inventor
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She’s played everyone from Mary Poppins to the volatile but brilliant wife of the atomic bomb’s inventor, earning an Oscar nod for Oppenheimer in 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
In 2013, he arranged for her to get a job as a flying instructor for the company of entrepreneur Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
A spokesman for Kamen has previously said the inventor deeply regrets having any interactions with Epstein, and had no involvement in, or knowledge, of his crimes.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
For more than 500 years, Leonardo da Vinci has been admired as a brilliant artist, inventor, and thinker whose talents seemed far ahead of his time.
From Science Daily • May 4, 2026
Stamitz, who was born 120 kilometres from Prague and baptised Jan Stamic, has probably the greatest claim to being the inventor of the symphony as we know it, though posterity has largely forgotten him nonetheless.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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