Camus, Albert. 1913-60. Existentialist absurd French writer: l’Étranger, Caligula.

Carducci, Giosue. 1835-1907. Italian Neoclassical poet.

Chadwick, James. 1891-1974. English discoverer of neutron.

Chain, Ernst. 1906-79. With Florey, purified penicillin.

Churchill, Winston. 1874-1965. British WWII Prime Minister. 1940-5,51-5.

Cockcroft, John. 1897-1967. English physicist. Split nucleus.

Compton, Arthur. 1892-1962. US physicist: C Effect, 1923.

Crick, Francis. 1916-. British discoverer of DNA structure with Watson 1953.

Curie, Marie. 1867-1934, and Pierre 1859-1906. Polish/French discoverers of radium, 1898.

Dale, Henry. 1875-1968. English physiologist. Nerve transmission process.

Dirac, Paul. 1902-84. English quantum physicist.

Ehrlich, Paul. 1854-1915. German bacteriologist. Salvarsan syphilis treatment, 1909. Idea of specific drugs as “magic bullets”.

Einstein, Albert. 1879-1955. German/Swiss/US physicist. Special Theory of Relativity 1905. Quantum theory 1905. General Theory of Relativity 1916. Pacifist, Zionist.

Einthoven, Willem. 1860-1927. Dutch. Invented electrocardiograph, 1903.

Eliot, T.S. 1888-1965. US/English modernist poet, playwright. Prufrock 1910. Ash Wednesday 1930. Murder in the Cathedral 1935.

Eucken, Rudolf. 1846-1926. German philosopher: personal ethics are more important than intellectual idealism.

Faulkner, William. 1897-1962. American novelist of US south. The Sound and the Fury 1929.

Fermi, Enrico. 1901-54. Italian/US atomic physicist. Transuranic elements.

Fleming, Alexander. 1881-1955. Scottish doctor, dicoverer of penicillin 1928. Florey, Chain.

Florey, Howard. 1898-1968. British. Isolated Penicillin with Chain,1928. Fleming.

France, Anatole. 1844-1924. French short story writer. The Red Lily 1894.

Friedman, Milton. 1912-. Monetarist economist. Demand is mainly a function of money supply. Keynes. Laissez-faire. Capitalism and Freedom 1962.

Gabor, Dennis. 1900-79. Hungarian/English holograph inventor, 1947.

Galsworthy, John. 1867-1933. British writer. Forsythe Saga 1906-21.

Gide, André. 1869-1951. French writer. The Counterfeiters 1926.

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