Albert Einstein14 March 1879
Physicist
Nikola Tesla10 July 1856
Inventor, Father of Radio
Lewis Howard Latimer04 September 1848
Inventor
George Washington Carver01 January 1864
Scientist & Inventor
Alfred Kinsey23 June 1894
Sexologist
Charles Sanders Peirce10 September 1839
Scientist, Philosopher
Samuel Colt19 July 1814
Inventor
Alfred North Whitehead15 February 1861
Mathematician, Philosopher
Robert H. Goddard05 October 1882
Physicist
Norbert Wiener26 November 1894
Father of Cybernetics
Aldo Leopold11 January 1887
Louis Agassiz28 May 1807
Geologist
Robert Andrews Millikan22 March 1868
Physicist
Leo Baekeland14 November 1863
Chemist & Inventor
John Wesley Powell24 March 1834
Explorer, Geologist
Albert A. Michelson19 December 1852
Physicist
Karl Landsteiner14 June 1868
Physician
Percy Lavon Julian11 April 1899
Chemist
Thomas Hunt Morgan25 September 1866
Geneticist
Henrietta Swan Leavitt04 July 1868
Astronomer
Irving Langmuir31 January 1881
Chemist
Gerty Cori15 August 1896
Biochemist
Arthur Compton10 September 1892
Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics
Annie Jump Cannon11 December 1863
Astronomer
Isidor Isaac Rabi29 July 1898
Physicist
Albert Szent-Györgyi16 September 1893
Physiologist
Peter Debye24 March 1884
American-Dutch chemist
Harold Urey29 April 1893
Chemist
Leó Szilárd11 February 1898
Physicist
Maria Mitchell01 August 1818
Astronomer
Wallace Carothers27 April 1896
Inventor of Neoprene & Nylon
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Hermann Joseph Muller21 December 1890
Geneticist
John Franklin Enders10 February 1897
The Father of Modern Vaccines
Percy Williams Bridgman21 April 1882
Physicist
William Morris Davis12 February 1850
Geographer, Geologist, Meteorologist
Victor Francis Hess24 June 1883
Discoverer of Cosmic Rays
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck13 March 1899
Physicist, Mathematician
James B. Sumner19 November 1887
Chemist
Robert S. Mulliken07 June 1896
Chemist, Physicist
Clinton Davisson22 October 1881
Physicist
Edward Calvin Kendall08 March 1886
Biochemist
Theodore William Richards31 January 1868
Chemist
Katharine Burr Blodgett10 January 1898
Scientist
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
Edwin Powell Hubble20 November 1889
Astronomer & Mathematician
Robert Stroud08 January 1890
Writer
Matthew Fontaine Maury14 January 1806
Astronomer
C. W. Post26 October 1854
Nutritionist
Gifford Pinchot11 August 1865
Forestry scientist
Thomas J. Watson17 February 1874
Entrepreneur
Walter Reed13 September 1851
Military physician, Zoologist, Entomologist
Madison Grant19 November 1865
Lawyer, Anthropologist, Racial theorist,
David Starr Jordan19 January 1851
Botanist, Peace activist, Zoologist,
Charles Goodyear29 December 1800
Inventor, Chemist, Engineer
Luther Burbank07 March 1849
Horticulturist, Geneticist, Botanist, Gardener,
Ananda Coomaraswamy22 August 1877
Philosopher
Josiah Willard Gibbs11 February 1839
Scientist
Auguste Piccard28 January 1884
Chemist
David Herold16 June 1842
Politician
Charles Proteus Steinmetz09 April 1865
Mathematician, Electrical engineer, Engineer,
John Pemberton08 July 1831
Pharmacist, Inventor, Chemist
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
Physical chemist
Simon Newcomb12 March 1835
Astronomer, Mathematician, Economist, Novelist,
Williamina Fleming15 May 1857
Astronomer
John Gorrie03 October 1803
Physician
Albert C. Barnes02 January 1872
Chemist
Charles Davenport01 June 1866
Biologist
Nathaniel Bowditch26 March 1773
Mathematician, Astronomer, Actuary, Physicist,
William Worrall Mayo31 May 1819
Chemist, Politician, Gynaecologist, Editor
Nettie Stevens07 July 1861
Geneticist
Asa Gray18 November 1810
Curator, Botanist, University teacher
William H. Welch08 April 1850
Physician
William Beebe29 July 1877
Ornithologist
Brooks Adams24 June 1848
Geopolitician, Historian, Author, University
Henry Fairfield Osborn08 August 1857
Geologist, Paleontologist
Karl Patterson Schmidt19 June 1890
American zoologist
Joseph Banks Rhine29 September 1895
Botanist
Harry Nyquist07 February 1889
Physicist, Computer scientist, Engineer,
Roy Chapman Andrews26 January 1884
Explorer
Thomas Alva Edison11 February 1847
Walter Bradford Cannon19 October 1871
Physiologist
Alice Hamilton27 February 1869
Toxicologist, Pathologist, University teacher,
Ignatius L. Donnelly03 November 1831
Politician
Charles Wilkes03 April 1798
Naval Officer
Nathaniel Kleitman26 April 1895
Physiologist
Ellen Swallow Richards03 December 1842
Chemist, University teacher, Economist
Margaret Burbidge12 August 1919
Astrophysicist