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214 famous people found
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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 EUSTIS
American physician, politician, and statesman
1753 - 1825 -
Robert FULTON
Colonial American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat
1765 - 1815 -
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 -
Luther BURBANK
American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science
1849 - 1926 -
Kingman BREWSTER
Educator, president of Yale University, and American diplomat
1919 - 1988 -
Marjorie HUSTED
Home economist who helped develop the brand character Betty Crocker
1892 - 1986 -
Henry SCHOOLCRAFT
American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist
1793 - 1864 -
Calvin PLIMPTON
American physician and educator, who served as president of Amherst College and American University of Beirut
1918 - 2007 -
Austin FLINT
American physician
1812 - 1886 -
James Buchanan EADS
American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 patents
1820 - 1887 -
Hugh CABOT
American professor of surgery
1872 - 1945 -
Elwood MEAD
American professor, politician and engineer
1858 - 1936 -
Milton R. WOLF
American physician
1971