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Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Frances Hodgson Burnett

Author · born November 24, 1849 · died 1924

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Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).

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  1. ~36Notable work: Little Lord Fauntleroy1885
  2. 55Notable work: A Little PrincessSeptember 30, 1905
  3. ~63Notable work: The Secret Garden1912

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Tsung-Dao Lee
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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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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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