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Who was born in 1877

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G.H. Hardy

G.H. Hardy

18771947

British mathematician known for number theory, mathematical analysis, and the Hardy–Weinberg principle

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Charles Glover Barkla

Charles Glover Barkla

18771944

English physicist and Nobel laureate who discovered characteristic X-rays

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Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse

18771962

Nobel Prize-winning German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter whose works like "Siddhartha" and "Steppenwolf" explored themes of authenticity, self-knowledge, and spirituality

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Frederick Soddy

Frederick Soddy

18771956

English radiochemist and Nobel laureate who, with Ernest Rutherford, explained radioactivity as the transmutation of elements and proved the existence of isotopes

Francis William Aston

Francis William Aston

18771945

British chemist and physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize for his mass spectrograph, which led to the discovery of isotopes in non-radioactive elements and the enunciation of the whole-number rule