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.

Gary S. Gensler

USA

American economist and financier

Hermann Staudinger

Germany

German chemist, awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Zac Sunderland

USA

The youngest American athlete to travel solo around the world

Ronald W. Langacker

USA

American linguist

Stephanie Kwolek

USA

American chemist, inventor of polyparaphenylene terephthalamide

Albert Coombs Barnes

USA

American physician, inventor and collector

George Macaulay Trevelyan

Great Britain

British historian

Frederick Irving Herzberg

USA

American psychologist

Friedrich Schelling

Germany

German philosopher

Commoner Barry

USA

American biologist and ecologist

Hilja Riipinen

Finland

Finnish teacher, writer, publicist, political figure

Edmund Melson Clarke Jr.

USA

American computer scientist

Andre Mary Amper

France

French scientist, foreign member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Constructed the first theory of magnetism

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

France

French economist and statesman

Karel Koristka

Czech

Czech surveyor and geographer.

Leonid Zaliznyak

Ukraine

Soviet and Ukrainian archaeologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor

Emile Amagat

France

French physicist, member of the Paris Academy of Sciences

Antonio Cagnoli

Italy

Italian astronomer.

Michael Francis Atiyah

Great Britain

English mathematician.

Vilhelm Thomsen

Denmark

Danish linguist

Oscar Wisting

Norway

Norwegian polar explorer

Edward C. Stone

USA

American physicist, specialist in the field of astronautics

Harold Kroto

Great Britain

British chemist

Charles Frederick Manski

USA

Scientist, economist

Robert Holley

USA

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1968, jointly with Har Gobind Korana and Marshall W. Nirenberg

George Gallup

USA

The founder of modern methods of public opinion polling

Ernst Faber

Germany

German missionary, sinologist and botanist

Petr Bogatyrev

Soviet folklorist, ethnographer, translator

Simon Okolskiy

Poland

Historian, herald, compiler of the Polish armorial

Bernard Vonnegut

USA

American meteorologist and chemist, professor of meteorology, inventor

Genry Dreper

USA

American astronomer, member of the US National Academy of Sciences. Pioneer of the widespread use of astronomy in the United States

Mose Janashvili

Georgia

Georgian historian, philologist, teacher.

Levan Gokieli

Georgian mathematician and philosopher

Theodor Benfey

Germany

German philologist, Sanskritist

Bronislav Kuznetsov

Soviet orientalist, Tibetologist

Henry Way Kendall

USA

American physicist

Gamlet Isahanlu

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijani mathematician, poet

George Don

Great Britain

19th century Scottish botanist and plant collector.

James Williams Gidley

USA

American paleontologist and zoologist

Arne Tiselius

Sweden

Chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1948.

Vyacheslav Voloshin

Ukraine

Ukrainian scientist, professor

Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin

France

French chemist and pharmacist

Zellig Sabbettai Harris

USA

American linguist

Charles Sarzhent

USA

American botanist.

John Ray

Great Britain

English biologist

Terri Irwin

USA

American naturalist, author, widow of Australian naturalist Steve Irwin

Douglas McGregor

USA

American scientist and teacher, professor of management

Francois Jullien

France

French philosopher, sinologist, translator of Chinese philosophy.

Jakob Friedrich Fries

Germany

German philosopher, physicist and mathematician.

Charles Plumie

France

French botanist.