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Ernst Ruska
Ernst Ruska was a German physicist who invented the electron microscope
James Franck
James Franck was a famous German physicist who was awarded the 1925 Nobel Prize for Physics with Gustav Hertz
James Rainwater
Leo James Rainwater was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics 1975
Irwin Shaw
Irwin Shaw was an American author, novelist and playwright best remembered for his poignant and compelling style of writing
Charles Édouard Guillaume
Charles Édouard Guillaume was a renowned Swiss physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920
Boris Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian novelist, poet and translator
Carl von Ossietzky
Carl von Ossietzky was a German pacifist and journalist, who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize
Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington was an English-born Mexican artist and painter
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Carlos Saavedra Lamas was an Argentine politician, diplomat, labour rights legislator, international law expert and the first Latin American Nobel Peace Prize recipient