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96 famous people found

  • Photo of Nikola TESLA

    Nikola TESLA

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

    American1856 - 1943
  • Photo of John Stith PEMBERTON

    John Stith PEMBERTON

    American biochemist and American Civil War veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola

    American1831 - 1888
  • Photo of John Harvey KELLOGG

    John Harvey KELLOGG

    American medical doctor, nutritionist, inventor, health activist, anti-masturbation advocate, and businessman

    American1852 - 1943
  • Photo of Edwin HUBBLE

    Edwin HUBBLE

    American astronomer

    American1889 - 1953
  • Photo of James Bond

    James Bond

    American ornithologist and expert on the birds of the Caribbean

    American1900 - 1989
  • Photo of Nettie Stevens

    Nettie Stevens

    American geneticist who discovered sex chromosomes

    American1861 - 1912
  • Photo of George Minot

    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

    American1885 - 1950
  • Photo of Harvey FLETCHER

    Harvey FLETCHER

    American physicist, known as the "father of stereophonic sound"

    American1884 - 1981
  • Photo of Florence BASCOM

    Florence BASCOM

    American geologist

    American1862 - 1945
  • Photo of Francis PARKMAN

    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

    American1823 - 1893
  • Photo of Robert Andrews MILLIKAN

    Robert Andrews MILLIKAN

    American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923

    American1868 - 1953
  • Photo of Theodore William RICHARDS

    Theodore William RICHARDS

    First American scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

    American1868 - 1928
  • Photo of Crawford LONG

    Crawford LONG

    American surgeon and pharmacist best known for his first use of inhaled diethyl ether as an anesthetic

    American1815 - 1878
  • Photo of Leo BAEKELAND

    Leo BAEKELAND

    Belgian-born American chemist

    American1863 - 1944
  • Photo of L. L. LANGSTROTH

    L. L. LANGSTROTH

    American apiarist, clergyman and teacher, considered the "Father of American Beekeeping."

    American1810 - 1895
  • Photo of William H. PRESCOTT

    William H. PRESCOTT

    American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian

    American1796 - 1859
  • Photo of Robert H. GODDARD

    Robert H. GODDARD

    American Engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket

    American1882 - 1945
  • Photo of Henry David THOREAU

    Henry David THOREAU

    American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist

    American1817 - 1862
  • Photo of Mark HOPKINS

    Mark HOPKINS

    American educator and Congregationalist theologian, president of Williams College from 1836 to 1872

    American1802 - 1887
  • Photo of Alice HAMILTON

    Alice HAMILTON

    First woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard University and was a leading expert in the field of occupational health

    American1869 - 1970
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