tolman
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Albert Sauveur
American metallurgist

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