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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory. His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from special relativity, has been called "the world's most famous equation". He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".
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Danish physicist (1885–1962)
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter. Described as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his 69-year career. With an estimated 125 million records sold worldwide, he is one of the best-selling musicians. Dylan added increasingly sophisticated lyrical techniques to the folk music of the early 1960s, infusing it "with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry". His lyrics incorporated political, social, and philosophical influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning counterculture.
Henry Kissinger
American politician and diplomat (1923–2023)
Boris Pasternak
Russian writer (1890–1960)
Henri Bergson
French philosopher (1859–1941)
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912–2006)
Shimon Peres
Israeli politician (1923–2016) –Former President of Israel (2007–2014) and Prime Minister of Israel (1977, 1984–1986, 1995–1996)
Elfriede Jelinek
Austrian playwright and novelist
Nadine Gordimer
South African writer (1923–2014)
Joseph Brodsky
Russian-American poet (1940-1996)
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)
Saul Bellow
Canadian-American writer (1915–2005)
Yizhak Rabin
Israeli politician, statesman and general (1922–1995)
Harold Pinter
British playwright (1930–2008)
Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Polish-American writer (1904–1991)
Nelly Sachs
Jewish German poet and playwright (1891-1970)
Albert A. Michelson
American physicist (1852–1931)
Paul Heyse
German writer (1830–1914)
Elie Wiesel
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Italian neurologist (1909–2012)
Imre Kertész
Hungarian author (1929–2016)
Louise Glück
U.S. poet and Nobel laureate (1943–2023)
Patrick Modiano
French writer
Lev Landau
Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)
Menachem Begin
Israeli politician and former Prime Minister (1913–1992)
Eugene Wigner
Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902–1995)
Steven Weinberg
American theoretical physicist (1933-2021)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Ukrainian-born Israeli Hebrew writer, Nobel laureate in Literature (1888–1970)
Hans Bethe
German-American nuclear physicist
Gabriel Lippmann
Luxembourgish physicist nationalized French (1845-1921)
Paul Samuelson
American economist (1915–2009)
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
Elinor Ostrom
American political economist (1933-2012)
Murray Gell-Mann
American physicist (1929–2019)
Otto Stern
German-American physicist (1888–1969)
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-French immunologist, embryologist, biologist
James Franck
German physicist (1882–1964)
Ada Yonath
Israeli chemist
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
German physicist (1887–1975)
Paul Krugman
American economist (born 1953)
Dennis Gabor
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography
Vitaly Ginzburg
Russian physicist (1916–2009)
Gerty Cori
Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist (1896–1957)
Paul Ehrlich
Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)
Karl Landsteiner
Jewish-Austrian biologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate
Isidor Isaac Rabi
American physicist (1898–1988)
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
American medical physicist (1921-2011)
Gertrude B. Elion
American biochemist and pharmacologist (1918–1999)
Joseph E. Stiglitz
American economist, professor, and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Zhores Alferov
Soviet-Russian physicist (1930–2019)
Arno Allan Penzias
German-born American physicist
Felix Bloch
Swiss physicist (1905-1983)
Georges Charpak
French physicist (1924-2010)
Henri Moissan
French chemist (1852–1907)
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist (1835-1917)
David Gross
American particle physicist and string theorist
Daniel Kahneman
Israeli-American psychologist and economist (1934–2024)