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Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish philosopher and writer
P.W. Bridgman
Percy Williams Bridgman
American physicist
Stephen Hales
Stephen Hales
English scientist
Pyotr Nikolayevich Lebedev
Pyotr Nikolayevich Lebedev
Russian physicist
Carl Bosch
Carl Bosch
German chemist
Ernst Julius Cohen
Dutch chemist

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