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.

Ruben Avanesov
Soviet linguist

Napoleon Hill
USA
USAAuthor of the formula for success

Gerty Cori
USA
USANobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1947, jointly with Carl F. Cori and Bernardo Usai

Eugenio Beltrami
Italy
ItalyItalian mathematician

Jan Julius Lodewijk Duyvendak
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch sinologist, historian of political thought, religious scholar

Frederik Raynes
USA
USAAmerican physicist, professor, Nobel Prize laureate in physics (1995) for the discovery of neutrinos.

Adam Kapanov
Kazakhstan
KazakhstanWriter, journalist, director, philanthropist, candidate of biological sciences

Alexander Bennigsen
France
FranceFrench orientalist and sovietologist

Giovanna Borradori
Italy
ItalyItalian philosopher, professor

Eduard Gorn
Hungary
HungaryHungarian rabbi, politician, economist and statistician of Jewish origin.

Mark Bittman
USA
USAAmerican chef, writer, journalist

Gerrit Kalff
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch literary historian

Yuriy Averyanov
Uzbekistan
UzbekistanRussian scientist, candidate of philosophical sciences

Auguste Laurent
France
FranceFrench organic chemist

Douglas North
USA
USAAmerican economist, specialist in economic history, Nobel Prize laureate.

Nicolas Antonio
Spain
SpainSpanish bibliographer

Hendrik Casimir
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch physicist

Alan Turing
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish mathematician who created modern computers

Viktor Matrosov
Russia
RussiaRussian scientist, mathematician, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2000), Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2008).

Edwin Krebs
USA
USAAmerican biochemist

Domenico Felice Antonio Cotugno
Italy
ItalyItalian anatomist and physician.

Alfred Lothar Wegener
Germany
GermanyGerman geologist and meteorologist

Osip Baranetsky
Botanist, professor of botany at Kiev University

Johan Widekindi
Sweden
SwedenSwedish historian, royal historiographer

Van Jones
USA
USAAmerican political scientist, media personality, lawyer, author and civil rights advocate

William Astbury
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish physicist, molecular biologist

Henri Gouraud
France
FranceFrench general, participant in the colonial wars in Africa

Alfred Werner
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss chemist, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry (1913).

Claus Mebius
Germany
GermanyGerman mathematician who established the existence of one-sided surfaces (the Mobius strip).

Graziadio Ascoli
Italy
ItalyItalian linguist.

George Shull
USA
USAAmerican botanist, geneticist, publisher and editor.

Semen Volfkovich
Soviet chemist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Henri Bergson
France
FranceFrench idealist philosopher winner of the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature

Christian Graf von Krockow
Germany
GermanyGerman political scientist and writer.

Robert Anthony
USA
USAAuthor of books on motivation

David James Davies
Great Britain
Great BritainWelsh political activist, economist, author

Zurab Avalishvili
Georgia
GeorgiaGeorgian historian, diplomat and lawyer

Robert Fogel
USA
USAAmerican economist

Temple Grandin
USA
USAAmerican scientist, professor at Colorado State University, author of several best-selling books, animal behavior specialist and consultant

Kunihiko Kodaira
Japan
JapanJapanese mathematician

William Edwards Deming
USA
USAAmerican scientist, economist

John Eatwell
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish economist.

Petr Pallas
Germany
GermanyNaturalist, geographer and traveller, doctor of medicine (1760)

Oleg Gutsulyak
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian writer, cultural scientist, philosopher

Muzafer Sherif
Turkey
TurkeyTurkish psychologist

Alishan Ghevont
Armenia
ArmeniaArmenian poet, philologist and historian.

Gustav Cohn
Germany
GermanyGerman political economist.

Robert Keil
Germany
GermanyGerman literary historian.

Ivan Meshanov
Russian linguist

Wangari Maathai
Kenya
KenyaKenyan ecologist, professor, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2004