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.
| Name | Lifespan | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hippocrates of Cos | 460-370 BC |  | |
| Aristarchus of Samos | c. 310-c. 230 BC | | |
| Apollonius of Perga | c. 262-c. 190 BC | | |
| Hipparchus of Nicaea | c. 190-c. 120 BC | | |
| Aglaonice | ?-c. 100 BC | | |
| Pliny the Elder | c. 23-79 | (Plinius, Secundus) | |
| Cai Lun | 50-121 | (Ts'ai) | |
| Ptolemy | c. 100-c. 168 | (Ptolemaeus) | |
| Galen | 129-c. 216 | | |
| Aryabhata | 476-550 | | |
| Jabir ibn Hayyan | c. 721-c. 815 | | |
| Abbas ibn Firnas | c. 809-887 | | |
| Abu Bakr Muhammad al-Razi | 865-925 | (Rhazes) | |
| Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi | 903-986 | | |
| Ibn al-Haytham | c. 965-c. 1040 | | |
| Abu Rayhan Muhammad al-Biruni | 973-c. 1050 | | |
| Ismail al-Jazari | 1136-1206 | | |
| Ulugh Beg | 1394-1449 | (Taraghay) | |
| Johannes Gutenberg | c. 1395-1468 | | |
| Leonardo da Vinci | 1452-1519 | | |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | 1473-1543 | | |
| Paracelsus | 1493-1541 | | |
| Andreas Vesalius | 1514-1564 | (van Wezel) | |
| Conrad Gessner | 1516-1565 | | |
| William Gilbert | 1544-1603 | | |
| Guidobaldo del Monte | 1545-1607 | | |
| Tycho Brahe | 1546-1601 | | |
| Giordano Bruno | 1548-1600 | | |
| Galileo Galilei | 1564-1642 | | |
| Hans Lipperhey | c. 1570-1619 | | |
| Johannes Kepler | 1571-1630 | | |
| William Harvey | 1578-1657 | | |
| Willebrord Snellius | 1580-1626 | (Snel van Royen) | |
| Otto von Guericke | 1602-1686 | | |
| Evangelista Torricelli | 1608-1647 | | |
| Johannes Hevelius | 1611-1687 | | |
| Giovanni Domenico Cassini | 1625-1712 | | |
| Robert Boyle | 1627-1691 | | |
| Christiaan Huygens | 1629-1695 | | |
| Antonie van Leeuwenhoek | 1632-1723 | | |
| Robert Hooke | 1635-1703 | | |
| Nicolas Steno | 1638-1686 | (Steensen) | |
| James Gregory | 1638-1675 | | |
| Isaac Newton | 1642-1727 | | |
| Ole Rømer | 1644-1710 | | |
| Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | 1646-1716 | | |
| Maria Sibylla Merian | 1647-1717 | | |
| Denis Papin | 1647-c. 1712 | | |
| Bartolomeo Cristofori | 1655-1731 | | |
| Edmond Halley | 1656-1742 | | |
| Thomas Newcomen | 1664-1729 | | |
| Antonio Maria Valsalva | 1666-1723 | | |
| Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit | 1686-1736 | | |
| Daniel Bernoulli | 1700-1782 | | |
| Anders Celsius | 1701-1744 | | |
| Carl Linnaeus | 1707-1778 | | |
| Georges-Louis Leclerc | 1707-1788 | | |
| Mikhail Lomonosov | 1711-1765 | | |
| Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot | 1725-1804 | | |
| Michel Adanson | 1727-1806 | | |
| Otto Friedrich Müller | 1730-1784 | | |
| Charles Messier | 1730-1817 | | |
| Henry Cavendish | 1731-1810 | | |
| David Rittenhouse | 1732-1796 | | |
| Richard Arkwright | 1733-1792 | | |
| James Watt | 1736-1819 | | |
| Charles-Augustin de Coulomb | 1736-1806 | | |
| Luigi Galvani | 1737-1798 | | |
| William Herschel | 1738-1822 | | |
| Carl Wilhelm Scheele | 1742-1786 | | |
| Antoine Lavoisier | 1743-1794 | | |
| Jean-Baptiste Lamarck | 1744-1829 | | |
| Alessandro Volta | 1745-1827 | | |
| Giuseppe Piazzi | 1746-1826 | | |
| Pierre-Simon Laplace | 1749-1827 | | |
| Edward Jenner | 1749-1823 | | |
| Nicolas Appert | 1749-1841 | | |
| Caroline Herschel | 1750-1848 | | |
| Joseph Marie Jacquard | 1752-1834 | | |
| Barnaba Oriani | 1752-1832 | | |
| Benjamin Thompson | 1753-1814 | | |
| Jean-Pierre Blanchard | 1753-1809 | | |
| James Parkinson | 1755-1824 | | |
| Nicéphore Niépce | 1765-1833 | | |
| Robert Fulton | 1765-1815 | | |
| Eli Whitney | 1765-1825 | | |
| William Hyde Wollaston | 1766-1828 | | |
| John Dalton | 1766-1844 | | |
| Georges Cuvier | 1769-1832 | | |
| Niccolò Cacciatore | 1770-1841 | | |
| Richard Trevithick | 1771-1833 | | |
| Alois Senefelder | 1771-1834 | | |
| Thomas Young | 1773-1829 | | |
| Robert Brown | 1773-1858 | | |
| André-Marie Ampère | 1775-1836 | | |
| Amedeo Avogadro | 1776-1856 | | |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss | 1777-1855 | | |
| Hans Christian Ørsted | 1777-1851 | | |
| Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac | 1778-1850 | | |
| Humphry Davy | 1778-1829 | | |
| Jöns Jacob Berzelius | 1779-1848 | | |
| George Stephenson | 1781-1848 | | |
| Friedrich Bessel | 1784-1846 | | |
| John James Audubon | 1785-1851 | | |
| Karl Drais | 1785-1851 | | |
| Joseph von Fraunhofer | 1787-1826 | | |
| Louis Daguerre | 1787-1851 | | |
| Augustin-Jean Fresnel | 1788-1827 | | |
| Georg Ohm | 1789-1854 | | |
| Claude Pouillet | 1790-1868 | | |
| Samuel Morse | 1791-1872 | | |
| Michael Faraday | 1791-1867 | | |
| Charles Babbage | 1791-1871 | | |
| John Herschel | 1792-1871 | | |
| Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis | 1792-1843 | | |
| Eliphalet Remington | 1793-1861 | | |
| Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge | 1794-1867 | | |
| Thomas Addison | 1795-1860 | | |
| Rowland Hill | 1795-1879 | | |
| Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot | 1796-1832 | | |
| Charles Lyell | 1797-1875 | | |
| Mary Anning | 1799-1847 | | |
| Prosper Menière | 1799-1862 | | |
| Henry Fox Talbot | 1800-1877 | | |
| John Edward Gray | 1800-1875 | | |
| Friedrich Wöhler | 1800-1882 | | |
| Charles Goodyear | 1800-1860 | | |
| Justus von Liebig | 1803-1873 | | |
| Christian Doppler | 1803-1853 | | |
| John Deere | 1804-1886 | | |
| Wilhelm Eduard Weber | 1804-1891 | | |
| William Rowan Hamilton | 1805-1865 | | |
| Antonio Meucci | 1808-1889 | | |
| Horace Smith | 1808-1893 | | |
| Louis Braille | 1809-1852 | | |
| Charles Darwin | 1809-1882 | | |
| Theodor Schwann | 1810-1882 | | |
| Robert Bunsen | 1811-1899 | | |
| Isaac Singer | 1811-1875 | | |
| John Snow | 1813-1858 | | |
| Claude Bernard | 1813-1878 | | |
| Samuel Colt | 1814-1862 | | |
| Adolphe Sax | 1814-1894 | | |
| Werner von Siemens | 1816-1892 | | |
| George Henry Corliss | 1817-1888 | | |
| C. H. D. Buys Ballot | 1817-1890 | (Buis) | |
| Ignaz Semmelweis | 1818-1865 | | |
| Hermann Kolbe | 1818-1884 | | |
| Lewis H. Morgan | 1818-1881 | | |
| James Prescott Joule | 1818-1889 | | |
| Léon Foucault | 1819-1868 | | |
| Hermann von Helmholtz | 1821-1894 | | |
| Rudolf Virchow | 1821-1902 | | |
| Rudolf Clausius | 1822-1888 | | |
| Heinrich Schliemann | 1822-1890 | | |
| Adolf Kussmaul | 1822-1902 | | |
| Gregor Mendel | 1822-1884 | | |
| Adolph Strecker | 1822-1871 | | |
| Louis Pasteur | 1822-1895 | | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace | 1823-1913 | | |
| William Huggins | 1824-1910 | | |
| Gustav Kirchhoff | 1824-1887 | | |
| William Thomson | 1824-1907 | (Kelvin) | |
| Augustin Mouchot | 1825-1911 | | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley | 1825-1895 | | |
| Daniel B. Wesson | 1825-1906 | | |
| Jean-Martin Charcot | 1825-1893 | | |
| Adolf Bastian | 1826-1905 | | |
| Joseph Lister | 1827-1912 | | |
| John Langdon Down | 1828-1896 | | |
| James Clerk Maxwell | 1831-1879 | | |
| Nikolaus Otto | 1832-1891 | | |
| Edward Burnett Tylor | 1832-1917 | | |
| Gustave Eiffel | 1832-1923 | | |
| Alfred Nobel | 1833-1896 | | |
| Dmitriy Mendeleev | 1834-1907 | | |
| Ernst Haeckel | 1834-1919 | | |
| Gottlieb Daimler | 1834-1900 | | |
| Maurice Raynaud | 1834-1881 | | |
| Adolf von Baeyer | 1835-1917 | (Baeyer) | |
| Johannes Diderik van der Waals | 1837-1923 | | |
| Ernst Mach | 1838-1916 | | |
| Ferdinand von Zeppelin | 1838-1917 | | |
| Almon Brown Strowger | 1839-1902 | | |
| Josiah Willard Gibbs | 1839-1903 | | |
| Ernst Abbe | 1840-1905 | | |
| John Boyd Dunlop | 1840-1921 | | |
| Robert Stawell Ball | 1840-1913 | | |
| Emil Theodor Kocher | 1841-1917 | | |
| Camille Flammarion | 1842-1925 | | |
| John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh | 1842-1919 | | |
| Camillo Golgi | 1843-1926 | | |
| Valentine Ball | 1843-1894 | | |
| Robert Koch | 1843-1910 | | |
| Ludwig Boltzmann | 1844-1906 | | |
| Carl Benz | 1844-1929 | (Vaillant) | |
| Wilhelm Röntgen | 1845-1923 | | |
| Ilya Mechnikov | 1845-1916 | (Metchnikoff) | |
| Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran | 1845-1922 | | |
| Gabriel Lippmann | 1845-1921 | | |
| Wilhelm Maybach | 1846-1929 | | |
| Edward Charles Pickering | 1846-1919 | | |
| George Westinghouse | 1846-1914 | | |
| Thomas Edison | 1847-1931 | | |
| Alexander Graham Bell | 1847-1922 | | |
| Otto Wallach | 1847-1931 | | |
| Sarah Frances Whiting | 1847-1927 | | |
| Ivan Pavlov | 1849-1936 | | |
| George Huntington | 1850-1916 | | |
| Karl Ferdinand Braun | 1850-1918 | | |
| Charles Richet | 1850-1935 | | |
| Jacobus Kapteyn | 1851-1922 | | |
| Emile Berliner | 1851-1929 | | |
| Arthur Evans | 1851-1941 | | |
| Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick | 1852-1937 | | |
| Santiago Ramón y Cajal | 1852-1934 | | |
| Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff | 1852-1911 | | |
| Henri Moissan | 1852-1907 | | |
| William Ramsay | 1852-1916 | | |
| Emil Fischer | 1852-1919 | | |
| Henri Becquerel | 1852-1908 | | |
| Albert Abraham Michelson | 1852-1931 | | |
| Adolf von Strümpell | 1853-1925 | (Strümpell) | |
| Hendrik Lorentz | 1853-1928 | | |
| Wilhelm Ostwald | 1853-1932 | | |
| Albrecht Kossel | 1853-1927 | | |
| Heike Kamerlingh Onnes | 1853-1926 | | |
| James George Frazer | 1854-1941 | | |
| Sergei Korsakov | 1854-1900 | (Korsakoff) | |
| Paul Ehrlich | 1854-1915 | | |
| Emil von Behring | 1854-1917 | (Behring) | |
| George Eastman | 1854-1932 | | |
| David Dunbar Buick | 1854-1929 | | |
| Paul Sabatier | 1854-1941 | | |
| John Browning | 1855-1926 | | |
| C. V. Boys | 1855-1944 | | |
| Emil Kraepelin | 1856-1926 | | |
| Nikola Tesla | 1856-1943 | | |
| J. J. Thomson | 1856-1940 | | |
| Konstantin Tsiolkovsky | 1857-1935 | | |
| Heinrich Hertz | 1857-1894 | | |
| Ronald Ross | 1857-1932 | | |
| Williamina Fleming | 1857-1911 | | |
| Georges Gilles de La Tourette | 1857-1904 | | |
| William Henry Pickering | 1858-1938 | | |
| Charles Eastman | 1858-1939 | | |
| Rudolf Diesel | 1858-1913 | | |
| Max Planck | 1858-1947 | | |
| Antoine Marfan | 1858-1942 | | |
| Franz Boas | 1858-1942 | | |
| Christiaan Eijkman | 1858-1930 | | |
| Vincas Kudirka | 1858-1899 | | |
| Svante Arrhenius | 1859-1927 | | |
| Pierre Curie | 1859-1906 | | |
| Herman Hollerith | 1860-1929 | | |
| Eduard Buchner | 1860-1917 | | |
| Willem Einthoven | 1860-1927 | | |
| Niels Ryberg Finsen | 1860-1904 | | |
| Charles Édouard Guillaume | 1861-1938 | | |
| Frederick Gowland Hopkins | 1861-1947 | | |
| James Naismith | 1861-1939 | | |
| Frank Shuman | 1862-1918 | | |
| Allvar Gullstrand | 1862-1930 | | |
| Philipp Lenard | 1862-1947 | | |
| William Henry Bragg | 1862-1942 | | |
| Henry Ford | 1863-1947 | | |
| Annie Jump Cannon | 1863-1941 | | |
| Wilhelm Wien | 1864-1928 | | |
| Alois Alzheimer | 1864-1915 | | |
| Walther Nernst | 1864-1941 | | |
| Richard Adolf Zsigmondy | 1865-1929 | | |
| Pieter Zeeman | 1865-1943 | | |
| Arthur Harden | 1865-1940 | | |
| Antonia Maury | 1866-1952 | | |
| Adolf Meyer | 1866-1950 | | |
| Thomas Hunt Morgan | 1866-1945 | | |
| Alfred Werner | 1866-1919 | | |
| Wilbur Wright | 1867-1912 | | |
| Marie Curie | 1867-1934 | | |
| Theodore William Richards | 1868-1928 | | |
| Robert Andrews Millikan | 1868-1953 | | |
| Karl Landsteiner | 1868-1943 | | |
| Henrietta Swan Leavitt | 1868-1921 | | |
| Gustav Mie | 1868-1957 | | |
| Arnold Sommerfeld | 1868-1951 | | |
| Fritz Haber | 1868-1934 | | |
| Charles Thomson Rees Wilson | 1869-1959 | | |
| Fritz Pregl | 1869-1930 | | |
| Gustaf Dalén | 1869-1937 | | |
| William G. Morgan | 1870-1942 | | |
| Erik Adolf von Willebrand | 1870-1949 | | |
| Jules Bordet | 1870-1961 | | |
| Jean Baptiste Perrin | 1870-1942 | | |
| Slavoljub Eduard Penkala | 1871-1922 | | |
| Victor Grignard | 1871-1935 | | |
| Orville Wright | 1871-1948 | | |
| Ernest Rutherford | 1871-1937 | | |
| Louis Blériot | 1872-1936 | | |
| Richard Willstätter | 1872-1942 | | |
| Anton Pannekoek | 1873-1960 | | |
| Alexis Carrel | 1873-1944 | | |
| Alberto Santos-Dumont | 1873-1932 | | |
| Ejnar Hertzsprung | 1873-1967 | | |
| Johannes Stark | 1874-1957 | | |
| Guglielmo Marconi | 1874-1937 | | |
| Howard Carter | 1874-1939 | | |
| Carl Bosch | 1874-1940 | | |
| Chaim Weizmann | 1874-1952 | (Vaytsman) | |
| Ferdinand Porsche | 1875-1951 | | |
| Vesto Slipher | 1875-1969 | | |
| Otto Diels | 1876-1954 | | |
| Róbert Bárány | 1876-1936 | | |
| Willis Carrier | 1876-1950 | | |
| Adolf Windaus | 1876-1959 | | |
| Charles Glover Barkla | 1877-1944 | | |
| Francis William Aston | 1877-1945 | | |
| Frederick Soddy | 1877-1956 | | |
| Henry Norris Russell | 1877-1957 | | |
| Lise Meitner | 1878-1968 | | |
| Otto Hahn | 1879-1968 | | |
| Albert Einstein | 1879-1955 | | |
| Owen Willans Richardson | 1879-1959 | | |
| Max von Laue | 1879-1960 | | |
| Alfred Wegener | 1880-1930 | | |
| Irving Langmuir | 1881-1957 | | |
| Hermann Staudinger | 1881-1965 | | |
| Hans Fischer | 1881-1945 | | |
| Alexander Fleming | 1881-1955 | | |
| Clinton Davisson | 1881-1958 | | |
| Percy Williams Bridgman | 1882-1961 | | |
| James Franck | 1882-1964 | | |
| Robert H. Goddard | 1882-1945 | | |
| Max Born | 1882-1970 | | |
| Arthur Eddington | 1882-1944 | | |
| Marius Barbeau | 1883-1969 | | |
| Victor Francis Hess | 1883-1964 | | |
| Peter Debye | 1884-1966 | | |
| Bronisław Malinowski | 1884-1942 | | |
| Burrill Bernard Crohn | 1884-1983 | | |
| Theodor Svedberg | 1884-1971 | | |
| Friedrich Bergius | 1884-1949 | | |
| Hermann Rorschach | 1884-1922 | | |
| George de Hevesy | 1885-1966 | | |
| Niels Bohr | 1885-1962 | | |
| Karl von Frisch | 1886-1982 | | |
| Manne Siegbahn | 1886-1978 | | |
| Hedwig Kohn | 1887-1964 | | |
| Ruth Benedict | 1887-1948 | | |
| Julian Huxley | 1887-1975 | | |
| Gustav Ludwig Hertz | 1887-1975 | | |
| Erwin Schrödinger | 1887-1961 | | |
| Friedrich Paneth | 1887-1958 | | |
| Leopold Ružička | 1887-1976 | | |
| James B. Sumner | 1887-1955 | | |
| Otto Stern | 1888-1969 | | |
| Inge Lehmann | 1888-1993 | | |
| Frits Zernike | 1888-1966 | | |
| Selman Waksman | 1888-1973 | | |
| John Logie Baird | 1888-1946 | | |
| C. V. Raman | 1888-1970 | | |
| Paul Karrer | 1889-1971 | | |
| Igor Sikorsky | 1889-1972 | | |
| Edwin Hubble | 1889-1953 | | |
| Vannevar Bush | 1890-1974 | | |
| William Lawrence Bragg | 1890-1971 | | |
| Jaroslav Heyrovský | 1890-1967 | | |
| Walther Bothe | 1891-1957 | | |
| John Howard Northrop | 1891-1987 | | |
| James Chadwick | 1891-1974 | | |
| Frederick Banting | 1891-1941 | | |
| George Paget Thomson | 1892-1975 | | |
| Louis de Broglie | 1892-1987 | | |
| Edward Victor Appleton | 1892-1965 | | |
| Arthur Compton | 1892-1962 | | |
| Marcel Minnaert | 1893-1970 | | |
| Harold Urey | 1893-1981 | | |
| Albert Szent-Györgyi | 1893-1986 | | |
| Satyendra Nath Bose | 1894-1974 | | |
| Pyotr Kapitsa | 1894-1984 | | |
| Georges Lemaître | 1894-1966 | | |
| Artturi Ilmari Virtanen | 1895-1973 | | |
| Igor Tamm | 1895-1971 | | |
| Buckminster Fuller | 1895-1983 | | |
| Gerhard Domagk | 1895-1964 | | |
| Nikolay Semyonov | 1896-1986 | | |
| Gerty Cori | 1896-1957 | | |
| Hugo Bernatzik | 1897-1953 | | |
| John Cockcroft | 1897-1967 | | |
| Tadeusz Reichstein | 1897-1996 | | |
| Irène Joliot-Curie | 1897-1956 | | |
| Patrick Blackett | 1897-1974 | | |
| Guy Stewart Callendar | 1898-1964 | | |
| Fritz Zwicky | 1898-1974 | | |
| Isidor Isaac Rabi | 1898-1988 | | |
| Howard Florey | 1898-1968 | | |
| Karl Ziegler | 1898-1973 | | |
| John Hasbrouck Van Vleck | 1899-1980 | | |
| Henrik Sjögren | 1899-1986 | | |
| László Bíró | 1899-1985 | | |
| Frédéric Joliot-Curie | 1900-1958 | | |
| Wolfgang Pauli | 1900-1958 | | |
| Charles Francis Richter | 1900-1985 | | |
| Jan Oort | 1900-1992 | | |
| Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin | 1900-1979 | | |
| Dennis Gabor | 1900-1979 | | |
| Hans Adolf Krebs | 1900-1981 | | |
| Linus Pauling | 1901-1994 | | |
| Ernest Lawrence | 1901-1958 | | |
| Enrico Fermi | 1901-1954 | | |
| Werner Heisenberg | 1901-1976 | | |
| Margaret Mead | 1901-1978 | | |
| Amil Kumar Das | 1902-1961 | | |
| Walter Houser Brattain | 1902-1987 | | |
| Alfred Kastler | 1902-1984 | | |
| Barbara McClintock | 1902-1992 | | |
| Kurt Alder | 1902-1958 | | |
| Paul Dirac | 1902-1984 | | |
| Arne Tiselius | 1902-1971 | | |
| Eugene Wigner | 1902-1995 | | |
| Giulio Natta | 1903-1979 | | |
| Adolf Butenandt | 1903-1995 | | |
| Ernest Walton | 1903-1995 | | |
| Konrad Lorenz | 1903-1989 | | |
| Lars Onsager | 1903-1976 | | |
| Cecil Frank Powell | 1903-1969 | | |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | 1904-1967 | | |
| Pavel Cherenkov | 1904-1990 | | |
| Wendell Meredith Stanley | 1904-1971 | | |
| Louis Néel | 1904-2000 | | |
| Emilio G. Segrè | 1905-1989 | | |
| Carl David Anderson | 1905-1991 | | |
| Nevill Francis Mott | 1905-1996 | | |
| Felix Bloch | 1905-1983 | | |
| Gerard Kuiper | 1905-1973 | | |
| Albert Hofmann | 1906-2008 | | |
| Clyde Tombaugh | 1906-1997 | | |
| Hans Asperger | 1906-1980 | | |
| Tomonaga Shin'ichirō | 1906-1979 | | |
| Maria Goeppert-Mayer | 1906-1972 | | |
| Hans Bethe | 1906-2005 | | |
| Vladimir Prelog | 1906-1998 | | |
| Grace Hopper | 1906-1992 | | |
| Ernst Ruska | 1906-1988 | | |
| Sergei Korolev | 1907-1966 | | |
| Yukawa Hideki | 1907-1981 | | |
| Melba Phillips | 1907-2004 | | |
| Rachel Carson | 1907-1964 | | |
| J. Hans D. Jensen | 1907-1973 | | |
| Edwin McMillan | 1907-1991 | | |
| Edward Teller | 1908-2003 | | |
| Bengt Strömgren | 1908-1987 | | |
| Lev Landau | 1908-1968 | | |
| John Bardeen | 1908-1991 | | |
| Hannes Alfvén | 1908-1995 | | |
| Ilya Frank | 1908-1990 | | |
| Willard Libby | 1908-1980 | | |
| Olin Chaddock Wilson | 1909-1994 | | |
| Rita Levi-Montalcini | 1909-2012 | | |
| Virginia Apgar | 1909-1974 | | |
| Leo Fender | 1909-1991 | | |
| Jacques Monod | 1910-1976 | | |
| William Shockley | 1910-1989 | | |
| Dorothy Hodgkin | 1910-1994 | | |
| Konrad Zuse | 1910-1995 | | |
| Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | 1910-1995 | | |
| Polykarp Kusch | 1911-1993 | | |
| Maus Gatsonides | 1911-1998 | | |
| Melvin Calvin | 1911-1997 | | |
| Luis Walter Alvarez | 1911-1988 | | |
| William Alfred Fowler | 1911-1995 | | |
| Samuel Warren Carey | 1911-2002 | | |
| Harry Klinefelter | 1912-1990 | | |
| Wernher von Braun | 1912-1977 | | |
| Glenn T. Seaborg | 1912-1999 | | |
| Edward Mills Purcell | 1912-1997 | | |
| Willis Lamb | 1913-2008 | | |
| Britton Chance | 1913-2010 | | |
| Wolfgang Paul | 1913-1993 | | |
| Norman Borlaug | 1914-2009 | | |
| Adriaan Blaauw | 1914-2010 | | |
| Raymond Davis Jr. | 1914-2006 | | |
| Jonas Salk | 1914-1995 | | |
| Robert Hofstadter | 1915-1990 | | |
| Ivan Supek | 1915-2007 | | |
| Les Paul | 1915-2009 | | |
| Charles H. Townes | 1915-2015 | | |
| Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. | 1915-2011 | | |
| Claude Shannon | 1916-2001 | | |
| Francis Crick | 1916-2004 | | |
| Alexander Prokhorov | 1916-2002 | | |
| Vitaly Ginzburg | 1916-2009 | | |
| Maurice Wilkins | 1916-2004 | | |
| Ilya Prigogine | 1917-2003 | | |
| Robert Burns Woodward | 1917-1979 | | |
| Andrew Huxley | 1917-2012 | | |
| James Rainwater | 1917-1986 | | |
| Gertrude B. Elion | 1918-1999 | | |
| Julian Schwinger | 1918-1994 | | |
| Frederick Reines | 1918-1998 | | |
| Kai Siegbahn | 1918-2007 | | |
| Richard Feynman | 1918-1988 | | |
| Frederick Sanger | 1918-2013 | | |
| Martin Ryle | 1918-1984 | | |
| Ward Goodenough | 1919-2013 | | |
| Olin J. Eggen | 1919-1998 | | |
| Mikhail Kalashnikov | 1919-2013 | | |
| Henry Heimlich | 1920-2016 | | |
| Nicolaas Bloembergen | 1920-2017 | | |
| Owen Chamberlain | 1920-2006 | | |
| Rosalind Franklin | 1920-1958 | | |
| Marie Tharp | 1920-2006 | | |
| Yoichiro Nambu | 1921-2015 | | |
| Arthur Leonard Schawlow | 1921-1999 | | |
| Andrei Sakharov | 1921-1989 | | |
| Rosalyn Yalow | 1921-2011 | (Sussman) | |
| Har Gobind Khorana | 1922-2011 | | |
| Clair Patterson | 1922-1995 | | |
| Aage Bohr | 1922-2009 | | |
| Leon M. Lederman | 1922-2018 | | |
| John B. Goodenough | 1922-2023 | | |
| Arthur Ashkin | 1922-2020 | | |
| Yang Chen-Ning | 1922- | | |
| Nikolay Basov | 1922-2001 | | |
| Val Logsdon Fitch | 1923-2015 | | |
| Jack Kilby | 1923-2005 | | |
| Philip W. Anderson | 1923-2020 | | |
| Freeman Dyson | 1923-2020 | | |
| Bruce C. Heezen | 1924-1977 | | |
| Antony Hewish | 1924-2021 | | |
| Georges Charpak | 1924-2010 | | |
| Willard Boyle | 1924-2011 | | |
| Douglas Engelbart | 1925-2013 | | |
| Adolf Seilacher | 1925-2014 | | |
| Reona Esaki | 1925- | | |
| Roy J. Glauber | 1925-2018 | | |
| Robert Edwards | 1925-2013 | | |
| Simon van der Meer | 1925-2011 | | |
| Abdus Salam | 1926-1996 | | |
| David Attenborough | 1926- | | |
| John Shipley Rowlinson | 1926-2018 | | |
| Asım Orhan Barut | 1926-1994 | | |
| Paul Berg | 1926-2023 | | |
| Ben Roy Mottelson | 1926-2022 | | |
| Koshiba Masatoshi | 1926-2020 | | |
| Donald A. Glaser | 1926-2013 | | |
| Lee Tsung-Dao | 1926- | | |
| Sydney Brenner | 1927-2019 | | |
| K. Alex Müller | 1927-2023 | | |
| Manfred Eigen | 1927-2019 | | |
| Martin Lewis Perl | 1927-2014 | | |
| James Watson | 1928- | | |
| Charles David Keeling | 1928-2005 | | |
| Alexei A. Abrikosov | 1928-2017 | | |
| Vera Rubin | 1928-2016 | (Cooper) | |
| Martin Cooper | 1928- | | |
| Akasaki Isamu | 1929-2021 | | |
| Rudolf Mössbauer | 1929-2011 | | |
| Ivar Giaever | 1929- | | |
| Peter Higgs | 1929- | | |
| Murray Gell-Mann | 1929-2019 | | |
| Richard E. Taylor | 1929-2018 | | |
| Leon Cooper | 1930- | | |
| Zhores Alferov | 1930-2019 | | |
| Jerome Isaac Friedman | 1930- | | |
| George E. Smith | 1930- | | |
| Tu Youyou | 1930- | | |
| Burton Richter | 1931-2018 | | |
| John Robert Schrieffer | 1931-2019 | | |
| Martinus J. G. Veltman | 1931-2021 | | |
| Roger Penrose | 1931- | | |
| James Cronin | 1931-2016 | | |
| Riccardo Giacconi | 1931-2018 | | |
| Dian Fossey | 1932-1985 | | |
| Luc Montagnier | 1932-2022 | | |
| Pierre-Gilles de Gennes | 1932-2007 | | |
| Melvin Schwartz | 1932-2006 | | |
| François Englert | 1932- | | |
| Sheldon Lee Glashow | 1932- | | |
| Claude Cohen-Tannoudji | 1933- | | |
| Arno Allan Penzias | 1933- | | |
| Steven Weinberg | 1933-2021 | | |
| Heinrich Rohrer | 1933-2013 | | |
| Charles K. Kao | 1933-2018 | | |
| Paul J. Crutzen | 1933-2021 | | |
| Carlo Rubbia | 1934- | | |
| Jane Goodall | 1934- | | |
| John L. Hall | 1934- | | |
| David J. Thouless | 1934-2019 | | |
| Carl Sagan | 1934-1996 | | |
| Jim Peebles | 1935- | | |
| Robert Woodrow Wilson | 1936- | | |
| Samuel C. C. Ting | 1936- | | |
| Harald zur Hausen | 1936-2023 | | |
| Kenneth G. Wilson | 1936-2013 | | |
| Margaret Hamilton | 1936- | | |
| Gerhard Ertl | 1936- | | |
| Robert Coleman Richardson | 1937-2013 | | |
| Albert Fert | 1938- | | |
| Anthony James Leggett | 1938- | | |
| Peter Grünberg | 1939-2018 | | |
| Ada Yonath | 1939- | | |
| Brian David Josephson | 1940- | | |
| Toshihide Maskawa | 1940-2021 | | |
| Kip Thorne | 1940- | | |
| Dan Shechtman | 1941- | | |
| David Gross | 1941- | | |
| Richard Dawkins | 1941- | | |
| Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. | 1941- | | |
| Dennis Ritchie | 1941-2011 | | |
| Theodor W. Hänsch | 1941- | | |
| Stephen Hawking | 1942-2018 | | |
| Michel Mayor | 1942- | | |
| Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard | 1942- | | |
| Ken Thompson | 1943- | | |
| Mario Molina | 1943-2020 | | |
| J. Michael Kosterlitz | 1943- | | |
| Klaus von Klitzing | 1943- | | |
| Jocelyn Bell Burnell | 1943- | | |
| Arthur B. McDonald | 1943- | | |
| David Jeffrey Wineland | 1944- | | |
| Ernő Rubik | 1944- | | |
| Serge Haroche | 1944- | | |
| Yoshinori Ōsumi | 1945- | (Ohsumi) | |
| George Smoot | 1945- | | |
| Ahmed Zewail | 1946-2016 | | |
| Jack Horner | 1946- | | |
| Gerard 't Hooft | 1946- | | |
| John C. Mather | 1946- | | |
| Aziz Sancar | 1946- | | |
| Michio Kaku | 1947- | | |
| Linda B. Buck | 1947- | | |
| Roger D. Kornberg | 1947- | | |
| Gerd Binnig | 1947- | | |
| Françoise Barré-Sinoussi | 1947- | | |
| Steven Chu | 1948- | | |
| Kathy Reichs | 1948- | | |
| William Daniel Phillips | 1948- | | |
| Elizabeth Blackburn | 1948- | | |
| Horst Ludwig Störmer | 1949- | | |
| Hugh David Politzer | 1949- | | |
| Georg Bednorz | 1950- | | |
| Steve Wozniak | 1950- | | |
| Robert B. Laughlin | 1950- | | |
| Russell Alan Hulse | 1950- | | |
| Carl Wieman | 1951- | | |
| Frank Wilczek | 1951- | | |
| Edward Witten | 1951- | | |
| Duncan Haldane | 1951- | | |
| Barry Marshall | 1951- | | |
| Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | 1952- | | |
| Nakamura Shuji | 1954- | | |
| Ayyub Guliyev | 1954- | | |
| Svante Pääbo | 1955- | | |
| Tim Berners-Lee | 1955- | | |
| Frances Arnold | 1956- | | |
| Wolfgang Ketterle | 1957- | | |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson | 1958- | | |
| Andre Geim | 1958- | | |
| Kajita Takaaki | 1959- | | |
| Donna Strickland | 1959- | | |
| Saul Perlmutter | 1959- | | |
| Amano Hiroshi | 1960- | | |
| David Graeber | 1961-2020 | | |
| Carol W. Greider | 1961- | | |
| May-Britt Moser | 1963- | | |
| Jennifer Doudna | 1964- | | |
| Andrea Mia Ghez | 1965- | | |
| Didier Queloz | 1966- | | |
| Carolyn Bertozzi | 1966- | | |
| Brian Schmidt | 1967- | | |
| Emmanuelle Charpentier | 1968- | | |
| Adam Riess | 1969- | | |
| Linus Torvalds | 1969- | | |
| Konstantin Novoselov | 1974- | |