Sciences

1406 famous people found

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  Wernher von Braun

  German and American aerospace engineer and space architect

  1912 - 1977
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  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  American theoretical physicist and director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II

  1904 - 1967
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  Nikola TESLA

  Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist

  1856 - 1943
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  Jane GOODALL

  English primatologist and anthropologist

  1934
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  Sergey BRIN

  American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Google

  1973
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  Howard CARTER

  British archaeologist and Egyptologist who became world-famous after discovering the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun

  1874 - 1939
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  Marie CURIE

  French-Polish chemist and physicist

  1867 - 1934
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  Alan TURING

  English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist

  1912 - 1954
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  Alexander Graham BELL

  Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone

  1847 - 1922
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  Arthur CONAN DOYLE

  Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes

  1859 - 1930
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  Sigmund FREUD

  Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

  1856 - 1939
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  Leonardo DA VINCI

  Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer

  1452 - 1519
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  Jean François CHAMPOLLION

  French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs

  1790 - 1832
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  Isaac NEWTON

  English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian

  1643 - 1727
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  Che Guevara

  Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist

  1928 - 1967
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  Salvador Allende

  Chilean physician and socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile

  1908 - 1973
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  Albert Einstein

  German-born theoretical physicist

  1879 - 1955
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  André-Marie AMPERE

  French physicist and mathematician

  1775 - 1836
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  Charles DARWIN

  English naturalist

  1809 - 1882
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  Irène JOLIOT-CURIE

  French scientist

  1897 - 1956