Benoit Mandelbrot
Born in Poland of a Lithuainian Jewish Family, Mandelbrot spent most of his life in France. He has worked at many renowned academic institutions, including THe INstitute For Advandeced STudies at Princeton, The IBM Watson Research Center, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
Not only did he coin the term "fractal," but he invented it's most famous example, the Mandelbrot set (Look up).
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