Famous Scientists - List of Famous Scientists - page 27
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.
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Name | Birthday | Nationality | Bio |
Juliane Koepcke | October 10, 1954 | German, Peruvian | Juliane 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 Tsiolkovsky | September 17, 1857 | Russian | Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was a Russian rocket scientist and a pioneer of astronautics |
Henry Cavendish | October 10, 1731 | British | Henry Cavendish was a theoretical chemist and physicist, renowned for discovery of hydrogen and calculation of the mass of earth |
Gabe Newell | November 3, 1962 | American | Gabe 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 Kohn | March 9, 1923 | Austrian | Nobel Laureate Walter Kohn was an Austrian-born American theoretical chemist and physicist |
Max Polyakov | June 30, 1977 | Ukrainian | Max Polyakov is an international businessman, scientist and philanthropist |
Grigori Perelman | June 13, 1966 | Russian | Grigori Perelman is a Russian mathematician who is best known for his contributions to Riemannian geometry and geometric topology |
Eduardo Saverin | March 19, 1982 | Brazilian | Eduardo Luiz Saverin is a Brazilian internet entrepreneur and investor |
Alfred Wegener | November 1, 1880 | German | Alfred Wegener was a renowned German geophysicist and meteorologists who is known for pioneering the ‘Continental Drift’ theory |
Kitaw Ejigu | February 25, 1948 | Ethiopian | Kitaw Ejigu was an Ethiopian American engineer and political leader |
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Biologists
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Botanists
Geneticists
Immunologists
Medical Scientists
Microbiologists
Molecular Biologists
Neuroscientists
Ornithologists
Paleontologists
Pathologists
Pharmacologists
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Virologists
Zoologists
Chemists
Biochemists
Inorganic Chemists
Organic Chemists
Physical Chemists
Computer Scientists
Geologists
Meteorologists
Bacteriologists
Robert Hofstadter
Robert Hofstadter was an American physicist famous for his research in protons and neutrons
Paul Sabatier
Paul Sabatier was a French organic chemist known for his research works in catalytic organic synthesis
Wolfgang Paul
Wolfgang Paul was a German physicist who shared one-half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1989
Richard E. Taylor
Richard Edward Taylor is a Canadian scientist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the quarks model
William Alfred Fowler
William Alfred Fowler was an American nuclear physicist and astrophysicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983,
Russell Alan Hulse
Russell Alan Hulse is an American physicist who was one of the joint winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1993
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Pierre Gilles de Gennes was a French scientist, well-known for his study of the order phenomena in liquid crystals and polymers
Martin Ryle
Sir Martin Ryle was a British astronomer who was one of the joint winners of Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974
K. Alex Müller
Karl Alexander Müller is a Swiss solid-state physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987 for his work on superconductivity.