Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology is a history of science by Isaac Asimov , written as the biographies of initially 1000 scientists and later with over 1500 entries. Organized chronologically, beginning with Imhotep (entry "[1]") and concluding with Stephen Hawking (entry "[1510]"), each biographical entry is numbered, allowing for easy cross-referencing of one scientist with another. Nearly every biographical sketch contains links to other biographies. For example, the article about John Franklin Enders [1195] has the sentence "Alexander Fleming 's [1077] penicillin was available thanks to the work of Howard Florey [1213] and Ernst Boris Chain [1306] . . ." This allows one to quickly refer to the articles about Fleming, Florey, and Chain. It includes scientists in all fields including biologists, chemists, astronomers, physicists, mathematicians, geologist, and explorers. The alphabetical list of biographical entries starts with ABBE, Cleveland [738] and ends with ZWORYKIN, Vladimir Kosma [1134]
In the Second Revised Edition Isaac Newton receives the greatest coverage, a biography of seven pages. Galileo , Michael Faraday and Albert Einstein tie, with five pages each, and Lavoisier and Charles Darwin get four pages each. Dutch writer Gerrit Krol said about the book, "One of the charms of this encyclopedia is that to each name he adds those with whom this scientist has been in contact." The book has been revised several times, by both Asimov himself, and most recently, by his daughter Robyn Asimov.[citation needed ]
Entries
Entry
Name
Field
Notes
1
Imhotep
Engineering
(2650–2600 BC) An Egyptian polymath , he is considered to be the first engineer , architect and physician in history known by name.
2
Ahmose
Mathematics
Also known as Ahmes, an Egypt scribe of the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt who copied the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus .
3
Thales
Mathematics
(624 – c. 546 BC), One of the Seven Sages of Greece . He is one of the first well-known philosophers and mathematicians.
4
Anaximander
Metaphysics
(c. 610 – c. 546 BC) A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus ,[ 1] a city of Ionia (in modern-day Turkey). He belonged to the Milesian school
5
Anaximenes
Metaphysics
(c. 585 – c. 528 BCE) An Ancient Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher .[ 2] [ 3] One of the three Milesian philosophers
6
Xenophanes
Metaphysics
(c. 570 – c. 475 BC)[ 4] was a Greek philosopher , theologian , poet , and social and religious critic .
7
Pythagoras
Mathematics
(c. 570-c. 495 BC). Best known for the Pythagorean theorem which bears his name.
8
Eupalinos
Engineering
an ancient Greek engineer who built the Tunnel of Eupalinos on Samos Island in the 6th century BC.
9
Hecataeus
Historian
(c. 550 BC – c. 476 BC) An early Greek historian and geographer .
10
Heraclitus
Metaphysics
(c. 535 – c. 475 BC) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher , and a native of the city of Ephesus ,[ 5] then part of the Persian Empire .
11
Alcmaeon
Medicine
(c 510 BC) considered by many an early pioneer of anatomical dissection and was said to be the first to identify Eustachian tubes .
12
Hanno
Explorer
a Carthaginian explorer c. 500 BC, best known for his naval exploration of the African coast.
13
Parmenides
Metaphysics
late sixth or early fifth century BC pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea in Magna Graecia (Greater Greece, included Southern Italy). Founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy .
14
Anaxagoras
Astronomy
He produced a correct explanation for eclipses and proposed that the Milky Way might consist of distant stars .[ 6]
15
Leucippus
Chemistry
(first half of the 5th century BC) The first Greek to develop the theory of atomism – the idea that everything is composed entirely of various imperishable, indivisible elements called atoms .
16
Zeno
Metaphysics
(490?–430? BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher best known for his paradoxes .
17
Empedocles
Cosmogenesis
(c. 490 – c. 430 BC) Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a citizen of Acragas (Agrigentum ), a Greek city in Sicily . Empedocles' philosophy is best known for originating the cosmogenic theory of the four classical elements .
18
Oenopides
Astronomy
An ancient Greek geometer and astronomer, who lived around 450 BCE .
19
Philolaus
Astronomy
c. 470 – c. 385 BCE[ 7] ) was a Greek Pythagorean and Presocratic philosopher. He is also credited with originating the theory that the Earth was not the center of the universe .
20
Democritus
Chemistry
(c. 370 BC) An Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe .[ 8]
21
Socrates
Philosophy
470/469 – 399 BC)[ 9] was a classical Greek (Athenian ) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy .
22
Hippocrates
Medicine
(c. 460 – c. 370 BC), A Greek physician of the Age of Pericles (Classical Greece ), sometimes referred to as the "Father of Medicine" [ 10]
23
Meton
Astronomy
a Greek mathematician , astronomer , geometer , and engineer who lived in Athens in the 5th century BC. He is best known for calculations involving the eponymous 19-year Metonic cycle which he introduced in 432 BC into the lunisolar Attic calendar .
24
Plato
Philosophy
(428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens , the first institution of higher learning in the Western world . He is widely considered the most pivotal figure in the development of philosophy , especially the Western tradition .[ 11]
25
Archytas
Mathematics
(428–347 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher , mathematician , astronomer , statesman , and strategist . He was a scientist of the Pythagorean school and famous for being the reputed founder of mathematical mechanics, as well as a good friend of Plato .
26
Theaetetus
Mathematics
27
Eudoxus
28
Heracleides
29
Aristotle
30
Menaechmus
31
Theophrastus
32
Callippus
33
Dicaearchus
34
Diocles
35
Epicurus
36
Praxagoras
Medicine
studied Aristotle 's (384–322 BC) anatomy and improved it by distinguishing between arteries and veins .
37
Kiddinu
38
Strato
39
Pytheas
40
Euclid
41
Aristarchus
42
Herophilus
43
Erasistratus
44
Conon
45
Philon from Byzantium
46
Ctesibius
Physics
(285–222 BC) was a Greek inventor who wrote the first treatises on compressed air . Worked on the elasticity of air. The "father of pneumatics ."
47
Archimedes
48
Eratosthenes
49
Apollonius
50
Hipparchus
51
Seleucus
52
Poseidonius
53
Lucretius
54
Sosigenes
55
Vitruvius
56
Strabo
57
Celsus, Aulus Cornelius
58
Mela, Pomponius
59
Dioscorides
60
Hero
61
Pliny
62
Frontinus, Sextus Julius
63
Tsai Lun
64
Ptolemy, Claudius
65
Galen
66
Diophantus
67
Zosimus
68
Pappus
69
Hypatia
70
Proclus
71
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus
72
Isidore of Seville
73
Brahmagupta
74
Callinicus
Chemistry
(about 620 BC) Also known as Kallinikos. A Byzantine chemist from Heliopolis and the inventor of Greek fire
75
Bede
76
Geber
77
Alcuin
78
Charlemagne
79
Al-Khwarizmi, Muhammed ibn Musa
80
Thabit ibn Qurra
81
Alfred The Great
82
Rhazes
83
Albategnius
84
Gerbert
85
Alhazen
86
Avicenna
87
Omar Khayyam
88
Abelard, Peter
89
Adelard of Bath
90
Gerard of Cremona
91
Averroes
92
Maimonides, Moses
93
Neckam, Alexander
94
Grosseteste, Robert
95
Fibonacci, Leonardo
96
Albertus Magnus
97
Frederick II
98
Michael Scot
99
Bacon, Roger
100
Alfonso X
101
Alderotti, Tadeo
Medicine
Italian Physician.
102
Aquinas, Saint Thomas
103
Arnold of Villanova
104
Peregrinus, Petrus
105
Polo, Marco
106
d'Abano, Pietro
107
False Geber
108
Buridan, Jean
109
Ockham, William of
110
Mondino de' Luzzi
111
Henry the Navigator
112
Ulugh Beg
113
Toscanelli, Paolo
114
Gutenberg, Johann
Engineering
(c. 1398–1468). Invented mechanical movable type printing.
115
Nicholas of Cusa
116
Bessarion, John
117
Alberti, Leone Battista
118
Peurbach, Georg von
119
Regiomontanus
120
Pacioli, Luca
121
Columbus, Christopher
122
Leonardo da Vinci
123
Vespucius, Americus
124
Cano, Juan Sebastian Del
125
Waldseemoller, Martin
126
Dürer, Albrecht
127
Copernicus, Nicolas
128
Balboa, Vasco Nunez de
129
Schoner, Johannes
130
Magellan, Ferdinand
131
Paracelsus
132
Agricola, Georgius
133
Apian, Peter
134
Fernel, Jean François
135
Tartaglia, Niccolo
136
Fuchs, Leonhard
137
Cardano, Girolamo
138
Gemma Frisius, Reiner
139
Pare, Ambroise
140
Colombo, Realdo
141
Eustachio, Bartolomeo
142
Servetus, Michael
143
Reinhold, Erasmus
144
Mercator, Gerardus
145
Rheticus
146
Vesalius, Andreas
147
Gesner, Konrad Von
148
Belon, Pierre
149
Fallopius, Gabriel
150
Porta, Giambattista Della
151
Fabricius Ab Aquapendente, Hieronymus
152
Clavius, Christoph
153
Vieta, Franciscus
154
Scaliger, Joseph Justus
155
Gilbert, William
156
Brahe, Tycho
Astronomy
(14 December 1546 – 24 October 1601) Known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations.
157
Bruno, Giordano
Astronomy
(1548 – February 17, 1600). The first man to have conceptualized the universe as a continuum where the stars we see at night are identical in nature to the Sun .
158
Stevinus, Simon
159
Napier, John
160
Alpini, Prospero
161
Norman, Robert
162
Libavius
163
Bacon, Francis
164
Briggs, Henry
165
Sanctorius, Sanctorius
166
Galileo
167
Fabricius, David
Astronomy
(1564–1617)Known for discovering the first known periodic variable star and the first confirmed instance of the observation of sunspots .
168
Lippershey, Hans
Astronomy
(1570–1619), generally credited as being the inventor of the telescope .
169
Keppler, Johann
170
Bayer, Johann
Astronomy
(1572–1625) most famous for his star atlas Uranometria , published in 1603, which was the first atlas to cover the entire celestial sphere .
171
Marius, Simon
172
Oughtred, William
173
Scheiner, Christoph
174
Harvey, William
175
Helmont, Jan Baptista van
176
Wendelin, Godefroy
177
Snell, Willebrord Van Roijen
178
Baffin, William
179
Vernier, Pierre
180
Cysat, Johann
181
Mersenne, Marin
Mathematics
(September 8, 1588 – September 1, 1648). Mathematician and music theorist , often referred to as the "father of acoustics "
182
Gassendi, Pierre
183
Descartes, Rene
184
Gellibrand, Henry
185
Riccioli, Giovanni Battista
186
Cavalieri, Bonaventura
187
Kircher, Athanasius
188
Fermat, Pierre de
189
Guericke, Otto Von
190
Glauber, Johann Rudolf
191
Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso
192
Torricelli, Evangelista
193
Ferdinand II of Tuscany
194
Hevelius, Johannes
195
Gascoigne, William
196
Sylvius, Franciscus
197
Wilkins, John
198
Wallis, John
199
Grimaldi, Francesco Maria
200
Horrocks, Jeremiah
201
Graunt, John
202
Brouncker, William, 2D Viscount
203
Mariotte, Edme
204
Picard, Jean
205
Willis, Thomas
206
Viviani, Vincenzo
207
Pascal, Blaise
208
Sydenham, Thomas
209
Cassini, Giovanni Domenico
210
Barthoun, Erasmus
211
Redi, Francesco
212
Boyle, Robert
Physics
(25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher , chemist , physicist , and inventor, best known for Boyle's law ,[ 12]
213
Ray, John
214
Malpighi, Marcello
215
Huygens, Christiaan
216
Brand, Hennig
217
Richer, Jean
218
Rudbeck, Olof
219
Lower, Richard
220
Wren, Sir Christopher
221
Leeuwenhoek, Anton Van
222
Becher, Johann Joachim
223
Hooke, Robert
224
Swammerdam, Jan
225
Steno, Nicolaus
226
Gregory, James
227
Denis, Jean Baptiste
228
Graaf, Regnier de
229
Grew, Nehemiah
230
Mayow, John
231
Newton, Sir Isaac
Physics
(25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27 [ 13] ) An English mathematician , astronomer , theologian and physicist .
232
Roemer, Olaus
233
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
234
Flamsteed, John
235
Papin, Denis
236
Savery, Thomas
237
Havers, Clopton
238
Halley, Edmund
239
Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de
240
Gregory, David
241
Stahl, Georg Ernst
242
Polhem, Christopher
243
Newcomen, Thomas
244
Amontons, Guillaume
245
Hauksbee, Francis
246
De Moivre, Abraham
247
Saccheri, Girolamo
248
Boerhaave, Hermann
249
Hales, Stephen
250
Bering, Vitus Jonassen
251
Morgagni, Giovanni Battista
252
Reaumur, Rene Antoine Ferchault de
253
Desaguliers, John Theophile
254
Fahrenheit, Gabriel Daniel
255
Delisle, Joseph Nicolas
256
Goldbach, Christian
257
Musschenbroek, Pieter Van
258
Bradley, James
259
Harrison, John
260
Brandt, Georg
261
Voltaire
-
(21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778) François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire , was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher .
262
Gray, Stephen
263
Maclaurin, Colin
264
Bouguer, Pierre
265
Baker, Henry
266
Du Fay, Charles François de Cisternay
267
Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de
268
Bernoulli, Daniel
269
Kleist, Ewald Georg Von
270
La Condamine, Charles Marie de
271
Celsius, Anders
272
Franklin, Benjamin
273
Dollond, John
274
Châtelet, Gabrieue Émilie Ietonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise de
275
Euler, Leonhard
276
Linnaeus, Carolus
277
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc. Comtede
278
Haller, Albrecht von
279
Marggraf, Andreas Sigismund
280
Gmelin, Johann Georg
281
Wright, Thomas
282
Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilievich
283
Clairaut, Alexis Claude
284
Lacaille, Nicolas Louis de
285
Needham, John Turberville
Biology
(10 September 1713 – 30 December 1781) was an English biologist and Roman Catholic priest.
286
Diderot, Denis
287
Guettard, Jean Etienne
288
Lind, James
289
d'Alembert, Jean le Rond
290
Canton, John
291
Bonnet, Charles
292
Cronstedt, Axel Fredrik
293
Kant, Immanuel
294
Michell, John
295
Le Gentil, Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean Baptiste
296
Desmarest, Nicolas
297
Hutton, James
298
Black, Joseph
299
Lambert, Johann Heinrich
300
Cook, James
301
Titius, Johann Daniel
Astronomy
(2 January 1729 – 16 December 1796) was a German astronomer and a professor at Wittenberg ,[ 14] best known for formulating the Titius–Bode law , and for using this rule to predict the existence of a celestial object at 2.8 AU from the sun.
302
Spallanzani, Lazzaro
303
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de
304
Müller, Otto Friedrich
305
Messier, Charles
306
Ingenhousz, Jan
307
Cavendish, Henry
308
Darwin, Erasmus
309
Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de
310
Maskelyne, Nevil
311
Arkwright, Sir Richard
312
Priestley, Joseph
313
Wolff, Kaspar Friedrich
314
Mesmer, Franz Anton
315
Bergman, Torbern Olof
316
Watt, James
317
Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, Comte de
318
Coulomb, Charles Augustin
319
Guyton de Morveau, Baron Louis Bernard
320
Galvani, Luigi
321
Herschel, Sir William
Astronomy
(15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) British astronomer and composer [ 15] Pioneered the use of astronomical spectrophotometry. Discovered infrared radiation. Discovered Uranus and 2 of its moons (Titania and Oberon) and 2 moons of Saturn (Enceladus and Mimas).
322
Saussure, Horace Benedict de
323
Müller, Franz Joseph
324
Frere, John
325
Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne Andjoseph Michel
326
Lexell, Anders Johan
327
Withering, William
328
Leblanc, Nicolas
329
Scheele, Karl Wilhelm
330
Fitch, John
331
Banks, Sir Joseph
332
Haüy, René Just
333
Jefferson, Thomas
334
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
335
Klaproth, Martin Heinrich
336
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de
337
Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio, Count
338
Pinel, Philippe
339
Gahn, Johann Gottlieb
340
Monge, Gaspard
341
Piazzi, Giuseppe
342
Hjelm, Peter Jacob
343
Charles, Jacques Alexandre Cesar
344
Bode, Johann Elert
345
Jussieu, Antoine Laurent de
346
Berthollet, Claude Louis, Comte
347
Laplace, Pierre Simon, Marquis de
348
Jenner, Edward
349
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
350
Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph
351
Rutherford, Daniel
352
Herschel, Caroline Lucretia
353
Dolomieu, Dieudonne de Gratet de
354
Sprengel, Christian Konrad
355
Werner, Abraham Gottlob
356
Prevost, Pierre
357
Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich
358
Legendre, Adrien Marie
359
Appert, Nicolas
360
Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, Count
361
Nicholson, William
363
Murdock, William
364
Proust, Joseph Louis
365
Parkinson, James
366
Fourcroy, Antoine François, Comtede
367
D'Elhuyar, Don Fausto
368
Chaptal, Jean Antoine Claude, Comtede Chanteloup
369
McAdam, John Loudon
370
Chladni, Ernst Florens Friedrich
371
Gall, Franz Joseph
372
Olbers, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus
373
Gadolin, Johan
374
Hall, Sir James
375
Tennant, Smithson
376
Pons, Jean Louis
377
Gregor, William
378
Richter, Jeremias Benjamin
379
Vauquelin, Louis Nicolas
380
Kirchhoff, Gottlieb Sigismund Constantin
381
Goodricke, John
382
Del Río, Andrés Manuel
383
Hatchett, Charles
384
Niépce, Joseph Nicéphore
385
Fulton, Robert
386
Whitney, Eli
387
Malthus, Thomas Robert
388
Wollaston, William Hyde
389
Dalton, John
390
Hisinger, Wilhelm
391
Ekeberg, Anders Gustaf
392
Bouvard, Alexis
393
Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph, Baron
394
Nicol, William
395
Smith, William
-
(23 March 1769 – 28 August 1839)
396
Cuvier, Georges Leopold Chretien Frederic Dagobert, Baron
397
Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander, Baron Von
398
Seebeck, Thomas Johann
399
Trevithick, Richard
400
Bichat, Marie François Xavier
401
Mohs, Friedrich
402
Young, Thomas
403
Brown, Robert
-
(21 December 1773 – 10 June 1858)
404
Biot, Jean Baptiste
405
Buch, Christian Leopold von
406
Baily, Francis
407
Ampère, Andrè Marie
408
Malus, Etienne Louis
409
Kidd, John
410
Germain, Sophie
411
Strohmeyer, Friedrich
412
Avogadro, Amedeo, Count of Quaregna
413
Ritter, Johann Wilhelm
414
Courtois, Bernard
415
Gauss, Johann Karl Friedrich
416
Thenard, Louis Jacques
417
Oersted, Hans Christian
418
Candolle, Augustin Pyrame de
419
Bretonneau, Pierre Fidele
420
Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis
421
Davy, Sir Humphry
Chemistry
(17 December 1778 – 29 May 1829) A Cornish chemist and inventor, who is best remembered for isolating a series of substances for the first time: potassium, sodium, calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron, as well as discovering the elemental nature of chlorine and iodin
422
Schweigger, Johann Salomo Christoph
423
Oken, Lorenz
424
Silliman, Benjamin
425
Berzelius, Jons Jakob
426
Bellingshausen, Fabian Gottliebvon
427
Dobereiner, Johann Wolfgang
428
Hare, Robert
429
Laennec, Theophile Rene Hyacinthe
430
Braconnot, Henri
431
Stephenson, George
432
Poisson, Simeon Denis
433
Brewster, Sir David
434
Biela, Wilhelm Von
435
Guthrie, Samuel
436
Sturgeon, William
437
Sertorner, Friedrich Wilhelm Adamferdinand
438
Magendie, François
439
Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm
440
Prout, William
441
Dulong, Pierre Louis
442
Sedgwick, Adam
443
Audubon, John James
444
Beaumont, William
Medicine
(November 21, 1785 – April 25, 1853) "Father of Gastric Physiology"
445
Lister, Joseph Jackson
446
Arago, Dominique François Jean
447
Amici, Giovanni Battista
448
Chevreul, Michel Eugene
449
Charpentier, Johann Von
450
Fraunhofer, Joseph Von
451
Sefstrom, Nils Gabriel
452
Purkinje, Jan Evangelista
453
Venetz, Ignatz
454
Pelletier, Pierre Joseph
455
Fresnel, Augustin Jean
456
Poncelet, Jean Victor
457
Gmelin, Leopold
458
Boucher de Crèvecœur Deperthes, Jacques
459
Sabine, Sir Edward
460
Thomsen, Christian Jurgensen
461
Ohm, Georg Simon
462
Redfield, William C.
463
Cauchy, Augustin Louis, Baron
464
Bond, William Cranch
465
Bright, Richard
-
(September 28, 1789 – December 16, 1858)
466
Schwabe, Heinrich Samuel
467
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandet
468
Mantell, Gideon Algernon
469
Hall, Marshall
470
Daniell, John Frederic
471
Mobius, August Ferdinand
472
Peacock, George
473
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
474
Faraday, Michael
475
Encke, Johann Franz
476
Petit, Alexis Therese
477
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey
478
Baer, Karl Ernst Von
479
Herschel, Sir John Frederick William
480
Coriolis, Gustave Gaspard de
481
Babbage, Charles
Engineering
(26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) An English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer.
482
Addison, Thomas
483
Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Von
484
Lobachevski, Nikolai Ivanovich
485
Mitscherlich, Eilhardt
486
Babinet, Jacques
487
Whewell, William
488
Madler, Johann Heinrich
489
Pander, Christian Heinrich
490
Payen, Anselme
491
Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried
492
Weber, Ernst Heinrich
493
Caventou, Joseph Bienaime
494
Braid, James
495
Claus, Carl Ernst
496
Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques
497
Carnot, Nicolas Leonard Sadi
498
Retzius, Anders Adolf
499
Beer, Wilhelm
500
Poiseuille, Jean Leonard Marie
-
(22 April 1797 – 26 December 1869)
501
Mosander, Carl Gustav
Chemistry
discovered the elements lanthanum, erbium and terbium.
502
Lyell, Sir Charles
503
Henry, Joseph
504
Melloni, Macedonio
505
Henderson, Thomas
Astronomy
(28 December 1798 – 23 November 1844) the first person to measure the distance to Alpha Centauri,
506
Reich, Ferdinand
507
Clapeyron, Benoit Pierre Emile
508
Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm August
509
Lassell, William
510
Schonbein, Christian Friedrich
511
Talbot, William Henry Fox
-
(11 February 1800 – 17 September 1877)
512
Ross, Sir James Clark
513
Rosse, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of
514
Dumas, Jean Baptiste Andre
515
Wohler, Friedrich
516
Goodyear, Charles
517
Dujardin, Felix
518
Miller, William Hallowes
519
Lartet, Edouard Annand Isidore Hippolyte
520
Fechner, Gustav Theodor
521
Plücker, Julius
522
Müller, Johannes Peter
523
Airy, Sir George Biddell
524
Borden, Gail
525
Boussingault, Jean Baptiste Joseph Dieudonne
526
Wheatstone, Sir Charles
527
Abel, Niels Henrik
528
Hess, Germain Henri
529
Balard, Antoine Jerome
530
Bolyai, Janos
531
Mulder, Gerardus Johannes
532
Liebig, Justus Von
Chemistry
(12 May 1803 – 18 April 1873) A German chemist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and was considered the founder of organic chemistry.
533
Ericsson, John
534
Doppler, Christian Johann
535
Challis, James
536
Lenz, Heinrich Friedrich Emil
537
Siebold, Karl Theodor Ernst von
538
Schleiden, Matthias Jakob
539
Owen, Sir Richard
540
Weber, Wilhelm Eduard
541
Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jacob
542
Mohl, Hugo von
543
Jackson, Charles Thomas
544
Fitzroy, Robert
545
Hamilton, Sir William Rowan
546
Lamont, Johann Von
547
Graham, Thomas
548
Maury, Matthew Fontaine
549
de Morgan, Augustus
550
Palmieri, Luigi
551
Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe
552
Guyot, Arnold Henry
553
Laurent, Auguste
554
Darwin, Charles Robert
555
Liouville, Joseph
556
Grassman, Hermann Günther
557
Henle, Friedrich Gustav Jakob
558
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
559
Rawlinson, Sir Henry Creswicke
560
Valentin, Gabriel Gustav
561
Regnault, Henri Victor
562
Gray, Asa
563
Schwann, Theodor
564
Le Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph
565
Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard
566
Draper, John William
567
Simpson, Sir James Young
568
Grove, Sir William Robert
569
Otis, Elisha Graves
570
Budd, William (1811–1880)
571
Galois, Evariste
572
Shanks, William
573
Galle, Johann Gottfried
574
Sobrero, Ascanio
575
Bessemer, Sir Henry
576
Snow, John
577
Archer, Frederick Scott
578
Bernard, Claude
579
Stas, Jean Servais
580
Andrews, Thomas
-
(9 December 1813 – 26 November 1885)
581
Parkes, Alexander
Engineering
Invented the first man-made plastic.
582
Fremy, Edmond
583
Geissler, Heinrich
584
Daubree, Gabriel Auguste
585
Angstrom, Anders Jonas
586
Kirkwood, Daniel
587
Mayer, Julius Robert
588
Lawes, Sir John Bennett
589
De La Rue, Warren
590
Forbes, Edward
591
Remak, Robert
592
Wunderlich, Carl Reinhold August
593
Weierstrass, Karl Theodor Wilhelm
594
Long, Crawford Williamson
595
Boole, George
596
Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris
597
Ludwig, Kari Friedrich Wilhelm
598
Nägeli, Carl
599
Marignac, Jean Charles Galissard de
600
Kolliker, Rudolf Albert Von
601
Kopp, Hermann Franz Moritz
602
Wurtz, Charles Adolphe
603
Sainte-Claire Deville, Henri Etienne
604
Hofmann, August Wilhelm Von
605
Donders, Franciscus Comelis
606
Secchi, Pietro Angelo
607
Semmelweiss, Ignaz Philipp
608
Mitchell, Maria
609
Gatling, Richard Jordan
610
Kolbe, Adolph Wilhelm Hermann
611
du Bois-Reymond, Emil Heinrich
612
Pettenkofer, Max Joseph Von
613
Joule, James Prescott
614
Drake, Edwin Laurentine
615
Adams, John Couch
616
Howe, Euas
617
Morton, William Thomas Green
618
Stokes, Sir George Gabriel
619
Foucault, Jean Bernard Leon
620
Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis
621
Field, Cyrus West
Engineering
The driving force behind the first Transatlantic telegraph cable (Completed on August 5, 1858.)
622
Beguyer de Chancourtois, Alexandre-Emfle
623
Becquerel, Alexandre Edmond
624
Spencer, Herbert
-
(27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903)
625
Rankine, William John Macquorn
626
Tyndall, John
627
Roche, Edouard Albert
628
Loschmidt, Johann Joseph
629
Cayley, Arthur
630
Mortillet, Louis Laurent Gabriel de
631
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von
632
Virchow, Rudolph Carl
633
Clausius, Rudolf Julius Emmanuel
634
Schliemann, Heinrich
635
Lenoir, Jean Joseph Etienne
Engineering
developed the first internal combustion engine in 1859.
636
Galton, Sir Francis
637
Thomson, Robert William
638
Mendel, Gregor Johann
639
Arrest, Heinrich Ludwig d'
640
Leuckart, Karl Georg Friedrich Rudolf
641
Hermite, Charles
642
Pasteur, Louis
643
Wallace, Alfred Russel
644
Siemens, Sir William
645
Kronecker, Leopold
646
Huggins, Sir William
647
Janssen, Pierre Jules Cesar
648
Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert
649
Hittorf, Johann Wilhelm
650
Williamson, Alexander William
651
Hofmeister, Wilhelm Friedrichbenedikt
652
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
653
Broca, Pierre Paul
654
Richter, Hieronymus Theodor
655
Frankland, Sir Edward
656
Bates, Henry Walter
657
Schultze, Max Johann Sigismund
658
Balmer, Johann Jakob
659
Huxley, Thomas Henry
660
Bond, George Phillips
661
Erlenmeyer, Richard August Carl Enul
662
Charcot, Jean Martin
663
Hoppe-Seyler, Ernst Felix Immanuel
664
Stoney, George Johnstone
Physics
introducing the term electron as the "fundamental unit quantity of electricity".
665
Thomsen, Hans Peter Jørgen Julius
666
Gramme, Zenobe Theophile
667
Carrington, Richard Christopher
668
Cannizzaro, Stanislao
669
Gegenbaur, Karl
670
Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard
671
Donati, Giovanni Battista
672
Lister, Joseph, Baron
673
Abel, Sir Frederick Augustus
674
Berthelot, Pierre Eugene Marcelin
675
Cohn, Ferdinand Julius
676
Butlerov, Alexander Mikhailovich
677
Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson
Engineering
(31 October 1828 – 27 May 1914) invented the incandescent light bulb
678
Stewart, Balfour
679
Pogson, Norman Robert
680
Kekulé von Stradonitz, Friedrich August
681
Hall, Asaph
682
Thomson, Sir Charles Wyville
683
Marey, Etienne Jules
684
Raoult, François-Marie
685
Meyer, Julius Lothar
686
Couper, Archibald Scott
687
Suess, Eduard
688
Dedekind, Julius Wilhelm Richard
689
Hellriegel, Hermann
Biology
(1831–1895) Discovered that certain legumes were capable of fixing atmospheric nitrogen .
690
Marsh, Othniel Charles
-
(October 29, 1831 – March 18, 1899) paleontologists in the American West.
691
Voit, Karl Von
692
Maxwell, James Clerk
693
Friedel, Charles
694
Otto, Nikolaus August
695
Crookes, Sir Wniiam
696
Clark, Alvan Graham
697
Wundt, Wilhelm Max
698
Cailletet, Louis Paul
699
Sachs, Julius von
700
Nordenskiold, Nils Adolf Erik
701
Waage, Peter
702
Bert, Paul
703
Nobel, Alfred Bernhard
704
Weismann, August Friedrich Leopold
705
Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich
706
Caro, Heinrich
707
Haeckel, Emst Heinrich Philippaugust
708
Daimler, Gottlieb Wilhelm
709
Plante, Gaston
710
Venn, John
711
Langley, Samuel Pierpont
712
Young, Charles Augustus
713
Newcomb, Simon
714
Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio
715
Stefan, Josef
716
Wislicenus, Johannes
717
Ringer, Sydney
718
Baeyer, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von
719
Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman
720
Allbutt, Sir Thomas Clifford
721
Guldberg, Cato Maximilian
722
Waldeyer-Hartz, Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried Von
723
Draper, Henry
724
Proctor, Richard Anthony
725
Kühne, Wilhelm (Willy) Friedrich
726
Van Der Waals, Johannes Diderik
727
Newlands, John Alexander Reina
728
Hyatt, John Wesley
729
Markovnikov, Vladimir Vasilevich
730
Morley, Edward Williams
731
Hitzig, Julius Eduard
Medicine
(Feb 6, 1838 – Aug 20, 1907) German physiologist.
732
Beilstein, Friedrich Konrad
733
Mach, Ernst
734
Perkin, Sir William Henry
735
Solvay, Ernest
736
Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Paul Emile
737
Zeppelin, Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich, Count von
738
Abbe, Cleveland
739
Winkler, Clemens Alexander
740
Gibbs, Josiah Willard
741
Crafts, James Mason
742
Przhevalsky, Nikolay Mikhaylovich
743
Chardonnet, Louis Marie Hilaire Bemigaud, Comte de
744
Kundt, August Adolph Eduard Eberhard
745
Maxim, Sir Hiram Stevens
746
Cleve, Per Teodor
747
Nilson, Lars Fredrik
748
Cope, Edward Drinker
749
Krafft-Ebing, Baron Richard Von
750
Kovalevski, Alexander Onufriyevich
751
Amagat, Emile Hilaire
752
Graebe, Karl James Peter
753
Dutton, Clarence Edward
754
James, William
755
Breuer, Josef
756
Flammarion, Nicolas Camille
757
Vogel, Hermann Carl
758
Linde, Karl Paul Gottfried Von
759
Dewar, Sir James
760
Rayleigh, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron
761
Ferrier, Sir David
762
Flemming, Walther
763
Gill, Sir David
764
Golgi, Camillo
765
Abney, Sir William de Wiveleslie
766
Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder
767
Koch, (Heinrich Hermann) Robert
768
Strasburger, Eduard Adolf
769
Boltzmann, Ludwig Edward
770
Miescher, Johann Friedrich
771
Manson, Sir Patrick
772
Cantor, Georg
773
Pfeffer, Wilhelm
774
Roentgen, Wilhelm Konrad
775
Mechnikov, Ilya Ilich
776
Laveran, Charles Louis Alphonse
Medicine
discovered that the cause of malaria is a protozoan
777
Darwin, Sir George Howard
778
Lippmann, Gabriel Jonas
779
Wroblewski, Zygmunt Plorenty Von
780
Hall, Granvflle Stanley
781
Remsen, Ira
782
Beneden, Edouard Josephlouis-Marie Van
783
Pictet, Raoul Pierre
784
Pickering, Edward Charles
785
Westinghouse, George
786
Baumann, Eugen
787
Le Bel, Joseph Achille
788
Edison, Thomas Alva
-
(February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931)
789
Bell, Alexander Graham
-
(March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922)
790
Wallach, Otto
791
Langerhans, Paul
792
De Vries, Hugo Marie
793
Lilienthal, Otto
794
Eotvos, Roland, Baron von
795
Dorn, Friedrich Ernst
796
Meyer, Viktor
797
Frege, Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob
798
Rowland, Henry Augustus
799
Burbank, Luther
800
Klein, Christian Felix
801
Kjeldahl, Johann Gustav Christoffer
802
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich
803
Fleming, Sir John Ambrose
804
Kovalevsky, Sonya
805
Gaffky, Georg Theodor August
806
Heaviside, Oliver
807
Sharpey-Schafer, Sir Edward Albert
808
Braun, Karl Ferdinand
809
Richet, Charles Robert
810
Righi, Augusto
811
Goldstein, Eugen
812
Le Chatelier, Henri Louis
813
Buchner, Hans Ernst Angass
814
Milne, John
815
Kapteyn, Jacobus Cornelius
Astronomy
(January 19, 1851 – June 18, 1922) the first discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation .
816
Chamberland, Charles Edouard
817
Beijerinck, Martinus Willem
818
Maunder, Edward Walter
819
Berliner, Emile
820
Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph
821
Fitzgerald, George Francis
822
Reed, Walter
823
Balfour, Francis Maitland
824
Frasch, Herman
825
Demarcay, Eugene Anatole
826
Lindemann, Carl Louis Ferdinandvon
827
Ramon Y Cajal, Santiago
828
Loffler, Friedrich August Johannes
829
van 't Hoff, Jacobus Henricus
830
Halsted, William Stewart
831
Moissan, Ferdinand Frederic Henri
832
Ramsay, Sir William
833
Fischer, Emil Hermann
834
Becquerel, Antoine Henri
Physics
discoverer of radioactivity , for which he won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics
835
Michelson, Albert Abraham
Physics
known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light and especially for the Michelson–Morley experiment .
836
Schaeberle, John Martin
837
Thomson, Elihu
838
Petrie, Sir (William Matthew)Flinders
-
Egyptologist
839
Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon
840
Ostwald, Friedrich Wilhelm
841
Gram, Hans Christian Joachim
Medicine
(1853–1938), inventor of the Gram stain .
842
Kossel, (Karl Martin Leonhard)Albrecht
843
Kamerlingh Onnes, Heike
844
Roux, Pierre Paul Emile
845
Ehrlich, Paul
846
Behring, Emil Adolf von'
847
Poincaré, Jules Henri
848
Rubner, Max
849
Carroll, James
850
Parsons, Sir Charles Algernon
851
Hampson, William
Engineering
(1854–1926) English inventor.
852
Eastman, George
853
Gorgas, William Crawford
854
Roozeboom, Hendrik Willem Bakhuis
855
Takamine, Jokichi
856
Sabatier, Paul
857
Rydberg, Johannes Robert
858
Elster, Johann Philipp Ludwig Julius
Physics
(1854–1920) – Studied Photoelectric effect . Produced first practical device for measuring intensity of light.
859
Neisser, Albert Ludwig Sigismund
860
Lowell, Percival
861
Teisserenc de Bort, Leon Philippe
862
Cross, Charles Frederick
863
Acheson, Edward Goodrich
864
Taylor, Frederick Winslow
865
Freud, Sigmund
866
Peary, Robert Edwin
867
Tesla, Nikola
868
Wilson, Edmund Beecher
869
Thomson, Sir Joseph John
870
Kitasato, Baron Shibasaburō
871
Mohorovicic, Andrija
872
Johannsen, Wilhelm Ludwig
873
Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf
874
Wagner Von Jauregg, Julius
875
Pearson, Karl
876
Ross, Sir Ronald
877
Abel, John Jacob
878
Binet, Alfred
879
Keeler, James Edward
880
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich
881
Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott
882
Koller, Carl
883
Barnard, Edward Emerson
884
Dubois, Marie Eugene Francoisthomas
885
Pickering, William Henry
886
Diesel, Rudolf
887
Planck, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig
888
Eijkman, Christiaan
889
Peano, Giuseppe
890
Auer, Karl, Baron Von Welsbach
891
Pupin, Michael Idvorsky
892
Hadfield, Sir Robert Abbott
893
Bose, Sir Jagadis Chandra
894
Arrhenius, Svante August
895
Popov, Alexander Stepanovich
896
Loeb, Jacques
897
Curie, Pierre
898
Reid, Harry Fielding
899
Smith, Theobald
900
Osborne, Thomas Burr
Medicine
Discovered vitamin A.
901
Haffkine, Waldemar Mordecaiwolfs
902
Bayliss, Sir William Maddock
903
Buchner, Eduard
904
Einthoven, Willem
Medicine
(1860–1927) invented the first practical electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) in 1903
905
Barringer, Daniel Moreau
906
Villard, Paul Ulrich
Physics
discovered gamma rays in 1900
907
Sperry, Elmer Ambrose
908
Finsen, Niels Ryberg
909
Goldschmidt, Johann (Hans) Wilhelm
910
Guillaume, Charles Edouard
911
Whitehead, Alfred North
912
Hopkins, Sir Frederick Gowland
913
Bateson, William
914
Nansen, Fridtjof
915
Innes, Robert Thorburn Ayton
916
Kennelly, Arthur Edwin
917
Wiechert, Emil
918
Hilbert, David
919
Gullstrand, Allvar
920
Lenard, Philipp Eduard Anton Von
921
Nef, John Ulric
922
Bragg, Sir William Henry
923
Boveri, Theodor
924
Vernadsky, Vladimir Ivanovich
925
Héroult, Paul Louis Toussaint
926
Love, Augustus Edward Hough
927
Wolf, Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius
928
Walden, Paul
929
Ford, Henry
930
Kipping, Frederic Stanley
-
(1863–1949). Pioneering work with silicone .
931
Baekeland, Leo Hendrik
932
Cannon, Annie Jump
933
Hall, Charles Martin
934
Wien, Wilhelm
935
Minkowski, Hermann
936
Nernst, Hermann Walther
937
Carver, George Washington
938
Correns, Karl Franz Joseph Erich
939
Ivanovsky, Dmitri Losifovich
940
Hartmann, Johannes Franz
941
Paschen, Louis Carl Heinrichfriedrich
942
Weiss, Pierre
943
Zsigmondy, Richard Adolf
944
Steinmetz, Charles Proteus
945
Zeeman, Pieter
946
Nagaoka, Hantaro
947
Harden, Sir Arthur
948
Leishman, Sir William Boog
949
Plaskett, John Stanley
950
Gomberg, Moses
951
Wasserman, August Von
952
Lebedev, Pyotr Nikolaevich
953
Miller, Dayton Clarence
954
Starling, Ernest Henry
955
Lazear, Jesse William
956
Nicolle, Charles Jules Henri
957
Morgan, Thomas Hunt
958
Fessenden, Reginald Aubrey
959
Broom, Robert
960
Werner, Alfred
961
Wright, Wilbur
962
Fabry, Charles
963
Douglass, Andrew Ellicott
964
Perrine, Charles Dillon
965
Curie, Marie Sklodowska
966
Ipatieff, Vladimir Nikolaevich
967
Sorensen, Soren Peter Lauritz
Chemistry
(1868–1939) introduced of the concept of pH
968
Richards, Theodore William
Chemistry
Won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, "in recognition of his exact determinations of the atomic weights of a large number of the chemical elements."
969
Millikan, Robert Andrews
Physics
Nobel laureate in physics for his measurement of the charge on the electron and for his work on the photoelectric effect .
970
Hayford, John Fillmore
971
Scott, Robert Falcon
972
Sabine, Wallace Clement Ware
Engineering
acoustical architect of Boston's Symphony Hall
973
Landsteiner, Kari
Medicine
noted for his development in 1901 of the modern system of classification of blood groups
974
Hale, George Ellery
975
Leavitt, Henrietta Swan
976
Sommerfeld, Arnold Johannes Wilhelm
977
Haber, Fritz
978
Abegg, Richard Wilhelm Heinrich
979
Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees
980
Levene, Phoebus Aaron Theodor
981
Spemann, Hans
982
Pregl, Fritz
983
Poulsen, Valdemar
Engineering
developed a magnetic wire recorder (precursor to magnetic tape recording ) in 1899.
984
Adler, Alfred
985
Honda, Kotaro
986
Bordet, Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent
987
Boltwood, Bertram Borden
988
Ivanov, IIya Ivanovich
989
Claude, Georges
990
Perrin, Jean Baptiste
991
Pope, Sir William Jackson
992
Ricketts, Howard Taylor
993
Grignard, François Auguste Victor
994
Bodenstein, Max
995
Wright, Orville
996
Rutherford, Ernest
997
Schaudinn, Fritz Richard
998
Cannon, Walter Bradford
999
Tschermak Von Seysenegg, Erich
1000
Langevin, Paul
1001
Travers, Morris William
1002
Urbain, Georges
1003
Moulton, Forest Ray
1004
Sitter, Willem de
1005
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William,3rd Earl
1006
Tsvett, Mikhail Semenovich
1007
Curtis, Heber Doust
1008
Amundsen, Roald Engelbregt
1009
Willstatter, Richard
1010
Duggar, Benjamin Minge
1011
Euler-Chelpin, Hans Karl Augustsimon Von
1012
d'Herelle, Felix Hubert
Medicine
(1873–1949) the co-discoverer of bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria)
1013
Sidgwick, Nevil Vincent
1014
Berger, Hans
1015
Loewi Otto
1016
Carrel, Alexis
1017
de Forest, Lee
1018
Hertzsprung, Ejnar
1019
Schwarzschild, Karl
1020
Coolidge, William David
-
(1873–1975)
1021
Coblentz, William Weber
1022
Harkins, William Draper
1023
Erlanger, Joseph
1024
Stark, Johannes
1025
Marconi, Marchese Guglielmo
Engineering
(1874–1937). 1909 Nobel prize for improvements in radio communications . (Increased range from 1.5 km to first transatlantic radio message on December 17, 1902.)
1026
Debierne, Andre Louis
1027
Goldberger, Joseph
1028
Bosch, Karl
1029
Blakeslee, Albert Francis
1030
Krogh, Schack August Steenberg
1031
Weizmann, Chaim
1032
Moniz, Antonio Caetano de Abreufreire Egas
1033
Michaelis, Leonor
1034
Dale, Sir Henry Hallett
1035
Jung, Carl Gustav
1036
Sherman, Henry Clapp
Medicine
(1875–1955) Developed methods for measuring vitamin content of food.
1037
Lewis, Gilbert Newton
Chemistry
known for the discovery of the covalent bond
1038
Slipher, Vesto Melvin
1039
Diels, Otto Paul Hermann
1040
Barany, Robert
1041
Yerkes, Robert Meams
1042
Keesom, Willem Hendrik
1043
Stock, Alfred
1044
Kettering, Charles Franklin
1045
Adams, Walter Sydney
1046
Windaus, Adolf
1047
Sutton, Walter Stanborough
1048
Wieland, Heinrich Otto
1049
Barkla, Charles Glover
1050
Beebe, Charles William
1051
Aston, Francis William
1052
Soddy, Frederick
1053
Jeans, Sir James Hopwood
1054
Avery, Oswald Theodore
1055
Twort, Frederick William
1056
Russell, Henry Norris
1057
Watson, John Broadus
1058
Nieuwland, Julius Arthur
1059
Whipple, George Hoyt
1060
Meitner, Lise
1061
Bronsted, Johannes Nicolaus
1062
Mccollum, Elmer Verner
1063
Hahn, Otto
1064
Einstein, Albert
1065
Schmidt, Bernhard Voldemar
1066
Richardson, Sir Owen Willans
1067
Rous, Francis Peyton
1068
Laue, Max Theodor Felix von
1069
Woolley, Sir Charles Leonard
1070
Gesell, Arnold Lucius
Medicine
(21 June 1880 – 29 May 1961) was a psychologist and pediatrician who was a pioneer in the field of child development .
1071
Wegener, Alfred Lothar
1072
Langmuir, Irving
1073
Hess, Walter Rudolf
1074
Staudinger, Hermann
1075
Karman, Theodore Von
1076
Fischer, Hans
1077
Fleming, Sir Alexander
1078
Davisson, Clinton Joseph
1079
Barkhausen, Heinrich
1080
Bridgman, Percy Williams
1081
Franck, James
1082
Geiger, Hans Wilhelm
Physics
(1882–1945) Perhaps best known as the co-inventor of the Geiger counter and for the Geiger–Marsden experiment which discovered the atomic nucleus .
1083
Goddard, Robert Hutchings
Engineering
On March 16, 1926, he became the first person to build and launch a liquid-fueled rocket .
1084
Born, Max
1085
Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley
1086
Burt, Sir Cyril Lodowic
1087
Haworth, Sir Walter Norman
1088
Hess, Victor Francis
Physics
discovered cosmic rays .
1089
Warburg, Otto Heinrich
1090
Smith, Philip Edward
1091
Andrews, Roy Chapman
1092
Piccard, August
1093
Funk, Casimir
1094
Debye, Peter Joseph Wilhelm
1095
Meyerhof, Otto Fritz
1096
Black, Davidson
1097
Svedberg, Theodor H. E.
1098
Bergius, Friedrich Karl Rudolf
1099
Rorschach, Hermann
1100
Hevesy, Győrgy
1101
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
1102
Shapley, Harlow
1103
Minot, George Richards
1104
Williams, Robert Runnels
1105
Kendall, Edward Calvin
1106
Dempster, Arthur Jeffrey
1107
Robinson, Sir Robert
1108
Hill, Archibald Vivian
1109
Trumpler, Robert Julius
1110
Frisch, Karl Von
1111
Siegbahn, Karl Manne Georg
1112
Kohler, Wolfgang
1113
Keilin, David
1114
Rose, William Cumming
1115
Houssay, Bernardo Alberto
1116
Hertz, Gustav Ludwig
1117
Schrödinger, Erwin
1118
Paneth, Priedrich Adolf
1119
Ružicka, Leopold Stephen
1120
Sumner, James Batcheller
1121
Moseley, Henry Gwyn-Jeffreys
1122
Vavilov, Nikolay Ivanovich
1123
Goldschmidt, Victor Moritz
1124
Stern, Otto
1125
Friedmann, Alexander Alexandrovich
1126
Gasser, Herbert Spencer
1127
Zernicke, Fritz
1128
Waksman, Selman Abraham
Engineering
1953 Nobel laureate for his invention of the phase contrast microscope ,
1129
Byrd, Richard Evelyn
1130
Raman, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata
1131
Karrer, Paul
1132
Midgley, Thomas, Jr.
1133
Gutenberg, Beno
1134
Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma
-
(July 30, 1889 – July 29, 1982)
1135
Coster, Dirk
1136
Hubble, Edwin Powell
1137
Adrian, Edgar Douglas, Baron
1138
Holmes, Arthur
1139
Bush, Vannevar
1140
Jones, Sir Harold Spencer
1141
Henry, Sir William Lawrence
1142
Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer
1143
Armstrong, Edwin Howard
1144
Heyrovsky, Jaroslav
1145
Muller, Hermann Joseph
1146
Bothe, Walther Wilhelm Georg Franz
1147
Jeffreys, Sir Harold
1148
Northrop, John Howard
1149
Humason, Milton La Salle
1150
Chadwick, Sir James
Physics
(1891–1974). Nobel laureate in physics awarded for his discovery of the neutron .
1151
Nicholson, Seth Barnes
1152
Banting, Sir Frederick Grant
Medicine
one of the co-discoverers of insulin .
1153
Sturtevant, Alfred Henry
1154
Murphy, William Parry
1155
Watson-Watt, Sir Robert Alexander
1156
Thomson, Sir George Paget
1157
de Broglie, Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, Prince
1158
Appleton, Sir Edward Victor
1159
Compton, Arthur Holly
1160
Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson
1161
Larson, John Augustus
Engineering
inventor of the polygraph
1162
Dart, Raymond Arthur
1163
Baade, Walter
1164
Urey, Harold Clayton
1165
Simon, Sir Franz Eugen Francis
1166
Noddack, Walter Karl Friedrich
1167
Szent-Győrgyi, Albert
1168
Opik, Ernst Julius
1169
Doisy, Edward Adelbert
1170
Bose, Satyendra Nath
1171
Oparin, Alexander Ivanovich
1172
Oberth, Hermann Julius
1173
Kapitza, Peter Leonidovich
1174
Lemaitre, Abbe Georges Edouard
1175
Wiener, Norbert
1176
Virtanen, Artturi Ilmari
1177
Dam, Carl Peter Henrik
1178
Giauque, William Francis
1179
Minkowski, Rudolph Leo B.
1180
Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich
1181
Cournand, Andre Frederic
1182
Rhine, Joseph Banks
1183
Domagk, Gerhard
1184
Richards, Dickinson W.
1185
Lindblad, Bertil
1186
Milne, Edward Arthur
1187
Noddack, Ida Eva Tacke
1188
Hench, Philip Showalter
1189
Semenov, Nikolay Nikolaevich
1190
Carothers, Wallace Hume
1191
Mulliken, Robert Sanderson
1192
Cori, Gerty Theresa Radnitz
1193
King, Charles Glen
1194
Cori, Carl Ferdinand
1195
Enders, John Franklin
1196
Lyot, Bernard Ferdinand
1197
Hassel, Odd
1198
Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas
1199
Wittig, Georg Friedrich Karl
1200
Hinshelwood, Sir Cyril Norman
1201
Reichstein, Tadeusz
1202
Wyckoff, Ralph Walter Graystone
1203
Struve, Otto
1204
Joliot-Curie, Irene
1205
Bjerknes, Jacob Aall Bonnevie ,
1206
Norrish, Ronald George Wreyford
1207
Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart
1208
Szilard, Leo
1209
Zwicky, Fritz
1210
Astbury, William Thomas
1211
Schoenheimer, Rudolf
1212
Rabi, Isidor Isaac
Physics
Nobel laureate in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance .
1213
Florey, Howard
1214
Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich
1215
Ziegler, Karl
1216
Müller, Paul Hermann
1217
Theiler, Max
1218
Best, Charles Herbert
Medicine
He was one of the co-discoverers of insulin .
1219
Van Vleck, John Hasbrouck
1220
Bekesy, Georg Von
1221
Lipmann, Fritz Albert
1222
Claude, Albert
1223
Burnet, Sir Frank Macfariane
1224
Dobzhansky, Theodosius
1225
Rickover, Hyman George
1226
London, Fritz Wolfgang
1227
Joliot-Curie, Frederic
1228
Pauli, Wolfgang
1229
Oort, Jan Hendrik
1230
Gabor, Dennis
Physics
inventor, most notable for inventing holography , for which he later received the Nobel Prize in Physics .
1231
Krebs, Sir Hans Adolf
1232
Granit, Ragnar Arthur
1233
Kuhn, Richard
1234
Uhlenbeck, George Eugene
1235
Dubos, Rene Jules
1236
Pauling, Linus Carl
1237
Menzel, Donald Howard
1238
Hinton, Christopher, Baron
Engineering
nuclear engineer, and supervisor of the construction of Calder Hall , the world's first large-scale commercial nuclear power station .
1239
Du Vigneaud, Vincent
1240
Elvehjem, Conrad Arnold
1241
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando
1242
Huggins, Charles Branton
1243
Fermi, Enrico
1244
Oliphant, Marcus Laurence Elwin
1245
Heisenberg, Werner Karl
1246
Van de Graaf, Robert Jemison
1247
van de Kamp, Peter
1248
Morgenstern, Oskar
1249
Lindbergh, Charles Augustus
1250
Brattain, Walter Houser
Engineering
along with John Bardeen and William Shockley , invented the transistor .
1251
Strassman, Fritz
1252
Kastler, Alfred
1253
Lwoff, Andre Michael
1254
Alder, Kurt
1255
Goudsmtt, Samuel Abraham
1256
Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice
1257
Tiselius, Arne Wilhelm Kaurin
1258
Brouwer, Dirk
1259
Spedding, Frank Harold
Chemistry
chemist who developed an ion exchange procedure for separating rare earth elements , purifying uranium , and separating isotopes of elements.
1260
Wigner, Eugene Paul
1261
Kurchatov, Igor Vasilevich
1262
Eccles, Sir John Carew
1263
Natta, Giulio
1264
Boyd, William Clouser
1265
Butenandt, Adolf Friedrich Johann
1266
Pincus, Gregory
1267
Theorell, Axel Hugo Teodor
1268
Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett
1269
Walton, Ernest Thomas Sinton
1270
Beadle, George Wells
1271
Lorenz, Konrad
1272
Onsager, Lars
1273
Neumann, John Von
1274
Powell, Cecil Frank
1275
Snell, George Davis
1276
Hartline, Haldan Keffer
1277
Bittner, John Joseph
1278
Gamow, George
1279
Elsasser, Walter Maurice
1280
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
1281
Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseyevich
1282
Stanley, Wendeu Meredith
1283
Forssman, Werner
1284
Frisch, Otto Robert
1285
Neel, Louis Eugene Felix
1286
Herzberg, Gerhard
1287
Segre, Emilio
1288
Von Euler, Ulf Svante
1289
Rossi, Bruno Benedetto
1290
Wildt, Rupert
1291
Chargapf, Erwin
-
(1905–2002)
1292
Anderson, Carl David
Physics
best known for discovering the positron in 1932, an achievement for which he received the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics , and of the muon in 1936.
1293
Ochoa, Severo
1294
Mott, Sir Nevill Francis
1295
Jansky, Karl Guthe
1296
Bloch, Felix
1297
Kuiper, Gerard Peter
1298
Morgan, William Wilson
1299
Tombaugh, Clyde William
Astronomy
(1906–1997) best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930
1300
Tomonaga, Shin'ichiro
1301
Godel, Kurt
1302
Bok, Bart Jan
1303
Ewing, William Maurice
1304
Hess, Harry Hammond
1305
Craig, Lyman Creighton
Medicine
(1908–1974), biochemist known for isolating parathyroid hormone .
1306
Chain, Ernst Boris
1307
Goeppert-Mayer, Maria
1308
Bethe, Hans Albrecht
1309
Schaefer, Vincent Joseph
1310
Prelog, Vladimir
1311
Sabin, Albert Bruce
1312
Folkers, Kari August
1313
Delbrück, Max
1314
Leloir, Luis Frederico
1315
Ley, Willy
1316
Edlen, Bengt
1317
Whipple, Fred Lawrence
1318
Wald, George
1319
Goldmark, Peter Carl
1320
Wilkins, Robert Wallace
1321
Zinn, Walter Henry
1322
Ruska, Ernst August Friedrich
1323
Yukawa, Hideki
1324
Veksler, Vladimir Losifovich
1325
Bovet, Daniele
1326
Tinbergen, Nikolaas
1327
Jensen, Johannes Hans Daniel
1328
Mauchly, John William
1329
Mcmillan, Edwin Mattison
1330
Dunning, John Ray
1331
Todd, Alexander Robertus, Baron
1332
Teller, Edward
1333
Landau, Lev Davidovich
1334
Bardeen, John
1335
Alfvén, Hannes Olof Gosta
1336
Kozyrev, Nikolai Alexandrovich
1337
Bawden, Sir Frederick Charles
1338
Ambartzumian, Victoramazaspovich
1339
Williams, Robley Cook
1340
Frank, Ilya Mikhaylovich
1341
Hershey, Alfred Day
1342
Libby, Willard Frank
1343
Artsimovich, Lev Andreevich
1344
Land, Edwin Herbert
1345
Greenstein, Jesse Leonard
1346
Tatum, Edward Lawrie
1347
Monod, Jacques Lucien
1348
Shockley, William Bradford
1349
Walter, William Grey
1350
Martin, Archer John Porter
1351
Pierce, John Robinson
1352
Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot
1353
Cousteau, Jacques-Yves
1354
Flory, Paul John
1355
Fraenkel-Conrat, Heinz
1356
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
1357
Roberts, Richard Brooke
Physics
physicist and biophysicist, participated in the experiment in which the splitting of the uranium atom was first observed in 1939.
1358
Shemin, David
1359
Katz, Sir Bernard
1360
Lynen, Feodor
1361
Calvin, Melvin
1362
Goldhaber, Maurice
1362
Blanchard, Jean Pierre François
1363
Alvarez, Luis Walter
1364
Mueller, Erwin Wilhelm
1365
Stein, William Howard
1366
Wheeler, John Archibald
1367
Kerst, Donald William
1368
Reber, Grote
1369
Bloch, Konrad Emil
1370
Braun, Wernher Magnus Maximilian von
1371
Fox, Sidney Walter
1372
Seaborg, Glenn Theodore
1373
Brown, Herbert Charles
1374
Axelrod, Julius
1375
Turing, Alan Mathison
1376
Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich, Baron von
1377
Luria, Salvador Edward
1378
Purcell, Edward Mills
1379
Moore, Stanford
1380
Palade, George Emil
1381
Flerov, Georgii Nikolaevich
1382
Li, Choh Hao
1383
Abelson, Philip Hauge
1384
Chance, Britton
1385
Kamen, Martin David
1386
Lovell, Sir Alfred Charles Bernard
1387
Hodgkin, Alan Lloyd
1388
Dulbecco, Renato
1389
Perutz, Max Ferdinand
1390
Spitzer, Lyman, Jr.
1391
Vonnegut, Bernard
1392
Van Allen, James Alfred
1393
Salk, Jonas Edward
1394
Synge, Richard Laurence Millington
1395
Hofstadter, Robert
1396
Medawar, Sir Peter Brian
1397
Weller, Thomas Huckle
1398
Hoyle, Sir Fred
1399
Barghoorn, Elso Sterrenberg
1400
Townes, Charles Hard
1401
Hillier, James
1402
Sutherland, Earl Wilbur, Jr.
1403
Anfinsen, Christian Boehmer
1404
Shannon, Claude Elwood
1405
Dicke, Robert Henry
1406
Crick, Francis Harry Compton
Medicine
(1916–2004) most noted for being one of two co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953,
1407
Friedman, Herbert
1408
Shklovskii, Losif Samuilovich
1409
Prokhorov, Alexander Mikhailovich
1410
Robbins, Frederick Chapman
1411
Dausset, Jean
1412
O'keefe, John Aloysius
1413
Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick
1414
Prigogine, Ilya
1415
Kendrew, John Cowdery
1416
Woodward, Robert Burns
1417
Cornforth, Sir John Warcup
1418
De Duve, Christian Rene
1419
Huxley, Andrew Fielding
1420
Rainwater, Leo James
1421
Schwinger, Julian Seymour
1422
Kornberg, Arthur
1423
Reines, Frederick
1424
Feynman, Richard Philips
1425
Matthias, Bern Teo
1426
Sanger, Frederick
1427
Barton, Sir Derek Harold Richard
1428
Ryle, Sir Martin
1429
Fischer, Ernst Otto
1430
Van de Hulst, Hendrik Christoffell
1431
Eckert, John Presper, Jr.
1432
Hillary, Sir Edmund Percival
1433
Bondi, Sir Hermann
1434
Cowan, Clyde Lorrain
1435
Lipscomb, William Nunn, Jr.
1436
Bloembergen, Nicolaas
1437
Gold, Thomas
1438
Jacob, François
1439
Chamberlain, Owen
1440
Franklin, Rosalind Elsie
1441
Mitchell, Peter Dennis
1442
Benacerraf, Baruj
1443
Porter, George
1444
Sakharov, Andrey Dmitriyevich
1445
Wilkinson, Sir Geoffrey
1446
Yalow, Rosalyn Sussman
1447
Hoagland, Mahlon Bush
1448
Khorana, Har Gobind
1449
Holley, Robert William
1450
Bohr, Aage Niels
1451
Yang, Chen Ning
1452
Barnard, Christiaan Neethling
Medicine
(1922–2001) cardiac surgeon , famous for performing the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant .
1453
Basov, Nikolai Gennadievich
1454
Fitch, Val Logsden
1455
Franklin, Kenneth Linn
1456
Gajdusek, Daniel Carieton
1457
Ponnamperuma, Cyril
1458
Anderson, Philip Warren
1459
Dyson, Freeman John
1460
Gubllemin, Roger
1461
Cormack, Allan MacLeod
1462
Heezen, Bruce Charles
1463
Hewish, Anthony
1464
Esaki, Leo
1465
Ne'eman, Yuval
1466
Lederberg, Joshua
1467
Blumberg, Baruch Samuel
1468
Salam, Abdus
1469
Sandage, Allan Rex
1470
Berg, Paul
1471
Mottelson, Ben Roy
1472
Glaser, Donald Arthur
1473
Lee, Tsung-Dao
1474
Schally, Andrew Victor
1475
O'Neill, Gerard Kitchen
1476
Nirenberg, Marshau Warren
1477
Eigen, Manfred
1478
Parker, Eugene Newman
1479
Maiman, Theodore Harold
1480
Watson, James Dewey
1481
Hawkins, Gerald Stanley
1482
Nathans, Daniel
1483
Mossbauer, Rudolf Ludwig
1484
Giaever, Ivar
1485
Arber, Werner
1486
Edelman, Gerald Maurice
1487
Gell-Mann, Murray
1488
Schmidt, Maarten
1489
Cooper, Leon N.
1490
Miller, Stanley Lloyd
1491
Drake, Frank Donald
1492
Armstrong, Neil Alden
1493
Richter, Burton
1494
I Miller, Jacques Francis Albert Pierre
1495
Schrieffer, John Robert
1496
Smith, Hamilton Othanel
1497
Cronin, James Watson
1498
Gilbert, Walter
1499
Bartlett, Neil
1500
Glashow, Sheldon Lee
1501
Penzias, Amo Allan
1502
Weinberg, Steven
1502
Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich
1504
Sagan, Carl
1505
Temin, Howard Martin
1506
Wilson, Robert Woodrow
1507
Ting, Samuel C. C.
1508
Baltimore, David
1509
Josephson, Brian David
1510
Hawking, Stephen William
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^ Aristotle with W. D. Ross, ed., The Works of Aristotle ... (Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1931), vol. III, Meteorologica , E. W. Webster, trans., Book 1, Part 8, pp. 39–40 Archived April 11, 2016, at the Wayback Machine : "(2) Anaxagoras, Democritus, and their schools say that the milky way is the light of certain stars."
^ "The most likely date for Philolaus' birth would then appear to be around 470, although he could have been born as early as 480 or as late as 440. He appears to have lived into the 380s and at the very least until 399." Carl A. Huffman , (1993) Philolaus of Croton: Pythagorean and Presocratic , pages 5–6. Cambridge University Press
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^ "Hippocrates" . Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia . Microsoft Corporation. 2006. Archived from the original on 2009-10-29.
^ "...the subject of philosophy, as it is often conceived—a rigorous and systematic examination of ethical, political, metaphysical, and epistemological issues, armed with a distinctive method—can be called his invention" (Kraut, Richard (11 September 2013). Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). "Plato" . The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy . Stanford University. Retrieved 3 April 2014 . )
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