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Famous for experimenting with gas engines.
Created 4 stroke cylinder.
Invented the internal combustion engine. - Nicholas Otto
- Famous for creating Microsoft.
- Bill Gates
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Famous for being first person to split atom
I discovered the element Neptunium.
I produced the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. - Enrico Firmi
- Created the Polio vaccine.
- Jonas Salk
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Invented dynamite.
Awards are given out in his name. - Alfred Nobel
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Famous for inventing the first microscope.
Discovered blood cells exsisted in body. - Antony Van Leeuwenhoek
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Organized elements in the periodic table.
Published Principles of Chemistry. - Dimitri Mendelev
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Lived for almost 18 years among the gorillas.
Learned a great deal about mountain gorillas in Africa.
Raised the world's awareness to the dangers faced by the mountain gorilla. - Dian Fossey
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The world's foremost authority on chimpanzees.
Discovered first recorded instance of toolmaking by nonhumans.
Teaches the humane way to study chimps in a lab setting - Jane Goodall
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Lived: 287BC?-212BC
I am known as the father of experimental science.
My famous principle focuses on buoyancy. - Archimedes