Great scientists

 This list of great scientists includes physicists, biologists, chemists, archeologists,

geologists, primatologists, geneticists, astronomers, psychologists, sociologists,

anthropologists. Today, scientists are specialized, for example, someone might

be an evolutionary biologist or a theoretical physicist. Scientists such as Newton

and Aristotle worked in many fields of science (many of which only relatively

recently have been assigned names), as well as other areas of study. Aristotle

and Empedocles (and many others) could be considered philosophers as well.

Aristotle

Empedocles

Nicolaus Copernicus

Galileo Galilei

Sir Isaac Newton

Albert Einstein

Edwin Hubble

Richard Dawkins

Michio Kaku

Neil de Grasse Tyson

Lawrence Krauss

Brian Cox

Carl Sagan

Jane Goodall

Stephen Jay Gould

Frans de Waal

E.O. Wilson

Niels Bohr

Charles Darwin

Michael Faraday

Marie Curie

Leonardo da Vinci

Archidemes

Ptolemy

Dmitri Mendeleev

Nikola Tesla

Sigmund Freud

Emile Durkheim

Stephen Hawking

Richard Feynman

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Linus Pauling

Johannes Kepler

James Maxwell

Hipparchus

Gregor Mendel

Franz Boas

Ernest Rutherford

Christiaan Huygens

Charles Messier

Carolus Linnaeus

 

Statue of Linnaeus at the Chicago Botanical Gardens

Aryabhatta al-sufi Abd al-Rahman  (Azophi)

Alan Turing

Max Planck

Enrico Fermi

Paul Dirac

Erwin Schrodinger

James Watson and Francis Crick

Mary and Louis Leakey

Richard Leakey

Louis Pasteur

J.B.S. Haldane

Dian Fossey

Sir David Attenborough

Alexander Fleming

Ernst Mayr

Bill Hamilton

Rosalind Franklin

Antoine van Leeuwenhoek

Theodosius Dobzhansky

Alfred Kinsey

Frederick Sanger

Antoine Lavoisier

Alfred Nobel

John Dalton

Robert Boyle

Tycho Brahe

William Hershel

Richard Owen

Hypatia

Jonas Salk

Donald Johanson

John Ostrom

Othniel Marsh

Luis Alvarez

Margaret Mead

Friedrich Bessell

Robert Broom

Sir Charles Lyell

Edward Drinker Cope

Thomas Huxley

Henry Osborn

James Hutton

Raymond Dart

Eugene DuBois

William Smith

Willi Hennig

Xu Xing

Alfred Russell Wallace

Abraham Werner

Ernst Haeckel

Sir William Henry Flower

Yves Coppens

John Maynard Smith

Alexander Oparin

Graham Cairns-Smith

Harold Urey

August Weismann

 George Gamov

Claude Levi-Strauss

Andre Leroi-Gourhan

Henri Breuil

Max Perutz

 Sydney Brenner

Sir Arthur Keith

Herbert Spencer

Robert Hooke

Robert Oppenheimer

Edmond Halley

Fritz Zwicky

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin

Henry Cavendish

Albert Michelson

Annie Jump Cannon

Henri Becquerel

Humphrey Davy

Henrietta Swan Leavitt

J. Williard Gibbs

Karl Scheele

Pierre Curie

Sir James Chadwick

Sir J.J. Thomson

Arthur Holmes

Bernard Brunhes

Clair Patterson

Frank B. Taylor

Harry Hess

Murray Gell-Mann

Reginald Daly

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Steven Weinberg

Willard Libby

Werner Heisenberg

Eugene Shoemaker

Gerard Kuiper

Luke Howard

Stanley Miller

Thomas Nuttall

Robert Brown

Joseph Smith

Carl Woese

Robert H. Whittaker

Richard Fortey

Paul Davies

Christian de Duve

Charles Doolittle Walcott

Alan Walker

Craig Venter

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

Gorges Comte de Buffon

Georges Cuvier

Ian Tattersall

Jean Baptiste Lemarck

John Bardeen

Milutin Milanković

Oswald Avery

Ralph von Koenigswald

Sir John Sulston

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

Wilhelm Roentgen

Louis Agassiz

Maurice Wilkins

Jan Oort

Karl Ernst von Baer

Ibn al Haythan

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