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Biotechnologist
1914 - 2009
Agronomist and ‘grandfather of the Green Revolution’
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South Korean president
1925 - 2009
Democratic leader who opened up talks with North Korea under the ‘Sunshine Policy’
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Economist
1934 - 2009
Nobel Prize-winning Welsh economist who was professor in Nottingham and California
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Author, historian
1918 - 2008
Russian writer who was honoured for documenting horrors of the Gulags
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Scientist
1925 - 2008
Nobel-winning biologist who studied biology in space
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Meteorologist
1925 - 2007
‘Scientific statesman’ whose studies into the effects of global warming made world leaders rethink policy
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Economist
1912 - 2006
Nobel Prize-winning intellectual who revolutionised global economics
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Scientist
1916 - 2004
Nobel Prize-winning scientist who co-discovered DNA's double helix structure
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Writer
1906 - 1989
Nobel Prize for Literature winning poet and author
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Politician
1904 - 1988
Passionate Irish politician who received Nobel Peace prize
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