Famous Scientists - List of Famous Scientists - page 6
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.
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Name | Birthday | Nationality | Bio |
Juliane Koepcke | October 10, 1954 | German, Peruvian | 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 |
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky | September 17, 1857 | Russian | Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was a Russian rocket scientist and a pioneer of astronautics |
Henry Cavendish | October 10, 1731 | British | Henry Cavendish was a theoretical chemist and physicist, renowned for discovery of hydrogen and calculation of the mass of earth |
Gabe Newell | November 3, 1962 | American | Gabe 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 Kohn | March 9, 1923 | Austrian | Nobel Laureate Walter Kohn was an Austrian-born American theoretical chemist and physicist |
Max Polyakov | June 30, 1977 | Ukrainian | Max Polyakov is an international businessman, scientist and philanthropist |
Grigori Perelman | June 13, 1966 | Russian | Grigori Perelman is a Russian mathematician who is best known for his contributions to Riemannian geometry and geometric topology |
Eduardo Saverin | March 19, 1982 | Brazilian | Eduardo Luiz Saverin is a Brazilian internet entrepreneur and investor |
Alfred Wegener | November 1, 1880 | German | Alfred Wegener was a renowned German geophysicist and meteorologists who is known for pioneering the ‘Continental Drift’ theory |
Kitaw Ejigu | February 25, 1948 | Ethiopian | Kitaw Ejigu was an Ethiopian American engineer and political leader |
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Bacteriologists
Aleksandr Prokhorov
Aleksandr Prokhorov was a Soviet physicist who earned the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work on laser-maser principle
John Robert Schrieffer
John Robert Schrieffer is an American physicist noted for his contributions in developing the BCS theory
Louis Néel
Louis Eugène Félix Néel was a noted French physicist who was jointly awarded the ‘Nobel Prize in Physics’ in 1970
Martin Rodbell
Martin Rodbell was an American biochemist and molecular endocrinologist who received the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
Sin'ichirō Tomonaga was a Japanese physicist who received the ‘Nobel Prize in Physics’ in 1965
Alfred Kastler
Alfred Kastler was a French physicist who was awarded the ‘Nobel Prize in Physics’ in 1966
Eric F. Wieschaus
Eric Francis Wieschaus is an American development biologist who was one of the joint winners of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Nikolay Basov
Nikolay Basov was a Soviet physicist who won Nobel Prize for his work on quantum electrodynamics
Rudolf Mössbauer
Rudolf Mossbauer was a German physicist who discovered the Mossbauer Effect