Scientists
William Herschel 15 Nov 1738 - 25 Aug 1822
Brahmagupta 598 - 668
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 460 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 20th century - 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 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 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
Piri Reis 1465 - 1554
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 287 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
Tantrasamgraha 1500
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 - 546 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
Suàn shù shū 202 BC - 186 BC
Stoke's theorem 1825
Exterior derivative 1901
Rhind Mathematical Papyrus 1650 BC
Quadratic equation 2000 BC
Organon 40 BC
Non-Euclidean geometry 1830
Cauchy's integral theorem 1822
Catalan's conjecture 1844
Cantor's diagonal argument 1891
Treviso Arithmetic 1478
Imhotep 2650 BC - 2600 BC
Imaginary number 1572
Hilbert's problems 1900
Green's theorem 1828
Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections 1247
Laurent series 1841
Langlands program 1967
Korteweg–de Vries equation 1895
Riemannian geometry 1854
Āryabhaṭa's sine table 500
Al-Jabr wa-al-Muqabilah 820
Arabic-Hindu numeral system 1 - 400
Abel–Ruffini theorem 1823
Abacus 2700 BC - 2300 BC