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 | Lifespan | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adolf Bastian | 1826-1905 | (Philipp, Wilhelm) |  |
| Adolf Beck | 1863-1942 | (Abraham) | |
| Adolf Fick | 1829-1901 | (Adolph, Eugen) | |
| Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick | 1852-1937 | | |
| Adolf Froelich | 1887-1943 | | |
| Adolf Hempt | 1874-1943 | | |
| Adolf Hoel | 1879-1964 | | |
| Adolf Kussmaul | 1822-1902 | (Adolph, Carl, Philipp, Konrad) | |
| Adolf Pinner | 1842-1909 | | |
| Adolf Seilacher | 1925-2014 | (Dolf) | |
| Adolf Smekal | 1895-1959 | (Gustav, Stephan) | |
| Adolf Weil | 1848-1916 | | |
| Adolph Strecker | 1822-1871 | (Adolf, Friedrich, Ludwig, Ewald) | |
| Adolphe Sax | 1814-1894 | | |
| Adriaan Blaauw | 1914-2010 | | |
| Aglaonice | ?-c. 100 BC | (Aganice, Aglaonike) | |
| Albert Einstein | 1879-1955 | | |
| Albert Abraham Michelson | 1852-1931 | | |
| Alberto Santos-Dumont | 1873-1932 | | |
| Alessandro Volta | 1745-1827 | (Alexander) | |
| Alexander Graham Bell | 1847-1922 | | |
| Alexander Fleming | 1881-1955 | | |
| Alfred Nobel | 1833-1896 | | |
| Alfred Russel Wallace | 1823-1913 | | |
| Alfred Wegener | 1880-1930 | | |
| Almon Brown Strowger | 1839-1902 | | |
| Alois Senefelder | 1771-1834 | | |
| Amedeo Avogadro | 1776-1856 | | |
| Amil Kumar Das | 1902-1961 | | |
| Anders Celsius | 1701-1744 | | |
| André-Marie Ampère | 1775-1836 | (Andrew) | |
| Andreas Vesalius | 1514-1564 | (Andre, Andrew) | |
| Andrei Sakharov | 1921-1989 | | |
| Annie Jump Cannon | 1863-1941 | | |
| Antoine Lavoisier | 1743-1794 | | |
| Anton Pannekoek | 1873-1960 | (Antonie) | |
| Antonia Maury | 1866-1952 | | |
| Antonie van Leeuwenhoek | 1632-1723 | (Anton) | |
| Antonio Meucci | 1808-1889 | | |
| Apollonius of Perga | c. 262-c. 190 BC | | |
| Aristarchus of Samos | c. 310-c. 230 BC | | |
| Arthur Eddington | 1882-1944 | (Stanley) | |
| Asım Orhan Barut | 1926-1994 | | |
| Augustin Mouchot | 1825-1911 | | |
| Ayyub Guliyev | 1954- | | |
| Barnaba Oriani | 1752-1832 | | |
| Basarab Nicolescu | 1942- | | |
| Bengt Strömgren | 1908-1987 | (Georg, Daniel) | |
| Benjamin Thompson | 1753-1814 | | |
| Britton Chance | 1913-2010 | | |
| Bruce C. Heezen | 1924-1977 | (Charles) | |
| Camille Flammarion | 1842-1925 | (Nicolas) | |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss | 1777-1855 | (Karl) | |
| Carl Linnaeus | 1707-1778 | (Carolus, Charles) | |
| Carl Sagan | 1934-1996 | (Edward) | |
| Caroline Herschel | 1750-1848 | (Lucretia) | |
| Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin | 1900-1979 | (Helena) | |
| Charles Babbage | 1791-1871 | | |
| C. V. Boys | 1855-1944 | (Charles, Vernon) | |
| Charles Darwin | 1809-1882 | | |
| Charles-Augustin de Coulomb | 1736-1806 | | |
| Charles Eastman | 1858-1939 | (Hakadah, Ohíye S'a, Alexander) | |
| Charles Goodyear | 1800-1860 | | |
| Charles David Keeling | 1928-2005 | | |
| Charles Messier | 1730-1817 | | |
| Christiaan Huygens | 1629-1695 | (Christian) | |
| Christian Sharps | 1810-1874 | | |
| C. H. D. Buys Ballot | 1817-1890 | (Christophorus, Henricus, Dedericus, Didericus) | |
| Clair Patterson | 1922-1995 | (Cameron) | |
| Claude Bernard | 1813-1878 | | |
| Claude Pouillet | 1790-1868 | (Servais, Mathias) | |
| Daniel Bernoulli | 1700-1782 | | |
| Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit | 1686-1736 | | |
| Daniel B. Wesson | 1825-1906 | (Baird) | |
| David Attenborough | 1926- | (Frederick) | |
| David Dunbar Buick | 1854-1929 | | |
| David Graeber | 1961-2020 | (Rolfe) | |
| David Rittenhouse | 1732-1796 | | |
| Denis Papin | 1647-c. 1712 | | |
| Didier Queloz | 1966- | | |
| Dmitriy Mendeleev | 1834-1907 | (Demitri, Dmitri) | |
| Edmond Halley | 1656-1742 | | |
| Edward Jenner | 1749-1823 | | |
| Edward Charles Pickering | 1846-1919 | | |
| Edward Teller | 1908-2003 | (Ede) | |
| Edwin Hubble | 1889-1953 | | |
| Ejnar Hertzsprung | 1873-1967 | | |
| Eliphalet Remington | 1793-1861 | | |
| Emanoil Bacaloglu | 1830-1891 | | |
| Enrico Fermi | 1901-1954 | | |
| Erik Adolf von Willebrand | 1870-1949 | | |
| Ernest Rutherford | 1871-1937 | | |
| Ernő Rubik | 1944- | | |
| Ernst Haeckel | 1834-1919 | | |
| Ernst Mach | 1838-1916 | | |
| Erwin Schrödinger | 1887-1961 | | |
| Evangelista Torricelli | 1608-1647 | | |
| Ferdinand Porsche | 1875-1951 | | |
| Ferdinand von Zeppelin | 1838-1917 | (Adolf, Heinrich, August) | |
| Francis Crick | 1916-2004 | | |
| Frank Shuman | 1862-1918 | | |
| Franz Boas | 1858-1942 | | |
| Freeman Dyson | 1923-2020 | | |
| Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge | 1794-1867 | | |
| Friedrich Paneth | 1887-1958 | (Fritz, Adolf) | |
| Fritz Zwicky | 1898-1974 | | |
| Gabriel Lippmann | 1845-1921 | | |
| Gaja Alaga | 1924-1988 | | |
| Galen | 129-c. 216 | | |
| Galileo Galilei | 1564-1642 | | |
| Georg Ohm | 1789-1854 | (George) | |
| George Henry Corliss | 1817-1888 | | |
| George Eastman | 1854-1932 | | |
| George Stephenson | 1781-1848 | | |
| George Westinghouse | 1846-1914 | | |
| Georges Cuvier | 1769-1832 | | |
| Gerard Kuiper | 1905-1973 | (Gerrit, Peter, Pieter) | |
| Giovanni Domenico Cassini | 1625-1712 | | |
| Gottlieb Daimler | 1834-1900 | | |
| Gregor Mendel | 1822-1884 | | |
| Guglielmo Marconi | 1874-1937 | | |
| Guidobaldo del Monte | 1545-1607 | | |
| Gustav Kirchhoff | 1824-1887 | | |
| Gustav Mie | 1868-1957 | (Adolf, Feodor, Wilhelm, Ludwig) | |
| Guy Stewart Callendar | 1898-1964 | | |
| Hans Christian Ørsted | 1777-1851 | | |
| Hedwig Kohn | 1887-1964 | | |
| Heinrich Schliemann | 1822-1890 | | |
| Hendrik Lorentz | 1853-1928 | (Antoon) | |
| Henri Becquerel | 1852-1908 | (Antoine) | |
| Henrietta Swan Leavitt | 1868-1921 | | |
| Henry Cavendish | 1731-1810 | | |
| Henry Ford | 1863-1947 | | |
| Henry Norris Russell | 1877-1957 | | |
| Henry Fox Talbot | 1800-1877 | (William) | |
| Herman Hollerith | 1860-1929 | | |
| Hermann Emil Fischer | 1852-1919 | | |
| Hermann von Helmholtz | 1821-1894 | | |
| Hermann Kolbe | 1818-1884 | (Adolph, Wilhelm) | |
| Hipparchus of Nicaea | c. 190-c. 120 BC | | |
| Hippocrates of Cos | 460-370 BC | | |
| Horace Smith | 1808-1893 | | |
| Hugo Bernatzik | 1897-1953 | (Adolf) | |
| Humphry Davy | 1778-1829 | | |
| Ibn al-Haitham | c. 965-c. 1040 | (Alhacen, al-Hasan, Alhazen) | |
| Igor Sikorsky | 1889-1972 | | |
| Isaac Newton | 1642-1727 | | |
| Ivan Pavlov | 1849-1936 | | |
| Ivan Supek | 1915-2007 | | |
| Jabir ibn Hayyan | c. 721-c. 815 | (Geber) | |
| Jacobus Kapteyn | 1851-1922 | (Cornelius) | |
| James Gregory | 1638-1675 | | |
| James Prescott Joule | 1818-1889 | | |
| James Clerk Maxwell | 1831-1879 | | |
| James Watson | 1928- | (Dewey) | |
| James Watt | 1736-1819 | | |
| Jan Oort | 1900-1992 | (Hendrik) | |
| Jane Goodall | 1934- | | |
| Jean-Pierre Blanchard | 1753-1809 | | |
| Jean-Baptiste Lamarck | 1744-1829 | (John) | |
| Jim Peebles | 1935- | (Phillip, James, Edwin) | |
| Johannes Gutenberg | c. 1395-1468 | | |
| Johannes Kepler | 1571-1630 | (John) | |
| Johannes Diderik van der Waals | 1837-1923 | | |
| John James Audubon | 1785-1851 | | |
| John Logie Baird | 1888-1946 | | |
| John Browning | 1855-1926 | | |
| John Dalton | 1766-1844 | | |
| John B. Goodenough | 1922- | (Bannister) | |
| John Herschel | 1792-1871 | | |
| John Shipley Rowlinson | 1926-2018 | | |
| Jonas Salk | 1914-1995 | | |
| Jöns Jacob Berzelius | 1779-1848 | | |
| Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac | 1778-1850 | | |
| Joseph Marie Jacquard | 1752-1834 | | |
| J. J. Thomson | 1856-1940 | (Joseph, John) | |
| Joseph von Fraunhofer | 1787-1826 | | |
| Julian Huxley | 1887-1975 | (Sorell) | |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | 1904-1967 | (Julius) | |
| Justus von Liebig | 1803-1873 | | |
| Karl Benz | 1844-1929 | | |
| Karl Ferdinand Braun | 1850-1918 | | |
| Kathy Reichs | 1948- | (Kathleen, Joan, Toelle) | |
| Konrad Lorenz | 1903-1989 | | |
| Konrad Zuse | 1910-1995 | | |
| Leo Fender | 1909-1991 | (Clarence, Leonidas) | |
| Leonardo da Vinci | 1452-1519 | | |
| Linus Pauling | 1901-1994 | | |
| Linus Torvalds | 1969- | | |
| Lise Meitner | 1878-1968 | | |
| Louis Blériot | 1872-1936 | | |
| Louis Braille | 1809-1852 | | |
| Louis Daguerre | 1787-1851 | | |
| Louis de Broglie | 1892-1987 | | |
| Louis Pasteur | 1822-1895 | | |
| Ludwig Boltzmann | 1844-1906 | | |
| Luigi Galvani | 1737-1798 | | |
| Cai Lun | 50-121 | | |
| Marcel Minnaert | 1893-1970 | (Gilles, Jozef) | |
| Marie Curie | 1867-1934 | | |
| Marie Tharp | 1920-2006 | | |
| Marius Barbeau | 1883-1969 | (Charles) | |
| Marius Nasta | 1890-1965 | | |
| Maus Gatsonides | 1911-1998 | (Maurice) | |
| Max Born | 1882-1970 | | |
| Max Planck | 1858-1947 | | |
| Melba Phillips | 1907-2004 | (Newell) | |
| Michael Faraday | 1791-1867 | | |
| Michel Adanson | 1727-1806 | | |
| Michel Mayor | 1942- | (Gustave, Édouard) | |
| Mijat Stojanović | 1818-1881 | | |
| Mikhail Lomonosov | 1711-1765 | | |
| Niccolò Cacciatore | 1770-1841 | | |
| Nicéphore Niépce | 1765-1833 | | |
| Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot | 1725-1804 | | |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | 1473-1543 | (Nicholas) | |
| Niels Bohr | 1885-1962 | | |
| Nikola Tesla | 1856-1943 | | |
| Nikolaus Otto | 1832-1891 | | |
| Ole Rømer | 1644-1710 | | |
| Orville Wright | 1871-1948 | | |
| Otto Hahn | 1879-1968 | | |
| Otto Friedrich Müller | 1730-1784 | | |
| Paracelsus | 1493-1541 | | |
| Paul Dirac | 1902-1984 | | |
| Peter Adolf Thiessen | 1899-1990 | | |
| Pierre Curie | 1859-1906 | | |
| Pierre-Simon Laplace | 1749-1827 | (Peter) | |
| Pieter Zeeman | 1865-1943 | | |
| Pliny the Elder | 23-79 | (Gaius) | |
| Primo Levi | 1919-1987 | (Michele) | |
| Ptolemy | c. 90-c. 168 | (Claudius) | |
| Rachel Carson | 1907-1964 | | |
| Richard Arkwright | 1733-1792 | | |
| Richard Dawkins | 1941- | | |
| Richard Feynman | 1918-1988 | (Phillips) | |
| Robert Ball | 1802-1857 | | |
| Robert Stawell Ball | 1840-1913 | | |
| Robert Boyle | 1627-1691 | | |
| Robert Fulton | 1765-1815 | | |
| Robert Hooke | 1635-1703 | | |
| Roger Penrose | 1931- | | |
| Rowland Hill | 1795-1879 | | |
| Rudolf Diesel | 1858-1913 | (Christian, Karl) | |
| Rudolf Virchow | 1821-1902 | | |
| Samuel Warren Carey | 1911-2002 | | |
| Samuel Colt | 1814-1862 | | |
| Samuel Morse | 1791-1872 | | |
| Sarah Frances Whiting | 1847-1927 | | |
| Sheila Kitzinger | 1929-2015 | (Helena, Elizabeth) | |
| Slavoljub Eduard Penkala | 1871-1922 | | |
| Stephen Hawking | 1942-2018 | (William) | |
| Svante Arrhenius | 1859-1927 | (August) | |
| Thomas Edison | 1847-1931 | (Alva) | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley | 1825-1895 | | |
| Thomas Newcomen | 1664-1729 | | |
| Thomas Young | 1773-1829 | | |
| Tim Berners-Lee | 1955- | | |
| Tycho Brahe | 1546-1601 | (Tyge) | |
| Valentine Ball | 1843-1894 | | |
| Vannevar Bush | 1890-1974 | | |
| Vera Rubin | 1928- | | |
| Vesto Slipher | 1875-1969 | (Melvin) | |
| Vincas Kudirka | 1858-1899 | | |
| Ward Goodenough | 1919-2013 | (Hunt) | |
| Werner Heisenberg | 1901-1976 | | |
| Werner von Siemens | 1816-1892 | (Ernst) | |
| Wilbur Wright | 1867-1912 | | |
| Wilhelm Maybach | 1846-1929 | | |
| Wilhelm Ostwald | 1853-1932 | | |
| Wilhelm Röntgen | 1845-1923 | | |
| Wilhelm Wien | 1864-1928 | | |
| William Herschel | 1738-1822 | | |
| William Huggins | 1824-1910 | | |
| William Henry Pickering | 1858-1938 | | |
| William Thomson | 1824-1907 | | |
| William Hyde Wollaston | 1766-1828 | | |
| Williamina Fleming | 1857-1911 | | |
| Willis Carrier | 1876-1950 | (Haviland) | |
| Wolfgang Pauli | 1900-1958 | |