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A. M. Klein

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Aaron Klug

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate

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Abdus Salam

theoretical physicist and academic whose Nobel-cited work concerned electroweak unification

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Adolf Butenandt

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate

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Agnès Varda

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Ahmed Zewail

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate

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Akira Kurosawa

film director and screenwriter

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Alan Hodgkin

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate

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Alan Mathison Turing

Mathematician and computing pioneer

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Alan Shepard

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Albert Camus

writer and philosopher

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Alberto Lleras Camargo

statesman and president

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Aleksandr M. Prokhorov

The Nobel Prize in Physics laureate

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

writer and historian

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Alfonso García Robles

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate

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Alfred G. Gilman

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate

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Alfred Kastler

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Alice Munro

The Nobel Prize in Literature laureate

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Allan M. Cormack

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Alva Myrdal

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate

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Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov

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Andrew Huxley

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate

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Andrey Kolmogorov

mathematician

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Anna Mahler

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