Ruska, Ernst. 1906-88. German engineer. Electron microscope.

Russell, Bertrand. 1872-1970. English mathematician, liberal philosopher, logician, pacifist. Believed in human reason. Founded CND. Principles of Mathematics 1910-13. History of Western Philosophy 1945.

Rutherford, Ernest. 1871-1937. NZ/English physicist. Beta rays 1899, Nuclear theory of atom1911.

Sachs, Nelly. 1891-1970. German poet, Jewish spokesperson.

Sartre, Jean-Paul. 1905-80. French existentialist philosopher: L’Etre et le Néant 1943. Social responsibility of freedom. (refused).

Schrödinger, Erwin. 1887-1961. Austrian. Wave equation 1926.

Seaborg, Glenn. 1912-99. US chemist. Isolated plutonium, Atom bomb ingredient.

Shaw, George Bernard. 1856-1950. Irish socialist writer/dramatist of wit and satire. Man and Superman 1903. Pygmalian 1913. St. Joan 1923. Fabian.

Sherrington, Charles. 1857-1952. British experimental physiologist.

Shockley, William. 1910-89. US. Transistor 1948.

Sholokhov, Mikhail. 1905-84. Russian writer. Don series.

Sienkiewicz, Henryk. 1846-1916. Polish novelist: Slowo Trilogy 1883-88. Quo Vadis 1896.

Soddy, Frederick. 1877-1956. English chemist. Isotope theory.

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. 1918-2008. Russian novelist. Expelled 1974. Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1962. Gulag Archipelago 1973.

Steinbeck, John. 1902-68. US writer. Grapes of Wrath 1933.

Stern, Otto. 1888-1969. German/US physicist, anticipated atomic science.

Sully-Prudhomme. 1839-1907. French Parnassian philosophical poet.

Suttner, Baroness von. 1843-1914. Austrian pacifist writer. Lay Down your Arms 1889.

Swedish Academy. 1786. Awards Nobel Literature prizes.

Tagore, Rabindranath. 1861-1941. Bengali writer. Blending eastern, western thought.

Theiler, Max. 1899-1972. South African/US scientist. Yellow fever vaccine.

Theorell, Axel. 1903-82. Swedish biochemist. Enzyme oxidation.

Thomson, Joseph. 1856-1940. English discoverer that cathode rays are electrons 1897.

Undset, Sigrid. 1882-1949. Norwegian novelist: Jenny 1911. Kristin Lavransdatter 1920-2.

Urey, Harold. 1893-1981. US physicist. Isolated deuterium 1931. Heavy water needed for atomic bomb.

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