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LISTS

Name Occupation Birth Death Known 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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