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J. Robert Oppenheimer nuclear physics 4
Larry Page Google 3
Roger Penrose relativity and cosmology 3
Jean Piaget psychology 3
Karl Popper philosophy 4
Srinivasa Ramanujan mathematics 3
Erno Rubik inventor of the famous cube 4
Carl Sagan astronomy 4
Edwin E. Salpeter astrophysics 5
Issai Schur mathematics 2
Claude E. Shannon electrical engineering 3
Waclaw Sierpinski mathematics 2
James Simons investing 3
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Ronald L. Smith mathematics and bridge 3
Arnold Sommerfeld atomic physics 4
Ivar Stakgold mathematics and bridge 4
H. Eugene Stanley physics and interdisciplinary 4
Leo Szilard physics (Manhattan Project) 4
Edward Teller nuclear physics 3
John Wilder Tukey statistics 2
Alan Turing computer science 5
George Uhlenbeck atomic physics 2
J. Craig Venter biology 3
John von Neumann mathematics 3
John A. Wheeler nuclear physics 3
Stephen Wolfram inventor of Mathematica 2
Mark Zuckerberg founder of Facebook 3
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