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// Hypatia - Greek Alexandrine Neoplatonist philosopher in Egypt who was one of the earliest mothers of mathematics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia
"hypatia",

// Jagadish Chandra Bose - Indian physicist, biologist, and biophysicist who pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics and made seminal contributions to plant biology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagadish_Chandra_Bose
"jagadish",
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Thanks for contributing this, however we do usually use surnames. In this case I guess it should be "bose" that's already used right?


// Yeong-Sil Jang was a Korean scientist and astronomer during the Joseon Dynasty; he invented the first metal printing press and water gauge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jang_Yeong-sil
"jang",

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// Claudius Ptolemy - a Greco-Egyptian writer of Alexandria, known as a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy
"ptolemy",

// Gopalasamudram Narayana Ramachandran - Indian physicist and biophysicist best known for the Ramachandran plot, a fundamental tool in structural biology for assessing protein backbone conformations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._N._Ramachandran
"ramachandran",

// C. V. Raman - Indian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1930 for proposing the Raman effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._V._Raman
"raman",

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