Jagadish Chandra Bose
radio wave pioneer
Luigi Aloisio Galvani
anatomist
Alexander von Humboldt
a founder of modern geography and a pioneer in
plant geography and climatology
Christiaan Huygens
the first to use a pendulum to measure time
James Rhyne Killian, Jr.
the first full-time presidential adviser for
science
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Louis Pasteur
discoverer of pasteurization and vaccination
John Wesley Powell
soldier, geologist, explorer, anthropologist
Sir Benjamin Thompson,
Count Rumford
co-developer of the science of thermodynamics
Evangelista Torricelli
"discoverer" of atmospheric pressure
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