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
al-Biruni 1 anthropologist/physicist1
al-Jazari 1 inventor1
al-Razi 1 physician1
al-Sufi 1 astronomer1
Ampère 1 physicist1
Anning 1 paleontologist1
Appert 1 inventor1
Arkwright 1 inventor1
Arrhenius 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
Barbeau 1 anthropologist1
Barut 1 physicist1
Bastian 1 anthropologist1
Becquerel 1 physicist1
Bell 1 inventor1
Benedict 1 anthropologist1
Benz 1 inventor1
Berliner 1 inventor1
Bernard 1 biologist1
Bernatzik 1 anthropologist1
Berners 1 inventor1
Bernoulli 1 physicist1
Berzelius 1 chemist1
Bíró 1 inventor1
Blaauw 1 astronomer1
Blanchard 1 inventor1
Blériot 1 inventor1
Boas 1 anthropologist1
Bohr 1 physicist1
Boltzmann 1 physicist1
Bordet 1 physician1
Born 1 physicist1
Boyle 1 chemist1
Boys 1 physicist1
Brahe 1 astronomer1
Braille 1 inventor1
Braun 1 inventor1
Brown 1 biologist1
Browning 1 inventor1
Bruno 1 astronomer1
Buick 1 inventor1
Bunsen 1 chemist1
Burnell 1 physicist1
Bush 1 inventor1
Buys 1 chemist1
Cacciatore 1 astronomer1
Cai 1 inventor1
Callendar 1 inventor1
Cannon 1 astronomer1
Carey 1 geologist1
Carnot 1 physicist1
Carrier 1 inventor1
Carson 1 biologist1
Cassini 1 astronomer1
Cavendish 1 chemist1
Celsius 1 astronomer1
Chance 1 chemist1
Clausius 1 physicist1
Colt 1 inventor1
Cooper 1 inventor1
Copernicus 1 astronomer1
Corliss 1 inventor1
Crick 1 biologist1
Cristofori 1 inventor1
Cugnot 1 inventor1
Curie 1 chemist, 2 physicists3
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
Debye 1 physicist1
de Coriolis 1 physicist1
de Coulomb 1 physicist1
Deere 1 inventor1
del Monte 1 astronomer1
Diesel 1 inventor1
Dirac 1 physicist1
Doppler 1 physicist1
Drais 1 inventor1
Dumont 1 inventor1
Dunlop 1 inventor1
Dyson 1 physicist1
Eastman 1 inventor, 1 physician2
Eddington 1 astronomer/physicist1
Edison 1 inventor1
Eggen 1 astronomer1
Eiffel 1 engineer1
Einstein 1 physicist1
Evans 1 archaeologist1
Fahrenheit 1 physicist1
Faraday 1 physicist1
Fender 1 inventor1
Fermi 1 physicist1
Feynman 1 physicist1
Fick 1 inventor1
Fischer 1 chemist1
Flammarion 1 astronomer1
Fleming 1 astronomer, 1 biologist2
Ford 1 inventor1
Fossey 1 naturalist1
Foucault 1 physicist1
Franklin 1 chemist1
Frazer 1 anthropologist1
Fulton 1 inventor1
Galilei 1 astronomer/physicist1
Galvani 1 physicist1
Gaposchkin 1 astronomer1
Gatsonides 1 inventor1
Gauss 1 physicist1
Gay 1 chemist1
Gessner 1 biologist1
Gilbert 1 physicist1
Goeppert 1 physicist1
Goodall 1 anthropologist/biologist1
Goodenough 1 anthropologist, 1 physicist2
Goodyear 1 inventor1
Graeber 1 anthropologist1
Gregory 1 astronomer1
Guliyev 1 physicist1
Gutenberg 1 inventor1
Haber 1 chemist1
Haeckel 1 biologist1
Hahn 1 chemist1
Halley 1 astronomer1
Hamilton 1 engineer1
Harvey 1 biologist1
Hawking 1 physicist1
Heezen 1 geologist1
Heisenberg 1 physicist1
Helmholtz 1 physicist1
Herschel 3 astronomers3
Hertz 1 physicist1
Hertzsprung 1 astronomer/chemist1
Hevelius 1 astronomer1
Higgs 1 physicist1
Hill 1 inventor1
Hofmann 1 chemist1
Hollerith 1 inventor1
Hooke 1 physicist1
Hopper 1 engineer1
Horner 1 paleontologist1
Hubble 1 astronomer1
Huggins 1 astronomer1
Huxley 2 biologists2
Huygens 1 astronomer/physicist1
Ibn al-Haytham 1 physicist1
Jacquard 1 inventor1
Jenner 1 biologist1
Joliot 1 chemist1
Joule 1 physicist1
Jump 1 astronomer1
Kalashnikov 1 inventor1
Kao 1 inventor1
Kapteyn 1 astronomer1
Keeling 1 chemist1
Kepler 1 astronomer1
Kilby 1 engineer1
Kirchhoff 1 physicist1
Koch 1 physician1
Kohn 1 physicist1
Kolbe 1 chemist1
Kossel 1 biologist1
Kudirka 1 physician1
Kuiper 1 astronomer1
Kussmaul 1 physician1
Lamarck 1 biologist1
Landau 1 physicist1
Landsteiner 1 biologist1
Laplace 1 astronomer1
Lavoisier 1 chemist1
Leavitt 1 astronomer1
Leclerc 1 naturalist1
Lee 1 inventor1
Lehmann 1 geologist1
Leibniz 1 physicist1
Lemaître 1 physicist1
Liebig 1 chemist1
Linnaeus 1 biologist1
Lipperhey 1 inventor1
Lippmann 1 physicist1
Lomonosov 1 physicist1
Lorentz 1 physicist1
Lorenz 1 biologist1
Lussac 1 chemist1
Lyell 1 geologist1
Mach 1 physicist1
Malinowski 1 anthropologist1
Marconi 1 inventor1
Maury 1 astronomer1
Maxwell 1 physicist1
Maybach 1 inventor1
Mayer 1 physicist1
Mayor 1 astronomer1
McClintock 1 biologist1
McMillan 1 chemist1
Mead 1 anthropologist1
Mechnikov 1 biologist1
Meitner 1 physicist1
Mendel 1 biologist1
Mendeleev 1 chemist1
Merian 1 naturalist1
Messier 1 astronomer1
Meucci 1 inventor1
Meyer 1 physician1
Michelson 1 physicist1
Mie 1 physicist1
Minnaert 1 astronomer1
Moissan 1 chemist1
Montagnier 1 biologist1
Morgan 1 anthropologist, 1 biologist, 1 inventor3
Morse 1 inventor1
Mouchot 1 inventor1
Müller 1 naturalist1
Naismith 1 inventor1
Newcomen 1 inventor1
Newton 1 physicist1
Niépce 1 inventor1
Nobel 1 chemist/inventor1
Ohm 1 physicist1
Onnes 1 physicist1
Oort 1 astronomer1
Oppenheimer 1 physicist1
Oriani 1 astronomer1
Ørsted 1 physicist1
Ostwald 1 chemist1
Ōsumi 1 biologist1
Otto 1 inventor1
Paneth 1 chemist1
Pannekoek 1 astronomer1
Papin 1 inventor1
Pasteur 1 chemist1
Patterson 1 chemist1
Paul 1 inventor1
Pauli 1 physicist1
Pauling 1 chemist1
Pavlov 1 biologist1
Payne 1 astronomer1
Peebles 1 astronomer1
Penkala 1 inventor1
Penrose 1 physicist1
Phillips 1 physicist1
Piazzi 1 astronomer1
Pickering 1 astronomer, 1 astronomer/physicist2
Planck 1 physicist1
Porsche 1 inventor1
Pouillet 1 physicist1
Queloz 1 astronomer1
Reichs 1 anthropologist1
Remington 1 inventor1
Richet 1 biologist1
Richter 1 geologist1
Ritchie 1 engineer1
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
Scheele 1 chemist1
Schliemann 1 archaeologist1
Schrödinger 1 physicist1
Schwann 1 biologist1
Seilacher 1 paleontologist1
Senefelder 1 inventor1
Shuman 1 inventor1
Siemens 1 inventor1
Sikorsky 1 inventor1
Singer 1 inventor1
Slipher 1 astronomer1
Smith 1 inventor1
Steno 1 geologist1
Stephenson 1 inventor1
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
Thompson 1 engineer, 1 physicist2
Thomson 2 physicists2
Torricelli 1 physicist1
Torvalds 1 engineer1
Trevithick 1 inventor1
Tylor 1 anthropologist1
Tyson 1 physicist1
van der Waals 1 physicist1
van Leeuwenhoek 1 biologist1
van 't Hoff 1 chemist1
Vesalius 1 physician1
Virchow 1 physician1
Volta 1 physicist1
von Braun 1 engineer1
von Fraunhofer 1 inventor1
von Frisch 1 biologist1
von Guericke 1 physicist1
von Strümpell 1 physician1
von Willebrand 1 physician1
von Zeppelin 1 inventor1
Wallace 1 biologist/naturalist1
Watson 1 biologist1
Watt 1 inventor1
Wegener 1 geologist1
Weizmann 1 chemist1
Werner 1 chemist1
Wesson 1 inventor1
Westinghouse 1 inventor1
Whiting 1 astronomer/physicist1
Whitney 1 inventor1
Wien 1 physicist1
Wilson 2 astronomers, 1 physicist3
Witten 1 physicist1
Wöhler 1 chemist1
Wollaston 1 chemist/physicist1
Wozniak 1 engineer1
Wright 2 inventors2
Young 1 physicist1
Zeeman 1 physicist1
zur Hausen 1 biologist1
Zuse 1 inventor1
Zwicky 1 astronomer1