Sciences
224 famous people found
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Ralph NORTHAM
American politician and physician, 73rd Governor of Virginia
1959 -
Michael Stuart Brown
American geneticist and Nobel laureate
1941 -
Harvey FLETCHER
American physicist, known as the "father of stereophonic sound"
1884 - 1981 -
Rachel CARSON
American marine biologist, author, and conservationist
1907 - 1964 -
Robert FURCHGOTT
Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist
1916 - 2009 -
Christine GRADY
American nurse and bioethicist who serves as the head of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
1952 -
Owsley STANLEY
American audio engineer and clandestine chemist, key figure in the San Francisco Bay Area hippie movement
1935 - 2011 -
Florence BASCOM
American geologist
1862 - 1945 -
James OLDS
American psychologist
1922 - 1976 -
Sherwood WASHBURN
American physical anthropologist and pioneer in the field of primatology
1911 - 2000 -
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 -
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 -
Robert Andrews MILLIKAN
American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923
1868 - 1953 -
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