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Famous Scientists: Stephanie Kwolek

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Famous Scientists: Steven Chu

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Famous Scientists: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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Learn about the Nobel Prize winner for his mathematical theory of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars.
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Famous Scientists: Svante Arrhenius

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Find out about the life and work of one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry, Svante Arrhenius, who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1903, becoming the first Swedish Nobel laureate.
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Famous Scientists: Sven Wingqvist

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Learn about the Swedish engineer, inventor, industrialist, and one of the founders of one of the world's leading ball- and roller bearing makers.
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Famous Scientists: Thabit Ibn Qurra

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Learn about the life and work of Thabit ibn Qurra, a mathematician, physician, astronomer, and translator of the Islamic Golden Age.
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Famous Scientists: Thales

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Famous Scientists: Theodosius Dobzhansky

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Read a short biography about Theodosius Dobzhansky, a central figure in the field of evolutionary biology for his work in shaping the unifying modern evolutionary synthesis.
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Famous Scientists: Thomas Alva Edison

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Meet the inventor of the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb, Thomas Edison.
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Famous Scientists: Thomas Burnet

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Read this short biography about theologian, Thimas Burnet.
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Famous Scientists: Thomas Hunt Morgan

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A short biography of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity.
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Famous Scientists: Thomas Kuhn

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Meet the author of one of the most influential books of the 20th century The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and the philosopher who coined the term "paradigm shift."
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Famous Scientists: Thomas Midgeley Jr.

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Meet a key figure in a team of chemists that developed the tetraethyllead additive to gasoline as well as some of the first chlorofluorocarbons.
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Famous Scientists: Thomas Newcomen

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Famous Scientists: Thomas Willis

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Thomas Willis was a founding member of the Royal Society, who played an important part in the history of anatomy, neurology, and psychiatry.
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Famous Scientists: Timothy John Berners Lee

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Read a short biography of the man best known for inventing the World Wide Web.
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Famous Scientists: Tycho Brahe

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Famous Scientists: Ukichiro Nakaya

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A short biography about Ukichiro Nakaya, who is known for his work in glaciology and low-temperature sciences. He is credited with making the first artificial snowflakes.
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Famous Scientists: Virginia Apgar

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Read a short biography about the woman who was best known as the inventor of the Apgar score, a way to quickly assess the health of newborn children immediately after birth.
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Famous Scientists: Vladimir Vernadsky

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Find out about Vladimir Vernadsky, considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology, and most noted for his 1926 book The Biosphere in which he inadvertently worked to popularize that term.
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Famous Scientists: Walter Schottky

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Famous Scientists: Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe

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Find out about a German nuclear physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 for his work in study of nuclear reactions, the Compton effect, cosmic rays, and the wave-particle duality of radiation.

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