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TIME Names Gates One of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century

Name: TIME Names Gates One of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century
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In 1999, TIME magazine named Bill Gates one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century, placing the Microsoft co-founder among the scientists, leaders, and thinkers it judged to have most shaped the era — on a list topped by Albert Einstein as Person of the Century. The recognition cemented Gates's status, by the close of the millennium, as the defining figure of the personal-computing revolution.

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