Eric F. Wieschaus

Nicky Oppenheimer

Entrepreneur

1945 · South Africa

$7.3Bolder estimate, as of 2019 · Forbes

Nicholas "Nicky" Frank Oppenheimer is a South African billionaire businessman. He was formerly the chairman of De Beers diamond mining company and of its subsidiary, the Diamond Trading Company, and former deputy chairman of Anglo American.

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Tim Berners-Lee

Founder · World Wide Web Consortium

1955 · United Kingdom

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP.

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Scott Adams

Author

1957–2026 · United States

Scott Raymond Adams was an American cartoonist, author, and commentator. He is best known as the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and nonfiction works of business, self-improvement, commentary, and satire.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Author

1867–1959 · United States

Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years.

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Francis Crick

Author

1916–2004 · United Kingdom

Francis Harry Compton Crick was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. He, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins played crucial roles in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule.

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Robert Aumann

Scientist

1930 · United States

Robert John Aumann is an Israeli-American mathematician, and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.