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Famous Scientists 

Abbe, Ernst (1840-1905) 

Abel, Neils Henrik (1802-1829) 

Abetti, Giorgio (1882-1982) 

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) 

Adams, Walter Sydney (1876-1956) 

Addison, Thomas (1793-1860) 

Adler, Alfred (1870-1937) 

Adrian, Edgar Douglas (1889-1977) 

Agassiz, (Jean) Louis Rodolphe (1807-1873) 

Agnesi, Maria Gaetana (1718-1799) 

Agricola, Georgius (1490-1555) 

Aiken, Howard Hathaway (1900-1973) 

Airy, George Biddell (1801-1892) 

Aitken, Robert Grant (1864-1951) 

Alder, Kurt (1902-1958) 

Aleksandrov, Pavel Sergeevich (1896-1982) 

Alexander, Hattie Elizabeth (1901-1968) 

Alfvén, Hannes Olof Gösta (1908-1995) 

Alhazen, Abu Ali al-Hassan ibn al-Haytham (c. 965-1038) 

Alpher, Ralph Asher (1921- ) 

al-Sufi (903-986) 

Alter, David (1807-1881) 

Alvarez, Luis Walter (1911-1988) 

Alzheimer, Alois (1864-1915) 

Ambartsumian, Viktor Amazasp Amazaspovich (1908-1996) 

Ampère, André-Marie (1775-1836) 

Amsler-Laffon, Jakob (1823-1912) 

Anaximander the Elder (c. 611-547 BC) 

Anderson, Carl David (1905-1991) 

Anderson, Philip Warren (1923- ) 

Andrews, Thomas (1813-1885) 

Ångström, Anders Jonas (1814-1874) 

Anning, Mary (1799-1847) 

Antoniadi, Eugène Marie (1870-1944) 

Apgar, Virginia (1909-1974) 

Apollonius of Perga (c. 245-c.190 BC) 

Appert, Nicolas François (c.1750-1841) 

Appleton, Edward Victor (1892-1965) 

Arago, (Dominique) François (Jean) (1786-1853) 

Archimedes (c.287-212 BC) 

Argand, Jean Robert (1768-1822) 

Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm August (1799-1875) 

Aristarchos (c. 320-c. 250 BC) 

Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) 

Arkwright, Richard (1732-1792) 

Armstrong, Edwin Howard (1890-1954) 

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Armstrong, William George (1810-1900) 

Arp, Halton Christian (1927- ) 

Arrhenius, Svante August (1859-1927) 

Artin, Emil (1898-1962) 

Aston, Francis William (1877-1945) 

Atkinson, Robert D'escourt (1898-1982) 

Attenborough, David Frederick (1926- ) 

Audubon, John James Laforest (1785-1851) 

Auer, Carl 

Avery, Oswald Theodore (1877-1955) 

Avicenna (980-1037) 

Avogadro, Amedeo, Conte de Quaregna (1776-1856) 

Ayrton, Hertha (Phoebe Sarah) Marks (1854-1923) 

Ayrton, William Edward (1847-1908) 

Baade, (Wilhelm Heinrich) Walter (1893-1960) 

Babbage, Charles (1792-1871) 

Babcock, George Herman (1832-1893) 

Babcock, Harold Delos (1882-1968) 

Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) 

Bacon, Roger (c.1220-c. 1292) 

Baekeland, Leo Hendrik (1863-1944) 

Baer, Karl Ernst Ritter von (1792-1876) 

Baeyer, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von (1835-1917) 

Baily, Francis (1774-1844) 

Bainbridge, Kenneth Tompkins (1904-1996) 

Baird, John Logie (1888-1946) 

Baker, Alan (1939- ) 

Baker, Benjamin (1840-1907) 

Balmer, Johann Jakob (1825-1898) 

Banks, Joseph (1743-1820) 

Banneker, Benjamin (1731-1806) 

Banting, Frederick Grant (1891-1941) 

Bardeen, John (1908-1991) 

Barkla, Charles Glover (1877-1944) 

Barnard, Christiaan Neethling (1922- ) 

Barnard, Edward Emerson (1857-1923) 

Barnes, Wallis 

Barr, Murray Llewellyn (1908-1995) 

Barrow, Isaac (1630-1677) 

Bartlett, Neil (1932- ) 

Barton, Derek Harold Richard (1918-1998) 

Bascom, Florence (1862-1945) 

Bassi, Laura (1711-1778) 

Bates, Henry Walter (1825-1892) 

Bateson, William (1861-1926) 

Bayliss, William Maddock (1860-1924) 

Beadle, George Wells (1903-1989) 

Beaufort, Francis (1774-1857) 

Beaumont, William (1785-1853) 

Becquerel, Antoine Henri (1852-1908) 

Beg, Ulugh (1394-1449) 

Behring, Emil (Adolph von) (1854-1917) 



Beijerinck, Martinus Willem (1851-1931) 

Békésy, Georg von (1899-1972) 

Bell Burnell, (Susan) Jocelyn (1943- ) 

Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922) 

Bell, Charles (1774-1842) 

Bell, Patrick (1799-1869) 

Beltrami, Eugenio (1835-1899) 

Ben Roy Mottelson (1926- ) 

Benedict, Ruth (1887-1948) 

Benz, Karl (Friedrich) (1844-1929) 

Berg, Paul (1926- ) 

Bergius, Friedrich Karl Rudolf (1884-1949) 

Bernard, Claude (1813-1878) 

Bernays, Paul (Isaak) (1888-1977) 

Bernoulli, Daniel (1700-1782) 

Bernoulli, Jacques (Jakob) 1654-1705 

Bernoulli, Jean (Johann) (1667-1748) 

Bernstein, Jeremy (1929- ) 

Berthelot, Pierre Eugène Marcelin (1827-1907) 

Berthollet, Claude Louis (1748-1822) 

Berthoud, Ferdinand (1727-1807) 

Berzelius, Jöns Jakob (1779-1848) 

Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm (1784-1846) 

Bessemer, Henry (1813-1898) 

Bethe, Hans Albrecht (1906- ) 

Betti, Enrico (1823-1892) 

Bhabha, Homi Jehangir (1909-1966) 

Bichat, Marie François Xavier (1771-1802) 

Bickford, William (1774-1834) 

Bigelow, Erastus Brigham (1814-1879) 

Binet, Alfred (1857-1911) 

Birkeland, Christian (1867-1917) 

Birkhoff, George David (1884-1944) 

Bjerknes, Vilhelm Firman Koren (1862-1951) 

Black, Joseph (1728-1799) 

Black, Max (1909- ) 

Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart (1897-1974) 

Blackwell, Elizabeth (1821-1910) 

Blakemore, Colin (1944- ) 

Blakemore, Colin (Brian) (1944- ) 

Bloch, Konrad (Emil) (1912- ) 

Bode, Johann Elert (1749-1826) 

Boerhaave, Hermann (1668-1738) 

Bohr, Aage Niels (1922- ) 

Bohr, Niels Henrik David (1885-1962) 

Bok, Bart (1906-1992) 

Boksenberg, Alexander (1936- ) 

Boltzmann, Ludwig Eduard (1844-1906) 

Bolyai, Farkas Wolfgang (1775-1856 and Bolyai, Janos 1802-1860) 

Bolzano, Bernardus Placidus Johann Nepomuk (1781-1848) 

Bond, George Phillips (1825-1865) 

Bond, William Cranch (1789-1859) 



Bondi, Hermann (1919- ) 

Boole, George (1815-1864) 

Booth, Hubert Cecil (1871-1955) 

Borel, Emile Félix-Edouard-Justin (1871-1956) 

Born, Max (1882-1970) 

Bosch, Carl (1874-1940) 

Boulton, Matthew (1728-1809) 

Bourdon, Eugène (1808-1884) 

Boveri, Theodor Heinrich (1862-1915) 

Bowden, Frank Philip (1903-1968) 

Bowen, Ira Sprague (1898-1973) 

Bowen, Norman Levi (1887-1956) 

Boyle, Robert (1627-1691) 

Boys, Charles Vernon (1855-1944) 

Bradley, James (1693-1762) 

Bragg, William Henry (1862-1942) 

Bragg, (William) Lawrence (1890-1971) 

Brahe, Tycho (1546-1601) 

Bramah, Joseph (1748-1814) 

Branly, Edouard Eugène Désiré (1844-1940) 

Braun, Emma Lucy (1889-1971) 

Braun, Karl Ferdinand (1850-1918) 

Bredig, Georg (1868-1944) 

Brenner, Sydney (1927- ) 

Brewster, David (1781-1868) 

Bridgman, Percy Williams (1882-1961) 

Briggs, Henry (1561-1630) 

Bright, Richard (1789-1858) 

Brindley, James (1716-1772) 

Brinell, Johann August (1849-1925) 

Broglie, Louis Victor Pierre Raymond de (1892-1987) 

Brongniart, Alexandre (1770-1847) 

Bronowski, Jacob (1908-1974) 

Brønsted, Johannes Nicolaus (1879-1947) 

Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan (1881-1966) 

Brown, Ernest William (1866-1938) 

Brown, Robert (1773-1858) 

Brown, Robert Hanbury (1916-2002) 

Brunel, Isambard Kingdom (1806-1859) 

Brunel, Marc Isambard (1769-1849) 

Buchner, Eduard (1860-1917) 

Buckland, William (1784-1856) 

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1707-1788) 

Bullard, Edward Crisp (1907-1980) 

Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm (1811-1899) 

Burali-Forti, Cesare (1861-1931) 

Burbidge, (Eleanor) Margaret (born Peachey) (1919- ) 

Burbidge, Geoffrey (1925- ) 

Burkitt, Denis Parsons (1911-1993) 

Burnet, (Frank) Macfarlane (1899-1985) 

Burnside, William (1852-1927) 

Bush, Vannevar (1890-1974) 



Cailletet, Louis Paul (1832-1913) 

Cairns, Hugh John Forster (1922- ) 

Cajori, Florian (1859-1930) 

Calkins, Mary Whiton (1863-1930) 

Callendar, Hugh Longbourne (1863-1930) 

Calne, Roy Yorke (1930- ) 

Calvin, Melvin (1911-1997) 

Cameron, Alastair Graham Walter (1925- ) 

Campbell, William Wallace (1862-1938) 

Cannizzaro, Stanislao (1826-1910) 

Cannon, Annie Jump (1863-1941) 

Cantor, Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp (1845-1918) 

Carathéodory, Constantin (1873-1950) 

Cardozo, William Warrick (1905-1962) 

Carnegie, Andrew (1835-1919) 

Carnot, (Nicolas Léonard) Sadi (1796-1832) 

Carothers, Wallace Hume (1896-1937) 

Carr, Emma Perry (1880-1972) 

Carrel, Alexis (1873-1944) 

Carrington, Richard Christopher (1826-1875) 

Carson, Rachel Louise (1907-1964) 

Cartwright, Edmund (1743-1828) 

Carver, George Washington (c. 1860-1943) 

Cassegrain (c. 1650-1700) 

Cassini, Giovanni Domenico (Jean Dominique) (1625-1712) 

Cauchy, Augustin-Louis (1789-1857) 

Cavendish, Henry (1731-1810) 

Cavendish, Margaret (1623-1673) 

Cayley, Arthur (1821-1895) 

Cayley, George (1773-1857) 

Celsius, Anders (1701-1744) 

Cesaro, Ernesto (1859-1906) 

Chadwick, James (1891-1974) 

Chain, Ernst Boris (1906-1979) 

Challis, James (1803-1882) 

Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder (1843-1928) 

Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (1910-1995) 

Charcot, Jean-Martin (1825-1893) 

Chardonnet, Louis-Marie-Hilaire Bernigaud, Comte de (1839-1924) 

Chargaff, Erwin (1905- ) 

Charles, Jacques Alexandre César (1746-1823) 

Charnley, John (1911-1982) 

Chase, Mary Agnes Meara (1869-1963) 

Chevreul, Michel-Eugène (1786-1889) 

Cheyne, John (1777-1836) 

Child, Charles Manning (1869-1954) 

Chladni, Ernst Florens Friedrich (1756-1827) 

Christoffel, Elwin Bruno (1829-1900) 

Church, Alonzo (1903-1995) 

Cierva, Juan de la (1895-1936) 

Clapp, Cornelia Mary (1849-1934) 

Clark, Wilfrid Edward Le Gros (1895-1971) 



Clausius, Rudolf Julius Emmanuel (1822-1888) 

Clifford, William Kingdon (1845-1879) 

Cockcroft, John Douglas (1897-1967) 

Cockerell, Christopher Sydney (1910-1999) 

Cockerill, Wilham (1759-1832) 

Cohn, Ferdinand Julius (1828-1898) 

Colles, Abraham (1773-1843) 

Colt, Samuel (1814-1862) 

Compton, Arthur Holly (1892-1962) 

Cook, James (1728-1779) 

Coolidge, Julian Lowell (1873-1954) 

Cooper, Leon Niels (1930- ) 

Copernicus, Nicolaus (Mikolaj Kopernigk 1473-1543) 

Cori, Carl Ferdinand (1896-1984) 

Cori, Gerty Theresa (born Radnitz) (1896-1957) 

Coriolis, Gustave Gaspard de (1792-1843) 

Corliss, George Henry (1817-1888) 

Cornforth, John Warcup (1917- ) 

Correns, Carl Franz Joseph Erich (1864-1933) 

Cort, Henry (1740-1800) 

Cotton, William (1786-1866) 

Coulomb, Charles Augustin de (1736-1806) 

Coulson, Charles Alfred (1910-1974) 

Courant, Richard (1888-1972) 

Cousteau, Jacques-Yves (1910-1997) 

Cowling, Thomas George (1906-1990) 

Cox, Allan V(erne) (1926-1987) 

Cramer, Gabriel (1704-1752) 

Crick, Francis Harry Compton (1916- ) 

Crompton, Rookes Evelyn Bell (1845-1940) 

Crompton, Samuel (1753-1827) 

Cronin, James Watson 

Cronin, James Watson (1931- ) 

Crookes, William (1832-1919) 

Croslin, Michael (1933- ) 

Cugnot, Nicolas Joseph (1725-1804) 

Curie, Marie (1867-1934) 

Curie, Pierre (1859-1906) 

Curl, Robert Floyd, Jr (1933- ) 

Curtis, Heber Doust (1872-1942) 

Cushing, Harvey Williams (1869-1939) 

Cuvier, Georges (Léopold Chrêtien Frédéric Dagobert) (1769-1832) 

da Vinci, Leonardo (1452-1519) 

Daimler, Gottlieb Willhelm (1834-1900) 

Dale, Henry Hallett (1875-1968) 

D'Alembert, Jean le Rond (1717-1783) 

Dalton, John (1766-1844) 

Dana, James Dwight (1813-1895) 

Dancer, John Benjamin (1812-1887) 

Daniell, John Frederic (1790-1845) 

Dantzig, George Bernard (1914- ) 

Darboux, Jean Gaston (1842-1917) 



Darby, Abraham (1677-1717) 

D'Arcy, Thompson, Wentworth (1860-1948) 

Dart, Raymond Arthur (1893-1988) 

Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882) 

Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802) 

Davis, William Morris (1850-1934) 

Davisson, Clinton Joseph (1881-1958) 

Davy, Humphry (1778-1829) 

Dawkins, (Clinton) Richard (1941- ) 

De Beer, Gavin Rylands (1899-1972) 

de Broglie, Louis Victor (1892-1987) 

de Duve, Christian René (1917- ) 

De Forest, Lee (1873-1961) 

De Havilland, Geoffrey (1882-1965) 

De la Beche, Henry Thomas (1796-1855) 

de la Rue, Warren (1815-1889) 

de Laval, Carl Gustaf Patrik (1845-1913) 

de Lesseps, Ferdinand (1805-1894) 

de Moivre, Abraham (1667-1754) 

De Morgan, Augustus (1806-1871) 

de Sitter, Willem (1872-1934) 

De Vaucouleurs, Gerard Henri (1918-1995) 

de Vries, Hugo Marie (1848-1935) 

Debye, Peter Joseph Willem (1884-1966) 

Dedekind, (Julius Wilhelm) Richard (1831-1916) 

Dehn, Max Wilhelm (1878-1952) 

Democritus (c. 460-370 BC) 

Descartes, René (1596-1650) 

Deslandres, Henri Alexandre (1853-1948) 

Desmarest, Nicolas (1725-1815) 

Désormes, Charles Bernard (1777-1862) 

Dewar, James (1842-1923) 

Dicke, Robert Henry (1916-1997) 

Dicksee, Cedric Bernard (1888-1981) 

Dickson, Leonard Eugene (1874-1957) 

Diels, Otto Paul Hermann (1876-1954) 

Diesel, Rudolf Christian Karl (1853-1913) 

Diophantus (lived c. AD 270-280) 

Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice (1902-1984) 

Dirichlet, (Peter Gustav) Lejeune (1805-1859) 

Dobzhansky, Theodosius (1900-1975) 

Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge (1832-1898) 

Dollfus, Audouin Charles (1924- ) 

Domagk, Gerhard (1895-1964) 

Donati, Giovanni Battista (1826-1873) 

Donkin, Bryan (1768-1855) 

Doppler, Johann Christian (1803-1853) 

Draper, Henry (1837-1882) 

Drew, Charles Richard (1904-1950) 

Dreyer, John Louis Emil (1852-1926) 

Driesch, Hans Adolf Eduard (1867-1941) 

Du Bois-Reymond, Emil Heinrich (1818-1896) 



Du Toit, Alexander Logie (1878-1948) 

Dubois, (Marie) Eugène (François Thomas) (1858-1940) 

Dulong, Pierre Louis (1785-1838) 

Dumas, Jean Baptiste André (1800-1884) 

Dunlop, John Boyd (1840-1921) 

Duve, Christian René de (1917- ) 

Dyson, Frank Watson (1868-1939) 

Eastman, George (1854-1932) 

Eastwood, Alice (1859-1953) 

Eastwood, Eric (1910-1981) 

Eckert, John Presper (1919-1995) 

Eddington, Arthur Stanley (1882-1944) 

Edinger, Johanna Gabrielle Ottilie (Tilly) (1897-1967) 

Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931) 

Edlén, Bengt (1906-1993) 

Edward Lawrie Tatum (1909-1975) 

Edwards, Robert (1925- ) 

Eggen, Olin Jenck (1919- ) 

Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried (1795-1876) 

Ehrlich, Paul (1854-1915) 

Eiffel, (Alexandre) Gustav (1832-1923) 

Eigen, Manfred (1927- ) 

Eijkman, Christiaan (1858-1930) 

Eilenberg, Samuel (1913-1998) 

Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) 

Einthoven, Willem (1860-1927) 

Eisenhart, Luther Pfahler (1876-1965) 

Elion, Gertrude Belle (1918-1999) 

Elkington, George Richards (1801-1865) 

Ellet, Charles (1810-1862) 

Elsasser, Walter Maurice (1904-1991) 

Emeléus, Harry Julius (1903-1993) 

Empedocles (c. 490-430 BC) 

Encke, Johann Franz (1791-1865) 

Enders, John Franklin (1897-1985) 

Eratosthenes (c. 276-194 BC) 

Erdös, Paul (1913-1996) 

Ericsson, John (1803-1889) 

Erlang, Agner Krarup (1878-1929) 

Esaki, Leo (1925- ) 

Eskola, Pentti Eelis (1883-1964) 

Euclid 

Eudoxus of Cnidus (408-355 BC) 

Euler, Leonhard (1707-1783) 

Evans, Alice Catherine (1881-1975) 

Evans, Oliver (1755-1819) 

Ewing, (William) Maurice (1906-1974) 

Eyde, Samuel (1866-1940) 

Eysenck, Hans Jürgen (1916-1997) 

Fabre, (Jean) Henri (Casimir) (1823-1915) 

Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Hieronymus (1537-1619) 

Fabry, Charles (1867-1945) 



Fahrenheit, Daniel Gabriel (1686-1736) 

Fairbairn, William (1789-1874) 

Fajans, Kasimir (1887-1975) 

Fallopius, Gabriel (1523-1562) 

Faraday, Michael (1791-1867) 

Feller, William (1906-1970) 

Ferguson, Henry George (1884-1960) 

Ferguson, Margaret Clay (1863-1951) 

Fermat, Pierre de (1601-1675) 

Fermi, Enrico (1901-1954) 

Ferranti, Sebastian Ziani de (1864-1930) 

Fessenden, Reginald Aubrey (1866-1932) 

Feynman, Richard Phillips (1918-1988) 

Fibonacci, Leonardo (c. 1180-c. 1250) 

Field, George Brooks (1929- ) 

Fischer, Emil Hermann (1852-1919) 

Fischer, Ernst Otto (1918- ) 

Fischer, Hans (1881-1945) 

Fischer, Hermann Otto Laurenz (1888-1960) 

Fisher, Ronald Aylmer (1890-1962) 

Fitch, Val Lodgson (1923- ) 

FitzGerald, George Francis (1851-1901) 

Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis (1819-1896) 

Flamsteed, John (1646-1719) 

Fleming, Alexander (1881-1955) 

Fleming, John Ambrose (1849-1945) 

Fleming, Williamina Paton Stevens (1857-1911) 

Fletcher, Alice Cunningham (1838-1923) 

Florey, Howard Walter (1898-1968) 

Flory, Paul John (1910-1985) 

Fontana, Niccolò 

Forbes, Edward (1815-1854) 

Ford, Henry (1863-1947) 

Forsyth, Andrew Russell (1858-1942) 

Fortin, Jean Nicolas (1750-1831) 

Foucault, Jean Bernard Léon (1819-1868) 

Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph (1768-1830) 

Fourneyron, Benoit (1802-1867) 

Fowler, William Alfred (1911-1995) 

Fraenkel, Abraham Adolf (1891-1965) 

Fraenkel-Conrat, Heinz Ludwig (1910-1999) 

Francis, James Bicheno (1815-1892) 

Franck, James (1882-1964) 

Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) 

Franklin, Rosalind Elsie (1920-1958) 

Fraunhofer, Joseph von (1787-1826) 

Fredholm, Erik Ivar (1866-1927) 

Frege, Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob (1848-1925) 

Fresnel, Augustin Jean (1788-1827) 

Freud, Anna (1895-1982) 

Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) 

Freundlich, Herbert Max Finlay (1880-1941) 



Friedel, Charles (1832-1899) 

Friedman, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (1888-1925) 

Friese-Greene, William (1855-1921) 

Frisch, Karl von (1886-1982) 

Frisch, Otto Robert (1904-1979) 

Frobenius, Georg Ferdinand (1849-1917) 

Froude, William (1810-1879) 

Fuchs, Immanuel Lazarus (1833-1902) 

Fuller, Solomon Carter (1872-1953) 

Fulton, Robert (1765-1815) 

Funk, Casimir (1884-1967) 

Gabor, Dennis (1900-1979) 

Gajdusek, Daniel Carleton (1923- ) 

Galen (c. AD 129-c. 199) 

Galileo, properly Galileo Galilei (1564-1643) 

Galle, Johann Gottfried (1812-1910) 

Galois, Evariste (1811-1832) 

Galton, Francis (1822-1911) 

Galvani, Luigi (1737-1798) 

Gamow, George (1904-1968) 

Gardner, Julia Anna (1882-1960) 

Gassendi, Pierre (1592-1655) 

Gatling, Richard Jordan (1818-1903) 

Gauss, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855) 

Gauss, Karl (or Carl Friedrich 1777-1855) 

Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis (1778-1850) 

Geber 

Geiger, Hans Wilhelm (1882-1945) 

Gell-Mann, Murray (1929- ) 

Germain, Sophie (Marie) (1776-1831) 

Giacconi, Riccardo (1931- ) 

Gibbs, Josiah Willard (1839-1903) 

Giffard, Henri (1825-1882) 

Gilbert, Walter (1932- ) 

Gilbert, William (1544-1603) 

Gilchrist, Percy Carlyle (1851-1935) 

Gill, David (1843-1914) 

Gilman, Henry (1893-1986) 

Ginzburg, Vitalii Lazarevich (1916- ) 

Glaser, Donald Arthur (1926- ) 

Glashow, Sheldon Lee (1932- ) 

Glauber, Johann Rudolf (1604-1670) 

Goddard, Robert Hutchings (1882-1945) 

Gödel, Kurt (1906-1978) 

Goeppert-Mayer, Maria (1906-1972) 

Gold, Thomas (1920- ) 

Goldberg, Leo (1913-1987) 

Goldring, Winifred (1888-1971) 

Goldschmidt, Victor Moritz (1888-1947) 

Goldstein, Eugen (1850-1930) 

Golgi, Camillo (1843-1926) 

Goodall, Jane (1934- ) 



Goodyear, Charles (1800-1860) 

Gosset, William Sealey (1876-1937) 

Gould, Stephen Jay (1941-2002) 

Graham, Thomas (1805-1869) 

Grandi, Guido (1671-1742) 

Grassmann, Hermann Günther (1809-1877) 

Gray, Asa (1810-1888) 

Gray, Henry (1827-1861) 

Green, George (1793-1841) 

Greenstein, Jesse Leonard (1909- ) 

Grignard, François Auguste Victor (1871-1935) 

Grimaldi, Francesco Maria (1618-1663) 

Guericke, Otto von (1602-1686) 

Guettard, Jean-Etienne (1715-1786) 

Guillemin, Roger Charles Louis (1924- ) 

Gurdon, John Bertrand (1933- ) 

Gutenberg, Johannes (c.1398-1468) 

Haber, Fritz (1868-1934) 

Hadamard, Jacques Salomon (1865-1963) 

Hadfield, Robert Abbott (1858-1940) 

Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp Auguste (1834-1919) 

Hahn, Otto (1879-1968) 

Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson (1892-1964) 

Haldane, John Scott (1860-1936) 

Hale, George Ellery (1868-1938) 

Hales, Stephen (1677-1761) 

Hall, Asaph (1829-1907) 

Hall, Charles Martin (1863-1914) 

Hall, James (1761-1832) 

Hall, Philip (1904-1982) 

Haller, Albrecht von (1708-1777) 

Halley, Edmond (1656-1742) 

Hamilton, Alice (1869-1970) 

Hamilton, William Rowan (1805-1865) 

Hammick, Dalziel Llewellyn (1887-1966) 

Hanbury-Brown, Robert (1916- ) 

Hancock, Thomas (1786-1865) 

Handley Page, Frederick (1885-1962) 

Hankel, Hermann (1839-1873) 

Harden, Arthur (1865-1940) 

Hardy, Alistair Clavering (1896-1985) 

Hardy, Godfrey Harold (1877-1947) 

Hargreaves, James (1720-1778) 

Harrison, John (1693-1776) 

Harvey, Ethel Browne (1885-1965) 

Harvey, William (1578-1657) 

Hausdorff, Felix (1868-1942) 

Haüy, René-Just (1743-1822) 

Hawking, Stephen (William) (1942- ) 

Haworth, Walter Norman (1883-1950) 

Hayashi, Chushiro (1920- ) 

Heath, Thomas Little (1861-1940) 



Heathcoat, John (1783-1861) 

Heaviside, Oliver (1850-1925) 

Heine, Heinrich Eduard (1812-1881) 

Heisenberg, Werner Karl (1901-1976) 

Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von (1821-1894) 

Helmont, Jan Baptista van (1579-1644) 

Henry, Joseph (1797-1878) 

Henry, William (1774-1836) 

Heraklides of Pontus (388-315 BC) 

Herbig, George Howard (1920- ) 

Herbrand, Jacques (1908-1931) 

Hermite, Charles (1822-1901) 

Hero of Alexandria (lived c. AD 60) 

Héroult, Paul Louis Toussaint (1863-1914) 

Héroult, Paul Louis Toussaint (1863-1914) 

Herschel, Caroline (Lucretia) (1750-1848) 

Herschel, Frederick William (1738-1822) 

Herschel, John Frederick William (1792-1871) 

Hershey, Alfred Day (1908-1997) 

Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf (1857-1894) 

Hertzsprung, Ejnar (1873-1967) 

Herzberg, Gerhard (1904- ) 

Herzog, Bertram (1929- ) 

Hess, Germain Henri (1802-1850) 

Hess, Harry Hammond (1906-1969) 

Hess, Victor Francis (1883-1964) 

Hevelius, Johannes (1611-1687) 

Hevesy, Georg Karl von (1885-1966) 

Hewish, Anthony (1924- ) 

Hey, James Stanley (1909-2000) 

Heyrovský, Jaroslav (1890-1967) 

Hilbert, David (1862-1943) 

Hill, Archibald Vivian (1886-1977) 

Hill, Robert (1899-1991) 

Hinshelwood, Cyril Norman (1897-1967) 

Hinton, William Augustus (1883-1959) 

Hipparchus (c. 190-c. 120 BC) 

Hippocrates (c. 460-c. 377 BC) 

Hitchings, George Herbert (1905-1998) 

Hoagland, Mahlon Bush (1921- ) 

Hodgkin, Alan Lloyd (1914-1998 ) 

Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot (1910-1994) 

Hodgkin, Thomas (1798-1866) 

Hodgkinson, Eaton (1789-1861) 

Hoe, Richard March (1812-1886) 

Hofmann, August Wilhelm von (1818-1892) 

Hofstadter, Robert (1915-1990) 

Hogben, Lancelot Thomas (1895-1975) 

Hollerith, Herman (1860-1929) 

Nirenberg, Marshall Warren (1927- ) 

Holley, Robert William (1922-1993) 

Holmes, Arthur (1890-1965) 



Hooke, Robert (1635-1703) 

Hooker, Joseph Dalton (1817-1911) 

Hooker, Stanley George (1907-1984) 

Hopkins, Frederick Gowland (1861-1947) 

Hopper, Grace (1906-1992) 

Horrocks, Jeremiah (c.1617-1641) 

Hounsfield, Godfrey Newbold (1919- ) 

Howe, Elias (1819-1867) 

Hoyle, Fred(erick) (1915-2001) 

Hubble, Edwin Powell (1889-1953) 

Hubel, David Hunter (1926- ) 

Hückel, Erich Armand Arthur Joseph (1896-1980) 

Huggins, William (1824-1910) 

Humason, Milton Lasell (1891-1972) 

Humboldt, Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, Baron von (1769-1859) 

Hume-Rothery, William (1899-1968) 

Hunter, John (1728-1793) 

Hussey, Obed (1792-1860) 

Hutton, James (1726-1797) 

Huxley, Andrew Fielding (1917- ) 

Huxley, Andrew Fielding 

Huxley, Hugh Esmor (1924- ) 

Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-1895) 

Huygens, Christiaan (1629-1695) 

Hyatt, John Wesley (1837-1920) 

Hyman, Libbie Henrietta (1888-1969) 

Hypatia (c. 370-415) 

Ingenhousz, Jan (1730-1799) 

Ingold, Christopher (Kelk) (1893-1970) 

Ipatieff, Vladimir Nikolayevich (1867-1952) 

Isaacs, Alick (1921-1967) 

Issigonis, Alec (1906-1988) 

Jabir ibn Hayyan (c. 721-c. 815) 

Jacob, François (1920- ) 

Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jacob (1804-1851) 

Jacquard, Joseph Marie (1752-1834) 

Jansky, Karl Guthe (1905-1950) 

Janssen, Pierre Jules César (1824-1907) 

Jeans, James Hopwood (1877-1946) 

Jenner, Edward (1749-1823) 

Jensen, Johannes Hans Daniel (1907-1973) 

Jessop, William (1745-1814) 

Johannsen, Wilhelm Ludvig (1857-1927) 

Joliot, Jean Frédéric (1900-1958) 

Joliot-Curie, Irène (1897-1956) 

Jones, Harold Spencer (1890-1960) 

Jordan, Marie Ennemond Camille (1838-1922) 

Josephson, Brian David (1940- ) 

Joule, James Prescott (1818-1889) 

Joy, James Harrison (1882-1973) 

Julius, Ernst (1893-1985) 

Jung, Carl Gustav (1875-1961) 



Just, Ernest Everett (1833-1941) 

Kamerlingh Onnes, Heike (1853-1926) 

Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804) 

Kapitza, Peter Leonidovich (1894-1984) 

Kaplan, Viktor (1876-1934) 

Kapteyn, Jacobus Cornelius (1851-1922) 

Kármán, Theodore von (1881-1963) 

Karrer, Paul (1889-1971) 

Katz, Bernhard (1911- ) 

Kay, John (1704-c. 1780) 

Keeler, James Edward (1857-1900) 

Kekulé, Friedrich August von Stradonitz (1829-1896) 

Kelly, William (1811-1888) 

Kelvin, Lord Thomson, William (1824-1907) 

Kendall, Edward Calvin (1886-1972) 

Kendrew, John Cowdery (1917-1997) 

Kenyon, Joseph (1885-1961) 

Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630) 

Kerr, John (1824-1907) 

Kettlewell, Henry Bernard David (1907-1979) 

Khorana, Har Gobind (1922- ) 

Kimura, Motoo (1924- ) 

Kipping, Frederick Stanley (1863-1949) 

Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert (1824-1887) 

Kirkwood, Daniel (1814-1895) 

Kitasato, Shibasaburo (1852-1931) 

Klaproth, Martin Heinrich (1743-1817) 

Klein, Christian Felix (1849-1925) 

Klug, Aaron (1926- ) 

Knopf, Eleanora Frances Bliss (1883-1974) 

Koch, (Heinrich Hermann) Robert (1843-1910) 

Kolbe, Adolf Wilhelm Hermann (1818-1884) 

Kolmogorov, Andrey Nikolayevich (1903-1987) 

Kornberg, Arthur (1918- ) 

Kornberg, Hans Leo (1928- ) 

Korolev, Sergei Pavlovich (1906-1966) 

Kovalevskaya, Sofya Vasilevna (1850-1891) 

Krebs, Hans Adolf (1900-1981) 

Kronecker, Leopold (1823-1891) 

Kroto, Harold Walter (1939- ) 

Krupp, Alfred (1812-1887) 

Kuhn, Richard (1900-1967) 

Kuiper, Gerard Peter (1905-1973) 

Kummer, Ernst Eduard (1810-1893) 

Kundt, August Adolph (1839-1894) 

Kundt, August Adolph Eduard Eberhard (1839-1894) 

Lacaille, Nicolas Louis de (1713-1762) 

Laënnec, René Théophile Hyacinthe (1781-1826) 

Lagrange, Joseph Louis (Giuseppe Lodovico), Comte (1736-1813) 

Laithwaite, Eric Robert (1921- ) 

Lakatos, Imre (1922-1974) 

Lalande, Joseph Jérome le Français de (1732-1807) 



Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de (1744-1829) 

Lamb, Horace (1849-1934) 

Lanchester, Frederick William (1868-1946) 

Landau, Lev Davidovich (1908-1968) 

Landé, Alfred (1888-1976) 

Landsteiner, Karl (1868-1943) 

Langevin, Paul (1872-1946) 

Langmuir, Irving (1881-1957) 

Laplace, Pierre Simon Marquis de (1749-1827) 

Lapworth, Arthur (1872-1941) 

Latimer, Louis Howard (1848-1928) 

Laue, Max Theodor Felix von (1879-1960) 

Laveran, Charles Louis Alphonse (1845-1922) 

Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent (1743-1794) 

Lawrence, Ernest Orlando (1901-1958) 

Le Châtelier, Henri Louis (1850-1936) 

le Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph (1811-1877) 

Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett (1903-1972) 

Leakey, Mary Douglas (1913-1996) 

Leavitt, Henrietta Swan (1868-1921) 

Lebedev, Pyotr Nikolayevich (1866-1912) 

Lebesgue, Henri Léon (1875-1941) 

Leblanc, Nicolas (1742-1806) 

Lebon, Phillipe (1767-1804) 

Leclanché, Georges (1839-1882) 

Lederberg, Joshua (1925- ) 

Lee, Tsung Dao (1926- ) 

Leeuwenhoek, Anton van (1632-1723) 

Legendre, Adrien-Marie (1752-1833) 

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716) 

Leishman, William Boog (1865-1926) 

Lemaître, Georges Edouard (1894-1966) 

Lenard, Philipp Eduard Anton von (1862-1947) 

Lenoir, Jean Joseph Etienne (1822-1900) 

Lenz, Heinrich Friedrich Emil (1804-1865) 

Lesseps, Ferdinand Marie (1805-1894) 

Leverrier, Urbain Jean Joseph (1811-1877) 

Levi-Civita, Tullio (1873-1941) 

Levi-Montalcini, Rita (1909- ) 

Lewis, Gilbert Newton (1875-1946) 

Li Cho Hao (1913- ) 

Libby, Willard Frank (1908-1980) 

Lie, Marius Sophus (1842-1899) 

Liebig, Justus von (1803-1873) 

Lilienthal, Otto (1848-1896) 

Lindblad, Bertil (1895-1965) 

Lindemann, Carl Louis Ferdinand (1852-1939) 

Lindemann, Frederick Alexander (1886-1957) 

Linnaeus, Carolus (Carl von Linné 1707-1778) 

Linnett, John Wilfred (1913-1975) 

Liouville, Joseph (1809-1882) 

Lipschitz, Rudolf Otto Sigismund (1832-1903) 



Lipscomb, William Nunn (1919- ) 

Lissajous, Jules Antoine (1822-1880) 

Lister, Joseph (1827-1912) 

Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich (1792-1856) 

Locke, Joseph (1805-1860) 

Lockyer, Joseph Norman (1836-1920) 

Lodge, Oliver Joseph (1851-1940) 

Longuet-Higgins, Hugh Christopher (1923- ) 

Lonsdale, Kathleen (1903-1971) 

Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon (1853-1928) 

Lorenz, Konrad Zacharias (1903-1989) 

Lorenz, Ludwig Valentin (1829-1891) 

Lovelace, (Augusta) Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852) 

Lovell, Alfred Charles Bernard (1913- ) 

Lovelock, James Ephraim (1919- ) 

Lowell, Percival (1855-1916) 

Ludwig, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm (1816-1895) 

Lumière, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas (1862-1954 and Lumière, Louis Jean 1864-1948) 

Lummer, Otto Richard (1860-1925) 

Lwoff, André Michael (1902-1994) 

Lyell, Charles (1797-1875) 

Lyman, Theodore (1874-1954) 

Lynden-Bell, Donald (1935- ) 

Lynen, Feodor (Felix Konrad) (1911-1979) 

Lyot, Bernard Ferdinand (1897-1952) 

Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich (1898-1976) 

Lyttleton, Raymond Arthur (1911-1995) 

Maathai, Wangari Muta (1940- ) 

MacArthur, Robert Helmer (1930-1972) 

Mach, Ernst (1838-1916) 

Maclaurin, Colin (1698-1746) 

Magendie, François (1783-1855) 

Maiman, Theodore Harold (1927- ) 

Malpighi, Marcello (1628-1694) 

Malthus, Thomas Robert (1766-1834) 

Malus, Etienne Louis (1775-1812) 

Mandelbrot, Benoit B (1924- ) 

Mannesmann, Reinhard (1856-1922) 

Manson, Patrick (1844-1922) 

Marconi, Guglielmo (1874-1937) 

Margulis, Lynn Alexander (1938- ) 

Markov, Andrei Andreyevich (1856-1922) 

Martin, Archer John Porter (1910- ) 

Martin, James (1893-1981) 

Maskelyne, Nevil (1732-1811) 

Mästlin, Michael (1550-1631) 

Masursky, Harold (1922-1990) 

Mauchly, John William (1907-1980) 

Maudslay, Henry (1771-1831) 

Maury, Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira (1866-1952) 

Maury, Matthew Fontaine (1806-1873) 

Maxim, Hiram Stevens (1840-1916) 



Maxwell, James Clerk (1831-1879) 

Maybach, Wilhelm (1847-1929) 

Mayer, Christian (1719-1783) 

Mayer, Johann Tobias (1723-1762) 

Mayer, Julius Robert von (1814-1878) 

McAdam, John Loudon (1756-1836) 

McBain, James William (1882-1953) 

McClintock, Barbara (1902-1992) 

McCollum, Elmer Verner (1879-1967) 

McCormick, Cyrus Hall (1809-1884) 

McCoy, Elijah (1843-1929) 

McCrea, William Hunter (1904- ) 

McNaught, William (1813-1881) 

Mead, Margaret (1901-1978) 

Mechnikov, Ilya (Elie) Ilich (1845-1916) 

Medawar, Peter Brian (1915-1987) 

Meitner, Lise (1878-1968) 

Mellanby, Kenneth (1908-1993) 

Mendel, Gregor Johann (1822-1884) 

Mendeleyev, Dmitri Ivanovich (1834-1907) 

Menzel, Donald Howard (1901-1976) 

Mercator, Gerardus (1512-1594) 

Mergenthaler, Ottomar (1854-1899) 

Meselson, Matthew Stanley (1930- ) 

Messerschmitt, Willy Emil (1898-1978) 

Messier, Charles (1730-1817) 

Metchnikoff, Elie (1845-1916) 

Meyer, Julius Lothar (1830-1895) 

Meyer, Viktor (1848-1897) 

Meyerhof, Otto Fritz (1884-1951) 

Michelson, Albert Abraham (1852-1931) 

Midgley, Thomas (1889-1944) 

Miller, Stanley Lloyd (1930- ) 

Millikan, Robert Andrews (1868-1953) 

Mills, William Hobson (1873-1959) 

Milne, Edward Arthur (1896-1950) 

Milstein, César (1927-2002) 

Minkowski, Hermann (1864-1909) 

Minkowski, Rudolph Leo (1895-1976) 

Mises, Richard von (1883-1953) 

Mitchell, Maria (1818-1889) 

Mitchell, Peter Dennis (1920-1992) 

Mitchell, Reginald Joseph (1895-1937) 

Mitscherlich, Eilhard (1794-1863) 

Möbius, August Ferdinand (1790-1868) 

Mohs, Friedrich (1773-1839) 

Moivre, Abraham de (1667-1754) 

Mond, Ludwig (1839-1909) 

Monge, Gaspard (1746-1818) 

Monod, Jacques Lucien (1910-1976) 

Montgolfier, Jacques Etiènne (1745-1799) 

Montgolfier, Joseph Michel (1740-1810) 



Moore, Patrick (Alfred Caldwell) (1923- ) 

Morgagni, Giovanni Battista (1682-1771) 

Morgan, Ann Haven (1882-1966) 

Morgan, Garrett A (1875-1963) 

Morgan, Thomas Hunt (1866-1945) 

Morley, Edward Williams (1838-1923) 

Morris, Desmond John (1928- ) 

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese (1791-1872) 

Morton, William Thomas Green (1819-1868) 

Moseley, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys (1887-1915) 

Mössbauer, Rudolf Ludwig (1929- ) 

Mott, Nevill Francis (1905-1996) 

Mottelson, Ben Roy (1926- ) 

Muir, Thomas (1844-1934) 

Muller, Hermann Joseph (1890-1967) 

Müller, Johannes (1436-1476) 

Müller, Paul Hermann (1899-1965) 

Murchinson, Roderick Impey (1792-1871) 

Murchison, Charlotte (née Hugonin) (1788-1869) 

Murdock, William (1754-1839) 

Nagell, Trygve (1895-1988) 

Napier, John (1550-1617) 

Nasmyth, James (1808-1890) 

Nathans, Daniel (1928- ) 

Natta, Giulio (1903-1979) 

Needham, Joseph (1900-1995) 

Nernst, Hermann Walther (1864-1941) 

Neugebauer, Gerald (1932- ) 

Newcomb, Simon (1835-1909) 

Newcomen, Thomas (1663-1729) 

Newlands, John Alexander Reina (1837-1898) 

Newton, Isaac (1642-1727) 

Nice, Margaret Morse (1883-1974) 

Nicol, William (1768-1851) 

Nirenberg, Marshall Warren 

Nobel, Alfred Bernhard (1833-1896) 

Nobili, Leopoldo (1784-1835) 

Noether, Amalie Emmy (1882-1935) 

Noether, Max (1844-1921) 

Norrish, Ronald George Wreyford (1897-1978) 

Nüsslein-Volhard, Christiane (1942- ) 

Nyholm, Ronald Sydney (1917-1971) 

Ochoa, Severo (1905-1993) 

Oersted, Hans Christian (1777-1851) 

Ohm, Georg Simon (1789-1854) 

Olbers, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus (1758-1840) 

Onnes, Heike Kamerlingh (1853-1926) 

Onsager, Lars (1903-1976) 

Oort, Jan Hendrik (1900-1992) 

Oparin, Alexandr Ivanovich (1894-1980) 

Öpik, Ernst Julius (1893-1985) 

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert (1904-1967) 



Oppolzer, Theodor Egon Ritter von (1841-1886) 

Ore, Oystein (1899-1968) 

Osborn, Henry Fairfield (1857-1935) 

Ostwald, Friedrich Wilhelm (1853-1932) 

Otis, Elisha Graves (1811-1861) 

Otto, Nikolaus August (1832-1891) 

Owen, Richard (1804-1892) 

Paget, James (1814-1899) 

Paneth, Friedrich Adolf (1887-1958) 

Papin, Denis (1647-c. 1712) 

Pappus of Alexandria (lived c. AD 300-350) 

Paracelsus, Philippus Aureolus (1493-1541) 

Paré, Ambroise (1509-1590) 

Parsons, Charles Algernon (1854-1931) 

Parsons, William (1800-1867) 

Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662) 

Pasteur, Louis (1822-1895) 

Pauli, Wolfgang (1900-1958) 

Pauling, Linus Carl (1901-1994) 

Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich (1849-1936) 

Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena (1900-1979) 

Peano, Giuseppe (1858-1932) 

Pearson, Karl (1857-1936) 

Peierls, Rudolf Ernst (1907-1995) 

Pelletier, Pierre-Joseph (1788-1842) 

Pelton, Lester Allen (1829-1918) 

Pennington, Mary Engle (1872-1952) 

Pennycuick, Colin James (1933- ) 

Penrose, Roger (1931- ) 

Penzias, Arno Allan (1933- ) 

Peregrinus, Petrus (born c. 1220) 

Perkin, William Henry (1838-1907) 

Perrin, Jean Baptiste (1870-1942) 

Perutz, Max Ferdinand (1914-2002) 

Petit, Alexis-Thérèse (1791-1820) 

Pfeffer, Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp (1845-1920) 

Piaget, Jean (1896-1980) 

Piazzi, Giuseppe (1749-1826) 

Picard, Charles Emile (1856-1941) 

Pickering, Edward Charles (1846-1919) 

Pippard, (Alfred) Brian (1920- ) 

Pixii, Hippolyte (1808-1835) 

Planck, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig (1858-1947) 

Plaskett, John Stanley (1865-1941) 

Plato (c. 420-340 BC) 

Pliny, Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23-79) 

Plücker, Julius (1801-1868) 

Poincaré, Jules Henri (1854-1912) 

Poiseuille, Jean Léonard Marie (1799-1869) 

Poisson, Siméon-Denis (1781-1840) 

Polanyi, Michael (1891-1976) 

Pólya, George (1887-1985) 



Poncelet, Jean-Victor (1788-1867) 

Pond, John (1767-1836) 

Pons, Jean-Louis (1761-1831) 

Porsche, Ferdinand (1875-1951) 

Porter, George (1920- ) 

Porter, Rodney Robert (1917-1985) 

Powell, Cecil Frank (1903-1969) 

Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902) 

Poynting, John Henry (1852-1914) 

Prandtl, Ludwig (1875-1953) 

Prelog, Vladimir (1906-1998) 

Prévost, Pierre (1751-1839) 

Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804) 

Prigogine, Ilya (1917-2003) 

Pringsheim, Ernst (1859-1917) 

Proust, Joseph Louis (1754-1826) 

Prout, William (1785-1850) 

Prusiner, Stanley Ben (1942- ) 

Ptolemy, (Claudius Ptolemaeus) (lived AD 2nd century) 

Purkinje, Jan Evangelista (1787-1869) 

Pye, John David (1932- ) 

Pyman, Frank Lee (1882-1944) 

Pythagoras (lived c. 530 BC) 

Quetelet, (Lambert) Adolphe (Jacques) (1796-1874) 

Rainwater, (Leo) James (1917-1986) 

Raman, Chandrasekhara Venkata (1888-1970) 

Ramanujan, Srinavasa Ayengar (1887-1920) 

Ramón y Cajal, Santiago (1852-1934) 

Ramsay, William (1852-1919) 

Rankine, William John Macquorn (1820-1872) 

Ray, John (1627-1705) 

Rayet, George Antoine Pons (1839-1906) 

Rayleigh, Lord John William Strutt; (1842-1919) 

Reber, Grote (1911- ) 

Redman, Roderick Oliver (1905-1975) 

Regnault, Henri Victor (1810-1878) 

Remington, Philo (1816-1889) 

Reynolds, Osborne (1842-1912) 

Ricardo, Harry Ralph (1885-1974) 

Ricci-Curbastro, Gregorio (1853-1925) 

Richards, Theodore William (1868-1928) 

Richter, Burton (1931- ) 

Ricketts, Howard Taylor (1871-1910) 

Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard (1826-1866) 

Ritter, Johann Wilhelm (1776-1810) 

Roberts, Richard (1789-1864) 

Robertson, Robert (1869-1949) 

Robinson, Robert (1886-1975) 

Roe, Alliot Verdon (1877-1958) 

Romer, Alfred Sherwood (1894-1973) 

Römer, Ole (or Olaus) Christensen (1644-1710) 

Röntgen, Wilhelm Konrad (1845-1923) 



Ross, Ronald (1857-1932) 

Roux, Wilhelm (1850-1924) 

Rowland, Henry Augustus (1848-1901) 

Royce, Frederick Henry (1863-1933) 

Ruffini, Paolo (1765-1822) 

Rühmkorff, Heinrich Daniel (1803-1877) 

Rumford, Count Benjamin Thompson; (1753-1814) 

Russell, Bertrand Arthur William (1872-1970) 

Russell, Frederick Stratten (1897-1984) 

Russell, Henry Norris (1877-1957) 

Rutherford, Ernest (1871-1937) 

Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris (1816-1892) 

Rydberg, Johannes Robert (1854-1919) 

Ryle, Martin (1918-1984) 

Sabatier, Paul (1854-1941) 

Sabin, Albert Bruce (1906-1993) 

Sabin, Florence Rena (1871-1953) 

Sabine, Edward (1788-1883) 

Sagan, Carl Edward (1934-1996) 

Saha, Meghnad (1893-1956) 

Saint-Claire Deville, Henri Etienne (1818-1881) 

Sakharov, Andrei Dmitriyevich (1921-1989) 

Salam, Abdus (1926-1996) 

Salk, Jonas Edward (1914-1995) 

Sanger, Frederick (1918- ) 

Savery, Thomas (c. 1650-1715) 

Scheele, Karl Wilhelm (1742-1786) 

Scheiner, Christoph (1573-1650) 

Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio (1835-1910) 

Schleiden, Matthias Jakob (1804-1881) 

Schmidt, Bernhard Voldemar (1879-1935) 

Schoenheimer, Rudolf (1898-1941) 

Schramm, David (1945-1997) 

Schrödinger, Erwin (1887-1961) 

Schwabe, Samuel Heinrich (1789-1875) 

Schwann, Theodor (1810-1882) 

Schwarzschild, Karl (1873-1916) 

Schwarzschild, Martin (1912-1997) 

Scott, Peter Markham (1909-1989) 

Seaborg, Glenn Theodore (1912-1999) 

Secchi, Pietro Angelo (1818-1878) 

Sedgwick, Adam (1785-1873) 

Segrè, Emilio Gino (1905-1989) 

Seguin, Marc (1786-1875) 

Seki Kowa (c.1642-1708) 

Semenov, Nikolay Nikolayevich (1896-1986) 

Seyfert, Carl Keenan (1911-1960) 

Shannon, Claude Elwood (1916- ) 

Shapley, Harlow (1885-1972) 

Sharpey-Schafer, Edward Albert (1850-1935) 

Shaw, William Napier (1854-1945) 

Sherrington, Charles Scott (1857-1952) 



Shockley, William Bradford 

Shrapnel, Henry (1761-1842) 

Sidgewick, Nevil Vincent (1873-1952) 

Siemens, Ernst Werner von (1816-1892) 

Sikorsky, Igor Ivan (1889-1972) 

Simon, Franz Eugen (1893-1956) 

Simpson, George Clark (1878-1965) 

Simpson, George Gaylord (1902-1984) 

Simpson, James Young (1811-1870) 

Simpson, Thomas (1710-1761) 

Singer, Isaac Merrit (1811-1875) 

Skinner, Burrhus Frederic (1904-1990) 

Skolem, Thoralf Albert (1887-1963) 

Slipher, Vesto Melvin (1875-1969) 

Smalley, Richard E(rrett) (1943- ) 

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