Thomas Edison
1847 CE–1931 CE · Milan
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman known for his work on the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, electric power distribution and early motion pictures. The merger of several of Edison's businesses, as well as competing companies, resulted in the formation of General Electric. Edison registered 1093 patents.
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- Camillo Golgi· 1843 CE–1926 CE
- Wilhelm Rontgen· 1845 CE–1923 CE
- Gabriel Lippmann· 1845 CE–1921 CE
- Alexander Graham Bell· 1847 CE–1922 CE
- Gottlob Frege· 1848 CE–1925 CE
- Felix Klein· 1849 CE–1925 CE
- Ivan Pavlov· 1849 CE–1936 CE
- Albert A. Michelson· 1852 CE–1931 CE
- Emil Fischer· 1852 CE–1919 CE
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal· 1852 CE–1934 CE
- William Ramsay· 1852 CE–1916 CE
- Hendrik Lorentz· 1853 CE–1928 CE
- Wilhelm Ostwald· 1853 CE–1932 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
- Rudolf Diesel· 1858 CE–1913 CE
- Giuseppe Peano· 1858 CE–1932 CE
- Svante Arrhenius· 1859 CE–1927 CE
- Hermann Minkowski· 1864 CE–1909 CE
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt· 1868 CE–1921 CE
- Karl Schwarzschild· 1873 CE–1916 CE
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- Theodore Roosevelt· 1858 CE–1919 CE
- Guangxu Emperor· 1871 CE–1908 CE
- Woodrow Wilson· 1856 CE–1924 CE
- Paul von Hindenburg· 1847 CE–1934 CE
- Yuan Shikai· 1859 CE–1916 CE
- Gojong of Korea· 1852 CE–1919 CE
- Georges Clemenceau· 1841 CE–1929 CE
- Nicholas II· 1868 CE–1918 CE
- William Howard Taft· 1857 CE–1930 CE
- Mehmed VI· 1861 CE–1926 CE
- Wovoka (Jack Wilson)· 1856 CE–1932 CE
- Warren G. Harding· 1865 CE–1923 CE
- Sun Yat-sen· 1866 CE–1925 CE
- Chulalongkorn (Rama V)· 1853 CE–1910 CE
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