Science
Discover a comprehensive list of notable figures who have made significant contributions to the field of science. From Albert Einstein to Marie Curie, explore the lives and accomplishments of these renowned scientists who have shaped our understanding of the world.

Emanuel Caner
Soviet theoretical physicist

Feng Youlan
China
ChinaChinese philosopher, historian of Chinese philosophy

Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr
USA
USAAmerican computer scientist

Sergey Adyan
Armenia
ArmeniaRussian mathematician, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Jakob Laurenz Sonderegger
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss physician and hygienist.

Herzen Kopylov
Russian physicist, dissident

William Pikering
USA
USAAmerican physicist, engineer who led the creation of the first American artificial Earth satellite.

William LILY
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish grammar

Desiderius Erasmus
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch humanist scientist, writer, philologist, theologian, and the most prominent representative of the Northern Renaissance.

Jacques Cassini
France
FranceFrench astronomer

Rudolf Kopke
Germany
GermanyHistorian, teacher at one of the Berlin gymnasiums.

Gertrude Caton–Thompson
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish female archaeologist.

Sven Yrvind
Sweden
SwedenSwedish engineer, writer, inventor and navigator

Alexey Petrov
Ukraine
UkraineSoviet mathematician and theoretical physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR

Clas Alstromer
Sweden
SwedenSwedish naturalist, botanist, industrialist and philanthropist

Alexander Vovin
USA
USAAmerican linguist

Ahmad Jafaroglu
Turkey
TurkeyA renowned Turkologist, professor at Istanbul University

Philip Kiva
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian industrialist, grandson of Ilya Kiva

Carl Abraham Clewberg
Sweden
SwedenSwedish linguist

Henry Gleason
USA
USAAmerican botanist, geobotanist, ecologist

Robert Maynard Hutchins
USA
USAAmerican educational philosopher

Robert Holley
USA
USANobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1968, jointly with Har Gobind Korana and Marshall W. Nirenberg

Vladimir Remek
The first Czechoslovakian cosmonaut, the first person in space who was not a citizen of the USSR or the USA.

Alberto De Stefani
Italy
ItalyEconomist, politician of Italy

Gaius Sallustius Crispus
Greece
GreeceAncient Roman historian, reformer of ancient historiography, who had a significant influence on Tacitus and other historians.

Jean Emmanuel Gilibert
France
FranceFrench physician, botanist and biologist.

Henryk Grossmann
Poland
PolandPolish Marxist economist.

Yaroslav Gritsak
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian historian and publicist

Uiliam Lipskomb
USA
USAAmerican physical chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1976

Motiejus Gustaitis
Lithuania
LithuaniaLithuanian poet, translator, literary scholar; Catholic priest, teacher

Franz Boas
USA
USAAmerican anthropologist, linguist and naturalist

Svetlana Krylova
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian philosopher, writer, psychoanalyst

Eileen Barker
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish scientist, sociologist

Hannah Arendt
Germany
GermanyFamous German and American historian and philosopher

Ronald Inglehart
USA
USAAmerican political scientist, professor at the University of Michigan, researching the World Values Survey

Alan Lightman
USA
USAAmerican physicist, essayist and writer

Arno Peters
Germany
GermanyGerman explorer and thinker, geographer, historian, economist and humanist

Randall D. Wright
Canada
CanadaCanadian scientist, macroeconomist.

Emil Erlenmeyer
Germany
GermanyGerman scientist, organic chemist, synthesized isobutyric acid

Brandon Carter
Great Britain
Great BritainCosmologist and astrophysicist

Alexander Bogorodsky
Soviet astronomer

Vitaliy Zelkovskiy
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian design engineer and traveler

Viktor Grigorovich
Ukraine
UkraineFamous Slavist

George Dantzig
USA
USAAmerican mathematician

Edward Dimock Jr.
USA
USAAmerican Indologist

Nicolas Antonio
Spain
SpainSpanish bibliographer

Aleksandr Brikner
Germany
GermanyRussian historian

Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Germany
GermanyGerman economist.

Nikolay Copernicus
Poland
PolandPolish astronomer, creator of the heliocentric system of the world, philosopher, physician

Joseph Louis Lagrange
France
FranceFrench mathematician and mechanic, foreign honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences