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Henri Poincaré, 1909.
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician
Amedeo Avogadro
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian physicist
Paul Davies
British physicist and astrobiologist
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
Polkinghorne, John
John Polkinghorne
English physicist and priest
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician
Stanislav Smirnov
Russian mathematician
Vito Volterra
Italian mathematician
George Green
British mathematician
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock
Russian mathematical physicist
Witten, Edward
Edward Witten
American mathematical physicist
Cédric Villani
French mathematician
Vladimir Drinfeld
Ukrainian-born mathematician