Notable Scientists and Inventors
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This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names from the world of
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famous thinkers .
Name Details Total
Abbe 1 physicist1
Abrikosov 1 physicist1
Adanson 1 naturalist1
Addison 1 physician1
Akasaki 1 physicist1
al-Biruni 1 anthropologist/physicist1
Alder 1 chemist1
Alferov 1 physicist1
Alfvén 1 physicist1
al-Jazari 1 inventor1
al-Razi 1 physician1
al-Sufi 1 astronomer1
Alvarez 1 physicist1
Alzheimer 1 physician1
Amano 1 physicist1
Ampère 1 physicist1
Anderson 2 physicists2
Anning 1 paleontologist1
Apgar 1 physician1
Appert 1 inventor1
Appleton 1 physicist1
Arkwright 1 inventor1
Arnold 1 chemist1
Arrhenius 1 chemist1
Ashkin 1 physicist1
Asperger 1 physician1
Aston 1 chemist1
Attenborough 1 naturalist1
Audubon 1 biologist1
Avogadro 1 chemist1
Babbage 1 inventor1
Baird 1 inventor1
Ball 1 astronomer, 1 geologist2
Ballot 1 chemist1
Banting 1 physician1
Bárány 1 physician1
Barbeau 1 anthropologist1
Bardeen 1 physicist1
Barkla 1 physicist1
Barré 1 biologist1
Barut 1 physicist1
Basov 1 physicist1
Bastian 1 anthropologist1
Becquerel 1 physicist1
Bednorz 1 physicist1
Bell 1 inventor1
Benedict 1 anthropologist1
Benz 1 inventor1
Berg 1 chemist1
Bergius 1 chemist1
Berliner 1 inventor1
Bernard 1 biologist1
Bernatzik 1 anthropologist1
Berners 1 inventor1
Bernoulli 1 physicist1
Bertozzi 1 chemist1
Berzelius 1 chemist1
Bessel 1 astronomer1
Bethe 1 physicist1
Binnig 1 physicist1
Bíró 1 inventor1
Blaauw 1 astronomer1
Blackburn 1 biologist1
Blackett 1 physicist1
Blanchard 1 inventor1
Blériot 1 inventor1
Bloch 1 physicist1
Bloembergen 1 physicist1
Boas 1 anthropologist1
Bohr 2 physicists2
Boltzmann 1 physicist1
Bordet 1 physician1
Borlaug 1 biologist1
Born 1 physicist1
Bosch 1 chemist1
Bose 1 physicist1
Bothe 1 physicist1
Boyle 1 chemist, 1 physicist2
Boys 1 physicist1
Bragg 2 physicists2
Brahe 1 astronomer1
Braille 1 inventor1
Brattain 1 physicist1
Braun 1 inventor1
Brenner 1 biologist1
Bridgman 1 physicist1
Brown 1 biologist1
Browning 1 inventor1
Bruno 1 astronomer1
Buchner 1 chemist1
Buck 1 biologist1
Buick 1 inventor1
Bunsen 1 chemist1
Burnell 1 physicist1
Bush 1 inventor1
Butenandt 1 chemist1
Buys 1 chemist1
Cacciatore 1 astronomer1
Cai 1 inventor1
Cajal 1 biologist1
Callendar 1 inventor1
Calvin 1 chemist1
Cannon 1 astronomer1
Carey 1 geologist1
Carnot 1 physicist1
Carrel 1 physician1
Carrier 1 inventor1
Carson 1 biologist1
Carter 1 archaeologist1
Cassini 1 astronomer1
Cavendish 1 chemist1
Celsius 1 astronomer1
Chadwick 1 physicist1
Chamberlain 1 physicist1
Chance 1 chemist1
Charcot 1 physician1
Charpak 1 physicist1
Charpentier 1 biologist1
Cherenkov 1 physicist1
Chu 1 physicist1
Clausius 1 physicist1
Cockcroft 1 physicist1
Cohen 1 physicist1
Colt 1 inventor1
Compton 1 physicist1
Cooper 1 inventor, 1 physicist2
Copernicus 1 astronomer1
Cori 1 biologist1
Corliss 1 inventor1
Crick 1 biologist1
Cristofori 1 inventor1
Crohn 1 physician1
Cronin 1 physicist1
Crutzen 1 chemist1
Cugnot 1 inventor1
Curie 2 chemists, 2 physicists4
Cuvier 1 biologist1
Daguerre 1 inventor1
Daimler 1 inventor1
Dalén 1 inventor1
Dalton 1 chemist1
Darwin 1 biologist1
Das 1 astronomer1
da Vinci 1 inventor1
Davis 1 physicist1
Davisson 1 physicist1
Davy 1 chemist1
Dawkins 1 biologist1
de Broglie 1 physicist1
Debye 1 physicist1
de Coriolis 1 physicist1
de Coulomb 1 physicist1
Deere 1 inventor1
de Gennes 1 physicist1
del Monte 1 astronomer1
Diels 1 chemist1
Diesel 1 inventor1
Dirac 1 physicist1
Domagk 1 biologist1
Doppler 1 physicist1
Doudna 1 chemist1
Down 1 physician1
Drais 1 inventor1
Dumont 1 inventor1
Dunlop 1 inventor1
Dyson 1 physicist1
Eastman 1 inventor, 1 physician2
Eddington 1 astronomer/physicist1
Edison 1 inventor1
Edwards 1 physician1
Eggen 1 astronomer1
Ehrlich 1 physician1
Eiffel 1 engineer1
Eigen 1 chemist1
Eijkman 1 physician1
Einstein 1 physicist1
Einthoven 1 physician1
Elion 1 chemist1
Engelbart 1 inventor1
Englert 1 physicist1
Ertl 1 physicist1
Esaki 1 physicist1
Evans 1 archaeologist1
Fahrenheit 1 physicist1
Faraday 1 physicist1
Fender 1 inventor1
Fermi 1 physicist1
Fert 1 physicist1
Feynman 1 physicist1
Fick 1 inventor1
Finsen 1 physician1
Fischer 2 chemists2
Fitch 1 physicist1
Flammarion 1 astronomer1
Fleming 1 astronomer, 1 biologist2
Florey 1 biologist1
Ford 1 inventor1
Fossey 1 naturalist1
Foucault 1 physicist1
Fowler 1 physicist1
Franck 1 physicist1
Frank 1 physicist1
Franklin 1 chemist1
Frazer 1 anthropologist1
Fresnel 1 inventor1
Friedman 1 physicist1
Fuller 1 inventor1
Fulton 1 inventor1
Gabor 1 physicist1
Galilei 1 astronomer/physicist1
Galvani 1 physicist1
Gaposchkin 1 astronomer1
Gatsonides 1 inventor1
Gauss 1 physicist1
Gay 1 chemist1
Geim 1 physicist1
Gell 1 physicist1
Gessner 1 biologist1
Ghez 1 physicist1
Giacconi 1 physicist1
Giaever 1 physicist1
Gibbs 1 physicist1
Gilbert 1 physicist1
Gilles de La Tourette 1 physician1
Ginzburg 1 physicist1
Glaser 1 physicist1
Glashow 1 physicist1
Glauber 1 physicist1
Goddard 1 engineer1
Goeppert 1 physicist1
Golgi 1 biologist1
Goodall 1 anthropologist/biologist1
Goodenough 1 anthropologist, 1 physicist2
Goodyear 1 inventor1
Graeber 1 anthropologist1
Gray 1 biologist1
Gregory 1 astronomer1
Greider 1 biologist1
Grignard 1 chemist1
Gross 1 physicist1
Grünberg 1 physicist1
Guillaume 1 physicist1
Guliyev 1 physicist1
Gullstrand 1 physician1
Gutenberg 1 inventor1
Haber 1 chemist1
Haeckel 1 biologist1
Hahn 1 chemist1
Haldane 1 physicist1
Hall 1 physicist1
Halley 1 astronomer1
Hamilton 1 engineer, 1 physicist2
Hänsch 1 physicist1
Harden 1 chemist1
Haroche 1 physicist1
Harvey 1 biologist1
Hawking 1 physicist1
Heezen 1 geologist1
Heimlich 1 physician1
Heisenberg 1 physicist1
Helmholtz 1 physicist1
Herschel 3 astronomers3
Hertz 2 physicists2
Hertzsprung 1 astronomer/chemist1
Hess 1 physicist1
Hevelius 1 astronomer1
Hevesy 1 chemist1
Hewish 1 physicist1
Heyrovský 1 chemist1
Higgs 1 physicist1
Hill 1 inventor1
Hodgkin 1 chemist1
Hofmann 1 chemist1
Hofstadter 1 physicist1
Hollerith 1 inventor1
Hooke 1 physicist1
Hopkins 1 chemist1
Hopper 1 engineer1
Horner 1 paleontologist1
Hubble 1 astronomer1
Huggins 1 astronomer1
Hulse 1 physicist1
Huntington 1 physician1
Huxley 3 biologists3
Huygens 1 astronomer/physicist1
Ibn al-Haytham 1 physicist1
Jacquard 1 inventor1
Jenner 1 biologist1
Jensen 1 physicist1
Joliot 2 chemists2
Josephson 1 physicist1
Joule 1 physicist1
Jump 1 astronomer1
Kajita 1 physicist1
Kaku 1 physicist1
Kalashnikov 1 inventor1
Kao 1 inventor1
Kapitsa 1 physicist1
Kapteyn 1 astronomer1
Karrer 1 chemist1
Kastler 1 physicist1
Keeling 1 chemist1
Kepler 1 astronomer1
Ketterle 1 physicist1
Khorana 1 chemist1
Kilby 1 engineer1
Kirchhoff 1 physicist1
Klinefelter 1 physician1
Koch 1 physician1
Kocher 1 physician1
Kohn 1 physicist1
Kolbe 1 chemist1
Kornberg 1 biologist1
Korolev 1 engineer1
Korsakov 1 physician1
Koshiba 1 physicist1
Kossel 1 biologist1
Kosterlitz 1 physicist1
Kraepelin 1 physician1
Krebs 1 biologist1
Kudirka 1 physician1
Kuiper 1 astronomer1
Kusch 1 physicist1
Kussmaul 1 physician1
Lamarck 1 biologist1
Lamb 1 physicist1
Landau 1 physicist1
Landsteiner 1 biologist1
Langmuir 1 chemist1
Laplace 1 astronomer1
Laue 1 physicist1
Laughlin 1 physicist1
Laveran 1 physician1
Lavoisier 1 chemist1
Lawrence 1 physicist1
Leavitt 1 astronomer1
Leclerc 1 naturalist1
Lederman 1 physicist1
Lee 1 inventor, 1 physicist2
Leggett 1 physicist1
Lehmann 1 geologist1
Leibniz 1 physicist1
Lemaître 1 physicist1
Lenard 1 physicist1
Levi 1 biologist1
Libby 1 chemist1
Liebig 1 chemist1
Linnaeus 1 biologist1
Lipperhey 1 inventor1
Lippmann 1 physicist1
Lister 1 physician1
Lomonosov 1 physicist1
Lorentz 1 physicist1
Lorenz 1 biologist1
Lussac 1 chemist1
Lyell 1 geologist1
Mach 1 physicist1
Malinowski 1 anthropologist1
Mann 1 physicist1
Marconi 1 inventor1
Marfan 1 physician1
Marshall 1 physician1
Maskawa 1 physicist1
Mather 1 physicist1
Maury 1 astronomer1
Maxwell 1 physicist1
Maybach 1 inventor1
Mayer 1 physicist1
Mayor 1 astronomer1
McClintock 1 biologist1
McDonald 1 physicist1
McMillan 1 chemist1
Mead 1 anthropologist1
Mechnikov 1 biologist1
Meitner 1 physicist1
Mendel 1 biologist1
Mendeleev 1 chemist1
Menière 1 physician1
Merian 1 naturalist1
Messier 1 astronomer1
Meucci 1 inventor1
Meyer 1 physician1
Michelson 1 physicist1
Mie 1 physicist1
Millikan 1 physicist1
Minnaert 1 astronomer1
Moissan 1 chemist1
Molina 1 chemist1
Monod 1 biologist1
Montagnier 1 biologist1
Montalcini 1 biologist1
Morgan 1 anthropologist, 1 biologist, 1 inventor3
Morse 1 inventor1
Moser 1 biologist1
Mössbauer 1 physicist1
Mott 1 physicist1
Mottelson 1 physicist1
Mouchot 1 inventor1
Müller 1 naturalist, 1 physicist2
Naismith 1 inventor1
Nakamura 1 inventor1
Nambu 1 physicist1
Natta 1 chemist1
Néel 1 physicist1
Nernst 1 chemist1
Newcomen 1 inventor1
Newton 1 physicist1
Niépce 1 inventor1
Nobel 1 chemist/inventor1
Northrop 1 chemist1
Novoselov 1 physicist1
Nüsslein 1 biologist1
Ohm 1 physicist1
Onnes 1 physicist1
Onsager 1 chemist1
Oort 1 astronomer1
Oppenheimer 1 physicist1
Oriani 1 astronomer1
Ørsted 1 physicist1
Ostwald 1 chemist1
Ōsumi 1 biologist1
Otto 1 inventor1
Pääbo 1 biologist1
Paneth 1 chemist1
Pannekoek 1 astronomer1
Papin 1 inventor1
Parkinson 1 physician1
Pasteur 1 chemist1
Patterson 1 chemist1
Paul 1 inventor, 1 physicist2
Pauli 1 physicist1
Pauling 1 chemist1
Pavlov 1 biologist1
Payne 1 astronomer1
Peebles 1 astronomer1
Penkala 1 inventor1
Penrose 1 physicist1
Penzias 1 physicist1
Perl 1 physicist1
Perlmutter 1 physicist1
Perrin 1 physicist1
Phillips 2 physicists2
Piazzi 1 astronomer1
Pickering 1 astronomer, 1 astronomer/physicist2
Planck 1 physicist1
Politzer 1 physicist1
Porsche 1 inventor1
Pouillet 1 physicist1
Powell 1 physicist1
Pregl 1 chemist1
Prelog 1 chemist1
Prigogine 1 chemist1
Prokhorov 1 physicist1
Purcell 1 physicist1
Queloz 1 astronomer1
Rabi 1 physicist1
Rainwater 1 physicist1
Ramakrishnan 1 biologist1
Raman 1 physicist1
Ramón 1 biologist1
Ramsay 1 chemist1
Ramsey 1 physicist1
Raynaud 1 physician1
Reichs 1 anthropologist1
Reichstein 1 chemist1
Reines 1 physicist1
Remington 1 inventor1
Richards 1 chemist1
Richardson 2 physicists2
Richet 1 biologist1
Richter 1 geologist, 1 physicist2
Riess 1 physicist1
Ritchie 1 engineer1
Rittenhouse 1 astronomer/inventor1
Rohrer 1 physicist1
Rømer 1 astronomer1
Röntgen 1 physicist1
Rorschach 1 physician1
Ross 1 physician1
Rowlinson 1 chemist1
Rubbia 1 physicist1
Rubik 1 inventor1
Rubin 1 astronomer1
Runge 1 chemist1
Ruska 1 physicist1
Russell 1 astronomer1
Rutherford 1 physicist1
Ružička 1 chemist1
Ryle 1 physicist1
Sabatier 1 chemist1
Sagan 1 astronomer1
Sakharov 1 physicist1
Salam 1 physicist1
Salk 1 physician1
Sancar 1 biologist1
Sanger 1 chemist1
Santos 1 inventor1
Sax 1 inventor1
Schawlow 1 physicist1
Scheele 1 chemist1
Schliemann 1 archaeologist1
Schmidt 1 physicist1
Schrieffer 1 physicist1
Schrödinger 1 physicist1
Schwann 1 biologist1
Schwartz 1 physicist1
Schwinger 1 physicist1
Seaborg 1 chemist1
Segrè 1 physicist1
Seilacher 1 paleontologist1
Semmelweis 1 physician1
Semyonov 1 physicist1
Senefelder 1 inventor1
Shannon 1 engineer1
Shechtman 1 chemist1
Shockley 1 physicist1
Shuman 1 inventor1
Siegbahn 2 physicists2
Siemens 1 inventor1
Sikorsky 1 inventor1
Singer 1 inventor1
Sinoussi 1 biologist1
Sjögren 1 physician1
Slipher 1 astronomer1
Smith 1 inventor, 1 physicist2
Smoot 1 physicist1
Snellius 1 astronomer1
Snow 1 physician1
Soddy 1 chemist1
Sommerfeld 1 physicist1
Stanley 1 chemist1
Stark 1 physicist1
Staudinger 1 chemist1
Steno 1 geologist1
Stephenson 1 inventor1
Stern 1 physicist1
Störmer 1 physicist1
Strecker 1 chemist1
Strickland 1 physicist1
Strömgren 1 astronomer/physicist1
Strowger 1 inventor1
Strutt 1 physicist1
Subrahmanyan 1 physicist1
Sumner 1 chemist1
Supek 1 physicist1
Svedberg 1 chemist1
Szent-Györgyi 1 chemist1
Talbot 1 inventor1
Tamm 1 physicist1
Tannoudji 1 physicist1
Taylor 2 physicists2
Teller 1 physicist1
Tesla 1 inventor1
Tharp 1 geologist1
Thompson 1 engineer, 1 physicist2
Thomson 3 physicists3
't Hooft 1 physicist1
Thorne 1 physicist1
Thouless 1 physicist1
Ting 1 physicist1
Tiselius 1 chemist1
Tombaugh 1 astronomer1
Tomonaga 1 physicist1
Torricelli 1 physicist1
Torvalds 1 engineer1
Townes 1 physicist1
Trevithick 1 inventor1
Tsiolkovsky 1 engineer1
Tu 1 chemist1
Tylor 1 anthropologist1
Tyson 1 physicist1
Urey 1 chemist1
Valsalva 1 physician1
van der Meer 1 physicist1
van der Waals 1 physicist1
van Leeuwenhoek 1 biologist1
van 't Hoff 1 chemist1
Van Vleck 1 physicist1
Veltman 1 physicist1
Vesalius 1 physician1
Virchow 1 physician1
Virtanen 1 chemist1
Volhard 1 biologist1
Volta 1 physicist1
von Baeyer 1 chemist1
von Behring 1 physician1
von Braun 1 engineer1
von Fraunhofer 1 inventor1
von Frisch 1 biologist1
von Guericke 1 physicist1
von Klitzing 1 physicist1
von Strümpell 1 physician1
von Willebrand 1 physician1
von Zeppelin 1 inventor1
Waksman 1 biologist1
Wallace 1 biologist/naturalist1
Wallach 1 chemist1
Walton 1 physicist1
Watson 1 biologist1
Watt 1 inventor1
Weber 1 physicist1
Wegener 1 geologist1
Weinberg 1 physicist1
Weizmann 1 chemist1
Werner 1 chemist1
Wesson 1 inventor1
Westinghouse 1 inventor1
Whiting 1 astronomer/physicist1
Whitney 1 inventor1
Wieman 1 physicist1
Wien 1 physicist1
Wigner 1 physicist1
Wilczek 1 physicist1
Wilkins 1 physicist1
Willstätter 1 chemist1
Wilson 2 astronomers, 2 physicists4
Windaus 1 chemist1
Wineland 1 physicist1
Witten 1 physicist1
Wöhler 1 chemist1
Wollaston 1 chemist/physicist1
Woodward 1 chemist1
Wozniak 1 engineer1
Wright 2 inventors2
Yalow 1 physicist1
Yang 1 physicist1
Yonath 1 chemist1
Young 1 physicist1
Yukawa 1 physicist1
Zeeman 1 physicist1
Zernike 1 physicist1
Zewail 1 chemist1
Ziegler 1 chemist1
Zsigmondy 1 chemist1
zur Hausen 1 biologist1
Zuse 1 inventor1
Zwicky 1 astronomer1