We center the most extraordinary and accomplished people throughout history.
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Willem Einthoven
Born: May 21, 1860
Sciencea Dutch doctor and physiologist. He invented the first practical electrocardiograph (ECG or EKG) in 1895 and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1924 for itmore…Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Born: June 18, 1845
Sciencea French physician, discoverer of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasismore…Gavrila Derzhavin
Born: July 14, 1743
Lit.Westa most highly esteemed Russian poets before Alexander Pushkin, as well as a statesman.more…Martinus Beijerinck
Born: March 16, 1851
Sciencea Dutch microbiologist and botanist who was one of the founders of virology and environmental microbiology.more…Niels Henrik Abel
Born: August 5, 1802
Sciencea Norwegian mathematician who made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields.more…Anna Seghers
Born: November 19, 1900
Lit.Westa German writer notable for exploring and depicting the moral experience of the Second World War.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
