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132 famous people found
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Dennis RITCHIE
American computer scientist
1941 - 2011 -
Donald KNUTH
American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University
1938 -
Sam SHEPPARD
American osteopathic physician and, toward the end of his life, a professional wrestler
1923 - 1970 -
Mary Edwards WALKER
American feminist, abolitionist, prohibitionist, alleged spy, prisoner of war and surgeon
1832 - 1919 -
Asaph HALL
American astronomer who is most famous for having discovered the moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos
1829 - 1907 -
Theodore William RICHARDS
First American scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1868 - 1928 -
Sara PLUMMER LEMMON
American botanist
1836 - 1923 -
John Gill LEMMON
American botanist and Civil War veteran and former prisoner of Andersonville
1832 - 1908 -
Leo BAEKELAND
Belgian-born American chemist
1863 - 1944 -
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 -
Luther BURBANK
American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science
1849 - 1926 -
Kingman BREWSTER
Educator, president of Yale University, and American diplomat
1919 - 1988 -
Calvin PLIMPTON
American physician and educator, who served as president of Amherst College and American University of Beirut
1918 - 2007 -
Hugh CABOT
American professor of surgery
1872 - 1945 -
Elwood MEAD
American professor, politician and engineer
1858 - 1936 -
James E. BOWMAN
African-American physician was internationally renowned as a specialist in pathology, hematology, and genetics
1923 - 2011 -
George GALLUP
American pioneer of survey sampling techniques and inventor of the Gallup poll
1901 - 1984 -
John Kitzhaber
American former politician and physician
1947 -
Seymour Cray
American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect
1925 - 1996 -
Drew Gilpin Faust
American historian
1947