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Carl von Linde
Carl von Linde
German engineer
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
Kamerlingh Onnes
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Dutch physicist
Osborne Reynolds
British engineer and physicist
Louis-Paul Cailletet
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