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Pierre Curie
Born: May 15, 1859
Sciencea French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and radioactivity.more…Gérard de Nerval
Born: May 22, 1808
Lit.Westa major figure of French romanticism, best known for his novellas and poemsmore…Henri Giffard
Born: February 8, 1825
Sciencea French engineer. In 1852 he invented the steam injector and the powered Giffard dirigible airship.more…Ernst Chain
Born: June 19, 1906
Sciencea German-British biochemist best known for being a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillinmore…Léon Teisserenc de Bort
Born: November 5, 1855
Sciencea French meteorologist and a pioneer in the field of aerology. Together with Richard Assmann (1845-1918), he is credited as co-discoverer of the stratosphere,more…Gavrila Derzhavin
Born: July 14, 1743
Lit.Westa most highly esteemed Russian poets before Alexander Pushkin, as well as a statesman.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
