Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is an Emirati politician and royal. He is the current ruler of Dubai and serves as the vice president and prime minister of the UAE.
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Actor
1976 · Germany
Diane Kruger is a German actress. She is a former model-turned-actress who, early in her film career, gained worldwide recognition and received the Trophée Chopard from the Cannes Film Festival.
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Actor
1946 · United States
Linda Maria Ronstadt is an American retired singer and musician who performed and recorded in diverse genres including rock, folk, pop, country, and soul.
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Scientist
1933 · United States
John Joseph Hopfield is an American physicist and emeritus professor of Princeton University, most widely known for his study of associative neural networks in 1982. He is known for the development of the Hopfield network.
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Scientist
1922–2018 · United States
Leon Max Lederman was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for research on neutrinos.
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Scientist
1921–2006 · United States
Robert Bruce Merrifield was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis.
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Scientist
1918–2003 · Canada
Bertram Neville Brockhouse, was a Canadian physicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter", in particular "for the development of neutron spectroscopy".
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