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Father of the Scientific Method
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English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment.
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The great economist and 'The Father of Capitalism', who wrote The Wealth of Nations
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Developed the theory of evolution and told the world about it in his book the On the Origin of Species
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English writer and social critic. Books include A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist and Great Expectations
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Social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern nursing
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Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Shaw's expressed views were often contentious; he promoted eugenics and alphabet reform, and opposed vaccination and organised religion. He courted unpopularity by denouncing both sides in the First World War as equally culpable and castigated British policy on Ireland in the postwar period.
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Greatest scientist of the C20th, developed the theory of relativity (E = mc2)
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English novelist, journalist and. An eloquent critic of totalitarianism, and outspoken supporter of democratic socialism. Best known books were Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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With the publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951, her reputation as a thinker and writer was established and a series of works followed. These included the books The Human Condition in 1958, as well as Eichmann in Jerusalem and On Revolution in 1963.