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Adam Smith |
wrote the wealth of nations, which is an economic book |
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Louis Pasteur |
French; silk, vaccinations, pasteurization |
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James Watt |
Scottish engineer; did not invent steam engine, but adapted it to provide rotary motion |
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Marie Curie |
Polish; she and her physicist husband discovered a new radioactive element |
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Karl Marx |
born in Prussia; wrote for a newspaper and became a revolutionary |
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Friedrich Engels |
German philosopher who founded the Marxist theory together with Karl Marx. |
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William Wilberforce |
English politician; leader to end slave trade |
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Pierre Renoir |
painter who used impressionist style |
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Mary Cassatt |
American painter but lived in France, which caused her to be an impressionist |
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edgar Degas |
impressionist that painted dancers |
