Famous Scientists - List of Famous Scientists - page 16

A typical view of a scientist is that of a person in a white coat, conducting experiments. The truth is that a scientists can be defined as a person who is involved in the systematic and documented study of the phenomena that occur in nature but are not limited to just physics, chemistry or biology. They even indulge in studies related to the makeup of the earth and social scenarios where they study and try to understand the behavior of a group of individual of a particular species, sub-species or any other such classification. They can be classified into various categories based on the branch of science that they are involved in. Some such categories are social scientists, astronomers, physicist, biologists, chemical engineers or chemists, agriculturists and earth scientists. There are many more branches of science which a person can become a specialist of. Some of the notable people from this field are people like Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. Scientists have always led the way in understand the environment we live in and this is a collection of the biographies of these studious people, along with information about their professional and personal lives, including their life stories, timelines and trivia.

The Most Famous Scientists

NameBirthdayNationalityBio
Juliane KoepckeOctober 10, 1954German, PeruvianJuliane Koepcke is a German-Peruvian biologist, who was the lone survivor among the 92 passengers and crew of the ill-fated LANSA Flight 508 that crashed in the Peruvian rainforest on 24 December 1971
Konstantin TsiolkovskySeptember 17, 1857RussianKonstantin Tsiolkovsky was a Russian rocket scientist and a pioneer of astronautics
Henry CavendishOctober 10, 1731BritishHenry Cavendish was a theoretical chemist and physicist, renowned for discovery of hydrogen and calculation of the mass of earth
Gabe NewellNovember 3, 1962AmericanGabe Newell is an American computer programmer and businessman, best known as the co-founder of ‘Valve Corporation.’ This biography provides detailed information about his childhood, family, personal life, career, etc.
Walter KohnMarch 9, 1923AustrianNobel Laureate Walter Kohn was an Austrian-born American theoretical chemist and physicist
Max PolyakovJune 30, 1977UkrainianMax Polyakov is an international businessman, scientist and philanthropist
Grigori PerelmanJune 13, 1966RussianGrigori Perelman is a Russian mathematician who is best known for his contributions to Riemannian geometry and geometric topology
Eduardo SaverinMarch 19, 1982BrazilianEduardo Luiz Saverin is a Brazilian internet entrepreneur and investor
Alfred WegenerNovember 1, 1880GermanAlfred Wegener was a renowned German geophysicist and meteorologists who is known for pioneering the ‘Continental Drift’ theory
Kitaw EjiguFebruary 25, 1948EthiopianKitaw Ejigu was an Ethiopian American engineer and political leader
Baruj Benacerraf

Baruj Benacerraf

Baruj Benacerraf was a Venezuelan-born American immunologist who was one of the co-recipients of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

VenezuelanOctober 29, 1920151 views

David H. Hubel

David Hunter Hubel was a Nobel Prize winning Canadian neurophysiologist noted for his work on the structure and function of the visual cortex

AmericanFebruary 27, 1926128 views

Michael S. Brown

Michael S

AmericanApril 13, 194187 views

Roger Wolcott Sperry

Roger Wolcott Sperry was a noted neuropsychologist and neurobiologist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine

AmericanAugust 20, 1913113 views

Hermann Staudinger

Hermann Staudinger was a German chemist who was awarded the ‘Nobel Prize in Chemistry’ in 1953

GermanMarch 23, 1881128 views

Rodney R. Porter

Rodney Robert Porter was a Nobel Prize winning English biochemist who won the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

BritishOctober 8, 1917143 views

Edwin McMillan

Edwin Mattison McMillan was an American nuclear physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951

AmericanSeptember 18, 1907120 views

John R. Vane

Sir John Robert Vane was an eminent British pharmacologist of the twentieth century who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1982

BritishMarch 29, 1927139 views

Howard Martin Temin

Howard Martin Temin was an American geneticist and virologist who won a share of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

AmericanDecember 10, 1934117 views