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1) Genetics - Oswald Avery, co-discoverer of DNA, '44. Remarkable part, he was in his late sixties.

2) Neuroscience - Julius Axelrod, mostly anagelsic and pineal gland research.

3) Infectious diseases and/or human health - Louis Pasteur. Making milk drinkable and transportable for the modern age is quite possibly a huge achievement on its own.

4) Biology in general - Galen, whose anatomical research and drawings especially in the 2nd century stood for a millennia and half as the hallmark.

5) Physics - <clicks tongue> Many. Not an easy choice, I'll have to go with Werner Heisenberg. Sorry, Albert. It's his inroads into QM moreso than anything else that allow me to get really creative these days.

6) Chemistry - slight cheating here, but I'll have to go with Curie, man and wife, and their research into radioactivity. They suffered short lifespans, most assuredly knowingly, in the name of scientific research. At least Pierre had the dubious fortune to get run over by a carriage instead.

7) Mathematics - Srinivasa Ramanujan, an inspiration. He was largely self-taught, and the elegance of the formulae is still being explored and found applicable in multiple fields today. A tragedy too, because one wonders how much more explosive his impact, which was already huge, would have been if he had not perished at 32 years of age. See #5.

Thanks for the massive shoulders.


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