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Mary Anderson (1866-1953) was an American inventor. In 1903, she designed and patented the first manual windshield wiper for vehicles, a lever-operated device controlled from inside the cabin.

A Romanian sculptor based in Paris, Constantin Brâncuși is one of the fathers of modern sculpture. By refining forms down to their essence, he paved the way for abstraction and revolutionized the art of the 20th century.

English–New Zealand physicist and collaborator of Ernest Rutherford. In 1909, together with Hans Geiger, he carried out the famous experiment scattering alpha particles off a gold foil, which revealed the existence of the atomic nucleus.

French poet and writer (1896–1966), co-founder and theorist of Surrealism. He authored the Manifestoes of Surrealism and gathered around him a generation of revolutionary artists and writers.

American novelist from the Deep South (1917–1967), Carson McCullers explores loneliness, marginality, and the longing to belong. Her first novel, *The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter* (1940), introduced her to the literary world at just 23.

American biochemist and pioneer of CRISPR-Cas9 technology. Her work revolutionized genome editing, opening up enormous possibilities in medicine and biotechnology. She received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020 alongside Emmanuelle Charpentier.