Famous Scientists - List of Famous Scientists - page 23

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

Jules Bordet

Jules Bordet was a Belgian microbiologist and immunologist who won the 1919 Nobel Prize in Medicine "for his discoveries relating to immunity"

BelgianJune 13, 1870166 views
Róbert Bárány

Róbert Bárány

Róbert Bárány was an Austro-Hungarian otologist whoreceived the ‘Nobel Prize for Physiology’ or Medicine in 1914

AustrianApril 22, 1876120 views

Frédéric Joliot-Curie

Frederic Joliot Curie was a French physicist and Nobel laureate who along with his wife discovered artificial radioisotope

FrenchMarch 19, 190089 views

Richard R. Ernst

Richard Robert Ernst is a Swiss chemist, researcher and teacher who won the prestigious Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991

SwissAugust 14, 1933213 views

Niels Ryberg Finsen

Niels Ryberg Finsen was an Icelandic Faroese-Danish physician and scientist famous for his invention of modern phototherapy

DanishDecember 15, 1860200 views

Irène Joliot-Curie

Irene Joliot-Curie was a Nobel Laureate who along with her husband, Frederic Joliot, discovered artificial radioactivity

FrenchSeptember 12, 1897250 views

Albrecht Kossel

Albrecht Kossel was a distinguished German biochemist who received the ‘Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine’ in 1910.

GermanSeptember 16, 1853167 views

Kurt Alder

Kurt Alder was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1950

GermanJuly 10, 1902112 views

Friedrich Bergius

Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius was a German chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal

GermanOctober 11, 1884114 views

Robert Bunsen

Robert Bunsen was a German chemist who developed the Bunsen burner with Peter Desaga

GermanMarch 30, 1811309 views