Sciences

43 famous people found

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  Peter Higgs

  British theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the mass of subatomic particles

  1929 - 2024
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  Jane GOODALL

  English primatologist and anthropologist

  1934
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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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  Alan TURING

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

  1912 - 1954
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  Isaac NEWTON

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

  1643 - 1727
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  Charles DARWIN

  English naturalist

  1809 - 1882
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  James Smithson

  English chemist and mineralogist, founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, which also bears his name

  1765 - 1829
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  Tim BERNERS-LEE

  British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web

  1955
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  Ada LOVELACE

  English writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine

  1815 - 1852
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  Nevill MOTT

  English physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977

  1905 - 1996
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  Rosalind Franklin

  British chemist and X-ray crystallographer

  1920 - 1958
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  Stephen HAWKING

  English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge

  1942 - 2018
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  John GOODRICKE

  English amateur astronomer

  1764 - 1786
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  Thomas SYDENHAM

  English physician

  1624 - 1689
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  Dorothy HODGKIN

  British biochemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964

  1910 - 1994
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  Erasmus DARWIN

  English physician

  1731 - 1802
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  Francis GALTON

  English Victorian polymath, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician

  1822 - 1911
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  Jethro TULL

  English agricultural pioneer from Berkshire who helped bring about the British Agricultural Revolution

  1674 - 1740
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  Bertrand RUSSELL

  British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, social critic and political activist

  1872 - 1970
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  George DARWIN

  English astronomer and mathematician

  1845 - 1912