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20th-century chemists

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Adolfo KaminskyPhotographer · PhotographyAdolfo Kaminsky (or Adolphe; 1 October 1925 – 9 January 2023) was an Argentine-born member of the French Resistance, specializing in the forgery of identity documents (IDs), and a…
Agustín AlmodóvarPerson · Film memorabiliaAgustín Almodóvar Caballero (born 25 May 1955) is a film producer and younger brother of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar.
Alexander MitscherlichAuthor · BooksAlexander Harbord Mitscherlich (20 September 1908 – 26 June 1982) was a German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Alister McGrathAuthor · BooksAlister Edgar McGrath FRSA (born 1953) is an Irish theologian, Anglican priest, intellectual historian, scientist, Christian apologist, and public intellectual.
Arkady GendlerPerson · Music memorabiliaArkady Gendler (1921–2017, Arkadiĭ Khunovich Gendler, Avram Hendler) was a Ukrainian Yiddish-language singer, composer, and folk song collector.
Asima ChatterjeeAuthor · BooksAsima Chatterjee (23 September 1917 – 22 November 2006) was an Indian organic chemist noted for her work in the fields of organic chemistry and phytomedicine.
Donella MeadowsAuthor · BooksDonella Hager "Dana" Meadows (March 13, 1941 – February 20, 2001) was an American environmental scientist, educator, and writer.
Frédéric Joliot-CuriePerson · Film memorabiliaJean Frédéric Joliot-Curie (lang; Joliot; 19 March 1900 – 14 August 1958) was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his wife, Irène…
Herbert C. BrownAuthor · BooksHerbert Charles Brown (22 May 1912 – 19 December 2004) was an American chemist and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with organoboranes.[1][2]
Jack ParsonsAuthor · BooksJohn Whiteside Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons; October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952) was an American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemite occultist.
Jacques BergierAuthor · BooksIllustration — Image of Jacques Bergier
James WatsonAuthor · BooksJames Dewey Watson (April 6, 1928 – November 6, 2025) was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist.
Janusz WiśniewskiAuthor · BooksIllustration — Photo: Agata Dyka (N.Y. 2007)
John A. RogersDesigner · Modern designJohn A. Rogers (born August 24, 1967) is an American physical chemist and a materials scientist.
Kurt MaetzigAuthor · BooksKurt Maetzig (25 January 1911 – 8 August 2012) was a German film director who had a significant effect on the film industry in East Germany.
Leona WoodsAuthor · BooksLeona Harriet Woods (August 9, 1919 – November 10, 1986), later known as Leona Woods Marshall and Leona Woods Marshall Libby, was an American physicist who helped build the first nuclear…
Michael SchindhelmPerson · Film memorabiliaMichael Schindhelm (born 1 October 1960 in Eisenach, Thuringia) is a German-born Swiss author, filmmaker and curator.
Oliver SacksAuthor · BooksOliver Wolf Sacks (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer.
Primo LeviAuthor · BooksPrimo Michele Levi (Italian: [ˈpriːmo ˈlɛːvi]; 31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was a Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer.
Roald HoffmannAuthor · BooksRoald Hoffmann (born Roald Safran; July 18, 1937) is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kenichi Fukui “for their theories, developed…
Rudolf GamsjägerPerson · Music memorabiliaRudolf Gamsjäger (23 March 1909 in Vienna, Austria – 28 January 1985 in Vienna, Austria), was an Austrian opera administrator.
Sheikh Muhammad AbdullahAuthor · BooksSheikh Mohammad Abdullah (5 December 1905 – 8 September 1982) was an Indian politician who played a central role in the politics of Jammu and Kashmir.[1][3] Abdullah was the founding leader…
Vladko PanayotovAuthor · BooksVladko Panayotov (Bulgarian: Владко Тодоров Панайотов; born 7 May 1950 in Pavlikeni) is a scholar and Bulgarian member of the European Parliament who sits on the committee for the…
Yeremey ParnovAuthor · BooksYeremey Iudovich Parnov (20 October 1935 – 18 March 2009) was a Soviet and Russian-Jewish writer and publicist. Parnov attended the Moscow Peat University and worked as a chemical engineer.
Yeshayahu LeibowitzAuthor · BooksYeshayahu Leibowitz (29 January 1903 – 18 August 1994) was an Israeli Orthodox Jewish public intellectual and polymath.
Yuri ZhdanovAuthor · BooksYuri Andreyevich Zhdanov (20 August 1919 – 19 December 2006) was a Soviet and Russian scientist, chemist.

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