| Archimedes |
Greek mathematician and inventor |
| Aristotle |
Greek philosopher |
| Aryabhata |
Indian mathematician and Astronomer |
| Avicenna |
Persian physician and scholar |
| David Baltimore |
American Microbiologist |
| Daniel Bernoulli |
Swiss mathematician |
| Joseph Black |
British chemist and physicist |
| Niels Bohr |
Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
| Max Born |
British physicist |
| Robert Boyle |
British physicist |
| Robert Brown |
Scottish botanist |
| Henry Cavendish |
English chemist |
| Arthur Holly Compton |
American physicist |
| Nicolaus Copernicus |
Polish astronomer |
| Francis Crick |
British biochemist who co-discovered molecular structure of DNA |
| Marie Curie |
Polish-born French physicist and only female to win two Nobel Prozes |
| Georges Cuvier |
French Anatomist |
| John Dalton |
English meteorologist and chemist |
| Charles Darwin |
English Scientist published the theory of evolution by natural selection in his seminal book, Origin of Species |
| Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac |
Nobel Prize-winning English scientist |
| Theodosius Dobzhansky |
Russian American scientist |
| Gerald Maurice Edelman |
American physician and chemist |
| Albert Einstein |
German-American physicist who discovered theories of relativity |
| Michael Faraday |
English physicist and chemist |
| Enrico Fermi |
Italian-American Nuclear Physicist |
| Richard Feynman |
U.S. physicist |
| Andrew Z. Fire |
American biologist |
| Alexander Fleming |
Scottish physician and bacteriologist and discoverer of penicillin |
| Rosalind Franklin |
British biophysicist |
| Galen Of Pergamum |
Roman physician and philosopher |
| Galileo Galilei |
Italian Physicist who used telescope to see into space |
| George Gamow |
Russian-born American nuclear physicist |
| Murray Gell-Mann |
Nobel Prize winning physicist |
| Jane Goodall |
British ethologist known for her research on the chimpanzees of Gombe
Stream National Park in Tanzania |
| Otto Hahn |
German chemist |
| Edmond Halley |
English astronomer and mathematician |
| William Harvey |
English physician who discovered the nature of blood circulation |
| Stephen Hawking |
Physicist known for his book A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes |
| Werner Heisenberg |
German physicist |
| Hermann von Helmholtz |
German scientist known for his law of the conservation of energy |
| William Herschel |
German-born British astronomer who discoered Uranus in 1781 |
| Peter Higgs |
British physicist |
| Hippocrates |
Father of Medicine |
| Robert Hooke |
English physicist |
| Alexander von Humboldt |
German scholar and explorer |
| James Hutton |
Scottish scientist |
| Christiaan Huygens |
Dutch astronomer, mathematician, and physicist who doscovered the shape of the rings of Saturn |
| Ibn al-Haytham |
Arabic mathematician and astronomer |
| James Prescott Joule |
English physicist |
| Lord Kelvin |
British scientists who developed a temperature scale |
| Johannes Kepler |
Renaissance astronomer and astrologer |
| Jean-Baptiste de Monet Lamarck |
French scientist who coined the word biologie (“biology”) |
| Pierre-Simon Laplace |
French astronomer |
| Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier |
French chemist |
| Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey |
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist |
| Anton van Leeuwenhoek |
Dutch microscopist |
| Justus Liebig |
German chemist |
| Carolus Linnaeus |
Swedish naturalist and physician |
| Hans Lipperhey |
German-Dutch spectacle-maker and inventor of telescope |
| Charles Lyell |
British geologist |
| Marcello Malpighi |
Italian physician and biologist |
| Lynn Margulis |
American biologist |
| James Clerk Maxwell |
Scottish physicist known for his theory of electromagnetic waves |
| Barbara McClintock |
American scientist |
| Lise Meitner |
Austrian physicist |
| Craig C. Mello |
American scientist |
| Gregor Mendel |
Father of genetics |
| Dmitry Mendeleyev |
Russian scientist who developed periodic table of the elements |
| Thomas Hunt Morgan |
American zoologist and geneticist |
| Isaac Newton |
English physicist and mathematician known for his laws of motion |
| Julius Robert Oppenheimer |
American physicist |
| Louis Pasteur |
French chemist |
| Linus Pauling |
American chemist and only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes |
| Max Planck |
German physicist |
| Joseph Priestley |
English scientist who discovered oxygen |
| Stanley Prusiner |
American physician and researcher |
| Ptolemy |
Greek astronomer, mathematician, and geographer |
| Ernest Rutherford |
Nuclear physicist who discovered radioactivity |
| Carl Sagan |
American astronomer |
| Abdus Salam |
Pakistani nuclear physicist |
| Frederick Sanger |
English biochemist and Nobel Prize winner in 1958 and 1980 |
| Matthias Jacob Schleiden |
German botanist |
| Erwin Schrödinger |
Austrian theoretical physicist |
| Theodor Schwann |
German physiologist |
| George Gaylord Simpson |
American paleontologist |
| Edward Teller |
American physicist |
| Nikola Tesla |
Inventor of alternating-current (AC) |
| Thales of Miletus |
Greek philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician |
| Joseph J. Thomson |
British physicist and the discoverer of the electron |
| Tycho Brahe |
Danish astronomer |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson |
American astronomer |
| Andreas Vesalius |
Flemish physician and surgeon |
| Alessandro Volta |
Italian physicist and inventor of electric battery |
| James Dewey Watson |
American geneticist and co-discoverer of
played a significant role in the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA |
| Alfred Wegener |
German meteorologist |
| Steven Weinberg |
American nuclear physicist |
| Edward O. Wilson |
American biologist and the world’s leading authority on ants |
| Edward Witten |
American mathematical physicist |
| Chien-shiung Wu |
Chinese-American physicist |
| Shinya Yamanaka |
Japanese physician and researcher |
| Chen Ning Yang |
Chinese-American theoretical physicist |
| Yukawa Hideki |
Theoretical physicist and Japan’s first Nobel laureate |
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