Sheldon Lee Glashow is an American theoretical physicist.
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Founder · The Walt Disney Company · entertainment
1901–1966 · United States
Walter Elias Disney was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons.
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Politician
1782–1862 · United States
Martin Van Buren was the eighth president of the United States, serving from 1837 to 1841. Van Buren co-founded the Democratic Party with Andrew Jackson and became Jackson's vice president from 1833 to 1837.
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Actor
1985 · United States
Francisco James Muniz IV is an American actor and professional stock car racing driver. Muniz came to prominence in the 2000s playing the titular character of the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle (2000–2006), for which he was nominated for an Emmy and two Golden Globe Awards.
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner
1901–1976 · Nazi Germany
Werner Karl Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics and a principal scientist in the German nuclear program during World War II.
Scientist
1896–1984 · United States
Carl Ferdinand Cori, ForMemRS was an Austrian-American biochemist and pharmacologist.
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Scientist
1903–1969 · United Kingdom
Cecil Frank Powell was a British experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1950 for heading the team that developed the photographic method of studying nuclear processes, and for the resulting discovery of the pion (pi-meson).
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