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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
J. D. Bernal
Physicist
10-May-1901 15-Sep-1971 X-ray crystallography
T. S. Eliot
Poet
26-Sep-1888 4-Jan-1965 Author of "The Waste Land"
Richard Feynman
Physicist
11-May-1918 15-Feb-1988 Surely he's joking
William F. Giauque
Chemist
12-May-1895 28-Mar-1982 Adiabatic demagnetization
Frederick Lindemann
Government
5-Apr-1886 3-Jul-1957 Churchill's scientific and war advisor
Jacques Monod
Scientist
9-Feb-1910 31-May-1976 Operon theory of genetic control
Ben R. Mottelson
Physicist
9-Jul-1926   Determined shapes of nuclei
George A. Papandreou
Head of State
16-Jun-1952   Prime Minister of Greece, 2009-11
Charles Stewart Parnell
Politician
27-Jun-1846 6-Oct-1891 Irish Nationalist leader
Brian P. Schmidt
Astronomer
24-Feb-1967   Accelerating universe
Richard E. Taylor
Physicist
2-Nov-1929   Verified existence of quarks
Baldur von Schirach
Government
9-Mar-1907 8-Aug-1974 Hitler-Jugend, Gauleiter of Vienna


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