Famous Scientists - List of Famous Scientists - page 51

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
Daniel Bernoulli

Daniel Bernoulli

Daniel Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician and physicist who did pioneering work in the field of fluid dynamics and kinetic theory of gases

SwissFebruary 8, 1700152 views

Christiaan Huygens

Christiaan Huygens, was a renowned Dutch mathematician and astronomer, who is known for discovering the moon of Saturn

DutchApril 14, 1629118 views

David Hilbert

David Hilbert is considered to be one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th and 20th centuries

GermanJanuary 23, 1862156 views

Alexander Grothendieck

Alexander Grothendieck was a German-born French mathematician who made significant contributions to algebraic geometry

FrenchMarch 28, 1928120 views

Arthur Compton

Arthur Compton was a renowned American physicist who discovered the Compton Effect

AmericanSeptember 10, 1892111 views

Andrei Sakharov

Andrei Sakharov was a Russian physicist and Noble Prize winning activist, popularly known as ‘The Father of Soviet nuclear bomb’

RussianMay 21, 1921186 views

Andre Weil

Andre Weil was a French mathematician who laid the foundation of number theory and algebraic geometry

FrenchMay 6, 1906180 views

Albert Hofmann

Albert Hofmann was a Swiss scientist who synthesised LSD

SwissJanuary 11, 1906151 views

Henri Poincare

Henri Poincaré was a noted French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science

FrenchApril 29, 1854130 views

Joseph Louis Lagrange

Joseph Lagrange was an accomplished Italian enlightenment era mathematician and astronomer This biography profiles his childhood, career, life, research and timeline.

FrenchJanuary 25, 1736121 views