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Country: Austria
Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg

18741951

Austrian-Jewish American composer and theorist who revolutionized classical music through developing variation and the emancipation of the dissonance

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Robert Musil

Robert Musil

18801942

Austrian philosophical writer known for the influential modernist novel, 'The Man Without Qualities'

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Kurt Waldheim

Kurt Waldheim

19182007

Austrian politician and diplomat who served as the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the President of Austria

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Konrad Lorenz

Konrad Lorenz

19031989

Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and Nobel laureate who co-founded modern ethology and studied individual and social behavior patterns

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Lise Meitner

Lise Meitner

18781968

Austrian-Swedish physicist instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission

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Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr

19142000

Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping

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Wolfgang Pauli

19001958

Austrian–Swiss theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate who discovered the Exclusion Principle, fundamentally advancing quantum mechanics and the understanding of matter's structure.

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Alfred Adler

Alfred Adler

18701937

Austrian psychotherapist and founder of Individual Psychology, known for the concept of the "inferiority complex" and emphasizing social belonging and purpose

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Friedrich Hayek

Friedrich Hayek

18991992

Austrian and British economist, philosopher, and political scientist who won the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize for his work on economic fluctuations and the role of prices in communicating information

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Erwin Schrödinger

Erwin Schrödinger

18871961

Austrian-Irish theoretical physicist who developed the Schrödinger equation and coined 'quantum entanglement,' sharing the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to atomic theory

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein

18891951

Austrian philosopher and logician known for his work in logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language

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