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French novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet (1840–1902)
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.
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Emilio Gino Segrè was an Italian-American nuclear physicist and radiochemist who discovered the elements technetium and astatine, and the antiproton, a subatomic antiparticle, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959, along with Owen Chamber
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Emily Jane Brontë was an English writer best known for her 1847 novel Wuthering Heights.
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet.
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Emily Greene Balch was an American economist, sociologist and pacifist.
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Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer.
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Emanuel Swedenborg was a Swedish polymath; a scientist, engineer, astronomer, anatomist, Christian theologian, philosopher, and mystic.
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Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland in 1918, partially due to her role in the White Feather Campaign.
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Empedocles was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and a native citizen of Akragas, a Greek city in Sicily.
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