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David Baker
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David Baker

American biochemist and computational biologist · born October 6, 1962

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David Baker is an American biochemist and computational biologist who has pioneered methods to design proteins and predict their three-dimensional structures.

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  1. ~62Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry2024

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Elisabeth Shue
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Elisabeth Shue

Actor

1963 · United States

Elisabeth Shue is an American actress.

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Addison Rae
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Addison Rae

Actor

2000 · United States

Addison Rae Easterling is an American singer, actress, and social media personality. She joined TikTok in 2019, becoming one of the platform's most-followed creators. Rae went on to expand her career into music and acting.

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Mario Capecchi
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Mario Capecchi

Inventor

1937 · United States

Mario Ramberg Capecchi is an Italian-born American molecular geneticist and a co-awardee of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a method to create mice in which a specific gene is turned off, known as knockout mice.

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Ernest Walton
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Ernest Walton

Scientist

1903–1995 · Ireland

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton was an Irish experimental physicist. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Cockcroft "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles."

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