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Willem Dafoe
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Willem Dafoe

Actor · born July 22, 1955

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William James "Willem" Dafoe is an American actor.

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  1. ~46Named Film Independent Spirit Awards2001

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Marc Hagit Cucurella

Athlete

1998 · Spain

Marc Cucurella Saseta is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back or left wing-back for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Spain national team. He is considered to be one of the best left-backs in the world.

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Selman Abraham Waksman
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Selman Abraham Waksman

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1888–1973 · United States

Selman Abraham Waksman was a Russian-born American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist, whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and several other antibiotics.

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Gustav Ludwig Hertz
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Gustav Ludwig Hertz

Scientist

1887–1975 · Soviet Union

Gustav Ludwig Hertz was a German experimental physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with James Franck "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom."

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