Founders and Firsts

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• 01·Who founded the Maurya Empire in ancient India around 322 BCE?
• 02·Which physicist first proposed the existence of the neutrino in 1930 to explain beta decay?
• 03·Who directed 'Bicycle Thieves,' a foundational film of the Italian Neorealist movement?
• 04·Who was the first European explorer to command a successful expedition to circumnavigate the Earth?
• 05·Who was the first Holy Roman Emperor, crowned by Pope Leo III on Christmas Day in 800 AD?
• 06·Who is credited with inventing the first practical system of mechanical television?
• 07·Who is credited with creating the hangul alphabet for the Korean language?
• 08·Who founded the modern Olympic Games in 1894?
• 09·Who wrote 'The Second Sex,' a foundational text of second-wave feminism?
• 10·Who was the founder of the Ottoman Empire in the late 13th century?
• 11·Who developed the first polio vaccine, an inactivated version, declared safe in 1955?
• 12·Who founded the Achaemenid Empire, also known as the first Persian Empire?
• 13·Who is considered the primary inventor of the cinematic language of montage in films like 'Battleship Potemkin'?
• 14·Who is generally credited with founding the field of molecular gastronomy?
• 15·Who was the first person to reach the South Pole in 1911?
• 16·Who founded the Jesuit order, officially recognized by the Pope in 1540?
• 17·Who invented the Bessemer process, the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel?
• 18·Who is credited with pioneering the 'wall of sound' production technique in the 1960s?
• 19·Who invented the game of basketball in 1891?
• 20·Who created the constructed international auxiliary language Esperanto?