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Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
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Artturi Ilmari Virtanen

Inventor · born January 15, 1895 · died 1973

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Artturi Ilmari Virtanen was a Finnish chemist and recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method".

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  1. ~50Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry1945

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Tsai Eng-meng

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1957 · Taiwan

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Giorgia Meloni

Politician

1977 · Italy

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Ben Shapiro

Founder · The Daily Wire

1984 · United States

Benjamin Aaron Shapiro is an American conservative political commentator and media host. He writes columns for Creators Syndicate, Newsweek, and Ami Magazine, and is editor emeritus for The Daily Wire, which he co-founded in 2015.

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1908–2003 · Hungary

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