Notable Scientists and Inventors
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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 Details Total
Adanson 1 naturalist1
Alaga 1 physicist1
Ampère 1 physicist1
Arkwright 1 inventor1
Arrhenius 1 chemist1
Attenborough 1 naturalist1
Audubon 1 biologist1
Avogadro 1 chemist1
Babbage 1 inventor1
Bacaloglu 1 chemist/physicist1
Baird 1 inventor1
Ball 1 astronomer, 1 geologist, 1 naturalist3
Ballot 1 chemist1
Barut 1 physicist1
Bastian 1 anthropologist1
Beck 1 physician1
Becquerel 1 physicist1
Bell 1 inventor1
Benz 1 inventor1
Bernard 1 biologist1
Bernatzik 1 anthropologist1
Berners 1 inventor1
Bernoulli 1 physicist1
Berzelius 1 chemist1
Blaauw 1 astronomer1
Blanchard 1 inventor1
Blériot 1 inventor1
Boas 1 anthropologist1
Bohr 1 physicist1
Boltzmann 1 physicist1
Born 1 physicist1
Boyle 1 chemist1
Boys 1 physicist1
Brahe 1 astronomer1
Braille 1 inventor1
Braun 1 inventor1
Browning 1 inventor1
Buick 1 inventor1
Bush 1 inventor1
Buys 1 chemist1
Cacciatore 1 astronomer1
Cai 1 inventor1
Callendar 1 inventor1
Cannon 1 astronomer1
Carey 1 geologist1
Carrier 1 inventor1
Carson 1 biologist1
Cassini 1 astronomer1
Cavendish 1 chemist1
Celsius 1 astronomer1
Chance 1 chemist1
Colt 1 inventor1
Copernicus 1 astronomer1
Corliss 1 inventor1
Crick 1 biologist1
Cugnot 1 inventor1
Curie 2 physicists2
Cuvier 1 biologist1
Daguerre 1 inventor1
Daimler 1 inventor1
Dalton 1 chemist1
Darwin 1 biologist1
Das 1 astronomer1
da Vinci 1 inventor1
Davy 1 chemist1
Dawkins 1 biologist1
de Broglie 1 physicist1
de Coulomb 1 physicist1
del Monte 1 astronomer1
Diesel 1 inventor1
Dirac 1 physicist1
Dumont 1 inventor1
Dyson 1 physicist1
Eastman 1 inventor, 1 physician2
Eddington 1 astronomer/physicist1
Edison 1 inventor1
Einstein 1 physicist1
Fahrenheit 1 physicist1
Faraday 1 physicist1
Fender 1 inventor1
Fermi 1 physicist1
Feynman 1 physicist1
Fick 1 inventor, 1 physician2
Fischer 1 chemist1
Flammarion 1 astronomer1
Fleming 1 astronomer, 1 biologist2
Ford 1 inventor1
Froelich 1 inventor1
Fulton 1 inventor1
Galilei 1 physicist1
Galvani 1 physicist1
Gaposchkin 1 astronomer1
Gatsonides 1 inventor1
Gauss 1 physicist1
Gay 1 chemist1
Goodall 1 biologist1
Goodenough 1 anthropologist, 1 physicist2
Goodyear 1 inventor1
Graeber 1 anthropologist1
Gregory 1 astronomer1
Guliyev 1 physicist1
Gutenberg 1 inventor1
Haeckel 1 biologist1
Hahn 1 chemist1
Halley 1 astronomer1
Hawking 1 physicist1
Heezen 1 geologist1
Heisenberg 1 physicist1
Helmholtz 1 physicist1
Hempt 1 physician1
Herschel 3 astronomers3
Hertzsprung 1 astronomer/chemist1
Hill 1 inventor1
Hoel 1 geologist1
Hollerith 1 inventor1
Hooke 1 physicist1
Hubble 1 astronomer1
Huggins 1 astronomer1
Huxley 2 biologists2
Huygens 1 astronomer/physicist1
Ibn al-Haitham 1 physicist1
Jacquard 1 inventor1
Jenner 1 biologist1
Joule 1 physicist1
Jump 1 astronomer1
Kapteyn 1 astronomer1
Keeling 1 chemist1
Kepler 1 physicist1
Kirchhoff 1 physicist1
Kitzinger 1 anthropologist1
Kohn 1 physicist1
Kolbe 1 chemist1
Kudirka 1 physician1
Kuiper 1 astronomer1
Kussmaul 1 physician1
Lamarck 1 biologist1
Laplace 1 astronomer1
Lavoisier 1 chemist1
Leavitt 1 astronomer1
Lee 1 inventor1
Levi 1 chemist1
Liebig 1 chemist1
Linnaeus 1 biologist1
Lippmann 1 physicist1
Lomonosov 1 physicist1
Lorentz 1 physicist1
Lorenz 1 biologist1
Lussac 1 chemist1
Mach 1 physicist1
Marconi 1 inventor1
Maury 1 astronomer1
Maxwell 1 physicist1
Maybach 1 inventor1
Mayor 1 astronomer1
Meitner 1 physicist1
Mendel 1 biologist1
Mendeleev 1 chemist1
Messier 1 astronomer1
Meucci 1 inventor1
Michelson 1 physicist1
Mie 1 physicist1
Minnaert 1 astronomer1
Morse 1 inventor1
Mouchot 1 inventor1
Müller 1 naturalist1
Newcomen 1 inventor1
Newton 1 physicist1
Nicolescu 1 physicist1
Niépce 1 inventor1
Nobel 1 chemist/inventor1
Ohm 1 physicist1
Oort 1 astronomer1
Oppenheimer 1 physicist1
Oriani 1 astronomer1
Ørsted 1 physicist1
Ostwald 1 chemist1
Otto 1 inventor1
Paneth 1 chemist1
Pannekoek 1 astronomer1
Papin 1 inventor1
Pasteur 1 chemist1
Patterson 1 chemist1
Pauli 1 physicist1
Pauling 1 chemist1
Pavlov 1 physician1
Payne 1 astronomer1
Peebles 1 astronomer1
Penkala 1 inventor1
Penrose 1 physicist1
Pickering 1 astronomer, 1 astronomer/physicist2
Pinner 1 chemist1
Planck 1 physicist1
Porsche 1 inventor1
Pouillet 1 physicist1
Queloz 1 astronomer1
Reichs 1 anthropologist1
Remington 1 inventor1
Rittenhouse 1 astronomer/inventor1
Rømer 1 astronomer1
Röntgen 1 physicist1
Rowlinson 1 chemist1
Rubik 1 inventor1
Rubin 1 astronomer1
Runge 1 chemist1
Russell 1 astronomer1
Rutherford 1 physicist1
Sagan 1 astronomer1
Sakharov 1 physicist1
Salk 1 physician1
Santos 1 inventor1
Sax 1 inventor1
Schliemann 1 archeologist1
Schrödinger 1 physicist1
Seilacher 1 paleontologist1
Senefelder 1 inventor1
Sharps 1 inventor1
Shuman 1 inventor1
Siemens 1 inventor1
Sikorsky 1 inventor1
Slipher 1 astronomer1
Smekal 1 physicist1
Smith 1 inventor1
Stephenson 1 inventor1
Stojanović 1 anthropologist1
Strecker 1 chemist1
Strömgren 1 astronomer/physicist1
Strowger 1 inventor1
Supek 1 physicist1
Talbot 1 inventor1
Teller 1 physicist1
Tesla 1 inventor1
Tharp 1 geologist1
Thiessen 1 chemist1
Thompson 1 physicist1
Thomson 2 physicists2
Torricelli 1 physicist1
Torvalds 1 inventor1
van der Waals 1 physicist1
van Leeuwenhoek 1 biologist1
Vesalius 1 physician1
Virchow 1 physician1
Volta 1 physicist1
von Fraunhofer 1 inventor1
von Willebrand 1 physician1
von Zeppelin 1 inventor1
Wallace 1 biologist/naturalist1
Watson 1 biologist1
Watt 1 inventor1
Wegener 1 geologist1
Weil 1 physician1
Wesson 1 inventor1
Westinghouse 1 inventor1
Whiting 1 astronomer/physicist1
Wien 1 physicist1
Wollaston 1 chemist/physicist1
Wright 2 inventors2
Young 1 physicist1
Zeeman 1 physicist1
Zuse 1 inventor1
Zwicky 1 astronomer1