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Fernand Braudel

Fernand Braudel

19021985

French historian who led the influential Annales School and revolutionized historical methodology through his studies of Mediterranean civilization and capitalism

Leni Riefenstahl

Leni Riefenstahl

19022003

German filmmaker, photographer, and actress, known for controversial but innovative works during the Nazi era and her later acclaimed underwater photography

Norma Shearer

Norma Shearer

19021983

Canadian-American actress who became the first five-time Academy Award acting nominee and won Best Actress for The Divorcee (1930)

Arne Tiselius

Arne Tiselius

19021971

Swedish biochemist and Nobel laureate known for pioneering research in electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for discoveries concerning serum proteins

Paul Dirac

Paul Dirac

19021984

British theoretical physicist who co-founded quantum mechanics, shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics, and laid the foundations for quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory