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Richard Adolf Zsigmondy

Richard Adolf Zsigmondy

18651929

Austrian chemist and Nobel laureate known for his research on colloids, co-inventing the slit-ultramicroscope, and developing membrane filters

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George V

George V

18651936

King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 1910 to 1936, and a notable philatelist

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Arthur Harden

Arthur Harden

18651940

British biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his investigations into the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes, and a key figure in the establishment of the Biochemical Society and Journal

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Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

18651936

English writer and poet born in British India who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 for his exceptional narrative talent and imaginative works

Jean Sibelius

Jean Sibelius

18651957

Finnish composer widely regarded as his country's greatest, whose music helped Finland develop a stronger national identity