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to the person the newspaper has considered has demonstrated considerable influence in a given year. There appear to have been a number of instances (1971, 1979, 1995) when no person was nominated.
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The stumbling progress of 20th century science: how crises and great minds have shaped our modern world
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Financial Times
business newspaper
Person of the Year

John von Neumann
Jean Rey
President of the European Commission
Henry Kissinger
United States Secretary of State
Faisal
King of Saudi Arabia
Harold Wilson
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Helmut Schmidt
Chancellor of Germany
Jimmy Carter
President of the United States
Anwar Sadat
President of Egypt
Deng Xiaoping
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China
Lech Wałęsa
Solidarnosc movement
François Mitterrand
President of France
George Shultz
United States Secretary of State
John R. Opel
IBM
Mikhail Gorbachev

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