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Bill Nye
Bill Nye
CEO, The Planetary Society

Science

Bill Nye the Science Guy is an American science communicator, television presenter, and mechanical engineer. He is best known as the host of the PBS and syndicated children's science show "Bill Nye the Science Guy" (1993 - 1998).

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Marcos Pontes
Marcos Pontes
Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Brazil

Science

Marcos Pontes is a Brazilian Air Force pilot and AEB astronaut. He became the first South American and the first Lusophone to go into space. On November 26, 2019, he was bestowed the rank of Knight Commander of the Equestrian Order of Michael Archangel.

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Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist and Cosmologist

Science

Stephen Hawking was a theoretical physicist, author, and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology. He was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.

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Henrietta Lacks
Source, HeLa Cell Line

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Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman, whose cancer cells were the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line will reproduce indefinitely.

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