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The scientists, engineers and industrialists whose work shaped how energy is generated, stored, moved and used, grouped by nationality into the subcategories below, from single-country groups spanning many pioneers to hyphenated dual-identity groups reflecting a career built across two countries.

All Pioneers
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Eugene Wigner

Nuclear Pioneers

Everette DeGolyer

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Farrington Daniels

Solar Pioneers

Felix Wankel

Engine & Transport Pioneers

Francis S. Peabody

Coal Pioneers

Francis Thomas Bacon

Battery & Storage Pioneers

Franco Sensi

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

François Perrodo

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Frank J. Sprague

Electricity & Grid Pioneers

Frank Phillips

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Frank Shuman

Coal Pioneers

Franz Dinnendahl

Steam Power Pioneers

Franz Fischer

Natural Gas & LNG Pioneers

Frederic Joliot-Curie

Nuclear Pioneers

Frederick Albert Winsor

Coal Pioneers

Frederick Gardner Cottrell

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Fredrik Ljungström

Steam Power Pioneers

Friedrich Bergius

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Fritz Marguerre

Battery & Storage Pioneers

Fritz Ossberger

Hydropower Pioneers

Fritz Strassmann

Nuclear Pioneers

Fritz Vahrenholt

Solar Pioneers

Galileo Ferraris

Electricity & Grid Pioneers

Gaston Plante

Battery & Storage Pioneers

Georg Klingenberg

Steam Power Pioneers

George Bernard Reynolds

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

George Bissell

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

George Brayton

Engine & Transport Pioneers

George Henry Corliss

Steam Power Pioneers

George P. Mitchell

Natural Gas & LNG Pioneers

George Paget Thomson

Nuclear Pioneers

George Westinghouse

Electricity & Grid Pioneers

Georges Claude

Electricity & Grid Pioneers

Georges Darrieus

Wind Pioneers

Georges Leclanche

Battery & Storage Pioneers

Georgy Flyorov

Nuclear Pioneers

Gerald Pearson

Solar Pioneers

Giacomo Ciamician

Coal Pioneers

Giovanni Francia

Solar Pioneers

Gleb Krzhizhanovsky

Electricity & Grid Pioneers

Glenn McCarthy

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Glenn Seaborg

Nuclear Pioneers

Godfrey Lowell Cabot

Natural Gas & LNG Pioneers

Granville T. Woods

Electricity & Grid Pioneers

Gustave Trouve

Battery & Storage Pioneers

H. L. Hunt

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Hans Tropsch

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Harry F. Sinclair

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Harry Zvi Tabor

Solar Pioneers

Henri Becquerel

Nuclear Pioneers

Henrik Stiesdal

Wind Pioneers

Henry Clay Folger

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Henry Flagler

Energy Industry Pioneers

Henry Huttleston Rogers

Natural Gas & LNG Pioneers

Henry J. Rogers

Hydropower Pioneers

Henry L. Doherty

Natural Gas & LNG Pioneers

Herbert L. Anderson

Nuclear Pioneers

Herman Frasch

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Hermann Honnef

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Hippolyte Fontaine

Electricity & Grid Pioneers

Hippolyte Pixii

Electricity & Grid Pioneers

Hiram Maxim

Lighting Pioneers

Hiroshi Amano

Lighting Pioneers

Hugh Roy Cullen

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Hugo Junkers

Natural Gas & LNG Pioneers

Hugo Stinnes

Coal Pioneers

Humphry Davy

Coal Pioneers

Hyman G. Rickover

Nuclear Pioneers

Ichisuke Fujioka

Electricity & Grid Pioneers

Igor Kurchatov

Nuclear Pioneers

Igor Tamm

Nuclear Pioneers

Immanuel Mulunga

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Irene Joliot-Curie

Nuclear Pioneers

Irving Langmuir

Lighting Pioneers

Isaiah P. Taylor

Nuclear Pioneers

Isamu Akasaki

Electricity & Grid Pioneers

Ivan Polzunov

Steam Power Pioneers

J. Paul Getty

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Nuclear Pioneers

James Atkinson (engineer)

Engine & Transport Pioneers

James Blyth

Wind Pioneers

James Bowman Lindsay

Lighting Pioneers

James Buchanan Duke

Hydropower Pioneers

James C. Temerty

Electricity & Grid Pioneers

James Chadwick

Nuclear Pioneers

James Dehlsen

Wind Pioneers

James Dewar

Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Pioneers

James Francis

Hydropower Pioneers

James M. Guffey

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

James Watt

Steam Power Pioneers

James Young (chemist)

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

Jean Charles Athanase Peltier

Electricity & Grid Pioneers

Johann Andreas Segner

Hydropower Pioneers

Johannes Juul

Wind Pioneers

John B. Goodenough

Battery & Storage Pioneers

John Cadman, 1st Baron Cadman

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

John Cockcroft

Nuclear Pioneers

John D. Archbold

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

John D. Rockefeller

Oil & Petroleum Pioneers

John Dixon Gibbs

Electricity & Grid Pioneers
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When was Henry J. Rogers born and when did he die?

Biographical sources on Henry J. Rogers, the Appleton industrialist behind the Vulcan Street Plant, document his business role and home in detail but no birth or death date has been found in the sources consulted this pass.

What would resolve this A primary genealogical record, such as an obituary, gravestone, census entry or probate record, naming his birth and death dates.
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