Columbus, Ferdinand

Alvarez the eminent French nuclear scientist Frederic Joliot (a transfer of the Dubna suggestion for naming element 102) the scientific giant Sir Isaac Newton the famous inventor Thomas Edison the famous scholar and inventor Leonardo da Vinci early explorers such as Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, and the mythical Ulysses the great American statesman George Washington a Russian scientist such as Peter Kapitza or Andrei Sakharov and the native land of a member of the discovery team, Finland. 

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