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Werner Karl Heisenberg (German: Werner Karl Heisenberg; December 5, 1901 - February 1, 1976) was a German physicist, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, and a representative figure of the "Copenhagen School". In 1933, Heisenberg won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the creation of quantum mechanics and the resulting discovery of the allotropes of hydrogen." His main contribution to physics is the matrix form of quantum mechanics (matrix mechanics), the "uncertainty principle" (also known as the "Heisenberg uncertainty principle") and the S matrix theory. His "Physical Principles of Quantum Theory" is a classic work in the field of quantum mechanics.

Vittorio Gassman (Italian: Vittorio Gassman, September 1, 1922 - June 29, 2000) was an Italian actor, director, screenwriter, and television host active in theater, film, and television. Gassman's nickname "il Mattatore" was taken from the television show of the same name he hosted in 1959. Gassman's acting career spanned more than fifty years; he first acted in theaters in Milan and later in films, appearing in some 130 films and directing four. Gasman is considered one of the best and most representative actors in Italy. He has iconic dramatic manners and pronunciation characteristics, as well as the ultimate pursuit of professionalism. He is also versatile and full of personal charm. Gassman is considered the greatest actor in Italian comedy films, along with Alberto Sordi, Nino Manfredi, Ugo Toniazzi, and Marcello Mastroianni. Gassman has won 7 Italian Film Awards (David Awards) for Best Actor, and is the actor who has won the most awards. In 1975, he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival for "Scent of a Woman". In 1996, he won the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival.

Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska (Polish: Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska, Polish pronunciation: [viˈswava ʂɨmˈbɔrska]; July 2, 1923 – February 1, 2012) was a Polish poet and translator, known as the "Mozart of poetry". In 1996, Szymborska won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "poetry that reveals with ironic accuracy fragments of human reality in its historical and biological context." Szymborska's private life is kept away from the public eye. Her early work was influenced by socialist realism, but she later gradually turned to a focus on everyday life and personal emotions. In addition to poetry, she publishes columns in literary magazines and works as a translator.

Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. (English: Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr., Danish: [viɡ̊o ˈmɒːdnsn], October 20, 1958 -), American actor, writer, director, musician, photographer, poet, painter and producer. In 2003, he won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Performance by an Ensemble in a Motion Picture for the film "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"; in 2007, he won the Golden Globe Award, Academy Award nomination, and British Independent Film Award for Best Actor for the film "The Dark Side". In 2017 and 2019, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor again for "Captain Fantastic" and "Green Book" respectively. In addition to his film career, Mortensen is also a musician and artist. In 2002, he founded Perceval Press, a publishing company that publishes works by lesser-known artists and writers.

Venus Ebony Starr Williams (English: Venus Ebony Starr Williams, June 17, 1980 -, nicknamed "Venus", an American female tennis player, the highest singles ranking in the world, winner of seven Grand Slams. Although her playing record with her younger sister is inferior, Venus was once the world number one in women's singles and won 23 Grand Slam titles (7 in women's singles, 14 in women's doubles, and 2 in mixed doubles) and the 2008 WTA year-end finals title. and entered the Olympics 5 times, winning 4 golds and 1 silver (1 gold in women's singles, 3 golds in women's doubles, and 1 silver in mixed doubles. In the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Venus Williams, who participated in the Olympics for the first time, became a double gold medalist in singles and doubles). He reached his 90th Grand Slam appearance in his career at the Wimbledon Championships in 2021. He is the player who has participated in the most Grand Slam matches in the Open era. Compared with her sister Serena Williams, Venus Williams hits the ball flat rather than with topspin, so her serve speed is faster. She has been the record holder in women's tennis serve speed for many years. The drawing style is more offensive than defensive, more aggressive but also makes more mistakes. This style of play makes Venus Williams perform particularly well in grass-court events. She is known as the "Queen of Grass". She reached the Wimbledon Championship women's singles finals eight times in 10 years from 2000 to 2009, and won the Venus Rosewater Dish (Wimbledon women's singles championship trophy) five times.

Miao Quansun (September 20, 1844 - December 22, 1919), also known as Xiaoshan and Xiaoshan, also known as Xiaoshan and Xiaoshan, was born in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province. He was an educator and bibliographer in modern China. A historian, chronicler, and epigrapher, he is the founder of modern Chinese librarianship. He is the founder and first director of the current National Library of China and Nanjing Library, and a pioneer of modern Chinese education.

Luo Yunxi (July 28, 1988 -), whose real name is Luo Yi, is an actor and singer from Mainland China. Graduated from the Dance School of Shanghai Theater Academy, he debuted as a member of the idol boy group JBOY3 in 2010. In 2015, he rose to prominence by playing the role of the young man "He Yichen" in the hit idol drama "Why Shengxiaomo" and became well-known to the audience. In 2017, he starred in the medical urban drama "Pediatrician" which was broadcast on Shandong Satellite TV. In 2018, she played the role of the night god "Run Yu" in the costume fairy tale "Sweet Honey as Ashes as Frost" to expand her popularity. In the 2023 costume fairy tale "Chang Yue Jin Ming", one person plays the three roles of "Tantai Jin", "Ming Ye" and "Cang Jiu Min". In 2025, he starred in the costume fantasy drama "Water Dragon Song" and starred in the role of "Tang Lizi". The drama ranked first in the number of TV dramas played on Mango TV in 2025. In the same year, he won the Outstanding Actor of the Year award at the "Weibo Vision Conference". In 2026, he was invited to attend Singapore's "Red Star Awards" and became the first guest from mainland China to perform and award awards.

Roy Fox Lichtenstein (English: Roy Fox Lichtenstein /ˈlɪktənˌstaɪn/, October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American Pop Art artist. His works often feature cartoon characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Popeye, etc. as the protagonists. Later, he imitated popular comic strips and created a number of love paintings with girls as the theme and war paintings with aerial combat as the content. Lichtenstein has studied the works of Mondrian, Matisse, Cézanne, Monet, American de Kooning, Pallock, Remington and others, as well as Eastern art. He also invented the dot painting method. Known for parodying the works of other painters.

Roy Marcus Cohn (English: Roy Marcus Cohn, February 20, 1927 - August 2, 1986), born in the Bronx, New York City, United States, was a lawyer who was famous for his participation in Joseph McCarthy's pursuit of the underground activities of the American Communist Party during the Second Red Scare and for his homosexuality. He also participated in the case brought against the Rosenbergs by the U.S. Department of Justice, and was the mentor and personal lawyer of the 45th U.S. President Donald Trump. He was the face and mentor of Donald Trump in his early business career.

Rory McIlroy McIlroy, May 4, 1989 - (mostly referred to as Wheat by Taiwanese media) is a golf professional from Northern Ireland. He has won three major championships: the 2011 U.S. Open, the 2012 PGA Championship, and the 2014 British Open. He became the first European golf player to win three different major championships. He also became the third male player in history to win three major championships before the age of 25 (the other two are Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods). He won the Masters Championship in 2025 and achieved a Grand Slam. In 2011, at the age of 22, he became the youngest player in history to win 10 million euros in prize money on the European Tour; in 2012, he became the youngest player to win 10 million US dollars in prize money on the PGA Tour. SportsPro magazine ranked McIlroy second among the most commercial athletes. On January 14, 2013, NIKE signed a high-value contract with McIlroy. It was initially rumored to be as high as 10 years/USD 250 million. The current more credible contract is 10 years/USD 100 million.

Roberto Luongo (Italian: Roberto Luongo, April 4, 1979 -), Canadian men's ice hockey player, 190 cm tall. He represented the Canadian national team in ice hockey competitions at the 2006, 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics and won two gold medals.

Roberto Fabián Ayala (Roberto Fabián Ayala, April 14, 1973 -) is a retired Argentine football player who serves as a defender.

Robert Butler "Bob" Wilson, Jr. (born May 16, 1937) is an American economist and the Adam Distinguished Professor and Emeritus Professor of Operations Research at Stanford University. He focuses on operations research and business economics. The sequential quadratic programming he introduced in his doctoral thesis later evolved into the nonlinear programming iterative method. With the help of other mathematical economics experts at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, he used non-cooperative game theory to reformulate the theory of industrial organization in economics. His research on nonlinear pricing has deeply influenced the policies of large enterprises, especially the power industry in the energy industry. In 2020, he and Paul Milgrom won the Nobel Prize in Economics for "improving auction theory and inventing a new auction model."

Robert Sanderson Mulliken (English: Robert Sanderson Mulliken, June 7, 1896 - October 31, 1986), American physicist and chemist. For his contribution to molecular orbital theory, he won the Peter Debye Prize in 1963, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1966, became an academician of the Royal Society in 1967, and won the Priestley Prize in 1983.

Robert William Holley (English: Dr Robert William Holley, January 28, 1922 - February 11, 1993), American biochemist, was born in Urbana, Illinois. He won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for elucidating the tRNA linking alanine to DNA. Co-winners include Har Gobind Khorana and Marshall Warren Nirenberg.

Robert Bosch (September 23, 1861 - March 12, 1942) was a German entrepreneur, engineer and inventor, one of the pioneers of the industrial age. He was born in Ahlbeck near Ulm and died in Stuttgart. In 1886, he opened the "Workshop for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering" in Stuttgart, laying the foundation for today's Robert Bosch Company.

Robert Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American legal scholar who served as United States Attorney General from 1973 to 1977. He also served as the acting U.S. Attorney General from 1973 to 1974, and served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1982 to 1988. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated Robert Bork to serve as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, but he was rejected by the U.S. Senate. He is also a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the Hudson Institute. Robert Bork was an adviser to Mitt Romney during his presidential campaign.

Robert Capa (English: Robert Capa, October 22, 1913 - May 25, 1954), formerly known as Friedmann Endre Ernő (Hungarian: Friedmann Endre Ernő), also known as André Friedman (André Friedmann), a Hungarian-American photojournalist, was one of the most famous war photojournalists in the 20th century. He participated in the coverage of five major wars that took place in the 20th century: including the Spanish Civil War, the Anti-Japanese War in China, the European Theater of World War II, the First Middle East War, and the First Indo-China War. During World War II, Capa followed the U.S. Army and covered military operations in North Africa and Italy, the Battle of Omaha Beach in Normandy, and the liberation of Paris. Capa is considered one of the masters of the "Decisive Moment". His works reproduce the cruelty and violence of war through condensed moments, which are prominently displayed in several of his masterpieces. In 1947, he and Bresson, the advocate of the "Decisive Moment", founded the famous Magnum Photo Agency, becoming the world's first cooperative organization of freelance photographers.

Robert Jeffrey Sternberg (English: Robert Jeffrey Sternberg, December 8, 1949 -, also translated as Robert Jeffrey Sternberg) is an American psychologist and an authority in developmental psychology. The psychology textbooks he wrote personally and in collaboration with others are not only the textbooks required by many schools, but his other books on creativity and human development theory have also become must-read reference books for human resources development in the current business world. He is currently the dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University. He was previously the IBM Chair Professor in the Department of Psychology and Education at Yale University in the United States.

Robert Bacon (July 5, 1860 - May 29, 1919) was an American politician, diplomat, and former Secretary of State.

Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868 - December 19, 1953), American physicist, winner of the 1922 IEEE Edison Medal and the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physics. From 1910 to 1917, he used oil droplet experiments to accurately measure the value of the charge quantity e of the basic charge, thereby determining the discontinuity of charge. In 1916, he verified that Einstein's photoelectric effect formula was correct and measured Planck's constant; in addition, he also did some work on cosmic rays.

Robert James Shiller (English: Robert James Shiller, March 29, 1946 -), nicknamed Bob Shiller (English: Bob Shiller), was born in Detroit, United States, American economist, scholar, and best-selling author. His expertise lies in behavioral finance and financial economics. He currently holds the Arthur Okun Professorship at Yale University and is a member of the International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management. He has been an associate researcher at the National Institute of Economic Research since 1980. In 2005, he served as vice president of the American Economic Association. From 2006 to 2007, he served as President of the Eastern Economic Association. He is also the founder and chief economist of MacroMarkets Investment Management Ltd. Shiller is widely known in China for his participation in Yale University’s open course on financial markets. He is regarded as a member of the emerging Keynesian school and won the 1996 Paul A. Samuelson Award in Economics and the 2009 Deutsche Bank Prize. He is one of the top 100 most influential economists in the world. He was nominated for the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics and won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics together with Eugene Fama and Lars-Peter Hansen for his contributions to the empirical analysis of asset prices.

Robert Anthony De Niro ( də NEER-roh; Italian: [de ˈniːro]; born August 17, 1943) is an American actor and producer. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors of his generation, he has received various accolades, including two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for eight BAFTA Awards and four Emmy Awards. He was honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2003, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2009, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2011, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2019, and the Honorary Palme d'Or in 2025. De Niro studied acting at HB Studio, Stella Adler Conservatory, and Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Vito Co

Robert Selden Duvall (English: Robert Selden Duvall, January 5, 1931 - February 15, 2026) was a native of San Diego, California, United States. He was a famous American acting actor from the 1970s to the 2000s. In 1983, he won the Oscar for Best Actor for "Just Mercy".