Notable Scientists and Inventors

This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names from the world of science and invention. These lists do not include philosophers, mathematicians, psychologists, theologians who are instead listed with the famous thinkers.
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Curie2 chemists, 2 physicists4
Wilson2 astronomers, 2 physicists4
Herschel3 astronomers3
Huxley3 biologists3
Morgan1 anthropologist, 1 biologist, 1 inventor3
Thomson3 physicists3
Anderson2 physicists2
Ball1 astronomer, 1 geologist2
Bohr2 physicists2
Boyle1 chemist, 1 physicist2
Bragg2 physicists2
Cooper1 inventor, 1 physicist2
Eastman1 inventor, 1 physician2
Fischer2 chemists2
Fleming1 astronomer, 1 biologist2
Goodenough1 anthropologist, 1 physicist2
Hamilton1 engineer, 1 physicist2
Hertz2 physicists2
Joliot2 chemists2
Lee1 inventor, 1 physicist2
Müller1 naturalist, 1 physicist2
Paul1 inventor, 1 physicist2
Phillips2 physicists2
Pickering1 astronomer, 1 astronomer/physicist2
Richardson2 physicists2
Richter1 geologist, 1 physicist2
Siegbahn2 physicists2
Smith1 inventor, 1 physicist2
Taylor2 physicists2
Thompson1 engineer, 1 physicist2
Wright2 inventors2
Abbe1 physicist1
Abrikosov1 physicist1
Adanson1 naturalist1
Addison1 physician1
Akasaki1 physicist1
al-Biruni1 anthropologist/physicist1
Alder1 chemist1
Alferov1 physicist1
Alfvén1 physicist1
al-Jazari1 inventor1
al-Razi1 physician1
al-Sufi1 astronomer1
Alvarez1 physicist1
Alzheimer1 physician1
Amano1 physicist1
Ampère1 physicist1
Anning1 paleontologist1
Apgar1 physician1
Appert1 inventor1
Appleton1 physicist1
Arkwright1 inventor1
Arnold1 chemist1
Arrhenius1 chemist1
Ashkin1 physicist1
Asperger1 physician1
Aston1 chemist1
Attenborough1 naturalist1
Audubon1 biologist1
Avogadro1 chemist1
Babbage1 inventor1
Baird1 inventor1
Ballot1 chemist1
Banting1 physician1
Bárány1 physician1
Barbeau1 anthropologist1
Bardeen1 physicist1
Barkla1 physicist1
Barré1 biologist1
Barut1 physicist1
Basov1 physicist1
Bastian1 anthropologist1
Becquerel1 physicist1
Bednorz1 physicist1
Bell1 inventor1
Benedict1 anthropologist1
Benz1 inventor1
Berg1 chemist1
Bergius1 chemist1
Berliner1 inventor1
Bernard1 biologist1
Bernatzik1 anthropologist1
Berners1 inventor1
Bernoulli1 physicist1
Bertozzi1 chemist1
Berzelius1 chemist1
Bessel1 astronomer1
Bethe1 physicist1
Binnig1 physicist1
Bíró1 inventor1
Blaauw1 astronomer1
Blackburn1 biologist1
Blackett1 physicist1
Blanchard1 inventor1
Blériot1 inventor1
Bloch1 physicist1
Bloembergen1 physicist1
Boas1 anthropologist1
Boltzmann1 physicist1
Bordet1 physician1
Borlaug1 biologist1
Born1 physicist1
Bosch1 chemist1
Bose1 physicist1
Bothe1 physicist1
Boys1 physicist1
Brahe1 astronomer1
Braille1 inventor1
Brattain1 physicist1
Braun1 inventor1
Brenner1 biologist1
Bridgman1 physicist1
Brown1 biologist1
Browning1 inventor1
Bruno1 astronomer1
Buchner1 chemist1
Buck1 biologist1
Buick1 inventor1
Bunsen1 chemist1
Burnell1 physicist1
Bush1 inventor1
Butenandt1 chemist1
Buys1 chemist1
Cacciatore1 astronomer1
Cai1 inventor1
Cajal1 biologist1
Callendar1 inventor1
Calvin1 chemist1
Cannon1 astronomer1
Carey1 geologist1
Carnot1 physicist1
Carrel1 physician1
Carrier1 inventor1
Carson1 biologist1
Carter1 archaeologist1
Cassini1 astronomer1
Cavendish1 chemist1
Celsius1 astronomer1
Chadwick1 physicist1
Chamberlain1 physicist1
Chance1 chemist1
Charcot1 physician1
Charpak1 physicist1
Charpentier1 biologist1
Cherenkov1 physicist1
Chu1 physicist1
Clausius1 physicist1
Cockcroft1 physicist1
Cohen1 physicist1
Colt1 inventor1
Compton1 physicist1
Copernicus1 astronomer1
Cori1 biologist1
Corliss1 inventor1
Crick1 biologist1
Cristofori1 inventor1
Crohn1 physician1
Cronin1 physicist1
Crutzen1 chemist1
Cugnot1 inventor1
Cuvier1 biologist1
Daguerre1 inventor1
Daimler1 inventor1
Dalén1 inventor1
Dalton1 chemist1
Darwin1 biologist1
Das1 astronomer1
da Vinci1 inventor1
Davis1 physicist1
Davisson1 physicist1
Davy1 chemist1
Dawkins1 biologist1
de Broglie1 physicist1
Debye1 physicist1
de Coriolis1 physicist1
de Coulomb1 physicist1
Deere1 inventor1
de Gennes1 physicist1
del Monte1 astronomer1
Diels1 chemist1
Diesel1 inventor1
Dirac1 physicist1
Domagk1 biologist1
Doppler1 physicist1
Doudna1 chemist1
Down1 physician1
Drais1 inventor1
Dumont1 inventor1
Dunlop1 inventor1
Dyson1 physicist1
Eddington1 astronomer/physicist1
Edison1 inventor1
Edwards1 physician1
Eggen1 astronomer1
Ehrlich1 physician1
Eiffel1 engineer1
Eigen1 chemist1
Eijkman1 physician1
Einstein1 physicist1
Einthoven1 physician1
Elion1 chemist1
Engelbart1 inventor1
Englert1 physicist1
Ertl1 physicist1
Esaki1 physicist1
Evans1 archaeologist1
Fahrenheit1 physicist1
Faraday1 physicist1
Fender1 inventor1
Fermi1 physicist1
Fert1 physicist1
Feynman1 physicist1
Fick1 inventor1
Finsen1 physician1
Fitch1 physicist1
Flammarion1 astronomer1
Florey1 biologist1
Ford1 inventor1
Fossey1 naturalist1
Foucault1 physicist1
Fowler1 physicist1
Franck1 physicist1
Frank1 physicist1
Franklin1 chemist1
Frazer1 anthropologist1
Fresnel1 inventor1
Friedman1 physicist1
Fuller1 inventor1
Fulton1 inventor1
Gabor1 physicist1
Galilei1 astronomer/physicist1
Galvani1 physicist1
Gaposchkin1 astronomer1
Gatsonides1 inventor1
Gauss1 physicist1
Gay1 chemist1
Geim1 physicist1
Gell1 physicist1
Gessner1 biologist1
Ghez1 physicist1
Giacconi1 physicist1
Giaever1 physicist1
Gibbs1 physicist1
Gilbert1 physicist1
Gilles de La Tourette1 physician1
Ginzburg1 physicist1
Glaser1 physicist1
Glashow1 physicist1
Glauber1 physicist1
Goddard1 engineer1
Goeppert1 physicist1
Golgi1 biologist1
Goodall1 anthropologist/biologist1
Goodyear1 inventor1
Graeber1 anthropologist1
Gray1 biologist1
Gregory1 astronomer1
Greider1 biologist1
Grignard1 chemist1
Gross1 physicist1
Grünberg1 physicist1
Guillaume1 physicist1
Guliyev1 physicist1
Gullstrand1 physician1
Gutenberg1 inventor1
Haber1 chemist1
Haeckel1 biologist1
Hahn1 chemist1
Haldane1 physicist1
Hall1 physicist1
Halley1 astronomer1
Hänsch1 physicist1
Harden1 chemist1
Haroche1 physicist1
Harvey1 biologist1
Hawking1 physicist1
Heezen1 geologist1
Heimlich1 physician1
Heisenberg1 physicist1
Helmholtz1 physicist1
Hertzsprung1 astronomer/chemist1
Hess1 physicist1
Hevelius1 astronomer1
Hevesy1 chemist1
Hewish1 physicist1
Heyrovský1 chemist1
Higgs1 physicist1
Hill1 inventor1
Hodgkin1 chemist1
Hofmann1 chemist1
Hofstadter1 physicist1
Hollerith1 inventor1
Hooke1 physicist1
Hopkins1 chemist1
Hopper1 engineer1
Horner1 paleontologist1
Hubble1 astronomer1
Huggins1 astronomer1
Hulse1 physicist1
Huntington1 physician1
Huygens1 astronomer/physicist1
Ibn al-Haytham1 physicist1
Jacquard1 inventor1
Jenner1 biologist1
Jensen1 physicist1
Josephson1 physicist1
Joule1 physicist1
Jump1 astronomer1
Kajita1 physicist1
Kaku1 physicist1
Kalashnikov1 inventor1
Kao1 inventor1
Kapitsa1 physicist1
Kapteyn1 astronomer1
Karrer1 chemist1
Kastler1 physicist1
Keeling1 chemist1
Kepler1 astronomer1
Ketterle1 physicist1
Khorana1 chemist1
Kilby1 engineer1
Kirchhoff1 physicist1
Klinefelter1 physician1
Koch1 physician1
Kocher1 physician1
Kohn1 physicist1
Kolbe1 chemist1
Kornberg1 biologist1
Korolev1 engineer1
Korsakov1 physician1
Koshiba1 physicist1
Kossel1 biologist1
Kosterlitz1 physicist1
Kraepelin1 physician1
Krebs1 biologist1
Kudirka1 physician1
Kuiper1 astronomer1
Kusch1 physicist1
Kussmaul1 physician1
Lamarck1 biologist1
Lamb1 physicist1
Landau1 physicist1
Landsteiner1 biologist1
Langmuir1 chemist1
Laplace1 astronomer1
Laue1 physicist1
Laughlin1 physicist1
Laveran1 physician1
Lavoisier1 chemist1
Lawrence1 physicist1
Leavitt1 astronomer1
Leclerc1 naturalist1
Lederman1 physicist1
Leggett1 physicist1
Lehmann1 geologist1
Leibniz1 physicist1
Lemaître1 physicist1
Lenard1 physicist1
Levi1 biologist1
Libby1 chemist1
Liebig1 chemist1
Linnaeus1 biologist1
Lipperhey1 inventor1
Lippmann1 physicist1
Lister1 physician1
Lomonosov1 physicist1
Lorentz1 physicist1
Lorenz1 biologist1
Lussac1 chemist1
Lyell1 geologist1
Mach1 physicist1
Malinowski1 anthropologist1
Mann1 physicist1
Marconi1 inventor1
Marfan1 physician1
Marshall1 physician1
Maskawa1 physicist1
Mather1 physicist1
Maury1 astronomer1
Maxwell1 physicist1
Maybach1 inventor1
Mayer1 physicist1
Mayor1 astronomer1
McClintock1 biologist1
McDonald1 physicist1
McMillan1 chemist1
Mead1 anthropologist1
Mechnikov1 biologist1
Meitner1 physicist1
Mendel1 biologist1
Mendeleev1 chemist1
Menière1 physician1
Merian1 naturalist1
Messier1 astronomer1
Meucci1 inventor1
Meyer1 physician1
Michelson1 physicist1
Mie1 physicist1
Millikan1 physicist1
Minnaert1 astronomer1
Moissan1 chemist1
Molina1 chemist1
Monod1 biologist1
Montagnier1 biologist1
Montalcini1 biologist1
Morse1 inventor1
Moser1 biologist1
Mössbauer1 physicist1
Mott1 physicist1
Mottelson1 physicist1
Mouchot1 inventor1
Naismith1 inventor1
Nakamura1 inventor1
Nambu1 physicist1
Natta1 chemist1
Néel1 physicist1
Nernst1 chemist1
Newcomen1 inventor1
Newton1 physicist1
Niépce1 inventor1
Nobel1 chemist/inventor1
Northrop1 chemist1
Novoselov1 physicist1
Nüsslein1 biologist1
Ohm1 physicist1
Onnes1 physicist1
Onsager1 chemist1
Oort1 astronomer1
Oppenheimer1 physicist1
Oriani1 astronomer1
Ørsted1 physicist1
Ostwald1 chemist1
Ōsumi1 biologist1
Otto1 inventor1
Pääbo1 biologist1
Paneth1 chemist1
Pannekoek1 astronomer1
Papin1 inventor1
Parkinson1 physician1
Pasteur1 chemist1
Patterson1 chemist1
Pauli1 physicist1
Pauling1 chemist1
Pavlov1 biologist1
Payne1 astronomer1
Peebles1 astronomer1
Penkala1 inventor1
Penrose1 physicist1
Penzias1 physicist1
Perl1 physicist1
Perlmutter1 physicist1
Perrin1 physicist1
Piazzi1 astronomer1
Planck1 physicist1
Politzer1 physicist1
Porsche1 inventor1
Pouillet1 physicist1
Powell1 physicist1
Pregl1 chemist1
Prelog1 chemist1
Prigogine1 chemist1
Prokhorov1 physicist1
Purcell1 physicist1
Queloz1 astronomer1
Rabi1 physicist1
Rainwater1 physicist1
Ramakrishnan1 biologist1
Raman1 physicist1
Ramón1 biologist1
Ramsay1 chemist1
Ramsey1 physicist1
Raynaud1 physician1
Reichs1 anthropologist1
Reichstein1 chemist1
Reines1 physicist1
Remington1 inventor1
Richards1 chemist1
Richet1 biologist1
Riess1 physicist1
Ritchie1 engineer1
Rittenhouse1 astronomer/inventor1
Rohrer1 physicist1
Rømer1 astronomer1
Röntgen1 physicist1
Rorschach1 physician1
Ross1 physician1
Rowlinson1 chemist1
Rubbia1 physicist1
Rubik1 inventor1
Rubin1 astronomer1
Runge1 chemist1
Ruska1 physicist1
Russell1 astronomer1
Rutherford1 physicist1
Ružička1 chemist1
Ryle1 physicist1
Sabatier1 chemist1
Sagan1 astronomer1
Sakharov1 physicist1
Salam1 physicist1
Salk1 physician1
Sancar1 biologist1
Sanger1 chemist1
Santos1 inventor1
Sax1 inventor1
Schawlow1 physicist1
Scheele1 chemist1
Schliemann1 archaeologist1
Schmidt1 physicist1
Schrieffer1 physicist1
Schrödinger1 physicist1
Schwann1 biologist1
Schwartz1 physicist1
Schwinger1 physicist1
Seaborg1 chemist1
Segrè1 physicist1
Seilacher1 paleontologist1
Semmelweis1 physician1
Semyonov1 physicist1
Senefelder1 inventor1
Shannon1 engineer1
Shechtman1 chemist1
Shockley1 physicist1
Shuman1 inventor1
Siemens1 inventor1
Sikorsky1 inventor1
Singer1 inventor1
Sinoussi1 biologist1
Sjögren1 physician1
Slipher1 astronomer1
Smoot1 physicist1
Snow1 physician1
Soddy1 chemist1
Sommerfeld1 physicist1
Stanley1 chemist1
Stark1 physicist1
Staudinger1 chemist1
Steno1 geologist1
Stephenson1 inventor1
Stern1 physicist1
Störmer1 physicist1
Strecker1 chemist1
Strickland1 physicist1
Strömgren1 astronomer/physicist1
Strowger1 inventor1
Strutt1 physicist1
Subrahmanyan1 physicist1
Sumner1 chemist1
Supek1 physicist1
Svedberg1 chemist1
Szent-Györgyi1 chemist1
Talbot1 inventor1
Tamm1 physicist1
Tannoudji1 physicist1
Teller1 physicist1
Tesla1 inventor1
Tharp1 geologist1
't Hooft1 physicist1
Thorne1 physicist1
Thouless1 physicist1
Ting1 physicist1
Tiselius1 chemist1
Tombaugh1 astronomer1
Tomonaga1 physicist1
Torricelli1 physicist1
Torvalds1 engineer1
Townes1 physicist1
Trevithick1 inventor1
Tsiolkovsky1 engineer1
Tu1 chemist1
Tylor1 anthropologist1
Tyson1 physicist1
Urey1 chemist1
Valsalva1 physician1
van der Meer1 physicist1
van der Waals1 physicist1
van Leeuwenhoek1 biologist1
van 't Hoff1 chemist1
Van Vleck1 physicist1
Veltman1 physicist1
Vesalius1 physician1
Virchow1 physician1
Virtanen1 chemist1
Volhard1 biologist1
Volta1 physicist1
von Baeyer1 chemist1
von Behring1 physician1
von Braun1 engineer1
von Fraunhofer1 inventor1
von Frisch1 biologist1
von Guericke1 physicist1
von Klitzing1 physicist1
von Strümpell1 physician1
von Willebrand1 physician1
von Zeppelin1 inventor1
Waksman1 biologist1
Wallace1 biologist/naturalist1
Wallach1 chemist1
Walton1 physicist1
Watson1 biologist1
Watt1 inventor1
Weber1 physicist1
Wegener1 geologist1
Weinberg1 physicist1
Weizmann1 chemist1
Werner1 chemist1
Wesson1 inventor1
Westinghouse1 inventor1
Whiting1 astronomer/physicist1
Whitney1 inventor1
Wieman1 physicist1
Wien1 physicist1
Wigner1 physicist1
Wilczek1 physicist1
Wilkins1 physicist1
Willstätter1 chemist1
Windaus1 chemist1
Wineland1 physicist1
Witten1 physicist1
Wöhler1 chemist1
Wollaston1 chemist/physicist1
Woodward1 chemist1
Wozniak1 engineer1
Yalow1 physicist1
Yang1 physicist1
Yonath1 chemist1
Young1 physicist1
Yukawa1 physicist1
Zeeman1 physicist1
Zernike1 physicist1
Zewail1 chemist1
Ziegler1 chemist1
Zsigmondy1 chemist1
zur Hausen1 biologist1
Zuse1 inventor1
Zwicky1 astronomer1