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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About Paris
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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- Johannes van der Waals· 1837 CE–1923 CE
- Lord Rayleigh (John Strutt)· 1842 CE–1919 CE
- Camillo Golgi· 1843 CE–1926 CE
- Wilhelm Rontgen· 1845 CE–1923 CE
- Gabriel Lippmann· 1845 CE–1921 CE
- Georg Cantor· 1845 CE–1918 CE
- Ilya Metchnikoff· 1845 CE–1916 CE
- Alexander Graham Bell· 1847 CE–1922 CE
- Thomas Edison· 1847 CE–1931 CE
- Gottlob Frege· 1848 CE–1925 CE
- Felix Klein· 1849 CE–1925 CE
- Emil Fischer· 1852 CE–1919 CE
- William Ramsay· 1852 CE–1916 CE
- Jacobus van 't Hoff· 1852 CE–1911 CE
- Henri Becquerel· 1852 CE–1908 CE
- Albert A. Michelson· 1852 CE–1931 CE
- Hendrik Lorentz· 1853 CE–1928 CE
- Emil von Behring· 1854 CE–1917 CE
- Paul Ehrlich· 1854 CE–1915 CE
- Henri Poincaré· 1854 CE–1912 CE
- Andrey Markov· 1856 CE–1922 CE
- Émile Durkheim· 1858 CE–1917 CE
- Pierre Curie· 1859 CE–1906 CE
- Hermann Minkowski· 1864 CE–1909 CE
Jewish world
- Israel Meir Kagan (Chafetz Chaim)· 1838 CE–1933 CE
- Chaim Soloveitchik (founder of the Brisker derech)· 1853 CE–1918 CE
- Meir Simcha HaKohen of Dvinsk (Or Sameach, Meshech Chochmah)· 1843 CE–1926 CE
- R. Yisrael Taub (Modzitz founder)· 1849 CE–1920 CE
- Rabbi Meir Atlas· 1848 CE–1926 CE
- Rabbi Zalman Sender Kahana-Shapiro· 1851 CE–1923 CE
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Christian world
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Rulers world
- Gojong of Korea· 1852 CE–1919 CE
- Georges Clemenceau· 1841 CE–1929 CE
- Yuan Shikai· 1859 CE–1916 CE
- Theodore Roosevelt· 1858 CE–1919 CE
- Emperor Meiji· 1852 CE–1912 CE
- Chulalongkorn (Rama V)· 1853 CE–1910 CE
- Guangxu Emperor· 1871 CE–1908 CE
- Mehmed V· 1844 CE–1918 CE
- Woodrow Wilson· 1856 CE–1924 CE
- Yaa Asantewaa· 1840 CE–1921 CE
- Paul von Hindenburg· 1847 CE–1934 CE
- Abdulhamid II· 1842 CE–1918 CE
- Menelik II· 1844 CE–1913 CE
- Quanah Parker· 1845 CE–1911 CE
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