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.

Henry Buckle

Great Britain

English historian

Joseph Kryvelev

Soviet religious scholar, biblical scholar, specialist in the history of Judaism and Christianity

Tommi Dreik

USA

Lone navigator, descendant of the famous pirate

Yakov Margeret

France

The author of a famous work about Russia during the Time of Troubles

Fritz Zwicky

USA

Swiss-born American astronomer

Jean-Baptiste Biot

France

French scientist, physicist, surveyor and astronomer

Zhang Heng

China

Chinese astronomer, mathematician, geographer, inventor, artist, poet, literary critic and statesman

Walter Brattayn

USA

American physicist. Discovered (1948) together with J. BARDIN the transistor effect and created the first transistor. Nobel Prize Laureate

Vladimir Zhedenov

Russia

Soviet morphologist, doctor of biological sciences, professor.

Gerty Cori

USA

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

Willem Johan Kolff

USA

Pioneer of hemodialysis and the creation of artificial organs

Ronald Ross

Great Britain

Indian physician and parasitologist of Scottish origin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1902.

Jabir Ibn Aflah

Muslim astronomer and mathematician

Vladimir Betz

Dive

Professor of Anatomy

Pierre Duhem

France

French physicist, mathematician, philosopher and historian of science

Norbert Wiener

USA

American scientist, outstanding mathematician and philosopher,

Manuela Ferreira Leite

Portugal

Portuguese economist and politician

Andrew Matthews

Australia

An Australian psychologist and artist, he instantly became one of the most popular authors in Russia in 2007.

Joan Robinson

Great Britain

Post-Keysian economist originally from England

Sergey Ablameiko

Belarus

Belarusian mathematician

Harold Spencer Jones

Great Britain

English astronomer

Stanislav Grabskiy

Poland

Polish economist, politician and statesman.

Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati

India

Indian economist and professor of economics and law at Columbia University

Kirill Ogorodnikov

Russia

Soviet astronomer.

Samuel King Allison

USA

American physicist

Stanley Jungleib

USA

American musician, philosopher, writer, inventor and entrepreneur

Robert Wood

USA

American physicist, "experimental genius", specialist in physical optics, honorary member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Antun Vrancic

Hungary

Hungarian bishop, writer, historian and diplomat of Croatian origin.

Nikola Tesla

USA

Physicist, greatest inventor

Fedor Kaputskiy

Belarus

Belarusian chemist

German Joseph Muller

USA

American geneticist, student of Thomas Hunt Morgan, Nobel Prize winner in physiology or medicine (1946).

Reg Revans

Great Britain

British scientist, specialist in control theory

Brian Edward Cox

Great Britain

English physicist

Petr Bitsilli

Ukraine

Russian scientist, historian.

Paul Muller

Switzerland

Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine 1948

Andrew Halsey

Great Britain

British solo traveler

Anatoliy Gorsky

Soviet historian, professor of the Faculty of History at Moscow State University

Wilibald Besser

Austria

Austrian and Russian botanist and entomologist, doctor of medicine and professor of botany

Erik Laksman

Switzerland

Finnish-Swiss traveler

Sven Yrvind

Sweden

Swedish engineer, writer, inventor and navigator

Johan Huizinga

Netherlands

Historian

Martin Wilhelm Kutta

Germany

German mathematician

Wallace Broecker

USA

American geologist and climatologist

Louis Meriveter

USA

American traveler.

Georgiy Gerovsky

Carpatho-Russian linguist, ethnographer, teacher

Daniel Nathans

USA

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1978, jointly with Werner Arber and Hamilton O. Smith

Martin-Genrih Klaprot

Germany

German chemist

Petr Brounov

Russian geographer and meteorologist

Giovanni Dosi

Italy

Italian economist

Daniil Zabolotny

Ukraine

Microbiologist and epidemiologist, one of the founders of scientific epidemiology in the USSR