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Alexander von Humboldt

Alexander von Humboldt

17691859

Prussian geographer, naturalist, and explorer who co-founded modern geography and pioneered biogeography and geophysical measurement

Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet

Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet

18051859

German mathematician who pioneered analytic number theory, advanced Fourier series, and provided the modern definition of a function