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21 figures
Albert Einstein
Theoretical physicist
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Johannes Gutenberg
Inventor & printer
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Frederick the Great
King of Prussia
Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer
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Adolf Hitler
Dictator of Nazi Germany
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematician & physicist
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher & writer
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
John A. Roebling
Civil engineer
Rudolf Diesel
Inventor and mechanical engineer
Wilhelm Röntgen
Physicist
Georg Cantor
Mathematician
Carl Benz
Automotive engineer
Max Planck
Theoretical physicist
Werner Heisenberg
Theoretical physicist
Emmy Noether
Mathematician
Oskar Schindler
Industrialist and humanitarian
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Theologian and anti-Nazi dissident
Sophie Scholl
Anti-Nazi student activist
Claus von Stauffenberg
Army officer
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