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Ada Lovelace
1815 – 1852Wrote the first algorithm intended for a machine and saw computing beyond numbers.
United Kingdom·Computing · Mathematics
James Clerk Maxwell
1831 – 1879Four equations that unified electricity, magnetism and light — hence radio and Wi-Fi.
United Kingdom·Physics · Mathematics
Georg Cantor
1845 – 1918Proved there are different sizes of infinity.
Russia·Mathematics
Emmy Noether
1882 – 1935Noether's theorem links symmetry to conservation laws — the backbone of modern physics.
Germany·Mathematics · Physics