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Elihu Thomson
American electrical engineer and inventor
Oskar von Miller
German engineer
Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton
British engineer
William George Armstrong, c. 1870
William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong
British engineer
John E.W. Keely
American inventor
Alfred Brandt
German engineer
Hippolyte Fontaine
French engineer
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov
Soviet physicist
Homi Bhabha
Homi Bhabha
Indian physicist
Walter Henry Zinn
American physicist

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