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Arundhati Roy
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Arundhati Roy

Actor · born November 24, 1961

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Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the biggest-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author.

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  1. ~36Received the Booker Prize1997
  2. ~36Notable work: The God of Small Things1997
  3. ~53Named Time 1002014

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Tsung-Dao Lee

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1926–2024 · United States

Tsung-Dao Lee was a Chinese-American physicist known for his work on parity violation, the Lee–Yang theorem, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, nontopological solitons, and soliton stars.

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Simon van der Meer
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Simon van der Meer

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1925–2011 · Kingdom of the Netherlands

Simon van der Meer was a Dutch particle accelerator physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Carlo Rubbia for contributions to the CERN project which led to the discovery of the W and Z particles, the two fundamental communicators of the weak interaction.

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Benedictus de Spinoza

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1632–1677 · Dutch Republic

Baruch (de) Spinoza, also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin who was born and lived in the Dutch Republic.

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