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Albert Fert
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Albert Fert

Scientist · born March 7, 1938

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Albert Fert is a French physicist and one of the discoverers of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disks.

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  1. ~68Received the Wolf Prize in Physics2006
  2. ~69Received the Nobel Prize in Physics2007
  3. ~69Received the Japan Prize2007

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Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Entrepreneur · Kingdom Holding Company

1955 · Saudi Arabia

$15.5Bolder estimate, as of November 2022 · Bloomberg

Prince Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud is a Saudi Arabian billionaire businessman, investor, and a House of Saud royal. In 2008, he was listed on Time magazine's Time 100, an annual list of the hundred most influential people in the world.

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Sanae Takaichi

Politician

1961 · Japan

Sanae Takaichi is a Japanese politician who has been Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since October 2025. She is the first woman to hold either of these positions in Japanese history.

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Rachel Weisz
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Rachel Weisz

Actor

1970 · United States

Rachel Hannah Weisz is a British actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received several awards, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award.

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Reinhard Heydrich

German Nazi SS and Gestapo police official and main architect of the Holocaust Genocide · Einsatzgruppen

1904–1942 · Nazi Germany

Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich was a high-ranking SS and police official in Nazi Germany as well as one of the principal architects of the Holocaust. He held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei.

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