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    Albert Einstein was one of the scientists involved with the creation of the atomic bomb, invented under the code name “Manhattan Project”, which devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

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The dwarf planet, Pluto, was discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh

On the 18th February, 1930, what we now know as a dwarf planet, Pluto was discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh.

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