Hans Spemann was a German embryologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935 for his student Hilde Mangold's discovery of the effect now known as embryonic induction, an influence, exercised by various parts of the embryo, that directs the development…
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Author
1880–1968 · United States
Helen Adams Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old.
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Founder · Bad Robot Productions · media
1966 · United States
Jeffrey Jacob Abrams is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his work in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction.
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Actor
1986 · United Kingdom
Samuel George Claflin is an English actor. After graduating from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2009, he began his acting career on television and had his first film role as Philip Swift in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011).
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Scientist
1931–2021 · Kingdom of the Netherlands
Martinus Justinus Godefriedus "Tini" Veltman was a Dutch theoretical physicist. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his former PhD student Gerardus 't Hooft for their work on particle theory.
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Entrepreneur
1984 · United States
Khloé Alexandra Kardashian is an American media personality, socialite, and businesswoman. She rose to fame starring with her family in the reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians from 2007 to 2021.
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Entrepreneur
1957 · United States
Thomas Fahr Steyer is an American businessman, philanthropist, environmental advocate, and Democratic political activist. He founded the San Francisco hedge fund Farallon Capital in 1986, serving as its co-senior managing partner until leaving the firm in 2012.
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