Famous Scientists - List of Famous Scientists - page 50

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
Johannes Rydberg

Johannes Rydberg

Johannes Rydberg was a Swedish physicist who devised what became known as the Rydberg formula

SwedishNovember 8, 1854124 views

James Prescott Joule

James Prescott Joule was an English physicist, who studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work

BritishDecember 24, 1818166 views

Karl Weierstrass

Karl Weierstrass was a German mathematician, who is often regarded as “the father of modern analysis.”

GermanOctober 31, 1815156 views

Heinrich Hertz

Heinrich Hertz was a German scientist who proved the existence of electromagnetic waves

GermanFebruary 22, 1857173 views

John von Neumann

John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, inventor, computer scientist, and polymath

HungarianDecember 28, 1903159 views

Gustav Kirchhoff

Gustav Kirchhoff was a German physicist who made major contributions to the fields of thermochemistry and electrical circuits

GermanMarch 12, 1824139 views

Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist who made major contributions to the development of nuclear energy

ItalianSeptember 29, 1901132 views

Francis Crick

Francis Crick was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist and neuroscientist, who received the Nobel Prize for Medicine

BritishJune 8, 1916192 views

Ernst Mach

Ernst Mach was a famous Austrian physicist who discovered the Mach number used to represent the ratio of velocity of sound

AustrianFebruary 18, 1838176 views

Dian Fossey

Dian Fossey was an American zoologist and conservationist

AmericanJanuary 16, 1932364 views