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Oscar Robertson
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Oscar Robertson

Athlete · born November 24, 1938

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Oscar Palmer Robertson, nicknamed "the Big O", is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Cincinnati Royals and Milwaukee Bucks in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Milestones, by age

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  1. ~23Received the NBA Rookie of the Year Award1961
  2. ~23Named All-NBA Team1961
  3. ~23Received the NBA All-Star Game Kobe Bryant Most Valuable Player Award1961
  4. ~26Received the NBA Most Valuable Player Award1964
  5. ~32Joined Milwaukee Bucks1970

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Tsung-Dao Lee
scientist

Tsung-Dao Lee

Scientist

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

Inventor

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

Author

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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