Fields
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Notable achievement
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Nationality
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Answer
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Medicine, natural science, poetry, theology
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"Father of Modern Medicine"
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Persian
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Avicenna
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Medicine, theology, natural science, poetry, musicology
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One of few female Doctors of the Church
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German
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Hildegard of Bingen
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Philosophy, medicine, jurisprudence, natural science
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Comments on Aristotle
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(Andalusian)
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Averroes
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Painting, sculpting, anatomy, engineering, ballistics
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Mona Lisa
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Italian
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Philosophy, law, writing, oratory, politics
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"Father of the scientific method"
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English
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Francis Bacon
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Astronomy, Physics, engineering, writing
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Forced by the church to recant heliocentrism
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Italian
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Galileo Galilei
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Philosophy, logic, mathematics, natural science
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"Cogito, ergo sum"
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French
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René Descartes
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Philosophy, mathematics, physics, inventing, theology
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Wagered that God exists
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French
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Blaise Pascal
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Physics, mechanics, astronomy, mathematics
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Proposed the laws of gravity
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English
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Isaac Newton
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Mathematics, philosophy, logic, physics, early psychology
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Developed modern calculus
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German
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Natural science, politics, journalism, writing
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Founding father; inventor of the lightning rod
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US-American
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Benjamin Franklin
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Politics, architecture, inventing, philosophy
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Founding father and third US President
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US-American
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Thomas Jefferson
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Writing in various literary forms, color theory, geology, morphology, philosophy, politics
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"Faust"
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German
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Geography, biology, astronomy, ethnology, demographics, philosophy
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"Kosmos"; exploration of South America
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German
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Alexander von Humboldt
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Literature, music, painting, philosophy
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Indian national anthem
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Indian
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Philosophy, logic, mathematics, history, writing
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"Principia Mathematica"
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English
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Bertrand Russell
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