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51 famous people found
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Nikola TESLA
Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist
1856 - 1943 -
John Stith PEMBERTON
American biochemist and American Civil War veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola
1831 - 1888 -
James Bond
American ornithologist and expert on the birds of the Caribbean
1900 - 1989 -
Nettie Stevens
American geneticist who discovered sex chromosomes
1861 - 1912 -
Florence BASCOM
American geologist
1862 - 1945 -
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 -
L. L. LANGSTROTH
American apiarist, clergyman and teacher, considered the "Father of American Beekeeping."
1810 - 1895 -
William H. PRESCOTT
American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian
1796 - 1859 -
Mark HOPKINS
American educator and Congregationalist theologian, president of Williams College from 1836 to 1872
1802 - 1887 -
Alice HAMILTON
First woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard University and was a leading expert in the field of occupational health
1869 - 1970 -
Marjorie HUSTED
Home economist who helped develop the brand character Betty Crocker
1892 - 1986 -
Henry SCHOOLCRAFT
American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist
1793 - 1864 -
James Buchanan EADS
American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 patents
1820 - 1887 -
Elwood MEAD
American professor, politician and engineer
1858 - 1936 -
James Francis SHOBER
African-American doctor
1853 - 1889 -
Alexander CARTWRIGHT
One of several people sometimes referred to as a "father of baseball"
1820 - 1892 -
Carlton J. H. Hayes
American historian, educator, diplomat, devout Catholic and academic
1882 - 1964 -
Vannevar Bush
American engineer, inventor and science administrator
1890 - 1974 -
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
American geologist
1828 - 1887 -
Franz Boas
German–American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology
1858 - 1942