Famous Scientists - List of Famous Scientists - page 45

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
Dan Shechtman

Dan Shechtman

Dan Shechtman is an Israeli scientist who was awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry

IsraeliJanuary 24, 1941142 views

Elizabeth Blackburn

Elizabeth Blackburn is a Nobel Prize winner who created a sensation with her finding on telomere and telomerase

Tycho Brahe

Tycho Brahe was a Danish nobleman who made important contributions to astronomy

DanishDecember 14, 1546263 views

Har Gobind Khorana

Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian-American biochemist renowned for his research on role of nucleotides in protein synthesis for which he won the Nobel Prize

AmericanJanuary 9, 1922140 views

Homi Bhabha

Homi Bhabha was the father of Indian nuclear programme

IndianOctober 30, 1909144 views

Gustav Nossal

Gustav Nossal is a distinguished Australian researcher and scientist

AustralianJune 4, 1931167 views

David Karoly

David Karoly is a world renowned Australian atmospheric scientist

AustralianJuly 12, 1955129 views

Amedeo Avogadro

Amedeo Avogadro was an Italian scientist who formulated what is now known as Avogadro's law

ItalianAugust 9, 1776469 views

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was a Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist most famous for his theory on black holes

IndianOctober 19, 1910141 views