Scientists, Inventors and Other Firsts
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| Founded the American Red Cross | Clara Barton
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| Invented the rapid fire gun which was the precursor of the machine gun | Richard Gatling
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| Horticulturist who developed more than 800 new varieties of plants and flowers | Luther Burbank
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| Son of slaves who produced more than 300 derivatives from peanuts | George Washington Carver
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| Headed the scientists working on the Manhattan Project | Robert Oppenheimer
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| Revolutionized the study of physics with his theory of relativity | Albert Einstein
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| Psychologist and philosopher who examined the relationship among thought, experience, and action; associated with 'pragmatism' | William James
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| Experimented with electricity and founded the American Philosophical Society | Benjamin Franklin
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| Invented the revolver | Samuel Colt
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| Patented more than 1000 inventions including the incandescent electric lamp and movie projector | Thomas Edison
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| Italian-born physicist who won the Nobel prize for physics with his discovery of neutron-induced reaction; worked on the Manhattan Project | Enrico Fermi
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| Co-discovered the molecular structure of DNA | James Watson
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| Observed sea life and ushered in the environmental revolution with a book attacking the use of pesticides | Rachel Carson
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| First female American doctor | Elizabeth Blackwell
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| Famous for his drawings of birds | John James Audubon
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