Famous Scientists - List of Famous Scientists - page 55

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
Annie Jump Cannon

Annie Jump Cannon

Annie Jump Cannon was an American astronomer and physicist

AmericanDecember 11, 1863167 views

Alfred Kinsey

Alfred Kinsey was an American sexologist who ushered in the “Sexual Revolution”

AmericanJune 23, 1894150 views

Alfred Day Hershey

Alfred Day Hershey was an American bacteriologist and geneticist who won the 1969 Noble Prize in Medicine

Albert A. Michelson

Albert Abraham Michelson was the first American scientist who received the Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on finding the speed of light

AmericanDecember 19, 1852161 views

Thomas Kuhn

Thomas Kuhn was a philosopher of science who changed the way the world perceived and envisioned science

AmericanJuly 18, 1922214 views

Juliane Koepcke

Juliane 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

GermanOctober 10, 19542,301 views

Richard Axel

Richard Axel is Nobel Prize winning American scientist, well-known for his scientific work pertaining to ‘olfactory receptors’

AmericanJuly 2, 1946273 views

Samuel Colt

Samuel Colt was an American inventor and industrialist who invented the revolver

AmericanJuly 19, 181495 views

Owen Chamberlain

Owen Chamberlain was a renowned American physicist

AmericanJuly 10, 1920149 views