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Jean-Baptiste Dumas
Born: July 14, 1800
Sciencea French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic and molecular weights by measuring vapor densitiesmore…André Gide
Born: November 22, 1869
Lit.Westa French author whose career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.more…Pierre Louis Maupertuis
Born: July 17, 1698
Sciencea French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the Director of the Académie des Sciences, and the first President of the Prussian Academy of Sciencemore…Wilhelm Johannsen
Born: February 3, 1857
Sciencea Danish pharmacist, botanist, plant physiologist, and geneticist. He is best known for coining the terms gene, phenotype and genotype, and for his 1903 "pure line" experiments in genetics.more…Enrico Fermi
Born: September 29, 1901
Sciencean Italian (later naturalized American) physicist and the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1.more…Mikhail Larionov
Born: June 3, 1881
Art.Westan avant-garde Russian painter who worked with radical exhibitors and pioneered the first approach to abstract Russian artmore…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.