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  1. Galen
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  2. Galileo Galilei
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  3. Gamow, George
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  4. Gardner, Martin
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  5. Gaudin, Marc Antonine
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  6. Gaudoin (of Dijon)
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  7. Gell-Mann, Murray
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  8. Gerlach, Joseph von
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  9. Gilbert de Frankenau
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  10. Golding, William
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  11. Goldstein, Kurt
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  12. Golgi, Camillo
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  13. Gosse, Edmund
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  14. Gosse, Philip Henry
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  15. Gould, Stephen Jay
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  16. Greenewalt, Crawford H.
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  17. Greenlaw, Lavinia
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  18. Gregory, Richard
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  19. Gris, Juan
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  20. Groves, General Leslie R.
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  21. Gunn, Rev.
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  22. Gustafson, Elton
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  23. Guthrie, E.R.
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  1. Hahn, Otto
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  2. Halban, H. von
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  3. Haldane, J.B.S.
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  4. Haldane, J.S.
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  5. Halley, Edmond
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  6. Halsted, William Stewart
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  7. Hardy, G.H.
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  8. Hare, William
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  9. Hargreaves, Jennet
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  10. Harvey, William
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  11. Hatchett, C.
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  12. Hawkes, Jacquetta
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  13. Hawking, Stephen
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  14. Hazlitt, William
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  15. Hegner, Robert Wilhelm
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  16. Heisenberg, Werner
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  17. Herschel, Sir John
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  18. Herschel, William
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  19. Hertz, Heinrich
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  20. Heseler, Baldasar
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  21. Hesiod
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  22. Hillebrand, William
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  23. Hodgkin, Professor Dorothy Crowfoot
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  24. Hodgkin, Thomas
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  25. Hofmann, Craft Ernst
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  26. Holldobler, Bert
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  27. Hollick, Frederick
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  28. Hollister, Miss (of ocean diving team)
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  29. Holub, Miroslav
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  30. Honegger, Arthur
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  31. Hooke, Robert
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  32. Hoover, Herbert
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  33. Horton, G.P.
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  34. Hotchkiss, Rollin
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  35. Houdini, Harry (Erich Weiss)
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  36. Howard, L.O.
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  37. Hoyle, Fred
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  38. Hubble, Edwin
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  39. Hudson, WH.
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  40. Hughes, Ted
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  41. Hugo, Victor
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  42. Hutchins, President (of University of Chicago)
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  43. Huxley, Aldous
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  44. Huxley, Thomas Henry
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  45. Huygens, Christiaan
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  1. Innocent VIII, Pope
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  1. Jackson, Hughlings
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  2. Jaffe, Bernard
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  3. James, Henry
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  4. James I, King of England
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  5. James, William
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  6. Jehl, Francis
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  7. Jenkin, Fleeming
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  8. Jenner, Edward
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  9. Johannsen, Wilhelm
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  10. Johnson, Margaret
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  11. Johnson, Dr Samuel
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  12. Joliot-Curie, Jean Frédéric
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  13. Jones, Steve
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  14. Jordan, Pascual
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  15. Joseph, Dr A.F.
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  16. Joshua
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  17. Joyce, James
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  1. Kammerer, Paul
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  2. Kayser, H. G.
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  3. Keats, John
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  4. Kekulé von Stradonitz, Friedrich August
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  5. Keller, Evelyn Fox
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  6. Keller, Ferdinand
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  7. Kelvin, William Thomson, lst Baron
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  8. Keynes, Geoffrey
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  9. Keyser, Konrad
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  10. King, Sir Edmund
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  11. Kingsley, Charles
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  12. Kipling, Rudyard
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  13. Kirby, Rev. Dr
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  14. Kirchhof, Gustav
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  15. Kirkup, James
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  16. Knowlton, Dr Charles
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  17. Koch, Robert
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  18. Kopp, Hermann
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  19. Korniloff, Maria
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  20. Kruesi, John
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  21. Krutch, Joseph Wood
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  22. Kubrick, Stanley
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  23. Kuhn, Thomas S.
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  24. Kurti, Professor Nicholas
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  1. Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste
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  2. Langstaff, Dr
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  3. Laplace, Pierre Simon de
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  4. Larkin, Philip
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  5. Larrissy, Edward
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  6. Laurence, William
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  7. Laveran, Alphonse
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  8. Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent
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  9. Leakey, Richard
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  10. Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Paul
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  11. Lederberg, Joshua
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  12. Leeuwenhoek, Antony van
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  13. Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm
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  14. Leighton, Ralph
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  15. Lemaitre, A.G.E.
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  16. Leonardo da Vinci
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  17. Levene, Phoebus
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  18. Levi, Primo
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  19. Lewis, Professor W.A.
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  20. Linnaeus, Carl
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  21. Lippershey, Hans
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  22. Loir, Adrien
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  23. Lorenz, Edward
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  24. Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III, Emperor of France)
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  25. Louis Philippe, King of France
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  26. Lovelock, J.E.
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  27. Lower, Dr
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  28. Lugwig, Emil
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  29. Luther, Martin
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  30. Lyell, Charles
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  31. Lysenko, Trofim
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  1. McCarty, Maclyn
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  2. McClintock, Barbara
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  3. MacDiarmid, Hugh (Christopher Murray Grieve)
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  4. MacDonald, George
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  5. Mackenzie, J.U.
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  6. McLaren, Angus
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  7. MacLeod, Colin
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  8. Macleod, Fiona (pseudonym of William Sharp)
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  9. Maeterlinck, Maurice
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  10. Malthus, Thomas
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  11. Mandelbrot, Benoit
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  12. Mann, Thomas
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  13. Manning, Mrs
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  14. Mansfield, Katherine
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  15. Manson, Sir Patrick
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  16. Martini, Francesco di Giorgio
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  17. Marvell, Andrew
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  18. Marx, Jenny
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  19. Masefield, John
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  20. Mason, Miss (PNEU founder)
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  21. Matthews, Drum
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  22. Maximilian, Emperor
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  23. Maxwell, James Clerk
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  24. May, Robert
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  25. Mayr, Ernst
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  26. Medawar, Sir Peter
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  27. Medici, Grand Duke, Cosimi II de’
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  28. Meitner, Lise
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  29. Meloney, Mrs William
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  30. Mendel, Gregor Johann
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  31. Mendeléeff (Mendeleyev), Dmitri Ivanovitch
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  32. Mensinga, W.P.J.
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  33. Meyer, Lothar
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  34. Miall, Louis Compton
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  35. Miller, Hugh
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  36. Millet, Captain (of ocean diving team)
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  37. Milton, John
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  38. Mirsky, Alfred
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  39. Mitford, Captain B.E. (‘Mitty’)
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  40. Moissan, Henri
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  41. Montagu, Henry, Earl of Manchester
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  42. Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
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  43. Monticelli, Marquis of
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  44. Moore, B.R.
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  45. Moore, Henry
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  46. Moore, Johnny
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  47. Moreau, Gustave
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  48. Morrell, Lady Ottoline
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  49. Morse, Samuel F.B.
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  50. Mosely, Henry
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  51. Moynihan, Berkeley George
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  52. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
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  53. Mucius
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  54. Muir, Pattison
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  55. Müller, Hugo
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  56. Muybridge, Eadward
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  1. Nabokov, Vladimir
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  2. Neimes, Sarah
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  3. Newlands, John A.R.
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  4. Newton, Sir Isaac
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  5. Niepce, Nicéphore
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  6. Nightingale, Florence
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  7. Nilson, Lars F.
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  8. Nims, John Frederick
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  9. Nixon, Richard
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  10. Nootnangle, Charles
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  11. Noyes, Alfred
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  12. Noyon, Bishop of
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