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Thomas Edison's most important inventions

1 The incandescent light bulb (1879)
2 The carbon telephone transmitter (1877–78)
3 The Kinetoscope

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🔬 Scientists

Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureates of the 1980s

1 Walter Gilbert
2 Paul Berg
3 Frederick Sanger

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🔬 Scientists

Nobel Prize in Physics laureates of the 1980s

1 Val Logsdon Fitch
2 Kenneth G. Wilson
3 Nicolaas Bloembergen

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🔬 Scientists

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureates of the 1950s

1 Edward Calvin Kendall
2 Philip Showalter Hench
3 Frederick Chapman Robbins

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🔬 Scientists

Nobel Prize in Physics laureates from 1901 to 1909

1 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
2 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
3 Pieter Zeeman

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👑 Historical figures

Great Romanians: the greatest Romanians of all time

1 Stephen the Great
2 Carol I
3 Mihai Eminescu

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🔬 Scientists

Nobel Prize in Physics laureates of the 2000s

1 Zhores I. Alferov
2 Eric A. Cornell
3 Jack S. Kilby

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🏛️ Leaders

The longest-reigning monarchs in history

1 Elizabeth II
2 Rama IX (Bhumibol Adulyadej)
3 Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal I

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🔬 Scientists

Nobel Prize in Physics laureates of the 1910s

1 Johannes Diderik van der Waals
2 Wilhelm Wien
3 William Lawrence Bragg

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👑 Historical figures

The Greatest Belgian (Flemish poll)

1 Father Damien
2 Paul Janssen
3 Eddy Merckx

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Nikola Tesla's most important inventions

1 The Tesla coil (1891)
2 The AC induction motor
3 The polyphase AC power system

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🔬 Scientists

Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureates from 1901 to 1919

1 Hermann Emil Fischer
2 Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
3 Svante August Arrhenius

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🔬 Scientists

Nobel Prize in Physics laureates of the 1960s

1 Donald Arthur Glaser
2 Robert Hofstadter
3 Lev Davidovich Landau

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🖼️ Painters

The greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age

1 Rembrandt
2 Johannes Vermeer
3 Frans Hals

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💼 Entrepreneurs

The richest people in the world in 2018 (Forbes)

1 Jeff Bezos
2 Bernard Arnault
3 Warren Buffett

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🔬 Scientists

Nobel Prize in Physics laureates of the 1930s

1 Victor Franz Hess
2 Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
3 Erwin Schrödinger

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👑 Historical figures

The greatest Dutch person (De grootste Nederlander)

1 William of Orange
2 Willem Drees
3 Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

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🔬 Scientists

Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureates of the 1960s

1 John Cowdery Kendrew
2 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
3 Robert S. Mulliken

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👑 Historical figures

The Name of Russia: the greatest figures in Russian history

1 Pyotr Stolypin
2 Alexander Nevsky
3 Joseph Stalin

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The most famous pharaohs of ancient Egypt

1 Narmer
2 Djoser
3 Sneferu

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