Albert Einstein14 March 1879
Physicist
Nikola Tesla10 July 1856
Inventor, Father of Radio
George Washington Carver01 January 1864
Scientist & Inventor
Lewis Howard Latimer04 September 1848
Inventor
Edwin Powell Hubble20 November 1889
Astronomer & Mathematician
Samuel Colt19 July 1814
Inventor
Alfred Kinsey23 June 1894
Sexologist
Robert H. Goddard05 October 1882
Physicist
Charles Sanders Peirce10 September 1839
Scientist, Philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead15 February 1861
Mathematician, Philosopher
Norbert Wiener26 November 1894
Father of Cybernetics
Irving Langmuir31 January 1881
Chemist
Leo Baekeland14 November 1863
Chemist & Inventor
Aldo Leopold11 January 1887
Leó Szilárd11 February 1898
Physicist
Robert Andrews Millikan22 March 1868
Physicist
Louis Agassiz28 May 1807
Geologist
Henrietta Swan Leavitt04 July 1868
Astronomer
Thomas Hunt Morgan25 September 1866
Geneticist
Karl Landsteiner14 June 1868
Physician
John Wesley Powell24 March 1834
Explorer, Geologist
Percy Lavon Julian11 April 1899
Chemist
Annie Jump Cannon11 December 1863
Astronomer
Albert Szent-Györgyi16 September 1893
Physiologist
Gerty Cori15 August 1896
Biochemist
Maria Mitchell01 August 1818
Astronomer
Harold Urey29 April 1893
Chemist
Hermann Joseph Muller21 December 1890
Geneticist
Arthur Compton10 September 1892
Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics
Wallace Carothers27 April 1896
Inventor of Neoprene & Nylon
Isidor Isaac Rabi29 July 1898
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Peter Debye24 March 1884
American-Dutch chemist
Percy Williams Bridgman21 April 1882
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William Morris Davis12 February 1850
Geographer, Geologist, Meteorologist
John Franklin Enders10 February 1897
The Father of Modern Vaccines
James B. Sumner19 November 1887
Chemist
Victor Francis Hess24 June 1883
Discoverer of Cosmic Rays
Robert S. Mulliken07 June 1896
Chemist, Physicist
Albert A. Michelson19 December 1852
Physicist
Clinton Davisson22 October 1881
Physicist
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck13 March 1899
Physicist, Mathematician
Katharine Burr Blodgett10 January 1898
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Edward Calvin Kendall08 March 1886
Biochemist
Theodore William Richards31 January 1868
Chemist
William P. Murphy06 February 1892
Physician
Charles Greeley Abbot31 May 1872
Astrophysicist
Charles Best27 February 1899
Co-discoverer of Insulin
Lafayette Mendel05 February 1872
Biochemist
Thomas Alva Edison11 February 1847
Walter Reed13 September 1851
Military physician, Zoologist, Entomologist
Robert Stroud08 January 1890
Writer
John Pemberton08 July 1831
Pharmacist, Inventor, Chemist
C. W. Post26 October 1854
Nutritionist
Thomas Midgley, Jr.19 May 1889
Thomas J. Watson17 February 1874
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Charles Goodyear29 December 1800
Inventor, Chemist, Engineer
David Herold16 June 1842
Politician
David Starr Jordan19 January 1851
Botanist, Peace activist, Zoologist,
Gifford Pinchot11 August 1865
Forestry scientist
Josiah Willard Gibbs11 February 1839
Scientist
Madison Grant19 November 1865
Lawyer, Anthropologist, Racial theorist,
Joel Roberts Poinsett02 March 1779
Physician
Gilbert N. Lewis23 October 1875
Physical chemist
Ananda Coomaraswamy22 August 1877
Philosopher
Luther Burbank07 March 1849
Horticulturist, Geneticist, Botanist, Gardener,
Charles Proteus Steinmetz09 April 1865
Mathematician, Electrical engineer, Engineer,
Wilson Bentley09 February 1865
Farmer, Photographer, Meteorologist
Percival Lowell13 March 1855
Astronomer, Mathematician
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Astronomer
Fritz Zwicky14 February 1898
Astronomer, Physicist, University teacher
Charles Davenport01 June 1866
Biologist
William Worrall Mayo31 May 1819
Chemist, Politician, Gynaecologist, Editor
Harry Nyquist07 February 1889
Physicist, Computer scientist, Engineer,
Karl Patterson Schmidt19 June 1890
American zoologist
Simon Newcomb12 March 1835
Astronomer, Mathematician, Economist, Novelist,
Walter Bradford Cannon19 October 1871
Physiologist
Clarence King06 January 1842
Clarence Rivers King
Karl Terzaghi02 October 1883
Mechanical engineer
Brooks Adams24 June 1848
Geopolitician, Historian, Author, University
Joseph Banks Rhine29 September 1895
Botanist
Albert C. Barnes02 January 1872
Chemist
John Gorrie03 October 1803
Physician
Nathaniel Bowditch26 March 1773
Mathematician, Astronomer, Actuary, Physicist,
Henry Fairfield Osborn08 August 1857
Geologist, Paleontologist
Williamina Fleming15 May 1857
Astronomer
Harlow Shapley02 November 1885
Astronomer
Roy Chapman Andrews26 January 1884
Explorer
Henry Schoolcraft28 March 1793
Geographer
Asa Gray18 November 1810
Curator, Botanist, University teacher
Alice Hamilton27 February 1869
Toxicologist, Pathologist, University teacher,
Edward Kasner
William H. Welch08 April 1850
Physician
Nettie Stevens07 July 1861
Geneticist
William Beebe29 July 1877
Ornithologist