| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Louis Agassiz |
Paleontologist |
28-May-1807 |
14-Dec-1873 |
Ichthyologist at Harvard |
| Edward Victor Appleton |
Physicist |
6-Sep-1892 |
21-Apr-1965 |
Ionosphere, shortwave radio |
| David Armitage |
Historian |
1965 |
|
The Ideological Origins of the British Empire |
| Michael Atiyah |
Mathematician |
22-Apr-1929 |
|
Atiyah-Singer index theorem |
| John James Audubon |
Naturalist |
26-Apr-1785 |
27-Jan-1851 |
Illustrated Birds of America |
| Leo Baekeland |
Scientist |
14-Nov-1863 |
23-Feb-1944 |
Father of plastics |
| Charles Glover Barkla |
Physicist |
7-Jun-1877 |
23-Oct-1944 |
X-ray scattering |
| Robert Bartlett |
Historian |
27-Nov-1950 |
|
The Making of Europe |
| Derek Barton |
Chemist |
8-Sep-1918 |
16-Mar-1998 |
Conformational analysis |
| Sune K. Bergström |
Scientist |
10-Jan-1916 |
15-Aug-2004 |
Prostaglandins |
| Niels Bohr |
Physicist |
7-Oct-1885 |
18-Nov-1962 |
Father of Quantum Theory |
| Jules Bordet |
Scientist |
13-Jun-1870 |
6-Apr-1961 |
Researched antibodies and antigens |
| Max Born |
Physicist |
11-Dec-1882 |
5-Jan-1970 |
Pioneer of quantum mechanics |
| Nathaniel Bowditch |
Astronomer |
26-Mar-1773 |
17-Mar-1838 |
American Practical Navigator |
| Lawrence Bragg |
Physicist |
31-Mar-1890 |
1-Jul-1971 |
Bragg's Law of diffraction |
| Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon |
Naturalist |
7-Sep-1707 |
16-Apr-1788 |
Histoire Naturelle |
| James Chadwick |
Physicist |
20-Oct-1891 |
24-Jul-1974 |
Discovered the neutron |
| Thomas Chalmers |
Religion |
17-Mar-1780 |
30-May-1847 |
Free Church of Scotland |
| Sydney Chapman |
Mathematician |
29-Jan-1888 |
16-Jun-1970 |
Geomagnetism |
| A. J. Clark |
Scientist |
19-Aug-1885 |
30-Jul-1941 |
Drug responses |
| William Cochran |
Physicist |
30-Jul-1922 |
28-Aug-2003 |
Crystallography |
| John Dalton |
Chemist |
6-Sep-1766 |
27-Jul-1844 |
Early proponent of Atomic Theory |
| Henrik Dam |
Scientist |
21-Feb-1895 |
Apr-1976 |
Discovered Vitamin K |
| Charles Darwin |
Naturalist |
12-Feb-1809 |
19-Apr-1882 |
Proposed theory of evolution via natural selection |
| George Darwin |
Astronomer |
9-Jul-1845 |
7-Dec-1912 |
Evolution of the Sun-Earth-Moon system |
| Paul Dirac |
Physicist |
8-Aug-1902 |
20-Oct-1984 |
The Principles of Quantum Mechanics |
| E. C. Dodds |
Scientist |
13-Oct-1899 |
16-Dec-1973 |
Diethylstilbestrol |
| Kenneth Dover |
Scholar |
11-Mar-1920 |
7-Mar-2010 |
Greek Homosexuality |
| Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas |
Chemist |
14-Jul-1800 |
10-Apr-1884 |
Pioneer of organic chemistry |
| Arthur Eddington |
Astronomer |
28-Dec-1882 |
22-Nov-1944 |
Eddington luminosity |
| King Edward VIII |
Royalty |
23-Jun-1894 |
28-May-1972 |
King of England, 1936 |
| Albert Einstein |
Physicist |
14-Mar-1879 |
18-Apr-1955 |
Theory of relativity |
| Gerhard Ertl |
Chemist |
10-Oct-1936 |
|
Auto emissions and the ozone layer |
| Michael Faraday |
Physicist |
22-Sep-1791 |
25-Aug-1867 |
Discovered electrical induction |
| Enrico Fermi |
Physicist |
29-Sep-1901 |
29-Nov-1954 |
First controlled nuclear chain reaction |
| Alexander Fleming |
Scientist |
6-Aug-1881 |
11-Mar-1955 |
Discovered penicillin |
| Benjamin Franklin |
Diplomat |
17-Jan-1706 |
17-Apr-1790 |
American founding father |
| T. R. Fraser |
Scientist |
5-Feb-1841 |
4-Jan-1920 |
Made poison and venom into medicine |
| Maurice Fréchet |
Mathematician |
2-Sep-1878 |
4-Jun-1973 |
Fréchet differential |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss |
Mathematician |
30-Apr-1777 |
23-Feb-1855 |
Perhaps the greatest German mathematician |
| Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac |
Chemist |
6-Dec-1778 |
9-May-1850 |
Researched gases, etc. |
| Stephen Jay Gould |
Biologist |
10-Sep-1941 |
20-May-2002 |
Evolutionary scientist |
| Richard Gregory |
Psychologist |
24-Jul-1923 |
17-May-2010 |
Optical illusions and "hands-on" science |
| Jacques-Salomon Hadamard |
Mathematician |
8-Dec-1865 |
17-Oct-1963 |
Prime number theorem |
| Marshall Hall |
Doctor |
18-Feb-1790 |
11-Aug-1857 |
Theory of reflex action |
| John Herschel |
Astronomer |
7-Mar-1792 |
11-May-1871 |
Discovered many moons of Saturn |
| Peter Higgs |
Physicist |
29-May-1929 |
|
Higgs boson and Higgs field |
| George W. Hill |
Astronomer |
3-Mar-1838 |
16-Apr-1914 |
A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn |
| Carole Hillenbrand |
Historian |
1943 |
|
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives |
| Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Botanist |
30-Jun-1817 |
10-Dec-1911 |
Genera Plantarum |
| Thomas Jefferson |
Head of State |
13-Apr-1743 |
4-Jul-1826 |
3rd US President, 1801-09 |
| James Prescott Joule |
Physicist |
24-Dec-1818 |
11-Oct-1889 |
English physicist, Joule's Law |
| Jacobus C. Kapteyn |
Astronomer |
19-Jan-1851 |
18-Jun-1922 |
Star streaming |
| Lord Kelvin |
Physicist |
26-Jun-1824 |
17-Dec-1907 |
Illustrated 2nd Law of Thermodynamics |
| Sir Harold Kroto |
Chemist |
7-Oct-1939 |
|
Co-Discovered fullerenes |
| Samuel P. Langley |
Astronomer |
22-Aug-1834 |
2-Feb-1906 |
Heavier-than-air flying machine |
| Ernest Lawrence |
Physicist |
8-Aug-1901 |
27-Aug-1958 |
Inventor of the cyclotron |
| Leopold I |
Royalty |
16-Dec-1790 |
10-Dec-1865 |
First King of the Belgians |
| Tullio Levi-Civita |
Mathematician |
29-Mar-1873 |
29-Dec-1941 |
Explored tensor calculus and PDE's |
| Joseph Lister |
Doctor |
5-Apr-1827 |
10-Feb-1912 |
Pioneer of antiseptic surgery |
| Hendrik Lorentz |
Physicist |
18-Jul-1853 |
4-Feb-1928 |
Electrons |
| John Macleod |
Scientist |
6-Sep-1876 |
16-Mar-1935 |
Helped discover insulin |
| Peter Medawar |
Biologist |
28-Feb-1915 |
2-Oct-1987 |
Acquired immunological tolerance |
| Dmitri Mendeleev |
Chemist |
8-Feb-1834 |
2-Feb-1907 |
Periodic Table of the Elements |
| Peter Mitchell |
Chemist |
29-Sep-1920 |
10-Apr-1992 |
ADP to ATP conversion in mitochondria |
| Keith Moffatt |
Mathematician |
12-Apr-1935 |
|
Fluid dynamics |
| Friedrich Mohs |
Geologist |
29-Jan-1773 |
29-Sep-1839 |
Mohs Scale of Mineral Hardness |
| Benjamin Peirce |
Mathematician |
4-Apr-1809 |
10-Jun-1880 |
Idempotent and nilpotent |
| Max Planck |
Physicist |
23-Apr-1858 |
4-Oct-1947 |
Originator of quantum theory |
| Henri Poincaré |
Mathematician |
29-Apr-1854 |
17-Jul-1912 |
Poincaré Conjecture |
| John C. Polanyi |
Chemist |
23-Jan-1929 |
|
Infrared chemiluminescence |
| George Porter |
Chemist |
6-Dec-1920 |
31-Aug-2002 |
Rapid chemical and biological processes |
| Lord Rayleigh |
Physicist |
12-Nov-1842 |
30-Jun-1919 |
Why the sky is blue |
| Lord Robertson |
Politician |
12-Apr-1946 |
|
NATO Secretary General, 1999-2003 |
| Sir Robert Robinson |
Chemist |
13-Sep-1886 |
8-Feb-1975 |
Researcher of alkaloids |
| Ernest Rutherford |
Physicist |
30-Aug-1871 |
19-Oct-1937 |
Father of nuclear physics |
| Sir Walter Scott |
Author |
15-Aug-1771 |
21-Sep-1832 |
Ivanhoe |
| Glenn Seaborg |
Physicist |
19-Apr-1912 |
25-Feb-1999 |
Co-Discoverer of Plutonium |
| Manne Siegbahn |
Physicist |
3-Dec-1886 |
26-Sep-1978 |
X-Ray spectroscopy |
| Adam Smith |
Economist |
5-Jun-1723 |
17-Jul-1790 |
The Wealth of Nations |
| Ralph M. Steinman |
Biologist |
14-Jan-1943 |
30-Sep-2011 |
Dendritic cells |
| Richard L. M. Synge |
Chemist |
28-Oct-1914 |
18-Aug-1994 |
Partition chromatography |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson |
Poet |
6-Aug-1809 |
6-Oct-1892 |
The Charge of the Light Brigade |
| D'Arcy Thompson |
Biologist |
2-May-1860 |
21-Jun-1948 |
On Growth and Form |
| Alexander R. Todd |
Chemist |
2-Oct-1907 |
10-Jan-1997 |
Nucleic acid, nucleotides |
| Edward Troughton |
Inventor |
Oct-1753 |
12-Jun-1835 |
Early scientific instruments |
| Vincent du Vigneaud |
Chemist |
18-May-1901 |
11-Dec-1978 |
Synthesized vasopressin and oxytocin |
| Artturi Virtanen |
Chemist |
15-Jan-1895 |
11-Nov-1973 |
AIV method of fodder preservation |
| James Watt |
Inventor |
19-Jan-1736 |
19-Aug-1819 |
Invented modern steam engine |
| Wilhelm Weber |
Physicist |
24-Oct-1804 |
23-Jun-1891 |
Student of electromagnetism |
| Charles Wheatstone |
Physicist |
6-Feb-1802 |
19-Oct-1875 |
Inventor of the telegraph |
| Kurt Wüthrich |
Chemist |
4-Oct-1938 |
|
Magnetic resonance spectroscopy |
| Hideki Yukawa |
Physicist |
23-Jan-1907 |
8-Sep-1981 |
Predicted existence of mesons |
