Benjamin Franklin17 January 1706, British, American
Founding Father of the United States
Carl Linnaeus23 May 1707, Swedish
Botanist
Michael Faraday22 September 1791, British
Physicist & Chemist
Charles Babbage26 December 1791, British
Father of the computer
Leonhard Euler15 April 1707, Swiss, Russian
Mathematician, Physicist
Carl F. Gauss30 April 1777, German
Mathematician
Gottfried W. Leibniz01 July 1646, German
Philosopher, Mathematician
Jean-Paul Marat24 May 1743, Swiss, French
Physician
John Dalton06 September 1766, British
Antoine Lavoisier26 August 1743, French
Chemist
James Watt19 January 1736, Scottish
Inventor of Steam Engine
Henry Cavendish10 October 1731, British
Chemist
Count Alessandro Volta18 February 1745, Italian
Pierre-Simon Laplace23 March 1749, French
Scientist
Humphry Davy17 December 1778, British
Inventor of Davy Lamp
William Herschel15 November 1738, German, British
Astronomer, Composer
John James Audubon26 April 1785, American
Naturalist, Painter, Ornithologist
Benjamin Banneker09 November 1731, American
Compiler of Almanacs
Joseph Priestley24 March 1733, British
Discoverer of Oxygen
Joseph Fourier21 March 1768, French
Mathematician & Physicist
Daniel Bernoulli08 February 1700, Swiss
Mathematician
Georges Cuvier23 August 1769, French
Naturalist
Edmond Halley08 November 1656, British
Astronomer
Amedeo Avogadro09 August 1776, Italian
Chemist and Physicist
Andre Marie Ampere20 January 1775, French
Physicist and Mathematician
Georg Ohm16 March 1789, German
Physicist & Mathematician
Augustin-Louis Cauchy21 August 1789, French
Mathematician
Hans Christian Ørsted14 August 1777, Danish
Physicist
Anders Celsius27 November 1701, Swedish
Astronomer, Physicist, Mathematician
Joseph Banks24 February 1743, British
Botanist
Marquis de Condorcet17 September 1743, French
Mathematician, Philosopher
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Sophie Germain01 April 1776, French
Mathematician
Mikhail Lomonosov19 November 1711, Russian
Scientist, Poet, Geologist, Astronomer
Sadi Carnot01 June 1796, French
Physicist and Scientist
Charles Augustin De Coulomb14 June 1736, French
French physicist
Charles Lyell14 November 1797, British
Lawyer
Caroline Herschel16 March 1750, German
Astronomer
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon07 September 1707, French
Naturalist
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert16 November 1717, French
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher And Musical
Adrien-Marie Legendre18 September 1752, French
Mathematician
Thomas Telford09 August 1757, Scottish
Civil Engineer
Giovanni Domenico Cassini08 June 1625, French, Italian
Astronomer and Mathematician
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac06 December 1778, French
Chemist and Physicist
Charles Messier26 June 1730, French
Astronomer
Joseph Henry17 December 1797, American
Scientist
Augustin-Jean Fresnel10 May 1788, French
Physicist
Maria Gaetana Agnesi16 May 1718, Italian
Mathematician, Philosopher, Theologian
Guillaume Le Gentil12 September 1725, French
Astronomer
Johann Heinrich Lambert26 August 1728, Swiss, German, French
Mathematician, Physicist and Astronomer
Joseph Louis Lagrange25 January 1736, French, Italian
Mathematician and Astronomer
William Hopkins02 February 1793, British
Mathematician, Geologist
Albrecht von Haller16 October 1708, Swiss
Anatomist
Robert Brown21 December 1773, British, Scottish
Botanist
William Christopher Zeise15 October 1789, Danish
Organic Chemist
Carl Friedrich Gauss30 April 1777, German
Mathematician, Geophysicist, Astronomer, Science
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz01 July 1646, German
Philosopher
Alessandro Volta18 February 1745, Italian
Physicist, Inventor, University teacher
Emmanuel Swedenborg29 January 1688, Swedish
Scientist
Thomas Young13 June 1773, British
Physician
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit24 May 1686, Polish
Physicist, Inventor
Joseph-Louis Lagrange25 January 1736, French, Italian
Mathematician
Émilie du Châtelet17 December 1706, French
Philosopher
Thomas Bayes1702 AD, British
Mathematician, Statistician
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach11 May 1752, German
Physician
Mary Somerville26 December 1780, British, Scottish
Mathematician, Linguist, Translator, Astronomer,
Luigi Galvani09 September 1737, Italian
Anatomist, Physicist, Physician, University
Jakob Bernoulli01 January 1655, Swiss
Mathematician
John Herschel07 March 1792, British
Polymath
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb14 June 1736, French
Physicist
Ernst Chladni30 November 1756, German
Physicist, Astronomer
Siméon Denis Poisson21 June 1781, French
Mathematician
Jöns Jacob Berzelius20 August 1779, Swedish
Chemist, Non-fiction writer, University teacher
James Hutton03 June 1726, British, Scottish
Geologist
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert16 November 1717, French
Mathematician
Bernard Bolzano05 October 1781, Czech
Mathematician
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner13 December 1780, German
Chemist
Brook Taylor18 August 1685, British
Mathematician
Pierre-André Latreille29 November 1762, French
Zoologist
Carl Wilhelm Scheele09 December 1742, German, Swedish
chemist, pharmacist
Robert Adam03 July 1728
Architect, Archaeologist, Politician
Lazzaro Spallanzani10 January 1729, Italian
Biologist, Zoologist, Scientist, Naturalist,
Colin Maclaurin01 February 1698, British, Scottish
Edinburgh
David Rittenhouse08 April 1732, American
Astronomer
François Arago26 February 1786, Spanish, French
Astronomer, Mathematician, Physicist, Politician,
Abraham de Moivre26 May 1667, French
Mathematician, Statistician
Jeremiah Dixon27 July 1733, British
Astronomer
Charles Mason31 March 1728, British
astronomer
William Buckland12 March 1784, British
Geologist
Thomas Addison02 April 1793, British, Scottish
Physician, scientist
Lazare Carnot13 May 1753, French
Mathematician, Politician, Engineer, Officer,
Benjamin Thompson26 March 1753, American
Physicist, Scientist
Roderick Murchison22 February 1792, Scottish
Geologist
Eliza Lucas28 December 1722, Antiguan, American
Business person
William Playfair22 September 1759, British
Economist, Mathematician, Engineer, Statistician