Leo James Rainwater was an American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 for his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei.
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Actor
1934 · United Kingdom
Dame Judith Olivia Dench is an English actress. Widely considered one of Britain's greatest actresses, she is noted for her versatile roles on stage and screen.
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Actor
1916–2020 · United States
Kirk Douglas was an American actor and filmmaker. After an impoverished childhood, he made his film debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck.
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Actor
1953 · United States
John Gavin Malkovich is an American actor. His accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for two Academy Awards, two Actor Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, and three Golden Globe Awards.
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Founder · Syncopy Inc. · entertainment
1971 · United Kingdom
Dame Emma Thomas, is a British film producer. She has produced all of the feature films directed by her husband Christopher Nolan, which have grossed more than $7 billion worldwide and are regarded as some of the greatest films of their respective decades.
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Scientist
1868–1934 · Kingdom of Prussia
Fritz Jakob Haber was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.
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Scientist
1926–1999 · United States
Henry Way Kendall was an American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 jointly with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E.
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