Famous Scientists - List of Famous Scientists - page 43

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
Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an eminent astrophysicist and a popular science communicator

AmericanOctober 5, 1958229 views

James Maxwell

James Maxwell was a Scottish physicist credited to be the father of modern physics

ScottishJune 13, 1831178 views

Jacob Bernoulli

Jacob Bernoulli was a renowned Swiss mathematician

SwissDecember 27, 1654159 views

J. Allen Hynek

Josef Allen Hynek was an American astronomer and ufologist

AmericanMay 1, 1910252 views

Aryabhata

Aryabhata was an ancient Indian mathematician-astronomer

Indian476196 views

Georg Ohm

George Ohm is founder of the concept known as Ohm’s law

GermanMarch 16, 1789148 views

John Cornforth

John Warcup Cornforth was an Australian-British chemist who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Christian Doppler

Christian Doppler was an Austrian mathematician and physicist, who gave the principle of ‘Doppler Effect’

AustrianNovember 29, 1803185 views

Carl Ludwig Siegel

Carl Ludwig Siegel is considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century

GermanDecember 31, 1896150 views

Thomas Telford

Thomas Telford was a Scottish civil engineer and architect, famously dubbed as the ‘Colossus of Roads’

ScottishAugust 9, 1757161 views