Sciences
1,512 famous people found
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Serge Haroche
French physicist
1944 -
Cécile DEWITT-MORETTE
French mathematician and physicist
1922 - 2017 -
James Bond
American ornithologist and expert on the birds of the Caribbean
1900 - 1989 -
Philippe Douste-Blazy
French politician
1953 -
Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille
French astronomer and geodesist
1713 - 1762 -
CeCe Moore
American genetic genealogist
1969 -
Frantz FANON
French West Indian psychiatrist and political philosopher
1925 - 1961 -
Johan Huizinga
Dutch historian
1872 - 1945 -
Philippe CONTAMINE
French historian
1932 - 2022 -
Axel KAHN
French scientist, geneticist and essayist
1944 - 2021 -
Claude ALLEGRE
French politician and scientist
1937 - 2025 -
Jean-François MATTEI
French doctor and politician
1943 -
Jean-Christophe RUFIN
French doctor, diplomat, historian, globetrotter and novelist
1952 -
Monique PINCON-CHARLOT
French sociologist
1946 -
Jean BOIRON
French pharmacist
1906 - 1996 -
Georges BOUTON
French toymaker and engineer who with fellow Frenchman Jules-Albert de Dion founded the De Dion-Bouton company
1847 - 1938 -
John MUIR
Scottish-American:42 naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States of America
1838 - 1914 -
Xavier BICHAT
French anatomist and pathologist
1771 - 1802 -
Edgar MORIN
French philosopher and sociologist
1921 -
Nicolas Joseph CUGNOT
French inventor who built the first working self-propelled land-based mechanical vehicle, the world's first automobile
1725 - 1804