Sir James Alexander Mirrlees was a British economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was knighted in the 1997 Birthday Honours.
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Investor · Glencore · mining
1934 · United States
$1.2Bolder estimate, as of 2005 · Forbes
American businessman
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Entrepreneur · YouTube
1968–2024 · United States
$765Molder estimate, as of 2022 · Forbes
Susan Diane Wojcicki was an American business executive who was the chief executive officer of YouTube from 2014 to 2023. Her net worth was estimated at $765 million in 2022.
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Actor
1963 · United States
Edith Falco is an American actress. Known for her performances on stage and screen, she has received numerous accolades including four Primetime Emmy Awards, five Actor Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as a nomination for a Tony Award.
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Scientist
1946 · Kingdom of the Netherlands
Gerardus "Gerard" 't Hooft is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G. Veltman "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions."
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Scientist
1891–1987 · United States
John Howard Northrop was an American biochemist who, with James Batcheller Sumner and Wendell Meredith Stanley, won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The award was given for these scientists' isolation, crystallization, and study of enzymes, proteins, and viruses.
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American physiologist
1888–1963 · United States
Herbert Spencer Gasser was an American physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for his work with action potentials in nerve fibers while on the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis, awarded jointly with Joseph Erlanger.
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