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Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvet
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Also Known As Mikhail Semyonovich Tswett • Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvett
Born May 14, 1872 • Asti • Italy
Died June 26, 1919 (aged 47) • Voronezh • Russia
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William Hyde Wollaston
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Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet
French botanist
Emile Christian Hansen
Danish botanist
Zworykin, Vladimir
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Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian scientist
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier
French aviator
Aleksandr Popov, detail of a painting by P.D. Korin
Aleksandr Popov
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Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov
Soviet physicist
Nikolay Basov
Nikolay Basov
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Yuri Gagarin and Sergei Korolev
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Soviet scientist
Katherine Esau
American botanist
Konstantin Feoktistov
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Russian cosmonaut
Boris Borisovich, Prince Golitsyn
Russian physicist
Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov
Soviet biologist
Glushko, Valentin Petrovich
Valentin Petrovich Glushko
Soviet scientist
Yablochkov, lithograph by Lemercier, c. 1880
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Russian engineer and inventor
Aleksandr Fyodorovich Mozhaysky
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Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier
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