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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Niels Bohr
Physicist
7-Oct-1885 18-Nov-1962 Father of Quantum Theory
Marie Curie
Chemist
7-Nov-1867 4-Jul-1934 Early nuclear chemist
Pierre Curie
Physicist
15-May-1859 19-Apr-1906 Early investigator of radiation
Albert Einstein
Physicist
14-Mar-1879 18-Apr-1955 Theory of relativity
Enrico Fermi
Physicist
29-Sep-1901 29-Nov-1954 First controlled nuclear chain reaction
Otto Hahn
Chemist
8-Mar-1879 28-Jul-1968 Demonstrated fission
Ernest Lawrence
Physicist
8-Aug-1901 27-Aug-1958 Inventor of the cyclotron
Lise Meitner
Physicist
7-Nov-1878 27-Oct-1968 Discovered nuclear fission
Dmitri Mendeleev
Chemist
8-Feb-1834 2-Feb-1907 Periodic Table of the Elements
Alfred Nobel
Inventor
21-Oct-1833 10-Dec-1896 Dynamite inventor, established Nobel Prize
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Physicist
27-Mar-1845 10-Feb-1923 Discovered X-Rays
Ernest Rutherford
Physicist
30-Aug-1871 19-Oct-1937 Father of nuclear physics
Glenn Seaborg
Physicist
19-Apr-1912 25-Feb-1999 Co-Discoverer of Plutonium


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