J. Robert Oppenheimer

•  Clement Attlee

  Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.

  

  35.7%
  

  36.9%
  

  27.4%
  
•  Daniel Jones (phonetician)

  Daniel Jones (12 September 1881 – 4 December 1967) was a London-born British phonetician. A pupil of Paul Passy, professor of phonetics at the École des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne, Daniel Jones is considered by many to be the greatest phonetician of the early 20th century.

  

  23.1%
  

  19.2%
  

  57.7%
  
•  Dorothy Parker

  Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American writer and poet, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Following the breakup of that circle, Parker traveled to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting.

  

  26.0%
  

  20.0%
  

  54.0%
  
•  Donald Campbell

  Donald Malcolm Campbell, CBE (23 March 1921 – 4 January 1967) was a British car and motorboat racer who broke eight world speed records in the 1950s and 60s. He remains the only person to set both land and water speed records in the same year (1964).

  

  25.0%
  

  20.6%
  

  54.4%
  
•  Hugo Gernsback

  Hugo Gernsback (August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967), born Hugo Gernsbacher, was a Luxembourg American inventor, writer and magazine publisher, best remembered for publications that included the first science fiction magazine. His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, he is sometimes popularly called "The Father of Science Fiction"; in his honor, the annual Science Fiction Achievement awards are named the "Hugos.

  

  19.5%
  

  20.7%
  

  59.8%
  
•  Harold Holt

  Harold Edward Holt, CH (5 August 1908 – 17 December 1967) was an Australian politician and was the 17th Prime Minister of Australia. His term as Prime Minister was brought to an early and dramatic end in December 1967 when he disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria, and was presumed drowned. Holt spent thirty-two years in Parliament, including many years as a senior Cabinet Minister, but was Prime Minister for only 22 months.

  

  25.9%
  

  28.4%
  

  45.7%
  
•  Jack Ruby

  Jack Leon Rubenstein (March 25, 1911 – January 3, 1967), who legally changed his name to Jack Leon Ruby in 1947, was an American nightclub operator in Dallas, Texas. He was convicted on November 24, 1964, of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, two days after Oswald was arrested for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He successfully appealed the conviction and death sentence.

  

  37.8%
  

  25.6%
  

  36.6%
  
•  John Masefield

  John Edward Masefield, OM, (1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967. He was born in Egypt.

  

  39.2%
  

  25.5%
  

  35.3%
  
•  Joe Orton

  John Kingsley ("Joe") Orton (1 January 1933 in Leicester – 9 August 1967 in Islington, London) was an English playwright. In a short but prolific career lasting from 1964 until his death, he shocked, outraged and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedies. Ortonesque became a recognised term for "outrageously macabre".

  

  33.9%
  

  21.4%
  

  44.6%
  
•  Konrad Adenauer

  Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer (5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967) was a German statesman. Although his political career spanned sixty years, beginning as early as 1906, he is most noted for his role as the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (then known as West Germany) from 1949–1963 and chairman of the Christian Democratic Union from 1950 to 1966. He was the oldest chancellor ever to serve Germany, beginning his first ministry at the age of 73 and leaving at the age of 87.

  

  26.5%
  

  38.8%
  

  34.7%
  

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•  Quicksort

  Quicksort is a well-known sorting algorithm developed by C. A. R. Hoare that, on average, makes comparisons to sort n items. In the worst case, it makes comparisons, though if implemented correctly this behavior is rare.

  

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•  Ludwik Michał Pac

  Ludwik Michał Pac (May 19, 1778 in Strasbourg, France – August 6, 1835 in Smyrna, Turkey) was a Polish general in the Napoleonic army (1808-1814). His parents were Michał Józef Pac and Ludwika Tyzenhaus. Later, he became a senator in Congress Poland from 1825 and became a member of an influential noble family in Russian-ruled Poland. He took an active part in the November Uprising and was wounded in battle in May 1831. After the failure of the uprising he returned to France.

  

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  0.0%
  
•  Topos

  In mathematics, a topos (plural "topoi" or "toposes") is a type of category that behaves like the category of sheaves of sets on a topological space. For a discussion of the history of topos theory, see the article Background and genesis of topos theory.

  

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•  Herbert O'Connor

  

  35.0%
  

  25.0%
  

  40.0%
  
•  Ramón Castroviejo

  

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