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.
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NameLifespanOther Names
Aage Bohr1922-2009(Niels)
Abbas ibn Firnasc. 809-887
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi903-986
Abdus Salam1926-1996
Ada Yonath1939-
Adam Riess1969-
Adolf Bastian1826-1905(Philipp, Wilhelm)
Adolf Butenandt1903-1995(Friedrich, Johann)
Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick1852-1937
Adolf Kussmaul1822-1902(Adolph, Carl, Philipp, Konrad)
Adolf Meyer1866-1950
Adolf Seilacher1925-2014(Dolf)
Adolf von Baeyer1835-1917(Johann, Friedrich, Wilhelm)
Adolf von Strümpell1853-1925(Ernst, Gustav, Gottfried)
Adolf Windaus1876-1959(Otto, Reinhold)
Adolph Strecker1822-1871(Adolf, Friedrich, Ludwig, Ewald)
Adolphe Sax1814-1894
Adriaan Blaauw1914-2010
Aglaonice?-c. 100 BC(Aganice, Aglaonike)
Ahmed Zewail1946-2016(Hassan)
Albert Einstein1879-1955
Albert Fert1938-
Albert Hofmann1906-2008
Albert Abraham Michelson1852-1931
Albert Szent-Györgyi1893-1986
Alberto Santos-Dumont1873-1932
Albrecht Kossel1853-1927
Alessandro Volta1745-1827
Alexander Graham Bell1847-1922
Alexander Fleming1881-1955
Alexander Prokhorov1916-2002(Aleksandr)
Alexei A. Abrikosov1928-2017
Alexis Carrel1873-1944
Alfred Kastler1902-1984
Alfred Nobel1833-1896
Alfred Russel Wallace1823-1913
Alfred Wegener1880-1930
Alfred Werner1866-1919
Allvar Gullstrand1862-1930
Almon Brown Strowger1839-1902
Alois Alzheimer1864-1915
Alois Senefelder1771-1834
Amedeo Avogadro1776-1856
Amil Kumar Das1902-1961
Anders Celsius1701-1744
André-Marie Ampère1775-1836
Andre Geim1958-
Andrea Mia Ghez1965-
Andreas Vesalius1514-1564(Andries)
Andrei Sakharov1921-1989
Andrew Huxley1917-2012(Fielding)
Annie Jump Cannon1863-1941
Anthony James Leggett1938-
Antoine Lavoisier1743-1794
Antoine Marfan1858-1942(Bernard, Jean, Antonin)
Anton Pannekoek1873-1960(Antonie)
Antonia Maury1866-1952
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek1632-1723(Anton)
Antonio Meucci1808-1889
Antonio Maria Valsalva1666-1723
Antony Hewish1924-2021
Apollonius of Pergac. 262-c. 190 BC(Apollonios)
Aristarchus of Samosc. 310-c. 230 BC
Arne Tiselius1902-1971(Wilhelm, Kaurin)
Arno Allan Penzias1933-
Arnold Sommerfeld1868-1951
Arthur Ashkin1922-2020
Arthur Compton1892-1962(Holly)
Arthur Eddington1882-1944(Stanley)
Arthur Evans1851-1941
Arthur Harden1865-1940
Arthur B. McDonald1943-(Bruce)
Arthur Leonard Schawlow1921-1999
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen1895-1973
Aryabhata476-550
Asım Orhan Barut1926-1994
Augustin-Jean Fresnel1788-1827
Augustin Mouchot1825-1911
Ayyub Guliyev1954-
Aziz Sancar1946-
Barbara McClintock1902-1992
Barnaba Oriani1752-1832
Barry Marshall1951-
Bartolomeo Cristofori1655-1731
Ben Roy Mottelson1926-2022
Bengt Strömgren1908-1987(Georg, Daniel)
Benjamin Thompson1753-1814
Brian David Josephson1940-
Brian Schmidt1967-
Britton Chance1913-2010
Bronisław Malinowski1884-1942
Bruce C. Heezen1924-1977(Charles)
Buckminster Fuller1895-1983(Richard)
Burrill Bernard Crohn1884-1983
Burton Richter1931-2018
Camille Flammarion1842-1925(Nicolas)
Camillo Golgi1843-1926
Carl David Anderson1905-1991
Carl Benz1844-1929(Karl, Friedrich, Michael)
Carl Bosch1874-1940
Carl Friedrich Gauss1777-1855(Karl)
Carl Linnaeus1707-1778(Carolus)
Carl Sagan1934-1996(Edward)
Carl Wilhelm Scheele1742-1786
Carl Wieman1951-(Edwin)
Carlo Rubbia1934-
Carol W. Greider1961-(Carolyn, Widney)
Caroline Herschel1750-1848(Lucretia)
Carolyn Bertozzi1966-
Cecil Frank Powell1903-1969
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin1900-1979(Helena)
Chaim Weizmann1874-1952(Chayyim, Azriel, Azri'el)
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar1910-1995
C. V. Raman1888-1970(Chandrasekhara, Venkata)
Charles Babbage1791-1871
Charles Glover Barkla1877-1944
C. V. Boys1855-1944(Charles, Vernon)
Charles Darwin1809-1882
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb1736-1806
Charles Eastman1858-1939(Hakadah, Ohíye S'a, Alexander)
Charles Goodyear1800-1860
Charles Édouard Guillaume1861-1938
Charles K. Kao1933-2018(Kuen)
Charles David Keeling1928-2005
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran1845-1922
Charles Lyell1797-1875
Charles Messier1730-1817
Charles Richet1850-1935(Robert)
Charles Francis Richter1900-1985
Charles H. Townes1915-2015(Hard)
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson1869-1959
Yang Chen-Ning1922-(Zhenning)
Christiaan Eijkman1858-1930
Christiaan Huygens1629-1695(Christian)
Christian Doppler1803-1853
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard1942-
C. H. D. Buys Ballot1817-1890(Christophorus, Henricus, Dedericus, Didericus)
Clair Patterson1922-1995(Cameron)
Claude Bernard1813-1878
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji1933-
Claude Pouillet1790-1868(Servais, Mathias)
Claude Shannon1916-2001
Clinton Davisson1881-1958
Clyde Tombaugh1906-1997
Conrad Gessner1516-1565
Dan Shechtman1941-
Daniel Bernoulli1700-1782
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit1686-1736
Daniel B. Wesson1825-1906(Baird)
David Attenborough1926-(Frederick)
David Dunbar Buick1854-1929
David Graeber1961-2020(Rolfe)
David Gross1941-
David Rittenhouse1732-1796
David J. Thouless1934-2019(James)
David Jeffrey Wineland1944-
Denis Papin1647-c. 1712
Dennis Gabor1900-1979
Dennis Ritchie1941-2011
Dian Fossey1932-1985
Didier Queloz1966-
Dmitriy Mendeleev1834-1907(Dmitri)
Donald A. Glaser1926-2013
Donna Strickland1959-
Dorothy Hodgkin1910-1994(Mary)
Douglas Engelbart1925-2013
Duncan Haldane1951-
Edmond Halley1656-1742
Eduard Buchner1860-1917
Edward Victor Appleton1892-1965
Edward Jenner1749-1823
Edward Charles Pickering1846-1919
Edward Mills Purcell1912-1997
Edward Teller1908-2003(Ede)
Edward Burnett Tylor1832-1917
Edward Witten1951-
Edwin Hubble1889-1953
Edwin McMillan1907-1991(Mattison)
Ejnar Hertzsprung1873-1967
Eli Whitney1765-1825
Eliphalet Remington1793-1861
Elizabeth Blackburn1948-
Emil Fischer1852-1919(Hermann)
Emil Theodor Kocher1841-1917
Emil Kraepelin1856-1926(Wilhelm, Georg, Magnus)
Emil von Behring1854-1917(Adolf)
Emile Berliner1851-1929
Emilio G. Segrè1905-1989(Gino)
Emmanuelle Charpentier1968-
Enrico Fermi1901-1954
Erik Adolf von Willebrand1870-1949
Ernest Lawrence1901-1958
Ernest Rutherford1871-1937
Ernest Walton1903-1995(Thomas, Sinton)
Ernő Rubik1944-
Ernst Abbe1840-1905
Ernst Haeckel1834-1919
Ernst Mach1838-1916
Ernst Ruska1906-1988
Erwin Schrödinger1887-1961
Eugene Wigner1902-1995
Evangelista Torricelli1608-1647
Felix Bloch1905-1983
Ferdinand Porsche1875-1951
Ferdinand von Zeppelin1838-1917(Adolf, Heinrich, August)
Frances Arnold1956-
Francis William Aston1877-1945
Francis Crick1916-2004
François Englert1932-
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi1947-
Frank Shuman1862-1918
Frank Wilczek1951-
Franz Boas1858-1942
Frédéric Joliot-Curie1900-1958
Frederick Banting1891-1941(Grant)
Frederick Gowland Hopkins1861-1947
Frederick Reines1918-1998
Frederick Sanger1918-2013
Frederick Soddy1877-1956
Freeman Dyson1923-2020
Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge1794-1867
Friedrich Bergius1884-1949
Friedrich Bessel1784-1846
Friedrich Paneth1887-1958(Fritz, Adolf)
Friedrich Wöhler1800-1882
Frits Zernike1888-1966
Fritz Haber1868-1934
Fritz Pregl1869-1930
Fritz Zwicky1898-1974
Gabriel Lippmann1845-1921
Galen129-c. 216
Galileo Galilei1564-1642
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis1792-1843
Georg Bednorz1950-(Johannes)
Georg Ohm1789-1854
George Henry Corliss1817-1888
George Eastman1854-1932
George de Hevesy1885-1966(György, Charles)
George Huntington1850-1916
George E. Smith1930-(Elwood)
George Smoot1945-
George Stephenson1781-1848
George Paget Thomson1892-1975
George Westinghouse1846-1914
Georges Charpak1924-2010
Georges Cuvier1769-1832
Georges Gilles de La Tourette1857-1904(Albert, Édouard, Brutus)
Georges-Louis Leclerc1707-1788
Georges Lemaître1894-1966
Gerard Kuiper1905-1973(Gerrit, Peter, Pieter)
Gerard 't Hooft1946-(Gerardus)
Gerd Binnig1947-
Gerhard Domagk1895-1964
Gerhard Ertl1936-
Gertrude B. Elion1918-1999(Belle)
Gerty Cori1896-1957(Theresa)
Giordano Bruno1548-1600
Giovanni Domenico Cassini1625-1712
Giulio Natta1903-1979
Giuseppe Piazzi1746-1826
Glenn T. Seaborg1912-1999(Theodore)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz1646-1716
Gottlieb Daimler1834-1900
Grace Hopper1906-1992
Gregor Mendel1822-1884
Guglielmo Marconi1874-1937
Guidobaldo del Monte1545-1607
Gustaf Dalén1869-1937
Gustav Ludwig Hertz1887-1975
Gustav Kirchhoff1824-1887
Gustav Mie1868-1957(Adolf, Feodor, Wilhelm, Ludwig)
Gustave Eiffel1832-1923(Alexandre)
Guy Stewart Callendar1898-1964
Hannes Alfvén1908-1995
Hans Asperger1906-1980(Johann, Friedrich, Karl)
Hans Bethe1906-2005
Hans Fischer1881-1945
Hans Adolf Krebs1900-1981
Hans Lipperheyc. 1570-1619
Hans Christian Ørsted1777-1851
Har Gobind Khorana1922-2011
Harald zur Hausen1936-2023
Harold Urey1893-1981(Clayton)
Harry Klinefelter1912-1990(Fitch)
Hedwig Kohn1887-1964
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes1853-1926
Heinrich Hertz1857-1894
Heinrich Rohrer1933-2013
Heinrich Schliemann1822-1890
Hendrik Lorentz1853-1928(Antoon)
Henri Becquerel1852-1908(Antoine)
Henri Moissan1852-1907
Henrietta Swan Leavitt1868-1921
Henrik Sjögren1899-1986(Samuel, Conrad)
Henry Cavendish1731-1810
Henry Ford1863-1947
Henry Heimlich1920-2016(Judah)
Henry Norris Russell1877-1957
Henry Fox Talbot1800-1877(William)
Herman Hollerith1860-1929
Hermann von Helmholtz1821-1894
Hermann Kolbe1818-1884(Adolph, Wilhelm)
Hermann Rorschach1884-1922
Hermann Staudinger1881-1965
Yukawa Hideki1907-1981
Hipparchus of Nicaeac. 190-c. 120 BC
Hippocrates of Cos460-370 BC
Amano Hiroshi1960-
Horace Smith1808-1893
Horst Ludwig Störmer1949-
Howard Carter1874-1939
Howard Florey1898-1968(Walter)
Hugh David Politzer1949-
Hugo Bernatzik1897-1953(Adolf)
Humphry Davy1778-1829
Ibn al-Haythamc. 965-c. 1040(Alhacen, al-Hasan, Alhazen)
Ignaz Semmelweis1818-1865
Igor Sikorsky1889-1972
Igor Tamm1895-1971
Ilya Frank1908-1990
Ilya Mechnikov1845-1916(Élie)
Ilya Prigogine1917-2003
Inge Lehmann1888-1993
Irène Joliot-Curie1897-1956
Irving Langmuir1881-1957
Isaac Newton1642-1727
Isaac Singer1811-1875
Akasaki Isamu1929-2021
Isidor Isaac Rabi1898-1988
Ismail al-Jazari1136-1206
Ivan Pavlov1849-1936
Ivan Supek1915-2007
Ivar Giaever1929-
Jabir ibn Hayyanc. 721-c. 815(Geber)
Jack Horner1946-(John)
Jack Kilby1923-2005(St. Clair)
Jacobus Kapteyn1851-1922(Cornelius)
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff1852-1911
Jacques Monod1910-1976
James Chadwick1891-1974
James Cronin1931-2016
James Franck1882-1964
James George Frazer1854-1941
James Gregory1638-1675
James Prescott Joule1818-1889
James Clerk Maxwell1831-1879
James Naismith1861-1939
James Parkinson1755-1824
James Rainwater1917-1986
James B. Sumner1887-1955(Batcheller)
James Watson1928-(Dewey)
James Watt1736-1819
Jan Oort1900-1992(Hendrik)
Jane Goodall1934-
Jaroslav Heyrovský1890-1967
Jean-Pierre Blanchard1753-1809
Jean-Martin Charcot1825-1893
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck1744-1829
Jean Baptiste Perrin1870-1942
Jennifer Doudna1964-
Jerome Isaac Friedman1930-
Jim Peebles1935-(Phillip, James, Edwin)
Jocelyn Bell Burnell1943-
Johannes Gutenbergc. 1395-1468
Johannes Hevelius1611-1687
J. Hans D. Jensen1907-1973(Johannes, Daniel)
Johannes Kepler1571-1630
Johannes Stark1874-1957
Johannes Diderik van der Waals1837-1923
John James Audubon1785-1851
John Logie Baird1888-1946
John Bardeen1908-1991
John Browning1855-1926
John Cockcroft1897-1967
John Dalton1766-1844
John Deere1804-1886
John Langdon Down1828-1896(Haydon)
John Boyd Dunlop1840-1921
John B. Goodenough1922-2023(Bannister)
John Edward Gray1800-1875
John L. Hall1934-(Lewis)
John Herschel1792-1871
J. Michael Kosterlitz1943-(John)
John C. Mather1946-(Cromwell)
John Howard Northrop1891-1987
John Shipley Rowlinson1926-2018
John Robert Schrieffer1931-2019
John Snow1813-1858
John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh1842-1919(William)
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck1899-1980
Jonas Salk1914-1995
Jöns Jacob Berzelius1779-1848
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac1778-1850
Joseph Marie Jacquard1752-1834
Joseph Lister1827-1912
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.1941-
J. J. Thomson1856-1940(Joseph, John)
Joseph von Fraunhofer1787-1826
Josiah Willard Gibbs1839-1903
Jules Bordet1870-1961
Julian Huxley1887-1975(Sorell)
Julian Schwinger1918-1994
J. Robert Oppenheimer1904-1967(Julius)
Justus von Liebig1803-1873
Kai Siegbahn1918-2007(Manne, Börje)
Karl Ferdinand Braun1850-1918
Karl Drais1785-1851
Karl Landsteiner1868-1943
K. Alex Müller1927-2023(Karl, Alexander)
Karl von Frisch1886-1982
Karl Ziegler1898-1973
Kathy Reichs1948-(Kathleen, Joan)
Ken Thompson1943-(Kenneth)
Kenneth G. Wilson1936-2013(Geddes)
Kip Thorne1940-
Klaus von Klitzing1943-
Konrad Lorenz1903-1989
Konrad Zuse1910-1995
Konstantin Novoselov1974-
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky1857-1935
Kurt Alder1902-1958
Lars Onsager1903-1976
László Bíró1899-1985
Leo Fender1909-1991(Clarence, Leonidas)
Leon Cooper1930-
Léon Foucault1819-1868
Leon M. Lederman1922-2018
Leonardo da Vinci1452-1519
Leopold Ružička1887-1976
Les Paul1915-2009(Lester)
Lev Landau1908-1968
Lewis H. Morgan1818-1881(Henry)
Linda B. Buck1947-(Brown)
Linus Pauling1901-1994
Linus Torvalds1969-
Lise Meitner1878-1968
Louis Blériot1872-1936
Louis Braille1809-1852
Louis Daguerre1787-1851
Louis de Broglie1892-1987
Louis Néel1904-2000
Louis Pasteur1822-1895
Luc Montagnier1932-2022
Ludwig Boltzmann1844-1906
Luigi Galvani1737-1798
Luis Walter Alvarez1911-1988
Cai Lun50-121
Manfred Eigen1927-2019
Manne Siegbahn1886-1978
Marcel Minnaert1893-1970(Gilles, Jozef)
Margaret Hamilton1936-
Margaret Mead1901-1978
Maria Goeppert-Mayer1906-1972
Maria Sibylla Merian1647-1717
Marie Curie1867-1934
Marie Tharp1920-2006
Mario Molina1943-2020
Marius Barbeau1883-1969(Charles)
Martin Cooper1928-
Martin Lewis Perl1927-2014
Martin Ryle1918-1984
Martinus J. G. Veltman1931-2021(Justinus, Godefriedus)
Mary Anning1799-1847
Koshiba Masatoshi1926-2020
Maurice Raynaud1834-1881(Auguste, Gabriel)
Maurice Wilkins1916-2004(Hugh, Frederick)
Maus Gatsonides1911-1998(Maurice)
Max Born1882-1970
Max von Laue1879-1960
Max Planck1858-1947
May-Britt Moser1963-
Melba Phillips1907-2004(Newell)
Melvin Calvin1911-1997
Melvin Schwartz1932-2006
Michael Faraday1791-1867
Michel Adanson1727-1806
Michel Mayor1942-(Gustave, Édouard)
Michio Kaku1947-
Mikhail Kalashnikov1919-2013
Mikhail Lomonosov1711-1765
Abu Rayhan Muhammad al-Biruni973-c. 1050
Abu Bakr Muhammad al-Razi865-925
Murray Gell-Mann1929-2019
Neil deGrasse Tyson1958-
Nevill Francis Mott1905-1996
Niccolò Cacciatore1770-1841
Nicéphore Niépce1765-1833
Nicolaas Bloembergen1920-2017
Nicolas Appert1749-1841
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot1796-1832
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot1725-1804
Nicolas Steno1638-1686(Niels)
Nicolaus Copernicus1473-1543(Nicholas)
Niels Bohr1885-1962
Niels Ryberg Finsen1860-1904
Nikola Tesla1856-1943
Nikolaus Otto1832-1891
Nikolay Basov1922-2001
Nikolay Semyonov1896-1986
Norman Borlaug1914-2009(Ernest)
Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.1915-2011
Ole Rømer1644-1710
Olin J. Eggen1919-1998(Jeuck)
Olin Chaddock Wilson1909-1994
Orville Wright1871-1948
Otto Diels1876-1954(Paul, Hermann)
Otto Hahn1879-1968
Otto Friedrich Müller1730-1784
Otto Stern1888-1969
Otto von Guericke1602-1686
Otto Wallach1847-1931
Owen Chamberlain1920-2006
Owen Willans Richardson1879-1959
Paracelsus1493-1541
Patrick Blackett1897-1974(Maynard, Stuart)
Paul Berg1926-2023
Paul J. Crutzen1933-2021(Jozef)
Paul Dirac1902-1984
Paul Ehrlich1854-1915
Paul Karrer1889-1971
Paul Sabatier1854-1941
Pavel Cherenkov1904-1990
Percy Williams Bridgman1882-1961
Peter Debye1884-1966(Petrus, Josephus, Wilhelmus)
Peter Grünberg1939-2018(Andreas)
Peter Higgs1929-
Philip W. Anderson1923-2020(Warren)
Philipp Lenard1862-1947
Pierre Curie1859-1906
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes1932-2007
Pierre-Simon Laplace1749-1827
Pieter Zeeman1865-1943
Pliny the Elderc. 23-79(Gaius)
Polykarp Kusch1911-1993
Prosper Menière1799-1862
Ptolemyc. 100-c. 168(Claudius)
Pyotr Kapitsa1894-1984
Rachel Carson1907-1964
Raymond Davis Jr.1914-2006
Reona Esaki1925-(Leo)
Riccardo Giacconi1931-2018
Richard Arkwright1733-1792
Richard Dawkins1941-
Richard Feynman1918-1988(Phillips)
Richard E. Taylor1929-2018(Edward)
Richard Trevithick1771-1833
Richard Willstätter1872-1942(Martin)
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy1865-1929
Rita Levi-Montalcini1909-2012
Robert Stawell Ball1840-1913
Róbert Bárány1876-1936
Robert Boyle1627-1691
Robert Brown1773-1858
Robert Bunsen1811-1899
Robert Edwards1925-2013
Robert Fulton1765-1815
Robert H. Goddard1882-1945(Hutchings)
Robert Hofstadter1915-1990
Robert Hooke1635-1703
Robert Koch1843-1910
Robert B. Laughlin1950-
Robert Andrews Millikan1868-1953
Robert Coleman Richardson1937-2013
Robert Woodrow Wilson1936-
Robert Burns Woodward1917-1979
Roger D. Kornberg1947-(David)
Roger Penrose1931-
Ronald Ross1857-1932
Rosalind Franklin1920-1958
Rosalyn Yalow1921-2011
Rowland Hill1795-1879
Roy J. Glauber1925-2018(Jay)
Rudolf Clausius1822-1888
Rudolf Diesel1858-1913(Christian, Karl)
Rudolf Mössbauer1929-2011
Rudolf Virchow1821-1902
Russell Alan Hulse1950-
Ruth Benedict1887-1948
Samuel Warren Carey1911-2002
Samuel Colt1814-1862
Samuel Morse1791-1872
Samuel C. C. Ting1936-(Chao, Chung)
Santiago Ramón y Cajal1852-1934
Sarah Frances Whiting1847-1927
Satyendra Nath Bose1894-1974
Saul Perlmutter1959-
Selman Waksman1888-1973(Abraham)
Serge Haroche1944-
Sergei Korolev1907-1966
Sergei Korsakov1854-1900
Sheldon Lee Glashow1932-
Tomonaga Shin'ichirō1906-1979(Sin-Itiro)
Nakamura Shuji1954-
Simon van der Meer1925-2011
Slavoljub Eduard Penkala1871-1922
Stephen Hawking1942-2018(William)
Steve Wozniak1950-(Stephen)
Steven Chu1948-
Steven Weinberg1933-2021
Svante Arrhenius1859-1927(August)
Svante Pääbo1955-
Sydney Brenner1927-2019
Tadeusz Reichstein1897-1996(Tadeus)
Kajita Takaaki1959-
Theodor W. Hänsch1941-(Wolfgang)
Theodor Schwann1810-1882
Theodor Svedberg1884-1971(The)
Theodore William Richards1868-1928
Thomas Addison1795-1860
Thomas Edison1847-1931(Alva)
Thomas Henry Huxley1825-1895
Thomas Hunt Morgan1866-1945
Thomas Newcomen1664-1729
Thomas Young1773-1829
Tim Berners-Lee1955-(Timothy)
Toshihide Maskawa1940-2021
Lee Tsung-Dao1926-
Tycho Brahe1546-1601(Tyge)
Ulugh Beg1394-1449(Mirza, Muhammad)
Val Logsdon Fitch1923-2015
Valentine Ball1843-1894
Vannevar Bush1890-1974
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan1952-
Vera Rubin1928-2016
Vesto Slipher1875-1969(Melvin)
Victor Grignard1871-1935
Victor Francis Hess1883-1964(Franz)
Vincas Kudirka1858-1899
Virginia Apgar1909-1974
Vitaly Ginzburg1916-2009
Vladimir Prelog1906-1998
Walter Houser Brattain1902-1987
Walther Bothe1891-1957
Walther Nernst1864-1941(Hermann)
Ward Goodenough1919-2013(Hunt)
Wendell Meredith Stanley1904-1971
Werner Heisenberg1901-1976
Werner von Siemens1816-1892(Ernst)
Wernher von Braun1912-1977
Wilbur Wright1867-1912
Wilhelm Maybach1846-1929
Wilhelm Ostwald1853-1932
Wilhelm Röntgen1845-1923
Wilhelm Eduard Weber1804-1891
Wilhelm Wien1864-1928
Willard Boyle1924-2011
Willard Libby1908-1980(Frank)
Willem Einthoven1860-1927
William Henry Bragg1862-1942
William Lawrence Bragg1890-1971
William Alfred Fowler1911-1995
William Gilbert1544-1603
William Rowan Hamilton1805-1865
William Harvey1578-1657
William Herschel1738-1822
William Huggins1824-1910
William G. Morgan1870-1942(George)
William Daniel Phillips1948-
William Henry Pickering1858-1938
William Ramsay1852-1916
William Shockley1910-1989(Bradford)
William Thomson1824-1907
William Hyde Wollaston1766-1828
Williamina Fleming1857-1911
Willis Carrier1876-1950(Haviland)
Willis Lamb1913-2008(Eugene)
Wolfgang Ketterle1957-
Wolfgang Paul1913-1993
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