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9 figures
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer
Gregor Mendel
Biologist and friar
Wolfgang Pauli
Theoretical physicist
Erwin Schrödinger
Theoretical physicist
Sigmund Freud
Founder of psychoanalysis
Hedy Lamarr
Actress and inventor
Lise Meitner
Nuclear physicist
Simon Wiesenthal
Nazi hunter
Viktor Frankl
Neurologist and psychiatrist
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