Sir Nikolaus Pevsner

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Born	January 30, 1902 • Leipzig • Germany
Died	August 18, 1983 (aged 81) • London • England

Ernst H. Gombrich

British art historian

Anthony Blunt

British art historian and spy

Julius Meier-Graefe

art critic and historian

Philip Hendy

British art historian and curator

Erwin Panofsky

German-American art historian

Hans Eysenck

German-born British psychologist

William Herschel

British-German astronomer

Max Born

German physicist

Sir William Siemens

British inventor

Peierls, Sir Rudolf Ernst; Dirac, P.A.M.; Pauli, Wolfgang

Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls

British physicist

Tino Sehgal

British-born artist

Ludwig Guttmann

English neurosurgeon

Albert, Prince Consort

British prince

Sir Hans Adolf Krebs

German-British biochemist

Kurt Jooss

German dancer and choreographer

Paul Julius, baron von Reuter

German journalist

Otto Hermann Kahn

American businessman

Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st marquess of Milford Haven

British admiral

E.F. Schumacher

British economist

Houston Stewart Chamberlain

British-German political philosopher

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