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Alfred Blalock
Doctor, Surgeon / 1899 - 1964
Alfred Blalock was a surgeon who pioneered corrective heart surgery in newborns and did groudbreaking work related to blood loss and shock.
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(1899-1964)
Doctor, Surgeon
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Alfred Dreyfus
General / 1859 - 1935
Alfred Dreyfus was a French army officer who was wrongly convicted of treason based primarily on anti-semitism. The scandal was known as the Dreyfus Affair.
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(1859-1935)
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Alfred Eisenstaedt
Photographer / 1898 - 1995
Alfred Eisenstaedt was German-born, U.S. photojournalist. He was one of the first four photographers hired by Life Magazine.
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(1898-1995)
Photographer
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Alfred Hitchcock
Director, Producer, Television Personality, Screenwriter / 1899 - 1980
Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock was nicknamed the "Master of Suspense" for employing a kind of psychological suspense in his films, producing a distinct viewer experience.
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(1899-1980)
Director, Producer, Television Personality, Screenwriter
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Alfred Kinsey
Anthropologist, Educator, Biologist, Zoologist, Academic Author, Journalist / 1894 - 1956
Biologist Alfred Kinsey wrote Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, which was based on research he and his colleagues conducted at the Institute for Sex Research.
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(1894-1956)
Anthropologist, Educator, Biologist, Zoologist, Academic Author, Journalist
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Alfred A Knopf
Entrepreneur, Publisher / 1892 - 1984
Alfred A Knopf was an American book publisher who founded Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., in 1915. In 1966 it became a subsidiary of Random House, Inc.
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(1892-1984)
Entrepreneur, Publisher
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Alfred Thayer Mahan
Educator, Historian, Military Leader, Journalist / 1840 - 1914
Alfred Thayer Mahan was an American naval officer and historian who was an exponent of sea power in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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(1840-1914)
Educator, Historian, Military Leader, Journalist
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Alfred Molina
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor / 1953 -
Alfred Molina is an English actor who belonged to the Royal Shakespeare Company and starred in the blockbuster Spider-Man 2.
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(1953-)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor
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Alfred Nobel
Business Leader, Engineer, Inventor, Chemist / 1833 - 1896
Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel invented dynamite and other explosives. He used his enormous fortune from 355 patents to institute the Nobel Prizes.
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(1833-1896)
Business Leader, Engineer, Inventor, Chemist
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Alfred Rosenberg
War Criminal, Political Leader / 1893 - 1946
Alfred Rosenberg served as leader of the Nazi party during Hitler's imprisonment, wrote on German racial purity and was executed as a war criminal.
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(1893-1946)
War Criminal, Political Leader
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Alfred Sisley
Painter / 1839 - 1899
Alfred Sisley was a French impressionist painter, primarily of landscapes, and was a friend of Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
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(1839-1899)
Painter
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Alfred Tennyson
Poet / 1809 - 1892
Alfred, Lord Tennyson was Queen Victoria's poet laureate. His lasting works include "Ulysses," "The Lady of Shalott," and Idylls of the King.
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(1809-1892)
Poet
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Alfred North Whitehead
Philosopher, Mathematician, Journalist / 1861 - 1947
British mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead’s Treatise on Universal Algebra extended Boolean symbolic logic. He received the Order of Merit.
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(1861-1947)
Philosopher, Mathematician, Journalist