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Albert Einstein Benjamin Franklin Carl Sagan
Edward Teller Galileo Galilei Isaac Newton
J. Robert Oppenheimer James Clerk Maxwell James Watt
Johannes Kepler Max Planck Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
Nicolaus Copernicus Niels Bohr Paul Dirac
Ptolemy Richard Feynman Stephen Hawking
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