Sciences - Other
721 famous people found
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Wernher von Braun
German and American aerospace engineer and space architect
1912 - 1977 -
Nikola TESLA
Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist
1856 - 1943 -
Jane GOODALL
English primatologist and anthropologist
1934 -
Sergey BRIN
American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Google
1973 -
Alexander Graham BELL
Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone
1847 - 1922 -
Leonardo DA VINCI
Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer
1452 - 1519 -
Jean François CHAMPOLLION
French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs
1790 - 1832 -
Georges DUMÉZIL
French philologist, linguist, and religious studies scholar
1898 - 1986 -
Gabriel Narutowicz
Polish professor of hydroelectric engineering and politician who served as the first President of Poland from 11 December 1922 until his assassination on 16 December
1865 - 1922 -
Anne WOJCICKI
American entrepreneur, and the co-founder and CEO of the personal genomics company 23andMe
1973 -
Larry PAGE
American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Google
1973 -
Hubert REEVES
French Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science
1932 - 2023 -
Pierre NORA
French historian
1931 -
John Stith PEMBERTON
American biochemist and American Civil War veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola
1831 - 1888 -
Allan Kardec
French educator, translator and author
1804 - 1869 -
André CITROËN
French industrialist and freemason of Dutch and Polish extraction
1878 - 1935 -
Didier RAOULT
French biology researcher
1952 -
Germaine TILLION
French ethnologist, and a member of the French resistance
1907 - 2008 -
Jules MICHELET
French historian
1798 - 1874 -
Samuel GUICHENON
French historian and genealogist
1607 - 1664