Science
3,040 people, sorted by fame.
Niels Henrik AbelAugust 5, 1802 – April 6, 1829 · Science
Francis CrickJune 8, 1916 – July 28, 2004 · Science
Maryam MirzakhaniMay 12, 1977 – July 14, 2017 · Science
Emmy NoetherMarch 23, 1882 – April 14, 1935 · Science
Otto HahnMarch 8, 1879 – July 28, 1968 · Science
Peter HiggsMay 29, 1929 – April 8, 2024 · Science
Steven WeinbergMay 3, 1933 – July 23, 2021 · Science
Wilhelm WienJanuary 13, 1864 – August 30, 1928 · Science
Donald KnuthJanuary 10, 1938 – present · Science
Fritz HaberDecember 9, 1868 – January 29, 1934 · Science
John William StruttNovember 12, 1842 – June 30, 1919 · Science
Konrad LorenzNovember 7, 1903 – February 27, 1989 · Science
Barbara McBurgerJune 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992 · Science
Gustav KirchhoffMarch 12, 1824 – October 17, 1887 · Science
Hans BetheJuly 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005 · Science
Lise MeitnerNovember 1878 – October 27, 1968 · Science
Ronald RossMay 13, 1857 – September 16, 1932 · Science
Santiago Ramón y CajalMay 1, 1852 – October 17, 1934 · Science
Dennis M. RitchieSeptember 9, 1941 – October 12, 2011 · Science
Ernest LawrenceAugust 8, 1901 – August 27, 1958 · Science
Hideki YukawaJanuary 23, 1907 – September 8, 1981 · Science
Max von LaueOctober 9, 1879 – April 24, 1960 · Science
Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharOctober 19, 1910 – August 21, 1995 · Science
William RamsayOctober 2, 1852 – July 23, 1916 · Science
Alexander BorodinOctober 31, 1833 – February 15, 1887 · Science
Murray Gell-MannSeptember 15, 1929 – May 24, 2019 · Science
Roger PenroseAugust 8, 1931 – present · Science
Sofia KovalevskayaJanuary 3, 1850 – February 10, 1891 · Science
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonSeptember 7, 1707 – April 1788 · Science
Thomas YoungJune 13, 1773 – May 10, 1829 · Science
William Lawrence BraggMarch 31, 1890 – July 1, 1971 · Science
Brian MayJuly 19, 1947 – present · Science
Charles Thomson Rees WilsonFebruary 14, 1869 – November 15, 1959 · Science
Donna StricklandMay 27, 1959 – present · Science
Emil FischerOctober 9, 1852 – July 15, 1919 · Science
Henry CavendishOctober 10, 1731 – February 24, 1810 · Science
Ada YonathJune 22, 1939 – August 31, 2026 · Science
Arthur Holly ComptonSeptember 10, 1892 – March 15, 1962 · Science
Daniel BernoulliFebruary 8, 1700 – March 17, 1782 · Science
Gerty CoriAugust 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957 · Science
Gustav Ludwig HertzJuly 22, 1887 – October 30, 1975 · Science
Jöns Jacob BerzeliusAugust 20, 1779 – August 7, 1848 · Science
Otto SternFebruary 17, 1888 – August 17, 1969 · Science
Boris NemtsovOctober 9, 1959 – February 27, 2015 · Science
Emil von BehringMarch 15, 1854 – March 31, 1917 · Science
James FranckAugust 26, 1882 – May 21, 1964 · Science
John Frederick William HerschelMarch 7, 1792 – May 11, 1871 · Science
Abdus SalamJanuary 29, 1926 – November 21, 1996 · Science
Charles Édouard GuillaumeFebruary 15, 1861 – June 13, 1938 · Science
Frederick SangerAugust 13, 1918 – November 19, 2013 · Science