Famous Scientists - List of Famous Scientists - page 47

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
Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg was a Nobel Prize winning German scientist who propounded the Uncertainty Principle

GermanDecember 5, 1901173 views

Wilhelm Wien

Wilhelm Wien was a German physicist who won Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking work in thermal radiation

GermanJanuary 13, 1864196 views

Walther Bothe

Walther Bothe was a German nuclear physicist who won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics

GermanJanuary 8, 1891155 views

Georg Cantor

George Cantor was an established mathematician who defined the cardinal and the ordinal numbers

GermanMarch 3, 1845309 views

Ernst Haeckel

Ernst Haeckel was a renowned German biologist, naturalist, physician, philosopher and artist

GermanFebruary 16, 1834145 views

Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg is a Nobel Prize winning physicist best known for his work on the weak force and electromagnetic interactions

AmericanMay 3, 1933154 views

Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould was a famous paleontologist and one of the most read science writers of his times

AmericanSeptember 10, 1941200 views

Edmond Halley

Edmond Halley was a British astronomer and mathematician, known for calculating the orbit of Halley’s Comet

BritishNovember 8, 1656228 views

Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler was a famous German astronomer, mathematician and astrologer

GermanDecember 27, 1571191 views

Robert Winston

Robert Winston is a highly acclaimed academician and medical doctor

BritishJuly 15, 1940134 views