Carl Linnaeus23 May 1707, Swedish
Botanist
Leonhard Euler15 April 1707, Swiss, Russian
Mathematician, Physicist
Michael Faraday22 September 1791, British
Physicist & Chemist
Charles Babbage26 December 1791, British
Father of the computer
Carl F. Gauss30 April 1777, German
Mathematician, Physicist
Gottfried W. Leibniz01 July 1646, German
Philosopher, Mathematician
Jean-Paul Marat24 May 1743, Swiss, French
Physician
Antoine Lavoisier26 August 1743, French
Chemist
James Watt19 January 1736, Scottish
Inventor of Steam Engine
John Dalton06 September 1766, British
Chemist, Physicist, Meteorologist
Pierre-Simon Laplace23 March 1749, French
Scientist
John James Audubon26 April 1785, American
Naturalist, Painter, Ornithologist
Count Alessandro Volta18 February 1745, Italian
Physicist, Chemist
Humphry Davy17 December 1778, British
Inventor of Davy Lamp
Joseph Priestley24 March 1733, British
Discoverer of Oxygen
William Herschel15 November 1738, German, British
Astronomer, Composer
Benjamin Banneker09 November 1731, American
Compiler of Almanacs
Joseph Louis Lagrange25 January 1736, French, Italian
Mathematician
Joseph Fourier21 March 1768, French
Mathematician & Physicist
Edmond Halley08 November 1656, British
Astronomer
Daniel Bernoulli08 February 1700, Swiss
Mathematician
Henry Cavendish10 October 1731, British
Chemist
Andre Marie Ampere20 January 1775, French
Physicist
Thomas Telford09 August 1757, Scottish
Civil Engineer
Georg Ohm16 March 1789, German
Physicist & Mathematician
Sophie Germain01 April 1776, French
Mathematician
Georges Cuvier23 August 1769, French
Naturalist
Amedeo Avogadro09 August 1776, Italian
Chemist and Physicist
Augustin-Louis Cauchy21 August 1789, French
Mathematician
Joseph Banks24 February 1743, British
Botanist
Hans Christian Ørsted14 August 1777, Danish
Physicist
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Anders Celsius27 November 1701, Swedish
Astronomer, Physicist, Mathematician
Mikhail Lomonosov19 November 1711, Russian
Scientist, Poet, Geologist, Astronomer
Marquis de Condorcet17 September 1743, French
Mathematician, Philosopher
Charles Augustin De Coulomb14 June 1736, French
French physicist
Sadi Carnot01 June 1796, French
Physicist and Scientist
Charles Lyell14 November 1797, British
Lawyer
Adrien-Marie Legendre18 September 1752, French
Mathematician
Robert Brown21 December 1773, British, Scottish
Botanist
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert16 November 1717, French
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher And Musical
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon07 September 1707, French
Naturalist
Caroline Herschel16 March 1750, German
Astronomer
Maria Gaetana Agnesi16 May 1718, Italian
Mathematician, Philosopher, Theologian
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac06 December 1778, French
Chemist and Physicist
Giovanni Domenico Cassini08 June 1625, French, Italian
Astronomer and Mathematician
Charles Messier26 June 1730, French
Astronomer
Augustin-Jean Fresnel10 May 1788, French
Physicist
Joseph Henry17 December 1797, American
Scientist
Johann Heinrich Lambert26 August 1728, Swiss, German, French
Mathematician, Physicist and Astronomer
Guillaume Le Gentil12 September 1725, French
Astronomer
William Hopkins02 February 1793, British
Mathematician, Geologist
Albrecht von Haller16 October 1708, Swiss
Anatomist
William Christopher Zeise15 October 1789, Danish
Organic Chemist
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz01 July 1646, German
Philosopher
Émilie du Châtelet17 December 1706, French
Philosopher
Thomas Bayes1702 AD, British
Mathematician, Statistician
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin28 May 1738, French
Physician
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit24 May 1686, Polish
Physicist, Inventor
Thomas Young13 June 1773, British
Physician
Luigi Galvani09 September 1737, Italian
Anatomist, Physicist, Physician, University
John Herschel07 March 1792, British
Polymath
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach11 May 1752, German
Physician
Robert Adam03 July 1728
Architect, Archaeologist, Politician
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb14 June 1736, French
Physicist
Mary Somerville26 December 1780, British, Scottish
Mathematician, Linguist, Translator, Astronomer,
Siméon Denis Poisson21 June 1781, French
Mathematician
James Hutton03 June 1726, British, Scottish
Geologist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius20 August 1779, Swedish
Chemist, Non-fiction writer, University teacher
Ernst Chladni30 November 1756, German
Physicist, Astronomer
William Buckland12 March 1784, British
Geologist
Lazzaro Spallanzani10 January 1729, Italian
Biologist, Zoologist, Scientist, Naturalist,
Carl Wilhelm Scheele09 December 1742, German, Swedish
Chemist
Abraham de Moivre26 May 1667, French
Mathematician, Statistician
Charles Mason31 March 1728, British
astronomer
Jeremiah Dixon27 July 1733, British
Astronomer
Brook Taylor18 August 1685, British
Mathematician
Lazare Carnot13 May 1753, French
Mathematician, Politician, Engineer, Officer,
Colin Maclaurin01 February 1698, British, Scottish
Edinburgh
Roger Joseph Boscovich18 May 1711, Croatian, Italian
Physicist
David Rittenhouse08 April 1732, American
Astronomer
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner13 December 1780, German
Chemist
Jacques Charles12 November 1746, French
Physicist, Chemist, Inventor, Balloonist,
François Arago26 February 1786, Spanish, French
Astronomer, Mathematician, Physicist, Politician,
Bernard Bolzano05 October 1781, Czech
Mathematician
John Soane10 September 1753, British
Architect, Archaeologist
Benjamin Thompson26 March 1753, American
Physicist, Scientist
William Playfair22 September 1759, British
Economist, Mathematician, Engineer, Statistician
William Whewell24 May 1794, British
Economist, Physicist, Historian, Philosopher,
Gaspard Monge09 May 1746, French
Mathematician
Eliza Lucas28 December 1722, Antiguan, American
Business person
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier12 August 1737, French
Botanist, Pharmacist, Physician, Agronomist,
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt24 November 1784, Swiss
Explorer, Writer, Art historian, Archaeologist
Giovanni Battista Belzoni05 November 1778, Italian
Explorer, Antiquarian, Egyptologist,
Roderick Murchison22 February 1792, Scottish
Geologist