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A Bibliographic Timeline of Scientists
and Thinkers of the Second Millennium
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John von Neumann
Edwin Hubble
In 1998, Life Magazine attempted to come up with a list of The 100 Most
Important People of the Past 1,000 Years. Here is a selection of people from
the list who could be categorized by their role of Scientists and Thinkers.
This list includes scientists, philosophers, doctors, and inventors.
Niels Bohr
Albert Einstein
The bars represent the number of years the person was alive.
Marie Curie
Scientist (15)
Philosopher (14)
Inventor (9)
Doctor (3)
Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Louis Pasteur
Charles Darwin
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Simone De Beauvoir
Michael Faraday
Orville & Wilbur Wright
Antoine-laurent Lavoisier
Leo Tolstoy
Carolus Linnaeus
Karl Marx
Isaac Newton
Mary Wollstonecraft
Guglielmo Marconi
Immanuel Kant
Galileo Galilei
Nikola Tesla
Adam Smith
Nicolaus Copernicus
Thomas Edison
Cao Xueqin
Ibn-khaldun
Alexander Graham Bell
Jean-jacques Rousseau
Hiram Maxim
John Locke
Rene Descartes
Samuel F.B. Morse
John Calvin
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
John Harrison
Thomas Aquinas
Sigmund Freud
Zhu Xi
Joseph Lister
Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
Florence Nightingale
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Justin Procopio
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