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Scientist and early advocate for industrial uses for farm crops (bio-energy). Carver earned a…
Europe + Africa + Middle East
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Imhotep was an Egyptian polymath who served under the Third Dynasty king Djoser as chancellor…
Democritus ("chosen of the people") was an Ancient Greek philosopher born in Abdera, Thrace,…
Bede, also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede, was a monk at the Northumbrian…
John Dalton was an English chemist, meteorologist and physicist. He is best known for his…
Asia + Oceania
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Aryabhata is the first of the great astronomers of the classical age of India. He was born in…
Ernest Rutherford was a New Zealand-born British physicist who came to be known as the father…