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Benjamin Cardozo

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo

United States jurist

Plimsoll, Samuel

Samuel Plimsoll

British politician and social reformer

John Scott Haldane

John Scott Haldane

British physiologist

Ramazzini, engraving by J.G. Seiller

Bernardino Ramazzini

Italian medical professor