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Marie Curie

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Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the one whom fame has not corrupted.

Albert Einstein

Polish-born French physicist Marie Curie, famous for her groundbreaking work on radioactivity and winner of both the Nobel Prize for Physics and the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, was born in Warsaw this day in 1867.

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British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace

January 8, 1823 — November 7, 1913

Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace was a British humanist, naturalist, geographer,...

Lise Meitner

November 7, 1878 — October 27, 1968

Lise Meitner was an Austrian-born physicist who shared the Enrico...

Gene Tunney

May 25, 1898 — November 7, 1978

Gene Tunney was an American boxer who defeated Jack Dempsey in 1926...

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December 10, 1886 — November 7, 1959

Victor McLaglen

Gunga Din: …by Cary Grant), MacChesney (Victor McLaglen), and Ballantine...

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November 7, 1929 —

Eric Kandel is an Austrian-born American neurobiologist who, with...

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April 2, 1927 — November 7, 2012

Carmen Basilio was an American professional boxer, world welterweight...

Rogers, Robert

November 7, 1731 — May 18, 1795

Robert Rogers was an American frontier soldier who raised and commanded...

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November 7, 1943 —

Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Greenblatt is an American scholar who was credited with establishing...