Albert Einstein14 March 1879
Physicist
Nikola Tesla10 July 1856
Inventor, Father of Radio
George Washington Carver01 January 1864
Scientist & Inventor
Alfred Kinsey23 June 1894
Sexologist
Alfred North Whitehead15 February 1861
Mathematician, Philosopher
Samuel Colt19 July 1814
Inventor
Aldo Leopold11 January 1887
Karl Landsteiner14 June 1868
Physician
Louis Agassiz28 May 1807
Geologist
John Wesley Powell24 March 1834
Explorer, Geologist
Henrietta Swan Leavitt04 July 1868
Astronomer
Robert Andrews Millikan22 March 1868
Physicist
Thomas Hunt Morgan25 September 1866
Geneticist
Isidor Isaac Rabi29 July 1898
Physicist
Percy Lavon Julian11 April 1899
Chemist
Leo Baekeland14 November 1863
Chemist & Inventor
Albert A. Michelson19 December 1852
Physicist
Gerty Cori15 August 1896
Biochemist
Irving Langmuir31 January 1881
Chemist
Leó Szilárd11 February 1898
Physicist
Arthur Compton10 September 1892
Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics
Maria Mitchell01 August 1818
Astronomer
Albert Szent-Györgyi16 September 1893
Physiologist
Harold Urey29 April 1893
Chemist
Peter Debye24 March 1884
American-Dutch chemist
Annie Jump Cannon11 December 1863
Astronomer
Hermann Joseph Muller21 December 1890
Geneticist
Wallace Carothers27 April 1896
Inventor of Neoprene & Nylon
Percy Williams Bridgman21 April 1882
Physicist
William Morris Davis12 February 1850
Geographer, Geologist, Meteorologist
John Franklin Enders10 February 1897
The Father of Modern Vaccines
Victor Francis Hess24 June 1883
Discoverer of Cosmic Rays
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Clinton Davisson22 October 1881
Physicist
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck13 March 1899
Physicist, Mathematician
Robert S. Mulliken07 June 1896
Chemist, Physicist
Katharine Burr Blodgett10 January 1898
Scientist
James B. Sumner19 November 1887
Chemist
Edward Calvin Kendall08 March 1886
Biochemist
Theodore William Richards31 January 1868
Chemist
William P. Murphy06 February 1892
Physician
Charles Greeley Abbot31 May 1872
Astrophysicist
Edwin Powell Hubble20 November 1889
Astronomer & Mathematician
Lafayette Mendel05 February 1872
Biochemist
Charles Best27 February 1899
Co-discoverer of Insulin
John Harvey Kellogg26 February 1852
Physician, Nutritionist
Edwin Hubble20 November 1889
Astronomer
Richard E. Byrd25 October 1888
Explorer, Officer, Oceanographer, Aviator
Vannevar Bush11 March 1890
Scientist, Engineer, Politician, University
Robert H. Goddard05 October 1882
Aerospace engineer, Physicist, Engineer, Scientist
Charles Sanders Peirce10 September 1839
Mathematician, Philosopher, Logician, Pragmatist,
Norbert Wiener26 November 1894
Mathematician, Autobiographer, University teacher,
John Pemberton08 July 1831
Pharmacist, Inventor, Chemist
Charles Proteus Steinmetz09 April 1865
Mathematician, Electrical engineer, Engineer,
Charles Goodyear29 December 1800
Inventor, Chemist, Engineer
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Luther Burbank07 March 1849
Horticulturist, Geneticist, Botanist, Gardener,
Madison Grant19 November 1865
Lawyer, Anthropologist, Racial theorist,
Hermann Weyl09 November 1885
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher, University
Walter Reed13 September 1851
Military physician, Zoologist, Entomologist
David Herold16 June 1842
Politician
C. W. Post26 October 1854
Nutritionist
William John McGee17 April 1853
Explorer, Anthropologist, University teacher
Harvey Cushing08 April 1869
Physician, Neuroscientist, Neurosurgeon, Academic,
Percival Lowell13 March 1855
Astronomer, Mathematician
Fritz Zwicky14 February 1898
Astronomer, Physicist, University teacher
Gilbert N. Lewis23 October 1875
Chemist, Physicist, University teacher,
William Worrall Mayo31 May 1819
Chemist, Politician, Gynaecologist, Editor
Asa Gray18 November 1810
Curator, Botanist, University teacher
David Starr Jordan19 January 1851
Botanist, Peace activist, Zoologist,
Ernest Everett Just14 August 1883
Biologist, Zoologist, University teacher, Marine
Simon Newcomb12 March 1835
Astronomer, Mathematician, Economist, Novelist,
Harry Nyquist07 February 1889
Physicist, Computer scientist, Engineer,
Thomas Alva Edison11 February 1847
Solomon Lefschetz03 September 1884
Mathematician, Topologist, University teacher
Harlow Shapley02 November 1885
Astronomer
Nathaniel Bowditch26 March 1773
Mathematician, Astronomer, Actuary, Physicist,
Wilson Bentley09 February 1865
Farmer, Photographer, Meteorologist
Brooks Adams24 June 1848
Geopolitician, Historian, Author, University
Alice Hamilton27 February 1869
Toxicologist, Pathologist, University teacher,
Ellen Swallow Richards03 December 1842
Chemist, University teacher, Economist
Herbert Henry Dow26 February 1866
Chemist, Inventor
Henry Fairfield Osborn08 August 1857
Geologist, Paleontologist
Thomas Midgley, Jr.19 May 1889
Earnest Hooton20 November 1887
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Prehistorian,
Frank Nelson Cole
George Ellery Hale29 June 1868
Astronomer, Journalist
Charles Martin Hall06 December 1863
Chemist, Inventor, Engineer
Vesto Slipher11 November 1875
Astronomer
Warren Weaver17 June 1894
mathematician, university teacher, computer
Orson Pratt
James Bryant Conant26 March 1893
Chemist, Diplomat, Teacher, University teacher
Eric Temple Bell07 February 1883
Mathematician, Historian of mathematics, Novelist,
Edward Kasner
Benjamin Peirce
Florian Cajori
Christine Ladd-Franklin