Scientists
William Herschel 15 Nov 1738 - 25 Aug 1822
Brahmagupta 598 - 665
Jane Goodall 3 Apr 1934 - Present
Alexander Graham Bell 3 Mar 1847 - 2 Aug 1922
Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre 19 Sep 1749 - 19 Aug 1822
Jean-Paul Marat 24 May 1743 - 13 Jul 1793
Gerard Kuiper 7 Dec 1905 - 24 Dec 1973
Joseph-Louis Lagrange 25 Jan 1736 - 10 Apr 1813
Pope Sylvester II 940s - 18 May 1003
Marsilius of Padua 1275 - 1342
John von Neumann 28 Dec 1903 - 8 Feb 1957
Heinrich Hertz 22 Feb 1857 - 1 Jan 1894
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes 21 Sep 1853 - 21 Feb 1926
Hippocrates 461 BC - 371 BC
Euclid 325 BC - 265 BC
James Watson 6 Apr 1928 - Present
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 24 May 1686 - 16 Sep 1736
Alan Turing 23 Jun 1912 - 7 Jun 1954
Hadrianus Junius 1 Jul 1511 - 16 Jun 1575
Zhang Heng 78 - 139
Hipparchus 191 BC - 121 BC
Tycho Brahe 14 Dec 1546 - 24 Oct 1601
J. J. Thomson 18 Dec 1856 - 30 Aug 1940
Hugo de Vries 16 Feb 1848 - 21 May 1935
Johann Gottfried Galle 25 Jun 1812 - 10 Jul 1910
Katherine Freese 1957 - Present
Pierre Gassendi 22 Jan 1592 - 24 Oct 1655
Marie Curie 7 Nov 1867 - 4 Jul 1934
James Hutton 14 Jun 1726 - 26 Mar 1797
Bede 672 - 26 May 735
Jane C. Wright 30 Nov 1919 - 19 Feb 2013
Leucippus 5th century BC
Giordano Bruno 1548 - 17 Feb 1600
Sau Lan Wu 1940s - Present
Isaac Newton 25 Dec 1642 - 31 Mar 1727
Hero of Alexandria 10 - 70
Johannes Kepler 27 Dec 1571 - 15 Nov 1630
Leonhard Euler 15 Apr 1707 - 18 Sep 1783
Alexander Friedmann 29 Jun 1888 - 16 Sep 1925
Justus von Liebig 12 May 1803 - 18 Apr 1873
Mikhail Lomonosov 19 Nov 1711 - 15 Apr 1765
Gustav Kirchhoff 12 Mar 1824 - 17 Oct 1887
Plato 7 May 428 BC - 348 BC
Gregor Mendel 20 Jul 1822 - 6 Jan 1884
Christiaan Huygens 14 Apr 1629 - 8 Jul 1695
Posidonius 136 BC - 52 BC
Francis Crick 8 Jun 1916 - 28 Jul 2004
Jan Swammerdam 12 Feb 1637 - 17 Feb 1680
Rachel Carson 27 May 1907 - 14 Apr 1964
Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli 1397 - 15 May 1482
Giovanni Domenico Cassini 8 Jun 1625 - 14 Sep 1712
Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī 5 Sep 973 - 19 Dec 1048
Wilhelm Röntgen 27 Mar 1845 - 10 Feb 1923
Alain Aspect 15 Jun 1947 - Present
Aristotle 384 BC - 322 BC
Maimonides 1138 - 12 Dec 1204
John Stewart Bell 28 Jun 1928 - 1 Oct 1990
Heraclitus 535 BC - 475 BC
Thomas Willis 27 Jan 1621 - 11 Nov 1675
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin 26 Jun 1824 - 17 Dec 1907
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 7 Sep 1707 - 16 Apr 1788
Henri Poincaré 29 Apr 1854 - 17 Jul 1912
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest 13 Jul 1822 - 14 Jun 1875
James Lovelock 26 Jul 1919 - Present
René Descartes 31 Mar 1596 - 11 Feb 1650
Ludwig Boltzmann 20 Feb 1844 - 5 Sep 1906
Aristarchus of Samos 310s BC - 230s BC
Stephen Hawking 8 Jan 1942 - 14 Apr 2018
Hermann Minkowski 22 Jun 1864 - 12 Jan 1909
Wolfgang Pauli 25 Apr 1900 - 15 Dec 1958
Erik Verlinde 21 Jan 1962 - Present
Gertrude B. Elion 23 Jan 1918 - 21 Feb 1999
John Snow (physician) 15 Mar 1813 - 16 Jun 1858
Jöns Jacob Berzelius 20 Aug 1779 - 7 Aug 1848
Averroes 14 Apr 1126 - 10 Dec 1198
Johannes Diderik van der Waals 23 Nov 1837 - 8 Mar 1923
Craig Venter 14 Oct 1946 - Present
August Weismann 17 Jan 1834 - 5 Nov 1914
Brian Cox (physicist) 3 Mar 1968 - Present
Albert Einstein 14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955
Alfred Wegener 1 Nov 1880 - 2 Nov 1930
James Dewar 20 Sep 1842 - 27 Mar 1923
Ernst Haeckel 16 Feb 1834 - 9 Aug 1919
Rita Levi-Montalcini 22 Apr 1909 - 30 Dec 2012
Humphry Davy 17 Dec 1778 - 29 May 1829
Gerardus Mercator 5 Mar 1512 - 2 Dec 1594
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 14 Jun 1736 - 23 Aug 1806
Rosalind Franklin 25 Jul 1920 - 16 Apr 1958
J. Robert Oppenheimer 22 Apr 1904 - 18 Feb 1967
Stanley Miller 7 Mar 1930 - 20 May 2007
Ettore Majorana 5 Aug 1906 - 27 Mar 1938
James Clerk Maxwell 13 Jun 1831 - 5 Nov 1879
Leonardo da Vinci 15 Apr 1452 - 2 May 1519
James Watt 19 Jan 1736 - 25 Aug 1819
Christian Doppler 29 Nov 1803 - 17 Mar 1853
Michael Servetus 29 Sep 1511 - 27 Oct 1553
Sara Seager 21 Jul 1971 - Present
Vera Rubin 23 Jul 1928 - 25 Dec 2016
Albert Hofmann 11 Jan 1906 - 29 Apr 2008
James Lind 4 Oct 1716 - 13 Jul 1794
Michael Faraday 22 Sep 1791 - 25 Aug 1867
André-Marie Ampère 20 Jan 1775 - 10 Jun 1836
Joseph Black 16 Apr 1728 - 6 Dec 1799
Paracelsus 11 Nov 1493 - 4 Oct 1541
Edward Jenner 17 May 1749 - 26 Jan 1823
Edwin H. Land 7 May 1909 - 1 Mar 1991
Edwin Hubble 20 Nov 1889 - 28 Sep 1953
Anthemius of Tralles 474 - 534
Al-Ghazali 1058 - 26 Dec 1111
Alessandro Volta 18 Feb 1745 - 5 Mar 1827
Joseph Priestley 26 Mar 1733 - 8 Feb 1804
Jean le Rond d'Alembert 16 Nov 1717 - 29 Oct 1783
Regiomontanus 6 Jun 1436 - 6 Jul 1476
Émilie du Châtelet 17 Dec 1706 - 10 Sep 1749
Dionysius Exiguus 470 - 544
Benjamin Franklin 17 Jan 1706 - 17 Apr 1790
David Hilbert 23 Jan 1862 - 14 Feb 1943
Galen 129 - 200
Thales 624 BC - 547 BC
Alexander Fleming 6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955
Roger Bacon 1214 - 1294
Eratosthenes 277 BC - 195 BC
Hans Bethe 2 Jul 1906 - 6 Mar 2005
Anders Celsius 30 Nov 1701 - 25 Apr 1744
Charles Darwin 12 Feb 1809 - 19 Apr 1882
Mae Jemison 17 Oct 1956 - Present
Gordon Moore 3 Jan 1929 - Present
Edmond Halley 8 Nov 1656 - 25 Jan 1742
Robert Boyle 25 Jan 1627 - 30 Dec 1691
Augustin Saint-Hilaire 4 Oct 1779 - 3 Sep 1853
Satyendra Nath Bose 1 Jan 1894 - 4 Feb 1974
Robert Stirling 25 Oct 1790 - 6 Jun 1878
Louis Pasteur 27 Dec 1822 - 28 Sep 1895
Georges Lemaître 17 Jul 1894 - 20 Jun 1966
Carl Friedrich Gauss 30 Apr 1777 - 23 Feb 1855
Bonaventura Cavalieri 1598 - 30 Nov 1647
Maria Goeppert-Mayer 28 Jun 1906 - 20 Feb 1972
Niels Bohr 7 Oct 1885 - 18 Nov 1962
Paul Otlet 23 Aug 1868 - 10 Dec 1944
Democritus 460 BC - 370 BC
Ernest Rutherford 30 Aug 1871 - 19 Oct 1937
William Lawrence Bragg 31 Mar 1890 - 1 Jul 1971
Elizabeth Blackwell 3 Feb 1821 - 31 May 1910
Ptolemy 100 - 175
Gerard 't Hooft 5 Jul 1946 - Present
Pythagoras 570 BC - 495 BC
Archimedes 288 BC - 213 BC
Alfred Russel Wallace 8 Jan 1823 - 7 Nov 1913
Joseph Proust 26 Sep 1754 - 5 Jul 1826
Ada Lovelace 10 Dec 1815 - 27 Nov 1852
Robert Hooke 18 Jul 1635 - 3 Mar 1703
Alhazen 1 Jul 965 - 6 Mar 1040
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1 Jul 1646 - 14 Nov 1716
Guglielmo Marconi 25 Apr 1874 - 20 Jul 1937
Max Planck 23 Apr 1858 - 4 Oct 1947
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1 Aug 1744 - 18 Dec 1829
Prince Rupert of the Rhine 17 Dec 1619 - 29 Nov 1682
Paul Dirac 8 Aug 1902 - 20 Oct 1984
Aryabhata 476 - 550
Blaise Pascal 19 Jun 1623 - 19 Aug 1662
Amedeo Avogadro 9 Aug 1776 - 9 Jul 1856
Hendrik Lorentz 18 Jul 1853 - 4 Feb 1928
Hans Christian Ørsted 14 Aug 1777 - 9 Mar 1851
Guillaume Le Gentil 12 Sep 1725 - 22 Oct 1792
Emanuel Swedenborg 29 Jan 1688 - 29 Mar 1772
Julien Offray de La Mettrie 23 Nov 1709 - 11 Nov 1751
Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. 27 Aug 1915 - 4 Nov 2011
C. H. D. Buys Ballot 10 Oct 1817 - 3 Feb 1890
Pytheas 381 BC - 311 BC
Luigi Galvani 9 Sep 1737 - 4 Dec 1798
Georg Ohm 16 Mar 1789 - 6 Jul 1854
Nicolaus Copernicus 19 Feb 1473 - 24 May 1543
Nicholas of Cusa 1401 - 11 Aug 1464
John Napier 1550 - 4 Apr 1617
Jan Baptist van Helmont 12 Jan 1580 - 30 Dec 1644
Carl Linnaeus 23 May 1707 - 10 Jan 1778
Benjamin Thompson 26 Mar 1753 - 21 Aug 1814
Al-Farabi 872 - 17 Jan 951
Éleuthère Irénée du Pont 24 Jun 1771 - 31 Oct 1834
August Ferdinand Möbius 17 Nov 1790 - 26 Sep 1868
William Gilbert (astronomer) 24 May 1544 - 30 Nov 1603
Charles Francis Richter 26 Apr 1900 - 30 Sep 1985
Urbain Le Verrier 11 Mar 1811 - 23 Sep 1877
Josiah Willard Gibbs 11 Feb 1839 - 28 Apr 1903
Andreas Vesalius 31 Dec 1514 - 15 Oct 1564
Peter Higgs 29 May 1929 - Present
Dmitri Mendeleev 8 Feb 1834 - 2 Feb 1907
Enrico Fermi 29 Sep 1901 - 28 Nov 1954
Nikola Tesla 10 Jul 1856 - 7 Jan 1943
Guillaume Rondelet 27 Sep 1507 - 30 Jul 1566
Werner Heisenberg 5 Dec 1901 - 1 Feb 1976
Barbara McClintock 16 Jun 1902 - 2 Sep 1992
John Dalton 6 Sep 1766 - 27 Jul 1844
James Chadwick 20 Oct 1891 - 24 Jul 1974
Richard Feynman 11 May 1918 - 15 Feb 1988
Charles H. Bennett (computer scientist) 1943 - Present
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 28 Aug 1749 - 22 Mar 1832
Anaximander 611 BC - 548 BC
Salomon August Andrée 18 Oct 1854 - 1897
Antoine Lavoisier 26 Aug 1743 - 8 May 1794
Homer 8th century BC
Léon Foucault 18 Sep 1819 - 11 Feb 1868
Alfonso X of Castile 23 Nov 1221 - 4 Apr 1284
Henry Cavendish 10 Oct 1731 - 24 Feb 1810
Galileo Galilei 25 Feb 1564 - 8 Jan 1642
Strabo 65 BC - 23 AD
Imhotep 28th century BC - 27th century BC
Arabic-Hindu numeral system 1 - 400
Abel–Ruffini theorem 1823