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Engraved portrait of Sir Isaac Newton from 1856, showing him seated with long curly hair, wearing a brown coat and white cravat, gazing to the side.

Engraved portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz with long curly hair, wearing a buttoned coat and cravat, facing forward.

James Clerk Maxwell

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

Albert Einstein

Boltzmann, Ludwig Eduard

Physicist Brian Greene speaks in front of a window, with a digital illustration of the solar system and curved planetary orbits shown beside him.

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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.

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