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Clue #1: Nationality: Italian Clue #2: Lived: 1452-1519 Clue #3: I designed innovative prototypes of the helicopter, glider, and military tanks. Clue #4: I was also a famous artist who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Clue #1: Nationality: American Clue #2: Lived: 1811-1861 Clue #3: I invented the elevator. Clue #4: One of my first inventions was a railway safety brake, which was controlled by the engineer.
A. Elisha Graves
Clue #1: Nationality: French Clue #2: Lived: 1596-1650 Clue #3: I was the founder of analytic geometry. Clue #4: My publication, Les Mtores, was the first work which attempted to offer scientific explanations to weather.
A. Elisha Graves
Clue #1: Nationality: Swedish Clue #2: Lived: 1833-1896 Clue #3: I invented dynamite. Clue #4: Every year awards bearing my name are given out in peace, medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, and economics.
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Clue #1: Nationality: Scottish Clue #2: Lived: 1736-1819 Clue #3: The most common unit of power in the United States is named after me. Clue #4: While working at a mine, I made numerous improvements in steam engine design.
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Clue #1: Nationality: German Clue #2: Lived: 1777-1855 Clue #3: I discovered laws of electricity and magnetism which are named from me. Clue #4: My collaboration with Wilhelm Weber led to his invention of the electric telegraph
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Clue #1: Nationality: German Clue #2: Lived: 1787-1854 Clue #3: My law for elecricity states that the current flowing through certain conductors is proportional to the voltage across it. Clue #4: The unit of resistance is named after me.
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Clue #1: Nationality: Born in Italy, American Clue #2: Lived: 1901-1954 Clue #3: I discovered the element Neptunium. Clue #4: There is a high-energy physics research center near Chicago named after me.
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Clue #1: Nationality: American Clue #2: Lived: 1904-1967 Clue #3: I strongly opposed the development of the Hydrogen Bomb. Clue #4: I was chairman of the general advisory committee of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
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Clue #1: Nationality: German Clue #2: Lived: 1390?-1468? Clue #3: I invented the movable type printing press. Clue #4: My new printing process made books affordable for everyone.
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Clue #1: Nationality: Born in Poland, French Clue #2: Lived: 1867-1934 Clue #3: I won Nobel Prizes in both Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911); Clue #4: I died of leukemia caused by my long-time research on radioactive compounds
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