| Name | Nationality | Date of Birth | Date of Death |
|---|
| Abdul Qadeer Khan |
Pakistani |
April 1, 1936 |
|
| Abdus Salam |
Pakistani |
January 29, 1936 |
November 21, 1996 |
| Abraham Pais |
Dutch |
May 19, 1918 |
August 4, 2000 |
| Adam Sedgwick |
British |
March 22, 1785 |
January 27, 1873 |
| Alan Kay |
American |
May 17, 1940 |
|
| Alan Perlis |
American |
April 1, 1922 |
February 7, 1990 |
| Albert Claude |
Belgian |
August 24, 1899 |
May 22, 1983 |
| Albert Hofmann |
Swiss |
January 11, 1906 |
April 29, 2008 |
| Albert Szent-Gyorgyi |
Hungarian |
September 16, 1893 |
October 22, 1986 |
| Alexander Fleming |
English |
August 6, 1881 |
March 11, 1955 |
| Alexis Carrel |
French |
June 28, 1873 |
November 5, 1944 |
| Alfred Day Hershey |
American |
December 4, 1908 |
May 22, 1997 |
| Alfred Kinsey |
American |
June 23, 1894 |
August 25, 1956 |
| Alfred Korzybski |
Polish |
June 3, 1879 |
March 1, 1950 |
| Alfred L. Kroeber |
American |
June 11, 1876 |
October 5, 1960 |
| Alfred Nobel |
Swedish |
October 21, 1833 |
December 10, 1896 |
| Alfred Russel Wallace |
British |
January 8, 1823 |
November 7, 1913 |
| Alice Hamilton |
American |
February 27, 1869 |
September 22, 1970 |
| Alister Hardy |
British |
February 10, 1896 |
May 22, 1985 |
| Andrew Taylor Still |
American |
1828 |
1917 |
| Andrew Weil |
American |
June 8, 1942 |
|
| Anita Borg |
American |
January 17, 1949 |
April 6, 2003 |
| Annie Jump Cannon |
American |
December 11, 1863 |
April 13, 1941 |
| Antoine Lavoisier |
French |
August 26, 1743 |
May 8, 1794 |
| Antonie van Leeuwenhoek |
Dutch |
1632 |
1723 |
| Antony Hewish |
British |
May 11, 1924 |
|
| Arno Penzias |
American |
April 26, 1933 |
|
| Arthur Caplan |
American |
|
|
| Arthur Eddington |
British |
December 28, 1882 |
November 22, 1944 |
| Arthur H. Compton |
American |
September 10, 1892 |
March 15, 1962 |
| Arthur Holly Compton |
American |
September 10, 1892 |
March 15, 1962 |
| Arthur Keith |
Scottish |
February 5, 1866 |
January 7, 1955 |
| Arvid Carlsson |
Swedish |
January 25, 1923 |
|
| Asa Gray |
American |
November 18, 1810 |
January 30, 1888 |
| Ashley Montagu |
English |
June 28, 1905 |
November 26, 1999 |
| Barbara McClintock |
American |
June 16, 1902 |
September 2, 1992 |
| Barney Oliver |
|
March 31, 1909 |
November 23, 1995 |
| Barry Commoner |
American |
May 28, 1917 |
|
| Ben Shneiderman |
American |
August 21, 1947 |
|
| Benjamin Banneker |
American |
November 9, 1731 |
October 9, 1806 |
| Benjamin Rush |
American |
December 24, 1745 |
April 19, 1813 |
| Benjamin Spock |
American |
May 2, 1903 |
March 15, 1998 |
| Benjamin Whorf |
American |
April 24, 1897 |
July 26, 1941 |
| Bernard Katz |
German |
March 26, 1911 |
April 20, 2003 |
| Bjarne Stroustrup |
Danish |
December 30, 1950 |
|
| Bjorn Lomborg |
Danish |
January 6, 1965 |
|
| Bob Metcalfe |
American |
April 7, 1946 |
|
| Bram Cohen |
American |
1975 |
|
| Brian Behlendorf |
American |
March 30, 1973 |
|
| Bronislaw Malinowski |
Polish |
April 7, 1884 |
May 16, 1942 |
| Bruce Schneier |
American |
January 15, 1963 |
|
| Bruno Rossi |
Italian |
April 13, 1905 |
November 21, 1993 |
| Burt Rutan |
American |
June 17, 1943 |
|
| Burton Richter |
American |
March 22, 1931 |
|
| Carl D. Anderson |
American |
September 3, 1905 |
January 11, 1991 |
| Carl Sagan |
American |
November 9, 1934 |
December 20, 1996 |
| Carl Zeiss |
German |
September 11, 1816 |
December 3, 1888 |
| Carolus Linnaeus |
Swedish |
May 23, 1707 |
January 10, 1778 |
| Charles Brenton Huggins |
Canadian |
September 22, 1901 |
January 12, 1997 |
| Charles Darwin |
English |
February 12, 1809 |
April 19, 1882 |
| Charles Davenport |
American |
June 1, 1866 |
February 18, 1944 |
| Charles Francis Richter |
American |
April 26, 1900 |
April 20, 1985 |
| Charles Jules Henry Nicole |
|
1866 |
1936 |
| Charles R. Anderson |
|
|
|
| Charles Richet |
French |
August 26, 1850 |
December 4, 1935 |
| Charles Richter |
American |
April 26, 1900 |
April 20, 1985 |
| Charles Scott Sherrington |
British |
November 27, 1857 |
March 4, 1952 |
| Christiaan Barnard |
South African |
November 8, 1922 |
September 2, 2001 |
| Claude Levi-Strauss |
French |
November 28, 1908 |
|
| Cleveland Abbe |
American |
December 3, 1838 |
December 29, 1916 |
| Cliff Shaw |
American |
|
|
| Clifford Geertz |
American |
August 23, 1926 |
October 30, 2006 |
| Clyde Tombaugh |
American |
February 4, 1906 |
January 17, 1997 |
| Cyril Clarke |
British |
August 22, 1907 |
November 22, 2000 |
| Cyril Ponnamperuma |
|
October 16, 1923 |
December 20, 1994 |
| Dan Farmer |
American |
April 5, 1962 |
|
| Daniel Nathans |
American |
October 30, 1928 |
November 16, 1999 |
| Dave Parnas |
American |
February 10, 1941 |
|
| Dave Winer |
American |
May 2, 1955 |
|
| David Baltimore |
American |
March 7, 1938 |
|
| David Bohm |
American |
December 20, 1917 |
October 27, 1992 |
| David Deutsch |
|
1953 |
|
| David Ferrier |
Scottish |
1843 |
1924 |
| David Gill |
Scottish |
June 12, 1843 |
January 24, 1914 |
| David Kay |
American |
1940 |
|
| David Rittenhouse |
American |
April 8, 1732 |
June 26, 1796 |
| David Suzuki |
Canadian |
March 24, 1936 |
|
| Davidson Black |
Canadian |
1884 |
1934 |
| Dennis Gabor |
Hungarian |
January 5, 1900 |
February 9, 1979 |
| Dennis Ritchie |
American |
September 9, 1941 |
|
| Derek Harold Richard Barton |
British |
September 8, 1918 |
March 16, 1998 |
| Desmond Morris |
English |
January 24, 1928 |
|
| Dian Fossey |
American |
January 16, 1932 |
December 26, 1985 |
| Diane Douglas |
|
|
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| Dmitri Mendeleev |
Russian |
February 8, 1834 |
February 2, 1907 |
| Donald Cram |
American |
April 22, 1919 |
June 17, 2001 |
| Donald Johanson |
American |
June 28, 1943 |
|
| Donald Knuth |
American |
January 10, 1938 |
|
| Donald Norman |
American |
|
|
| Drew Endy |
American |
|
|
| E. O. Wilson |
American |
June 10, 1929 |
|
| Edmond H. Fischer |
Swiss |
April 6, 1920 |
|
| Edmond Halley |
English |
October 29, 1656 |
January 14, 1742 |
| Edmund Leach |
British |
November 7, 1910 |
January 6, 1989 |
| Edsger Dijkstra |
Dutch |
May 11, 1930 |
August 6, 2002 |
| Edward Appleton |
English |
September 6, 1892 |
April 21, 1965 |
| Edward Bach |
English |
September 24, 1886 |
November 27, 1936 |
| Edward Burnett Tylor |
English |
October 2, 1832 |
January 2, 1917 |
| Edward E. Barnard |
American |
December 16, 1857 |
February 6, 1923 |
| Edward Felten |
American |
March 25, 1963 |
|
| Edward Forbes |
British |
February 12, 1815 |
November 18, 1854 |
| Edward Jenner |
English |
May 17, 1749 |
January 26, 1823 |
| Edward Lawrie Tatum |
American |
December 14, 1909 |
November 5, 1975 |
| Edward M. Purcell |
American |
August 30, 1912 |
March 7, 1997 |
| Edward Sapir |
American |
January 26, 1884 |
February 4, 1939 |
| Edward T. Hall |
American |
May 16, 1914 |
|
| Edwin Powell Hubble |
American |
November 20, 1889 |
September 28, 1953 |
| Elizabeth Blackwell |
American |
February 3, 1821 |
May 31, 1910 |
| Elizabeth Garrett Anderson |
English |
June 9, 1836 |
December 17, 1917 |
| Emanuel Swedenborg |
Swedish |
January 29, 1688 |
March 29, 1772 |
| Erasmus Darwin |
English |
December 12, 1731 |
April 18, 1802 |
| Eric Allman |
American |
1955 |
|
| Eric Horvitz |
American |
|
|
| Ernest Lawrence |
American |
August 8, 1901 |
August 27, 1958 |
| Ernest Rutherford |
New Zealander |
August 30, 1871 |
October 19, 1937 |
| Ernst Haeckel |
German |
February 16, 1834 |
August 8, 1919 |
| Ernst Mayr |
German |
July 5, 1904 |
February 3, 2005 |
| Erwin Chargaff |
Austrian |
August 11, 1905 |
June 20, 2002 |
| Erwin Schrodinger |
Austrian |
August 12, 1887 |
January 4, 1961 |
| Esther Dyson |
American |
July 14, 1951 |
|
| Euclid |
Greek |
365 |
275 |
| Eugene Jarvis |
American |
1955 |
|
| Evangelista Torricelli |
Italian |
October 15, 1608 |
October 25, 1647 |
| Felix Bloch |
Swiss |
October 23, 1905 |
September 10, 1983 |
| Francis Crick |
English |
June 8, 1916 |
July 28, 2004 |
| Francis Darwin |
English |
August 16, 1848 |
September 19, 1925 |
| Francis William Aston |
British |
September 1, 1877 |
November 20, 1945 |
| Francois Jacob |
French |
June 17, 1920 |
|
| Frank Press |
American |
December 4, 1924 |
|
| Franz Boas |
American |
July 9, 1858 |
December 22, 1942 |
| Fred Brooks |
American |
April 19, 1931 |
|
| Fred Hoyle |
English |
June 24, 1915 |
August 20, 2001 |
| Frederick Sanger |
English |
August 13, 1918 |
|
| Frederick Soddy |
English |
September 2, 1877 |
September 22, 1956 |
| Frederick W. Taylor |
American |
March 20, 1856 |
March 21, 1915 |
| Fritz Zwicky |
Swiss |
February 14, 1898 |
February 8, 1974 |
| Gabriel Lippmann |
|
August 16, 1845 |
July 13, 1921 |
| Galileo Galilei |
Italian |
February 15, 1564 |
January 8, 1642 |
| Geoffrey Wilkinson |
English |
July 14, 1921 |
September 26, 1996 |
| Georg C. Lichtenberg |
German |
July 1, 1742 |
February 24, 1799 |
| George Andrew Olah |
American |
May 22, 1927 |
|
| George Bentham |
English |
September 22, 1800 |
September 10, 1884 |
| George C. Williams |
American |
May 12, 1926 |
|
| George Gaylord Simpson |
American |
June 16, 1902 |
October 6, 1984 |
| George Mercer Dawson |
Canadian |
August 1, 1849 |
March 2, 1901 |
| George Montagu |
English |
1753 |
1815 |
| George Phillips Bond |
American |
May 20, 1825 |
February 17, 1865 |
| George Porter |
English |
December 6, 1920 |
August 31, 2002 |
| George Richards Minot |
American |
December 2, 1885 |
February 25, 1950 |
| George Wald |
American |
November 18, 1906 |
April 12, 1997 |