name an inventor beginging with u and x
Harold Clayton Urey, (1893–1981), 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
I was not able to find anyone with a name beginning with X
The only inventors I could find have/had first names beginning with X, not their last names:
http://www.google.com/search?q=inventor+xavier&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
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