Scientist
Name | Nationality | Date of Birth | Date of Death |
George Washington Carver |
American |
January 10, 1864 |
January 5, 1943 |
Georges Cuvier |
French |
August 23, 1769 |
May 13, 1832 |
Gilbert Newton Lewis |
American |
October 23, 1875 |
March 23, 1946 |
Gilbert White |
English |
July 18, 1720 |
June 26, 1793 |
Grace Hopper |
American |
December 9, 1906 |
January 1, 1992 |
Greg Egan |
Australian |
August 20, 1961 |
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Gregor Mendel |
Austrian |
July 22, 1822 |
January 6, 1884 |
Gregory Bateson |
British |
May 9, 1904 |
July 4, 1980 |
Guglielmo Marconi |
Italian |
April 25, 1874 |
June 20, 1937 |
Guido van Rossum |
Dutch |
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Hal Abelson |
American |
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Haldan Keffer Hartline |
American |
December 22, 1903 |
March 17, 1983 |
Hannes Alfven |
Swedish |
May 30, 1908 |
April 2, 1995 |
Hans Berger |
German |
May 21, 1873 |
June 1, 1941 |
Hans Bethe |
American |
July 2, 1906 |
March 6, 2005 |
Hans Selye |
Canadian |
January 26, 1907 |
October 16, 1982 |
Harlow Shapley |
American |
November 2, 1885 |
October 20, 1972 |
Harvey Cushing |
American |
April 8, 1869 |
October 7, 1939 |
Heinrich Schliemann |
German |
January 6, 1822 |
December 26, 1890 |
Helen B. Taussig |
American |
May 24, 1898 |
May 20, 1986 |
Henry Bessemer |
English |
January 19, 1813 |
March 15, 1898 |
Henry Norris Russell |
American |
October 25, 1877 |
February 18, 1957 |
Henry Spencer |
Canadian |
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Henry Taube |
Canadian |
November 30, 1915 |
November 16, 2005 |
Henry W. Kendall |
American |
December 9, 1926 |
February 15, 1999 |
Herbert Simon |
American |
June 15, 1916 |
February 9, 2001 |
Herman Boerhaave |
Dutch |
December 31, 1668 |
September 23, 1738 |
Herman Kahn |
American |
February 15, 1922 |
July 7, 1983 |
Hermann Oberth |
German |
June 25, 1894 |
December 28, 1989 |
Hippocrates |
Greek |
460 |
357 |
Howard Aiken |
American |
March 9, 1900 |
March 14, 1973 |
Howard Carter |
English |
May 9, 1874 |
March 2, 1939 |
Howard Scott |
American |
April 1, 1890 |
January 1, 1970 |
Hugh Miller |
Scottish |
1802 |
1856 |
Humphry Davy |
British |
December 17, 1778 |
May 29, 1829 |
Ian Allison |
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Ian Jackson |
English |
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Irving Langmuir |
American |
January 31, 1881 |
August 16, 1957 |
Isaac Asimov |
American |
January 2, 1920 |
April 6, 1992 |
J Allard |
American |
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J. Allen Hynek |
American |
May 1, 1910 |
April 27, 1986 |
Jack Kilby |
American |
November 8, 1923 |
June 20, 2005 |
Jack Schwartz |
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Jacob Bronowski |
English |
September 1, 1908 |
August 22, 1974 |
James Bryant Conant |
American |
March 26, 1893 |
February 11, 1978 |
James D. Watson |
American |
April 6, 1928 |
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James Dewar |
Scottish |
September 20, 1842 |
March 27, 1923 |
James G. Frazer |
Scottish |
January 1, 1854 |
May 7, 1941 |
James Hansen |
American |
March 29, 1941 |
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James Hutton |
Scottish |
June 3, 1726 |
March 26, 1797 |
James Lind |
Scottish |
1716 |
1794 |
James Lovelock |
English |
July 26, 1919 |
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James Mooney |
American |
1861 |
1921 |
James Paget |
British |
1814 |
1899 |
James Rainwater |
American |
December 9, 1917 |
May 31, 1986 |
James Smithson |
British |
1765 |
June 27, 1829 |
James W. Black |
Scottish |
July 14, 1924 |
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James Young Simpson |
Scottish |
June 7, 1811 |
May 6, 1870 |
Jamie Zawinski |
American |
November 3, 1968 |
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Jane Goodall |
English |
April 3, 1934 |
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Javier Cuadros |
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Jean Rostand |
French |
October 30, 1894 |
September 4, 1977 |
Jef Raskin |
American |
March 9, 1943 |
February 26, 2005 |
Jim Fowler |
American |
April 9, 1932 |
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Jim Horning |
American |
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Joe Clark |
Canadian |
June 5, 1939 |
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Johannes Kepler |
German |
December 27, 1571 |
November 15, 1630 |
Johannes P. Muller |
German |
July 14, 1801 |
April 28, 1858 |
John B. S. Haldane |
British |
November 5, 1892 |
December 1, 1964 |
John Backus |
American |
December 3, 1924 |
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John Bardeen |
American |
May 23, 1908 |
January 30, 1991 |
John Bulwer |
English |
May 16, 1606 |
October 16, 1656 |
John Carmack |
American |
August 20, 1970 |
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John Charles Polanyi |
Canadian |
January 23, 1929 |
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John D. Barrow |
English |
November 29, 1952 |
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John Dalton |
British |
September 6, 1766 |
July 27, 1844 |
John Desmond Bernal |
Irish |
May 10, 1901 |
September 15, 1971 |
John Dykstra |
American |
June 3, 1947 |
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John E. Walker |
English |
January 7, 1941 |
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John Herschel |
English |
March 7, 1792 |
May 11, 1871 |
John James Audubon |
American |
April 26, 1785 |
January 27, 1851 |
John Joly |
Irish |
November 1, 1857 |
December 8, 1933 |
John Lilly |
American |
January 6, 1915 |
September 30, 2001 |
John Mason Good |
English |
May 25, 1764 |
January 2, 1827 |
John Pople |
English |
October 31, 1925 |
March 15, 2004 |
John Tukey |
American |
June 16, 1915 |
July 26, 2000 |
John Warnock |
American |
October 6, 1940 |
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Jon Postel |
American |
August 6, 1943 |
October 16, 1998 |
Jonas Salk |
American |
October 28, 1914 |
June 23, 1995 |
Joseph Henry |
American |
December 17, 1797 |
May 13, 1878 |
Joseph Hume |
Scottish |
January 22, 1777 |
February 20, 1855 |
Joseph Lister |
English |
April 5, 1827 |
February 10, 1912 |
Joseph Needham |
British |
December 9, 1900 |
March 24, 1995 |
Joseph Priestley |
English |
March 13, 1733 |
February 6, 1804 |
Joshua Lederberg |
American |
May 23, 1925 |
February 2, 2008 |
Julian Barbour |
British |
1937 |
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Julian Huxley |
English |
June 22, 1887 |
February 14, 1975 |
Julius Sterling Morton |
American |
August 22, 1832 |
April 27, 1902 |
June Singer |
American |
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K. Eric Drexler |
American |
April 25, 1955 |
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Karl Landsteiner |
Austrian |
June 14, 1868 |
June 26, 1943 |
Karl von Frisch |
Austrian |
November 20, 1886 |
June 12, 1982 |
Kary Mullis |
American |
December 28, 1944 |
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Kathleen Kenyon |
English |
January 5, 1906 |
August 24, 1978 |
Keith Henson |
American |
1942 |
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Ken Thompson |
American |
February 4, 1943 |
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Kenichi Fukui |
Japanese |
October 4, 1918 |
January 9, 1998 |
Kenneth G. Wilson |
American |
June 8, 1936 |
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Kenneth R. Miller |
American |
July 14, 1948 |
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Koichi Tanaka |
Japanese |
August 3, 1959 |
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Konrad Lorenz |
Austrian |
November 7, 1903 |
February 27, 1989 |
Konrad von Gesner |
Swiss |
March 26, 1516 |
December 13, 1565 |
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky |
Russian |
September 5, 1857 |
September 19, 1935 |
Lawrence Hargrave |
Australian |
January 29, 1850 |
July 14, 1915 |
Leo Szilard |
American |
February 11, 1898 |
May 30, 1964 |
Leonard Woolley |
British |
April 17, 1880 |
February 20, 1960 |
Lewis Thomas |
American |
November 25, 1913 |
December 3, 1993 |
Liberty Hyde Bailey |
American |
1858 |
1954 |
Linus Pauling |
American |
February 28, 1901 |
August 19, 1994 |
Lord Kelvin |
Irish |
June 26, 1824 |
December 17, 1907 |
Loren Eiseley |
American |
September 3, 1907 |
July 9, 1977 |
Louis Agassiz |
Swiss |
May 28, 1807 |
December 14, 1873 |
Louis Leakey |
British |
August 7, 1903 |
October 1, 1972 |
Louis Pasteur |
French |
December 27, 1822 |
September 28, 1895 |
Luc Montagnier |
French |
August 18, 1932 |
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Manfred Eigen |
German |
May 9, 1927 |
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Margaret Mead |
American |
December 16, 1901 |
November 15, 1978 |
Margaret Murray |
British |
July 13, 1863 |
November 13, 1963 |
Margaret Turnbull |
American |
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Maria Mitchell |
American |
August 1, 1818 |
June 28, 1889 |
Marie Curie |
Polish |
November 7, 1867 |
July 4, 1934 |
Mark L. Campbell |
American |
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Mark Oliphant |
Australian |
October 8, 1901 |
July 14, 2000 |
Marston Bates |
American |
July 23, 1906 |
April 3, 1974 |
Martin Fleischmann |
English |
March 29, 1927 |
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Martin Ryle |
British |
September 27, 1918 |
October 14, 1984 |
Marvin Harris |
American |
August 18, 1927 |
October 25, 2001 |
Marvin Minsky |
American |
August 9, 1927 |
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Mary Archer |
British |
December 22, 1944 |
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Mary Calderone |
American |
July 1, 1904 |
October 24, 1998 |
Mary Catherine Bateson |
American |
1939 |
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Mary Douglas |
British |
March 25, 1921 |
May 16, 2007 |
Mary Leakey |
British |
February 6, 1913 |
December 9, 1996 |
Matt Nagle |
American |
October 16, 1979 |
July 24, 2007 |
Maurice Wilkins |
New Zealander |
December 15, 1916 |
October 5, 2004 |
Max Delbruck |
German |
September 4, 1906 |
March 9, 1981 |
Max Gluckman |
South African |
January 26, 1911 |
April 13, 1975 |
Max Planck |
German |
April 23, 1858 |
October 4, 1947 |
Max von Laue |
German |
October 9, 1879 |
April 24, 1960 |
Maxwell Maltz |
American |
March 10, 1899 |
April 7, 1975 |
Melvin Calvin |
American |
April 8, 1911 |
January 8, 1997 |
Michael Behe |
American |
1952 |
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Michael E. Mann |
American |
December 28, 1965 |
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Michael Faraday |
English |
September 22, 1791 |
August 25, 1867 |
Michael Polanyi |
Hungarian |
March 11, 1891 |
February 22, 1976 |
Michael Servetus |
Spanish |
September 29, 1511 |
October 27, 1553 |
Miguel de Icaza |
Mexican |
1972 |
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Mohamed ElBaradei |
Egyptian |
June 17, 1942 |
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Mordechai Vanunu |
Israeli |
October 13, 1954 |
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Nicholas Culpeper |
English |
1616 |
1654 |