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It is evident in the 1, 200 sculptures, large and small, he created in, as he proudly noted, seven continents. (A de Weldon monument of Richard Byrd, an American polar explorer, is in McMurdo Sound, in Antarctica).
ECONOMIST: Felix de Weldon
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Athelstan Spilhaus had more success as a member of the team that in January 1958 launched Explorer 1, the first American satellite.
ECONOMIST: Athelstan Spilhaus
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Craig Ventner, the celebrated American scientist who first mapped the human genome, and explorer and environmentalist Jean-Michel Cousteau.
FORBES: The World's Best Sustainability Idea: The Gold In Human Waste
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Bill Murray plays Steve Zissou, an old-style explorer of the seas, who could easily be a mad American cousin, twice removed, of Jacques Cousteau.
NEWYORKER: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou