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This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names from the world of
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famous thinkers .
Name Lifespan Other Names
Aage Bohr1922-2009 (Niels)
Abbas ibn Firnasc. 809-887
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi903-986
Abdus Salam 1926-1996
Ada Yonath1939-
Adam Riess1969-
Adolf Bastian1826-1905 (Philipp, Wilhelm)
Adolf Butenandt1903-1995 (Friedrich, Johann)
Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick1852-1937
Adolf Kussmaul1822-1902 (Adolph, Carl, Philipp, Konrad)
Adolf Meyer 1866-1950
Adolf Seilacher1925-2014 (Dolf)
Adolf von Baeyer1835-1917 (Johann, Friedrich, Wilhelm)
Adolf von Strümpell1853-1925 (Ernst, Gustav, Gottfried)
Adolf Windaus1876-1959 (Otto, Reinhold)
Adolph Strecker1822-1871 (Adolf, Friedrich, Ludwig, Ewald)
Adolphe Sax1814-1894
Adriaan Blaauw1914-2010
Aglaonice ?-c. 100 BC (Aganice, Aglaonike)
Ahmed Zewail1946-2016 (Hassan)
Albert Einstein 1879-1955
Albert Fert1938-
Albert Hofmann 1906-2008
Albert Abraham Michelson1852-1931
Albert Szent-Györgyi1893-1986
Alberto Santos -Dumont 1873-1932
Albrecht Kossel1853-1927
Alessandro Volta1745-1827
Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922
Alexander Fleming 1881-1955
Alexander Prokhorov1916-2002 (Aleksandr)
Alexei A. Abrikosov1928-2017
Alexis Carrel1873-1944
Alfred Kastler1902-1984
Alfred Nobel1833-1896
Alfred Russel Wallace 1823-1913
Alfred Wegener 1880-1930
Alfred Werner 1866-1919
Allvar Gullstrand 1862-1930
Almon Brown Strowger 1839-1902
Alois Alzheimer1864-1915
Alois Senefelder1771-1834
Amedeo Avogadro1776-1856
Amil Kumar Das 1902-1961
Anders Celsius1701-1744
André -Marie Ampère1775-1836
Andre Geim1958-
Andrea Mia Ghez1965-
Andreas Vesalius1514-1564 (Andries)
Andrei Sakharov1921-1989
Andrew Huxley 1917-2012 (Fielding)
Annie Jump Cannon 1863-1941
Anthony James Leggett1938-
Antoine Lavoisier1743-1794
Antoine Marfan1858-1942 (Bernard, Jean, Antonin)
Anton Pannekoek1873-1960 (Antonie)
Antonia Maury1866-1952
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632-1723 (Anton)
Antonio Meucci1808-1889
Antonio Maria Valsalva1666-1723
Antony Hewish1924-2021
Apollonius of Pergac. 262-c. 190 BC (Apollonios)
Aristarchus of Samosc. 310-c. 230 BC
Arne Tiselius1902-1971 (Wilhelm, Kaurin)
Arno Allan Penzias1933-
Arnold Sommerfeld1868-1951
Arthur Ashkin1922-2020
Arthur Compton1892-1962 (Holly)
Arthur Eddington1882-1944 (Stanley)
Arthur Evans 1851-1941
Arthur Harden 1865-1940
Arthur B. McDonald 1943- (Bruce)
Arthur Leonard Schawlow1921-1999
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen 1895-1973
Aryabhata 476-550
Asım Orhan Barut1926-1994
Augustin -Jean Fresnel1788-1827
Augustin Mouchot1825-1911
Ayyub Guliyev 1954-
Aziz Sancar1946-
Barbara McClintock1902-1992
Barnaba Oriani1752-1832
Barry Marshall 1951-
Bartolomeo Cristofori1655-1731
Ben Roy Mottelson1926-2022
Bengt Strömgren1908-1987 (Georg, Daniel)
Benjamin Thompson 1753-1814
Brian David Josephson 1940-
Brian Schmidt 1967-
Britton Chance 1913-2010
Bronisław Malinowski 1884-1942
Bruce C. Heezen1924-1977 (Charles)
Buckminster Fuller 1895-1983 (Richard)
Burrill Bernard Crohn 1884-1983
Burton Richter 1931-2018
Camille Flammarion1842-1925 (Nicolas)
Camillo Golgi1843-1926
Carl David Anderson 1905-1991
Carl Benz1844-1929 (Karl, Friedrich, Michael)
Carl Bosch 1874-1940
Carl Friedrich Gauss1777-1855 (Karl)
Carl Linnaeus1707-1778 (Carolus)
Carl Sagan1934-1996 (Edward)
Carl Wilhelm Scheele1742-1786
Carl Wieman1951- (Edwin)
Carlo Rubbia1934-
Carol W. Greider1961- (Carolyn, Widney)
Caroline Herschel 1750-1848 (Lucretia)
Carolyn Bertozzi1966-
Cecil Frank Powell 1903-1969
Cecilia Payne -Gaposchkin1900-1979 (Helena)
Chaim Weizmann1874-1952 (Chayyim, Azriel, Azri'el)
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar 1910-1995
C. V. Raman 1888-1970 (Chandrasekhara, Venkata)
Charles Babbage1791-1871
Charles Glover Barkla1877-1944
C. V. Boys1855-1944 (Charles, Vernon)
Charles Darrow 1889-1967 (Brace)
Charles Darwin 1809-1882
Charles -Augustin de Coulomb1736-1806
Charles Eastman1858-1939 (Hakadah, Ohíye S'a, Alexander)
Charles Goodyear1800-1860
Charles Édouard Guillaume 1861-1938
Charles K. Kao1933-2018 (Kuen)
Charles David Keeling1928-2005
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran1845-1922
Charles Lyell1797-1875
Charles Messier1730-1817
Charles Richet1850-1935 (Robert)
Charles Francis Richter 1900-1985
Charles H. Townes1915-2015 (Hard)
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson 1869-1959
Yang Chen-Ning1922- (Zhenning)
Christiaan Eijkman1858-1930
Christiaan Huygens1629-1695 (Christian)
Christian Doppler1803-1853
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard1942-
C. H. D. Buys Ballot1817-1890 (Christophorus, Henricus, Dedericus, Didericus)
Clair Patterson 1922-1995 (Cameron)
Claude Bernard 1813-1878
Claude Cohen -Tannoudji1933-
Claude Pouillet1790-1868 (Servais, Mathias)
Claude Shannon 1916-2001
Clinton Davisson1881-1958
Clyde Tombaugh1906-1997
Conrad Gessner1516-1565
Dan Shechtman1941-
Daniel Bernoulli1700-1782
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit1686-1736
Daniel B. Wesson1825-1906 (Baird)
David Attenborough1926- (Frederick)
David Dunbar Buick1854-1929
David Graeber1961-2020 (Rolfe)
David Gross 1941-
David Rittenhouse1732-1796
David J. Thouless1934-2019 (James)
David Jeffrey Wineland1944-
Denis Papin1647-c. 1712
Dennis Gabor 1900-1979
Dennis Ritchie 1941-2011
Dian Fossey1932-1985
Didier Queloz1966-
Dmitriy Mendeleev1834-1907 (Dmitri)
Donald A. Glaser1926-2013
Donna Strickland 1959-
Dorothy Hodgkin1910-1994 (Mary)
Douglas Engelbart1925-2013
Duncan Haldane1951-
Edmond Halley1656-1742
Eduard Buchner1860-1917
Edward Victor Appleton 1892-1965
Edward Jenner1749-1823
Edward Charles Pickering 1846-1919
Edward Mills Purcell 1912-1997
Edward Teller1908-2003 (Ede)
Edward Burnett Tylor1832-1917
Edward Witten1951-
Edwin Hubble1889-1953
Edwin McMillan 1907-1991 (Mattison)
Ejnar Hertzsprung 1873-1967
Eli Whitney 1765-1825
Eliphalet Remington 1793-1861
Elizabeth Blackburn 1948-
Emil Fischer 1852-1919 (Hermann)
Emil Theodor Kocher1841-1917
Emil Kraepelin1856-1926 (Wilhelm, Georg, Magnus)
Emil von Behring1854-1917 (Adolf)
Emile Berliner1851-1929
Emilio G. Segrè1905-1989 (Gino)
Emmanuelle Charpentier 1968-
Enrico Fermi 1901-1954
Erik Adolf von Willebrand1870-1949
Ernest Lawrence 1901-1958
Ernest Rutherford 1871-1937
Ernest Walton 1903-1995 (Thomas, Sinton)
Ernő Rubik1944-
Ernst Abbe1840-1905
Ernst Haeckel1834-1919
Ernst Mach 1838-1916
Ernst Ruska1906-1988
Erwin Schrödinger1887-1961
Eugene Wigner1902-1995
Evangelista Torricelli1608-1647
Felix Bloch1905-1983
Ferdinand Porsche 1875-1951
Ferdinand von Zeppelin1838-1917 (Adolf, Heinrich, August)
Frances Arnold 1956-
Francis William Aston 1877-1945
Francis Crick1916-2004
François Englert1932-
Françoise Barré -Sinoussi1947-
Frank Shuman1862-1918
Frank Wilczek1951-
Franz Boas1858-1942
Frédéric Joliot-Curie 1900-1958
Frederick Banting1891-1941 (Grant)
Frederick Gowland Hopkins 1861-1947
Frederick Reines1918-1998
Frederick Sanger1918-2013
Frederick Soddy1877-1956
Freeman Dyson 1923-2020
Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge 1794-1867
Friedrich Bergius1884-1949
Friedrich Bessel1784-1846
Friedrich Paneth1887-1958 (Fritz, Adolf)
Friedrich Wöhler1800-1882
Frits Zernike1888-1966
Fritz Haber 1868-1934
Fritz Pregl1869-1930
Fritz Zwicky1898-1974
Gabriel Lippmann1845-1921
Galen 129-c. 216
Galileo Galilei 1564-1642
Gaspard -Gustave de Coriolis1792-1843
Georg Bednorz1950- (Johannes)
Georg Ohm1789-1854
George Henry Corliss1817-1888
George Eastman1854-1932
George de Hevesy1885-1966 (György, Charles)
George Huntington1850-1916
George E. Smith 1930- (Elwood)
George Smoot1945-
George Stephenson 1781-1848
George Paget Thomson 1892-1975
George Westinghouse1846-1914
Georges Charpak1924-2010
Georges Cuvier1769-1832
Georges Gilles de La Tourette1857-1904 (Albert, Édouard, Brutus)
Georges -Louis Leclerc 1707-1788
Georges Lemaître1894-1966
Gerard Kuiper 1905-1973 (Gerrit, Peter, Pieter)
Gerard 't Hooft1946- (Gerardus)
Gerd Binnig1947-
Gerhard Domagk1895-1964
Gerhard Ertl1936-
Gertrude B. Elion1918-1999 (Belle)
Gerty Cori 1896-1957 (Theresa)
Giordano Bruno 1548-1600
Giovanni Domenico Cassini1625-1712
Giulio Natta1903-1979
Giuseppe Piazzi1746-1826
Glenn T. Seaborg1912-1999 (Theodore)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz1646-1716
Gottlieb Daimler1834-1900
Grace Hopper 1906-1992
Gregor Mendel 1822-1884
Guglielmo Marconi 1874-1937
Guidobaldo del Monte 1545-1607
Gustaf Dalén1869-1937
Gustav Ludwig Hertz 1887-1975
Gustav Kirchhoff1824-1887
Gustav Mie1868-1957 (Adolf, Feodor, Wilhelm, Ludwig)
Gustave Eiffel1832-1923 (Alexandre)
Guy Stewart Callendar1898-1964
Hannes Alfvén1908-1995
Hans Asperger1906-1980 (Johann, Friedrich, Karl)
Hans Bethe1906-2005
Hans Fischer 1881-1945
Hans Adolf Krebs 1900-1981
Hans Lipperheyc. 1570-1619
Hans Christian Ørsted1777-1851
Har Gobind Khorana 1922-2011
Harald zur Hausen1936-2023
Harold Urey1893-1981 (Clayton)
Harry Klinefelter1912-1990 (Fitch)
Hedwig Kohn1887-1964
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes1853-1926
Heinrich Hertz 1857-1894
Heinrich Rohrer1933-2013
Heinrich Schliemann1822-1890
Hendrik Lorentz 1853-1928 (Antoon)
Henri Becquerel1852-1908 (Antoine)
Henri Moissan1852-1907
Henrietta Swan Leavitt 1868-1921
Henrik Sjögren 1899-1986 (Samuel, Conrad)
Henry Cavendish1731-1810
Henry Ford 1863-1947
Henry Heimlich1920-2016 (Judah)
Henry Norris Russell 1877-1957
Henry Fox Talbot 1800-1877 (William)
Herman Hollerith1860-1929
Hermann von Helmholtz1821-1894
Hermann Kolbe 1818-1884 (Adolph, Wilhelm)
Hermann Rorschach1884-1922
Hermann Staudinger1881-1965
Yukawa Hideki 1907-1981
Hipparchus of Nicaea c. 190-c. 120 BC
Hippocrates of Cos460-370 BC
Amano Hiroshi 1960-
Horace Smith 1808-1893
Horst Ludwig Störmer1949-
Howard Carter 1874-1939
Howard Florey1898-1968 (Walter)
Hugh David Politzer1949-
Hugo Bernatzik1897-1953 (Adolf)
Humphry Davy1778-1829
Ibn al-Haytham c. 965-c. 1040 (Alhacen, al-Hasan, Alhazen)
Ignaz Semmelweis1818-1865
Igor Sikorsky1889-1972
Igor Tamm 1895-1971
Ilya Frank 1908-1990
Ilya Mechnikov1845-1916 (Élie)
Ilya Prigogine1917-2003
Inge Lehmann 1888-1993
Irène Joliot-Curie 1897-1956
Irving Langmuir1881-1957
Isaac Newton 1642-1727
Isaac Singer1811-1875
Akasaki Isamu 1929-2021
Isidor Isaac Rabi1898-1988
Ismail al-Jazari1136-1206
Ivan Pavlov 1849-1936
Ivan Supek1915-2007
Ivar Giaever1929-
Jabir ibn Hayyanc. 721-c. 815 (Geber)
Jack Horner1946- (John)
Jack Kilby1923-2005 (St. Clair)
Jacobus Kapteyn1851-1922 (Cornelius)
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff1852-1911
Jacques Monod1910-1976
James Chadwick 1891-1974
James Cronin1931-2016
James Franck1882-1964
James George Frazer1854-1941
James Gregory 1638-1675
James Prescott Joule1818-1889
James Clerk Maxwell 1831-1879
James Naismith1861-1939
James Parkinson 1755-1824
James Rainwater1917-1986
James B. Sumner 1887-1955 (Batcheller)
James Watson 1928- (Dewey)
James Watt 1736-1819
Jan Oort1900-1992 (Hendrik)
Jane Goodall1934-
Jaroslav Heyrovský1890-1967
Jean -Pierre Blanchard 1753-1809
Jean -Martin Charcot1825-1893
Jean -Baptiste Lamarck1744-1829
Jean Baptiste Perrin 1870-1942
Jennifer Doudna1964-
Jerome Isaac Friedman1930-
Jim Peebles1935- (Phillip, James, Edwin)
Jocelyn Bell Burnell1943-
Johannes Gutenberg c. 1395-1468
Johannes Hevelius1611-1687
J. Hans D. Jensen 1907-1973 (Johannes, Daniel)
Johannes Kepler1571-1630
Johannes Stark 1874-1957
Johannes Diderik van der Waals1837-1923
John James Audubon1785-1851
John Logie Baird 1888-1946
John Bardeen1908-1991
John Browning1855-1926
John Cockcroft1897-1967
John Dalton 1766-1844
John Deere1804-1886
John Langdon Down1828-1896 (Haydon)
John Boyd Dunlop1840-1921
John B. Goodenough1922-2023 (Bannister)
John Edward Gray 1800-1875
John L. Hall 1934- (Lewis)
John Herschel 1792-1871
J. Michael Kosterlitz1943- (John)
John C. Mather1946- (Cromwell)
John Howard Northrop 1891-1987
John Shipley Rowlinson1926-2018
John Robert Schrieffer1931-2019
John Snow1813-1858
John Strutt, Lord Rayleigh1842-1919 (William)
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck1899-1980
Jonas Salk1914-1995
Jöns Jacob Berzelius1779-1848
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac1778-1850
Joseph Marie Jacquard1752-1834
Joseph Lister 1827-1912
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.1941-
J. J. Thomson 1856-1940 (Joseph, John)
Joseph von Fraunhofer1787-1826
Josiah Willard Gibbs 1839-1903
Jules Bordet1870-1961
Julian Huxley 1887-1975 (Sorell)
Julian Schwinger1918-1994
J. Robert Oppenheimer 1904-1967 (Julius)
Justus von Liebig1803-1873
Kai Siegbahn1918-2007 (Manne, Börje)
Karl Ferdinand Braun 1850-1918
Karl Drais1785-1851
Karl Landsteiner1868-1943
K. Alex Müller 1927-2023 (Karl, Alexander)
Karl von Frisch1886-1982
Karl Ziegler 1898-1973
Kathy Reichs1948- (Kathleen, Joan)
Ken Thompson 1943- (Kenneth)
Kenneth G. Wilson 1936-2013 (Geddes)
Kip Thorne 1940-
Klaus von Klitzing1943-
Konrad Lorenz 1903-1989
Konrad Zuse1910-1995
Konstantin Novoselov1974-
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky1857-1935
Kurt Alder1902-1958
Lars Onsager1903-1976
László Bíró 1899-1985
Leo Fender1909-1991 (Clarence, Leonidas)
Leon Cooper 1930-
Léon Foucault1819-1868
Leon M. Lederman1922-2018
Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519
Leopold Ružička 1887-1976
Les Paul 1915-2009 (Lester)
Lev Landau 1908-1968
Lewis H. Morgan 1818-1881 (Henry)
Linda B. Buck1947- (Brown)
Linus Pauling1901-1994
Linus Torvalds1969-
Lise Meitner1878-1968
Louis Blériot1872-1936
Louis Braille1809-1852
Louis Daguerre1787-1851
Louis de Broglie1892-1987
Louis Néel1904-2000
Louis Pasteur1822-1895
Luc Montagnier1932-2022
Ludwig Boltzmann1844-1906
Luigi Galvani1737-1798
Luis Walter Alvarez 1911-1988
Cai Lun50-121
Manfred Eigen1927-2019
Manne Siegbahn 1886-1978
Marcel Minnaert1893-1970 (Gilles, Jozef)
Margaret Hamilton 1936-
Margaret Mead1901-1978
Maria Goeppert-Mayer 1906-1972
Maria Sibylla Merian1647-1717
Marie Curie 1867-1934
Marie Tharp1920-2006
Mario Molina 1943-2020
Marius Barbeau1883-1969 (Charles)
Martin Cooper 1928-
Martin Lewis Perl1927-2014
Martin Ryle1918-1984
Martinus J. G. Veltman1931-2021 (Justinus, Godefriedus)
Mary Anning1799-1847
Koshiba Masatoshi 1926-2020
Maurice Raynaud1834-1881 (Auguste, Gabriel)
Maurice Wilkins 1916-2004 (Hugh, Frederick)
Maus Gatsonides 1911-1998 (Maurice)
Max Born1882-1970
Max von Laue1879-1960
Max Planck 1858-1947
May -Britt Moser 1963-
Melba Phillips 1907-2004 (Newell)
Melvin Calvin 1911-1997
Melvin Schwartz 1932-2006
Michael Faraday1791-1867
Michel Adanson1727-1806
Michel Mayor1942- (Gustave, Édouard)
Michio Kaku 1947-
Mikhail Kalashnikov1919-2013
Mikhail Lomonosov1711-1765
Abu Rayhan Muhammad al-Biruni 973-c. 1050
Abu Bakr Muhammad al-Razi 865-925
Murray Gell-Mann 1929-2019
Neil deGrasse Tyson 1958-
Nevill Francis Mott 1905-1996
Niccolò Cacciatore1770-1841
Nicéphore Niépce1765-1833
Nicolaas Bloembergen1920-2017
Nicolas Appert1749-1841
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot1796-1832
Nicolas -Joseph Cugnot1725-1804
Nicolas Steno1638-1686 (Niels)
Nicolaus Copernicus1473-1543 (Nicholas)
Niels Bohr1885-1962
Niels Ryberg Finsen1860-1904
Nikola Tesla 1856-1943
Nikolaus Otto 1832-1891
Nikolay Basov1922-2001
Nikolay Semyonov1896-1986
Norman Borlaug1914-2009 (Ernest)
Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.1915-2011
Ole Rømer1644-1710
Olin J. Eggen 1919-1998 (Jeuck)
Olin Chaddock Wilson 1909-1994
Orville Wright 1871-1948
Otto Diels1876-1954 (Paul, Hermann)
Otto Hahn 1879-1968
Otto Friedrich Müller 1730-1784
Otto Stern 1888-1969
Otto von Guericke1602-1686
Otto Wallach 1847-1931
Owen Chamberlain 1920-2006
Owen Willans Richardson 1879-1959
Paracelsus 1493-1541
Patrick Blackett1897-1974 (Maynard, Stuart)
Paul Berg 1926-2023
Paul J. Crutzen1933-2021 (Jozef)
Paul Dirac1902-1984
Paul Ehrlich1854-1915
Paul Karrer1889-1971
Paul Sabatier1854-1941
Pavel Cherenkov1904-1990
Percy Williams Bridgman1882-1961
Peter Debye1884-1966 (Petrus, Josephus, Wilhelmus)
Peter Grünberg 1939-2018 (Andreas)
Peter Higgs1929-
Philip W. Anderson 1923-2020 (Warren)
Philipp Lenard1862-1947
Pierre Curie 1859-1906
Pierre -Gilles de Gennes1932-2007
Pierre -Simon Laplace1749-1827
Pieter Zeeman1865-1943
Pliny the Elderc. 23-79 (Gaius)
Polykarp Kusch 1911-1993
Prosper Menière1799-1862
Ptolemy c. 100-c. 168 (Claudius)
Pyotr Kapitsa1894-1984
Rachel Carson 1907-1964
Raymond Davis Jr.1914-2006
Reona Esaki 1925- (Leo)
Riccardo Giacconi1931-2018
Richard Arkwright 1733-1792
Richard Dawkins1941-
Richard Feynman1918-1988 (Phillips)
Richard E. Taylor 1929-2018 (Edward)
Richard Trevithick1771-1833
Richard Willstätter1872-1942 (Martin)
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy1865-1929
Rita Levi -Montalcini1909-2012
Robert Stawell Ball 1840-1913
Róbert Bárány 1876-1936
Robert Boyle 1627-1691
Robert Brown 1773-1858
Robert Bunsen1811-1899
Robert Edwards 1925-2013
Robert Fulton 1765-1815
Robert H. Goddard 1882-1945 (Hutchings)
Robert Hofstadter1915-1990
Robert Hooke1635-1703
Robert Koch 1843-1910
Robert B. Laughlin1950-
Robert Andrews Millikan1868-1953
Robert Coleman Richardson 1937-2013
Robert Woodrow Wilson 1936-
Robert Burns Woodward 1917-1979
Roger D. Kornberg1947- (David)
Roger Penrose1931-
Ronald Ross 1857-1932
Rosalind Franklin 1920-1958
Rosalyn Yalow1921-2011
Rowland Hill 1795-1879
Roy J. Glauber1925-2018 (Jay)
Rudolf Clausius1822-1888
Rudolf Diesel1858-1913 (Christian, Karl)
Rudolf Mössbauer1929-2011
Rudolf Virchow1821-1902
Russell Alan Hulse1950-
Ruth Benedict1887-1948
Samuel Warren Carey 1911-2002
Samuel Colt 1814-1862
Samuel Morse 1791-1872
Samuel C. C. Ting1936- (Chao, Chung)
Santiago Ramón y Cajal1852-1934
Sarah Frances Whiting1847-1927
Satyendra Nath Bose 1894-1974
Saul Perlmutter1959-
Selman Waksman1888-1973 (Abraham)
Serge Haroche1944-
Sergei Korolev1907-1966
Sergei Korsakov1854-1900
Sheldon Lee Glashow1932-
Tomonaga Shin'ichirō 1906-1979 (Sin-Itiro)
Nakamura Shuji1954-
Simon van der Meer 1925-2011
Slavoljub Eduard Penkala1871-1922
Stephen Hawking 1942-2018 (William)
Steve Wozniak 1950- (Stephen)
Steven Chu 1948-
Steven Weinberg1933-2021
Svante Arrhenius1859-1927 (August)
Svante Pääbo1955-
Sydney Brenner1927-2019
Tadeusz Reichstein1897-1996 (Tadeus)
Kajita Takaaki 1959-
Theodor W. Hänsch1941- (Wolfgang)
Theodor Schwann1810-1882
Theodor Svedberg1884-1971 (The)
Theodore William Richards 1868-1928
Thomas Addison 1795-1860
Thomas Edison 1847-1931 (Alva)
Thomas Henry Huxley 1825-1895
Thomas Hunt Morgan 1866-1945
Thomas Newcomen1664-1729
Thomas Young 1773-1829
Tim Berners-Lee 1955- (Timothy)
Toshihide Maskawa 1940-2021
Lee Tsung-Dao1926-
Tycho Brahe1546-1601 (Tyge)
Ulugh Beg 1394-1449 (Mirza, Muhammad)
Val Logsdon Fitch1923-2015
Valentine Ball 1843-1894
Vannevar Bush 1890-1974
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan 1952-
Vera Rubin1928-2016
Vesto Slipher 1875-1969 (Melvin)
Victor Grignard1871-1935
Victor Francis Hess1883-1964 (Franz)
Vincas Kudirka1858-1899
Virginia Apgar1909-1974
Vitaly Ginzburg1916-2009
Vladimir Prelog1906-1998
Walter Houser Brattain1902-1987
Walther Bothe 1891-1957
Walther Nernst1864-1941 (Hermann)
Ward Goodenough1919-2013 (Hunt)
Wendell Meredith Stanley 1904-1971
Werner Heisenberg1901-1976
Werner von Siemens1816-1892 (Ernst)
Wernher von Braun1912-1977
Wilbur Wright 1867-1912
Wilhelm Maybach1846-1929
Wilhelm Ostwald1853-1932
Wilhelm Röntgen1845-1923
Wilhelm Eduard Weber 1804-1891
Wilhelm Wien1864-1928
Willard Boyle 1924-2011
Willard Libby1908-1980 (Frank)
Willebrord Snellius 1580-1626
Willem Einthoven1860-1927
William Henry Bragg1862-1942
William Lawrence Bragg1890-1971
William Alfred Fowler 1911-1995
William Gilbert 1544-1603
William Rowan Hamilton 1805-1865
William Harvey 1578-1657
William Herschel 1738-1822
William Huggins1824-1910
William G. Morgan 1870-1942 (George)
William Daniel Phillips 1948-
William Henry Pickering 1858-1938
William Ramsay 1852-1916
William Shockley1910-1989 (Bradford)
William Thomson 1824-1907
William Hyde Wollaston1766-1828
Williamina Fleming 1857-1911
Willis Carrier1876-1950 (Haviland)
Willis Lamb 1913-2008 (Eugene)
Wolfgang Ketterle1957-
Wolfgang Paul 1913-1993
Wolfgang Pauli1900-1958
Yoichiro Nambu 1921-2015
Yoshinori Ōsumi 1945-
Tu Youyou 1930-
Zhores Alferov 1930-2019