Field
Science
429 figures, most prominent first.
Albert Einstein
relativity
1879 – 1955
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist
b. 1928
Sigmund Freud
invented psychoanalysis
1856 – 1939
Henry Kissinger
American statesman, endlessly disputed
1923 – 2023
Isaac Asimov
wrote the Three Laws of Robotics
1920 – 1992
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist
1904 – 1967
John von Neumann
computer architecture, game theory
1903 – 1957
Carl Sagan
brought the cosmos to television
1934 – 1996
Richard Feynman
quantum electrodynamics, and bongos
1918 – 1988
- ET
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist
1908 – 2003
Niels Bohr
the quantum atom
1885 – 1962
Sergey Brin
co-founder of Google
b. 1973
- MA
Madeleine Albright
United States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001
1937 – 2022
- AB
Antony Blinken
American lawyer and diplomat and former United States Sec
b. 1962
Herbert Marcuse
German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist
1898 – 1979
- JB
Judith Butler
American feminist gender studies philosopher
b. 1956
Leo Strauss
History of Political Philosophy scholar
1899 – 1973
Dario Amodei
co-founder of Anthropic
b. 1983
Daniel Kahneman
founded behavioural economics
1934 – 2024
Howard Zinn
American historian, playwright
1922 – 2010
Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild
British banker and zoologist
1868 – 1937
Drew Weissman
made mRNA vaccines possible
b. 1959
Erich Fromm
German-American sociologist and psychoanalyst
1900 – 1980
John McCarthy
American computer scientist and cognitive scientist
1927 – 2011
- MM
Marvin Minsky
founded the MIT AI Lab
1927 – 2016
Ray Kurzweil
built the first reading machine
b. 1948
Richard Stallman
launched GNU and the GPL
b. 1953
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist
b. 1954
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
b. 1951
Ilya Sutskever
co-founder of OpenAI
b. 1986
Max Born
gave quantum mechanics its meaning
1882 – 1970
Steve Ballmer
American businessman, former chief executive officer of M
b. 1956
Erik Erikson
American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist
1902 – 1994
Eugene Wigner
Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician
1902 – 1995
Jonas Salk
the polio vaccine
1914 – 1995
Abraham Maslow
American psychologist
1909 – 1970
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
1858 – 1942
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer
1933 – 2015
Paul Wolfowitz
American politician and diplomat
b. 1943
Rosalind Franklin
photographed the double helix
1920 – 1958
Stephen Jay Gould
American biologist and historian of science
1941 – 2002
Yoshua Bengio
Turing Award, deep learning pioneer
b. 1964
Elinor Ostrom
American political economist
1933 – 2012
Kenneth Arrow
American economist
1921 – 2017
Norbert Wiener
American mathematician
1894 – 1964
Steven Weinberg
American theoretical physicist
1933 – 2021
Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner
1900 – 1958
Alfred Adler
Austrian psychotherapist
1870 – 1937
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist
1874 – 1952
David Baltimore
American biologist and Nobel laureate
1938 – 2025
Hans Bethe
German-American nuclear physicist
1906 – 2005
Viktor Frankl
Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist
1905 – 1997
Eric Kandel
American neuropsychiatrist
b. 1929
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize
1868 – 1934
Lev Landau
Soviet theoretical physicist
1908 – 1968
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor
1918 – 1987
Radia Perlman
American software designer and network engineer
b. 1951
Raymond Aron
French philosopher, sociologist, journalist
1905 – 1983
Thomas Kuhn
American historian, physicist and philosopher
1922 – 1996
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist
1928 – 2016
- AT
Amos Tversky
Israeli psychologist
1937 – 1996
Lynn Margulis
American evolutionary biologist
1938 – 2011
Michael Dell
American businessman and CEO
b. 1965
Murray Gell-Mann
American physicist
1929 – 2019
Robert S. Langer
American biomedical engineer
b. 1948
Theodore von Kármán
Hungarian-American mathematician
1881 – 1963
Albert A. Michelson
American physicist
1852 – 1931
Gertrude B. Elion
American biochemist and pharmacologist
1918 – 1999
Gertrude Elion
designed drugs for leukaemia
1918 – 1999
Hilary Putnam
American philosopher and mathematician
1926 – 2016
Julian Schwinger
American theoretical physicist
1918 – 1994
Lev Vygotsky
Soviet psychologist
1896 – 1934
Benoit Mandelbrot
Polish-born, French and American mathematician
1924 – 2010
Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist
1905 – 1994
Eliezer Yudkowsky
AI risk researcher, founded MIRI
b. 1979
Emmy Noether
founded modern abstract algebra
1882 – 1935
Jonathan Haidt
American social psychologist
b. 1963
Larry Summers
American economist and government official
b. 1954
Lise Meitner
discovered nuclear fission, denied the Nobel
1878 – 1968
- MS
Martin Seligman
American psychologist and writer
b. 1942
Moses Mendelssohn
German-Jewish philosopher and theologian
1729 – 1786
- NS
Noam Shazeer
co-authored the transformer
b. 1976
Paul Ehrlich
invented chemotherapy
1854 – 1915
Rita Levi-Montalcini
found nerve growth factor
1909 – 2012
Allan Bloom
American philosopher, classicist, and academician
1930 – 1992
Boris Nemtsov
Russian scientist, statesman and liberal politician
1959 – 2015
David Bohm
American theoretical physicist
1917 – 1992
David Gross
American particle physicist and string theorist
b. 1941
Edwin H. Land
American scientist and inventor
1909 – 1991
Hermann Joseph Muller
American biologist
1890 – 1967
Immanuel Wallerstein
American sociologist and economic historian
1930 – 2019
- JB
Jerome Bruner
American psychologist and scholar
1915 – 2016
Joshua Lederberg
American molecular biologist
1925 – 2008
Leon M. Lederman
American mathematician and physicist
1922 – 2018
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist
1910 – 1946
Melanie Klein
British Austrian born psychoanalyst
1882 – 1960
Paul R. Ehrlich
American biologist and environmentalist
1932 – 2026
- RM
Ralph Miliband
Marxist theorist
1924 – 1994
Barry Barish
American physicist
b. 1936
Daniel Bell
American sociologist
1919 – 2011
David Baker
American biochemist and computational biologist
b. 1962
Kurt Lewin
German-American psychologist
1890 – 1947
Rainer Weiss
American physicist
1932 – 2025
Roald Hoffmann
Polish-American Nobel laureate chemist and playwright
b. 1937
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
American medical physicist
1921 – 2011
Alan Guth
American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
b. 1947
Brian Greene
American physicist
b. 1963
Gerty Cori
Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist
1896 – 1957
Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist
1917 – 2003
Joseph Rotblat
Polish-born British-naturalised physicist
1908 – 2005
- LK
Lawrence Kohlberg
American psychologist
1927 – 1987
Leo Szilard
Hungarian-American Jewish physicist and inventor
1898 – 1964
- LF
Leon Festinger
American psychologist
1919 – 1989
Otto Heinrich Warburg
German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate
1883 – 1970
Rudolph A. Marcus
Canadian-American chemist
1923 – 2026
Salvador Luria
Italian American microbiologist
1912 – 1991
Stephen Wolfram
British-American scientist and businessman
b. 1959
Andrew Grove
Hungarian-born American businessman
1936 – 2016
Carl Djerassi
American chemistry professor, inventor, author
1923 – 2015
David Deutsch
British physicist
b. c. 1953
Elias M. Stein
American mathematician
1931 – 2018
Isidor Rabi
American physicist
1898 – 1988
Lawrence Krauss
American particle physicist and cosmologist
b. 1954
Melvin Calvin
American biochemist
1911 – 1997
- MD
Mildred Dresselhaus
American physicist
1930 – 2017
Paul Berg
American biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford Unive
1926 – 2023
Richard Axel
American molecular biologist
b. 1946
Robert Hofstadter
American physicist and Nobel laureate
1915 – 1990
Stanley B. Prusiner
American neurologist and biochemist
b. 1942
Sydney Brenner
South African-British biologist
1927 – 2019
Walter Kohn
American physicist
1923 – 2016
Yakir Aharonov
Israeli physicist
b. 1932
Adam Riess
American astrophysicist
b. 1969
Arthur Kornberg
American biochemist
1918 – 2007
- BM
Barry Mazur
American mathematician
b. 1937
Baruj Benacerraf
Venezuelan-American immunologist
1920 – 2011
Brian Josephson
welsh physicist
b. 1940
Dan Ariely
Israeli-American professor of psychology and behavioral e
b. 1967
Dennis Gabor
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography
1900 – 1979
Emilio Segrè
co-discovered technetium and astatine
1905 – 1989
Felix Bloch
Swiss physicist
1905 – 1983
Hermann Minkowski
German mathematician and physicist
1864 – 1909
Imre Lakatos
Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science
1922 – 1974
Irvin D. Yalom
American psychotherapist and writer
b. 1931
Jack Steinberger
German-American physicist, Nobel laureate
1921 – 2020
Joseph Weizenbaum
German-American computer scientist
1923 – 2008
Karl Landsteiner
Jewish-Austrian biologist
1868 – 1943
Karl Schwarzschild
German physicist, astronomer and mathematician
1873 – 1916
Leonard Kleinrock
American computer scientist
b. 1934
- LS
Leonard Susskind
American physicist
b. c. 1940
Michael Polanyi
Hungarian-British polymath
1891 – 1976
- OR
Otto Rank
Austrian psychoanalyst
1884 – 1939
Robert Aumann
Israeli-American mathematician
b. 1930
Robert Lefkowitz
American physician and biochemist
b. 1943
Saul Perlmutter
American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate
b. 1959
Solomon Lefschetz
Jewish American mathematician
1884 – 1972
- SU
Stanisław Ulam
Polish-American mathematician
1909 – 1984
Ada Yonath
mapped the ribosome
1939 – 2026
Arno Allan Penzias
German-born American physicist
1933 – 2024
Burton Richter
American physicist
1931 – 2018
David Julius
American physiologist and Nobel laureate 2021
b. 1955
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-French immunologist, embryologist, biologist
1845 – 1916
François Englert
Belgian theoretical physicist
1932 – 2026
Frederick Reines
American physicist
1918 – 1998
James Franck
German-American physicist
1882 – 1964
Rashid al-Din Hamadani
Persian physician and historian
c. 1247 – 1318
Robert Malley
American diplomat
b. c. 1963
Sheldon Glashow
American theoretical physicist
b. 1932
Aaron Klug
British chemist and biophysicist
1926 – 2018
Albert Ellis
American psychologist
1913 – 2007
Alexander Friedmann
Russian mathematician
1888 – 1925
Andrew Strominger
American physicist
b. 1955
Eric Lander
director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy a
b. 1957
Eric Maskin
American Nobel laureate in economics
b. 1950
Frank Rosenblatt
American psychologist notable in the field of artificial
1928 – 1971
Gary Ruvkun
American geneticist
b. 1952
Howard Martin Temin
American geneticist
1934 – 1994
Israel Finkelstein
Israeli archaeologist
b. c. 1949
Joseph L. Goldstein
American biochemist
b. 1940
Judea Pearl
Israeli-American computer scientist
b. 1936
Louis Nirenberg
American mathematician of Canadian origin
1925 – 2020
Marshall Warren Nirenberg
American biochemist and geneticist
1927 – 2010
- NE
Norbert Elias
German sociologist
1897 – 1990
Robert Kagan
American historian
b. 1958
Robert Sapolsky
American neuroendocrinology researcher
b. 1957
Stanley Norman Cohen
American geneticist
b. 1935
- Av
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist
1835 – 1917
Alex Hershaft
American activist
b. 1934
Avi Loeb
Israeli astrophysicist
b. 1962
Dan Shechtman
Israeli scientist
b. 1941
François Jacob
French biologist and geneticist
1920 – 2013
Fritz Perls
German-born psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and psychotherapist
1893 – 1970
Gabriel Lippmann
luxembourgish physicist nationalized French
1845 – 1921
George de Hevesy
co-discovered hafnium
1885 – 1966
Gerald Edelman
American biologist
1929 – 2014
Hans Krebs
German-British biochemist
1900 – 1981
Harry Dexter White
American economist and Soviet spy
1892 – 1948
Herbert C. Brown
American chemist
1912 – 2004
Howard Gardner
American developmental psychologist & academic
b. 1943
James Rothman
American biologist and Nobel laureate
b. 1950
Lex Fridman
American computer scientist and podcaster
b. 1983
Max Perutz
Austrian-born British molecular biologist
1914 – 2002
Michael Levitt
biophysicist and Professor of Structural biology
b. 1947
Moshe Arens
Israeli diplomat, member of Knesset
1925 – 2019
Noga Alon
Israeli mathematician
b. 1956
Richard Davidson
American psychologist
b. 1951
Richard Lewontin
American evolutionary biologist and mathematician
1929 – 2021
- RV
Rudolf Vrba
Slovak-Jewish Auschwitz escapee, Canadian biochemist
1924 – 2006
Seymour Martin Lipset
American sociologist
1922 – 2006
Shafi Goldwasser
American computer scientist
b. 1958
Stanley Cohen
American biochemist
1922 – 2020
Theodore Hall
American physicist
1925 – 1999
Vitaly Ginzburg
Russian physicist
1916 – 2009
Yakov Zeldovich
Soviet physicist, physical chemist and cosmologist
1914 – 1987
Andrea M. Ghez
American astronomer
b. 1965
César Milstein
Argentine biochemist
1927 – 2002
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
French physicist
b. 1933
Daniel Goleman
American psychologist and journalist
b. 1946
Daniel Nathans
American microbiologist
1928 – 1999
Elliot Aronson
American psychologist, psychology teacher
b. 1932
- EB
Ernest Becker
American cultural anthropologist
1924 – 1974
Ernst Chain
Jewish-German-born British biochemist
1906 – 1979
Gar Alperovitz
American historian, economist
b. 1936
Harry Kroto
British chemist
1939 – 2016
Isadore Singer
American mathematician
1924 – 2021
Leo Kadanoff
American physicist
1937 – 2015
Marcus Elieser Bloch
German physician and zoologist
c. 1723 – 1799
Marshall Sahlins
American anthropologist
1930 – 2021
Myron Scholes
Canadian economist
b. 1941
Otto Stern
German-American physicist
1888 – 1969
Paul Ehrenfest
Austrian and Dutch theoretical physicist
1880 – 1933
Randy Schekman
Nobel prize winning American cell biologist
b. 1948
Richard Garwin
American physicist
1928 – 2025
Robert Sternberg
American psychologist & scholar
b. 1949
- RW
Robert Weinberg
American biologist
b. 1942
Roy J. Glauber
American theoretical physicist
1925 – 2018
Rudolf Peierls
German-born British physicist
1907 – 1995
Samuel Goudsmit
Dutch-American physicist
1902 – 1978
Selman Waksman
found the cure for tuberculosis
1888 – 1973
Solomon H. Snyder
American neuroscientist
b. 1938
Victor Weisskopf
Austrian American theoretical physicist
1908 – 2002
- WM
Walter Mischel
Austrian-born Jewish American psychologist
1930 – 2018
Bruce Alberts
American biochemist
b. 1938
Frances Fox Piven
American sociologist
b. 1932
Fritz Albert Lipmann
German-American biochemist
1899 – 1986
Gersonides
Medieval Jewish philosopher
c. 1288 – 1344
Henri Moissan
French chemist
1852 – 1907
Israel Gelfand
Soviet-American mathematician
1913 – 2009
Jerome Isaac Friedman
American physicist
b. 1930
John Polanyi
Hungarian-Canadian chemist
b. 1929
Joseph L. Doob
American mathematician
1910 – 2004
Leon Cooper
American physicist
1930 – 2024
- LB
Leonard Bloomfield
American linguist
1887 – 1949
Martin David Kruskal
American mathematician
1925 – 2006
Michael Baden
American pathologist
b. 1934
Paul Halmos
American mathematician
1916 – 2006
Ralph M. Steinman
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist
1943 – 2011
Serge Haroche
French physicist, Nobel laureate
b. 1944
Stanley Milgram
American social psychologist
1933 – 1984
Theodore Maiman
American physicist/Inventor of first working laser
1927 – 2007
Walter Gilbert
American biochemist
b. 1932
Walter Munk
American oceanographer
1917 – 2019
- WL
William Labov
American linguist
1927 – 2024
Arthur Ashkin
American physicist
1922 – 2020
Ashley Montagu
British-American anthropologist
1905 – 1999
Baruch Samuel Blumberg
American physician, geneticist and Nobel prize winner
1925 – 2011
Frank Oppenheimer
American particle physicist
1912 – 1985
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
German physicist
1887 – 1975
- HR
H. Robert Horvitz
American biologist
b. 1947
- HM
Hamilton Morris
American journalist
b. 1987
Herman Goldstine
American mathematician
1913 – 2004
Jacob Bronowski
Polish-born British mathematician
1908 – 1974
Leonard Adleman
the A in RSA encryption
b. 1945
Marshall Rosenbluth
American nuclear physicist
1927 – 2003
Martin Chalfie
American biochemist, cell biologist
b. 1947
Martin Karplus
Austrian-born American theoretical chemist
1930 – 2024
- MS
Martin Schwarzschild
German astronomer
1912 – 1997
Maurice Goldhaber
American physicist
1911 – 2011
Michael Berry
British physicist
b. 1941
Michael Rosbash
American geneticist and chronobiologist
b. 1944
Mildred Cohn
American biochemist
1913 – 2009
Richard Brauer
mathematician
1901 – 1977
Richard Courant
German American mathematician
1888 – 1972
Robert Serber
American physicist
1909 – 1997
Roger D. Kornberg
American biochemist
b. 1947
Seymour Benzer
American geneticist
1921 – 2007
- WF
Wendy Freedman
Canadian-American astronomer
b. 1957
- YN
Yuval Ne'eman
Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist
1925 – 2006
Zhores Alferov
Soviet-Russian physicist
1930 – 2019
Aaron Ciechanover
Israeli physician and biochemist, Nobel Laureate
b. 1947
Andrew Fire
American biologist
b. 1959
Avram Hershko
Israeli biochemist
b. 1937
Ben Horowitz
American businessman
b. 1966
Bernard Katz
German-British biophysicist
1911 – 2003
Bruce Beutler
American immunologist and geneticist
b. 1957
Charles Fefferman
American mathematician
b. 1949
Christian B. Anfinsen
American biochemist
1916 – 1995
Frank Press
American geophysicist
1924 – 2020
George Andrew Olah
Hungarian chemist
1927 – 2017
George Wald
American biologist, biochemist
1906 – 1997
Georges Charpak
French physicist
1924 – 2010
- GB
Gregory Breit
American physicist
1899 – 1981
James Hillman
American psychologist
1926 – 2011
Jeffrey M. Friedman
US Physician scientist studying the genetic mechanisms th
b. 1954
John Harsanyi
Hungarian economist
1920 – 2000
John N. Bahcall
American physicist
1934 – 2005
Julius Axelrod
American biochemist
1912 – 2004
Martin Hellman
American cryptologist
b. 1945
Max Wertheimer
Austro-Hungarian psychologist
1880 – 1943
May Berenbaum
American entomologist
b. 1953
Otto Loewi
Jewish-German pharmacologist
1873 – 1961
Paul Greengard
American neuroscientist
1925 – 2019
Peter Goldreich
American astronomer
b. 1939
- SW
Sara Whalen
American soccer player
b. 1976
Alexei Abrikosov
Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist
1928 – 2017
Arieh Warshel
chemist, biochemist and biophysicist
b. 1940
- BW
Bret Weinstein
biologist, professor, public intellectual
b. 1969
- DE
Daniel E. Koshland Jr.
American biochemist
1920 – 2007
David Gelernter
American computer scientist
b. 1955
David Spergel
American astronomer
b. 1961
Ephraim Katzir
Israeli scientist, 4th President of Israel -
1916 – 2009
Ernest Gellner
Czech anthropologist, philosopher and sociologist
1925 – 1995
- GA
Gábor A. Somorjai
American chemist
1935 – 2025
- GS
Gilbert Stork
Belgian American chemist
1921 – 2017
Hal Abelson
computer scientist
b. 1947
J. Michael Kosterlitz
British-American physicist
b. 1943
Jacques Hadamard
French mathematician
1865 – 1963
Joseph Greenberg
American linguist
1915 – 2001
Martin Lewis Perl
American scientist
1927 – 2014
Martin Rodbell
American biochemist
1925 – 1998
Michael Stuart Brown
American geneticist and Nobel laureate
b. 1941
Patri Friedman
American libertarian activist and theorist of political e
b. 1976
Paul Bloom
Canadian/American psychologist
b. 1963
- PC
Phyllis Chesler
Psychotherapist, college professor, and author
b. 1940
Tullio Levi-Civita
Italian mathematician and physicist
1873 – 1941
Al-Samawal al-Maghribi
Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physician
c. 1130 – c. 1180
Alan J. Heeger
American chemist, physicist
b. 1936
Alan Sokal
American physicist and mathematician
b. 1955
Alexander Luria
Soviet psychologist
1902 – 1977
Alfred G. Gilman
American pharmacologist
1941 – 2015
Aryeh Kaplan
American rabbi and physicist
1934 – 1983
- BB
Bruno Bettelheim
Austrian-American child psychologist and writer
1903 – 1990
David Botstein
American biologist
1942 – 2026
- EA
Elvin A. Kabat
American immunologist
1914 – 2000
- EL
Evgeny Lifshitz
Soviet physicist
1915 – 1985
George Ritzer
American sociologist
b. 1940
Gerald Jay Sussman
American computer scientist
b. 1947
Herman Kahn
American futurist noted for his views on nature of thermo
1922 – 1983
Hugh David Politzer
American physicist
b. 1949
Joseph Erlanger
American doctor
1874 – 1965
- JJ
Joseph Jastrow
American psychologist
1863 – 1944
Lucy Shapiro
American developmental biologist
b. 1940
Manuel Blum
venezuelan computer scientist
b. 1938
Melvin Schwartz
American experimental physicist
1932 – 2006
Oskar Klein
Swedish physicist
1894 – 1977
Paul Lazarsfeld
Austrian-American sociologist
1901 – 1976
Richard Willstätter
German chemist
1872 – 1942
Sidney Altman
Canadian American molecular biologist
1939 – 2022
Stanley Falkow
American microbiologist
c. 1934 – 2018
Tadeusz Reichstein
Polish-Swiss chemist
1897 – 1996
- ZH
Zellig Harris
populariser of theoretical linguistics
1909 – 1992
Abel Wolman
American scientist
1892 – 1989
Anatol Rapoport
Russian-born American mathematical psychologist
1911 – 2007
Bruno Rossi
Italian experimental physicist
1905 – 1993
- CC
Carol Chomsky
linguist
1930 – 2008
- DR
David Reich
American professor of genetics
b. 1974
Donald Glaser
American physicist and neurobiologist
1926 – 2013
Douglas Osheroff
American physicist
b. 1945
Edmond H. Fischer
American biochemist
1920 – 2021
- GL
George Lusztig
American mathematician and Abdun Nur Professor at the Mas
b. 1946
Hermann Bondi
Austrian-British mathematician and cosmologist
1919 – 2005
Ilya Frank
Soviet physicist
1908 – 1990
John Vane
English pharmacologist
1927 – 2004
John W. Cahn
American materials scientist
1928 – 2016
- JF
Judah Folkman
American biologist
1933 – 2008
- LG
Laurie Glimcher
American immunologist and physician-scientist
b. c. 1951
- MF
Mitchell Feigenbaum
American mathematical physicist
1944 – 2019
Myriam Sarachik
American physicist
1933 – 2021
Nathan M. Newmark
American engineer
1910 – 1981
Otto Fritz Meyerhof
German biochemist
1884 – 1951
Otto Weininger
Austrian philosopher and writer
1880 – 1903
Robert Bárány
Austri-Hungarian otologist and Nobel Prize laureate
1876 – 1936
Robert F. Furchgott
American biochemist
1916 – 2009
Scott Aaronson
American quantum computing researcher
b. 1981
Simon Flexner
American scientist
1863 – 1946
- WK
William Kahan
Canadian mathematician and computer scientist
b. 1933
Abraham Wald
American mathematician, statistician
1902 – 1950
- AY
Amnon Yariv
American electrical engineer
b. 1930
André Michel Lwoff
French microbiologist
1902 – 1994
- BZ
Barton Zwiebach
Peruvian theoretical physicist
b. 1954
Ben Roy Mottelson
Danish-American nuclear physicist
1926 – 2022
Carol Gilligan
American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist
b. 1936
Charles M. Lieber
American chemist
b. 1959
- CL
Cornelius Lanczos
Hungarian mathematician and physicist
1893 – 1974
David Lee
American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
b. 1931
Efraim Racker
American biochemist
1913 – 1991
Eliot A. Cohen
American neoconservative military historian
b. 1956
Jacob Bekenstein
Mexican-Israeli physicist
1947 – 2015
Konrad Emil Bloch
German American biochemist
1912 – 2000
Margaret Mahler
Hungarian born American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
1897 – 1985
- MS
Mário Schenberg
Brazilian physicist
1914 – 1990
Michael Heidelberger
American immunologist
1888 – 1991
- RD
Reuben David
indian zoologist and founder of Ahmedabad (Kankaria) zoo
1912 – 1989
- SS
Sara Seager
Canadian astronomer and planetary scientist
b. 1971
- SA
Stuart A. Rice
American physical chemist
1932 – 2024
Terry Winograd
American professor
b. 1946
- UB
Urie Bronfenbrenner
Russian American developmental psychologist
1917 – 2005
- VH
Viktor Hamburger
German embryologist
1900 – 2001
Yaneer Bar-Yam
American academic
b. c. 1959
Alan Stern
American planetary scientist
b. 1957
- CY
Charles Yanofsky
American geneticist
1925 – 2018
Herbert A. Hauptman
American mathematician
1917 – 2011
Irwin Rose
American biologist
1926 – 2015
Jerome Karle
American physical chemist
1918 – 2013
Otto Wallach
German chemist
1847 – 1931
- VV
Vladimir Vapnik
co-invented the support-vector machine
b. 1936
Vito Volterra
Italian mathematician and mathematical physicist
1860 – 1940
Waldemar Haffkine
bacteriologist
1856 – 1930
- WH
William Howard Stein
American biochemist
1911 – 1980
Neil Siegel
American computer scientist
b. 1954
Clara Immerwahr
German chemist
1870 – 1915
Eric Berne
Canadian psychiatrist
1910 – 1970
- JL
Judith Love Cohen
American aerospace engineer
1933 – 2016
Mária Telkes
Hungarian–American scientist and inventor
1900 – 1995
Casimir Funk
Polish-American biochemist
1884 – 1967
- SC
Stephen Cohen
American computer scientist and entrepreneur
b. 1982
- RS
Ray Solomonoff
founded algorithmic probability
1926 – 2009
Ferdinand Cohn
German biologist
1828 – 1898
Russell Kirsch
scanned the first digital image
1929 – 2020