Rudolf Diesel
1858 CE–1913 CE · Paris
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (English: , German: [ˈʁuːdɔlf ˈkʀɪsti̯an kaʁl ˈdiːzl̩] ; 18 March 1858 – 29 September 1913) was a German inventor and mechanical engineer. He is best known for inventing the diesel engine, which burns diesel fuel. Both are named for him.
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Paris, the capital of France, was a centre of European Buddhist scholarship. The Sri Lankan scholar-monk Walpola Rahula taught and researched there, associated with the Sorbonne, during the period in which he engaged with Western academic study of Buddhism.
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Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Urbain Le Verrier, Claude Bernard, Sophus Lie, Ilya Metchnikoff, Sofia Kovalevskaya
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