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Daniel Hale Williams
1856–1931
Medicine & Public Health
Founder of Provident Hospital and early cardiac surgeon
George Ellery Hale
1868–1938
Science & Mathematics
Built four telescopes that were each the largest in the world, and found that sunspots are magnetic