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