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91 famous people found
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Nikola TESLA
Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist
1856 - 1943 -
John Stith PEMBERTON
American biochemist and American Civil War veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola
1831 - 1888 -
John Harvey KELLOGG
American medical doctor, nutritionist, inventor, health activist, anti-masturbation advocate, and businessman
1852 - 1943 -
Edwin HUBBLE
American astronomer
1889 - 1953 -
James Bond
American ornithologist and expert on the birds of the Caribbean
1900 - 1989 -
Nettie Stevens
American geneticist who discovered sex chromosomes
1861 - 1912 -
George Minot
American medical researcher who shared the 1934 Nobel Prize with George Hoyt Whipple and William P. Murphy for their pioneering work on pernicious anemia
1885 - 1950 -
Harvey FLETCHER
American physicist, known as the "father of stereophonic sound"
1884 - 1981 -
Florence BASCOM
American geologist
1862 - 1945 -
Robert Andrews MILLIKAN
American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923
1868 - 1953 -
Francis PARKMAN
American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America
1823 - 1893 -
Theodore William RICHARDS
First American scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1868 - 1928 -
Crawford LONG
American surgeon and pharmacist best known for his first use of inhaled diethyl ether as an anesthetic
1815 - 1878 -
Leo BAEKELAND
Belgian-born American chemist
1863 - 1944 -
L. L. LANGSTROTH
American apiarist, clergyman and teacher, considered the "Father of American Beekeeping."
1810 - 1895 -
William H. PRESCOTT
American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian
1796 - 1859 -
Robert H. GODDARD
American Engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket
1882 - 1945 -
Henry David THOREAU
American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist
1817 - 1862 -
Mark HOPKINS
American educator and Congregationalist theologian, president of Williams College from 1836 to 1872
1802 - 1887 -
Alice HAMILTON
First woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard University and was a leading expert in the field of occupational health
1869 - 1970