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- 2. Bolivar - Military and political leader that played a key role in Latin America’s successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire.
- 3. Edison - American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.
- 5. Faraday - English scientist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include those of electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and electrolysis.
- 8. Comte - French philosopher and founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism.
- 11. Marconi - Italian inventor known for his pioneering work on long distance radio transmission and for his development of a radio telegraph system. He is credited as being the inventor of radio.
- 12. Pasteur - French chemist and microbiologist known for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization. He’s remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases.
- 14. Flaubert - Influential French writer considered one of the greatest novelists in Western literature. He is known for his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics.
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- 1. Mendeleyev - Russian chemist and inventor. He formulated the Periodic Law, created his own version of the periodic table of elements.
- 4. and Orville Wright - American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who invented and built the world’s first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on 12/17/1903.
- 5. Planck - German theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize.
- 6. Dickens - English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the
- 7. Mendel - Scientist who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics.
- 9. Meiji Restoration- A chain of events that restored imperial rule to Japan. It led to enormous changes in Japan’s political and social structure and was responsible for the emergence of Japan as a modernized nation
- 10. Graham Bell - Eminent scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.
- 13. Freud - Austrian neurologist who became the founding father of psychoanalysis, or the explanation of human behavior.
- 15. Morse - American painter turned inventor that contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system. He also co-invented a telegraph code named for him.