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Physicist
Nikola Tesla10 July 1856
Inventor, Father of Radio
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Scientist & Inventor
Alfred Kinsey23 June 1894
Sexologist
Charles Sanders Peirce10 September 1839
Scientist, Philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead15 February 1861
Mathematician, Philosopher
Robert H. Goddard05 October 1882
Physicist
Lewis Howard Latimer04 September 1848
Inventor
Samuel Colt19 July 1814
Inventor
Aldo Leopold11 January 1887
Robert Andrews Millikan22 March 1868
Physicist
Thomas Hunt Morgan25 September 1866
Geneticist
Henrietta Swan Leavitt04 July 1868
Astronomer
Louis Agassiz28 May 1807
Geologist
John Wesley Powell24 March 1834
Explorer, Geologist
Karl Landsteiner14 June 1868
Physician
Albert A. Michelson19 December 1852
Physicist
Leo Baekeland14 November 1863
Chemist & Inventor
Percy Lavon Julian11 April 1899
Chemist
Gerty Cori15 August 1896
Biochemist
Maria Mitchell01 August 1818
Astronomer
Annie Jump Cannon11 December 1863
Astronomer
Isidor Isaac Rabi29 July 1898
Physicist
Irving Langmuir31 January 1881
Chemist
Arthur Compton10 September 1892
Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics
Albert Szent-Györgyi16 September 1893
Physiologist
Peter Debye24 March 1884
American-Dutch chemist
Harold Urey29 April 1893
Chemist
Wallace Carothers27 April 1896
Inventor of Neoprene & Nylon
Hermann Joseph Muller21 December 1890
Geneticist
Leó Szilárd11 February 1898
Physicist
John Franklin Enders10 February 1897
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Physicist
James B. Sumner19 November 1887
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Clinton Davisson22 October 1881
Physicist
Edward Calvin Kendall08 March 1886
Biochemist
William Morris Davis12 February 1850
Geographer, Geologist, Meteorologist
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck13 March 1899
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Robert S. Mulliken07 June 1896
Chemist, Physicist
Victor Francis Hess24 June 1883
Discoverer of Cosmic Rays
William P. Murphy06 February 1892
Physician
Katharine Burr Blodgett10 January 1898
Scientist
Theodore William Richards31 January 1868
Chemist
Charles Greeley Abbot31 May 1872
Astrophysicist
Lafayette Mendel05 February 1872
Biochemist
Edwin Powell Hubble20 November 1889
Astronomer & Mathematician
Charles Best27 February 1899
Co-discoverer of Insulin
Robert Stroud08 January 1890
Writer
Richard E. Byrd25 October 1888
Explorer, Officer, Oceanographer, Aviator
Norbert Wiener26 November 1894
Mathematician, Autobiographer, University teacher,
Gifford Pinchot11 August 1865
Forestry scientist
Charles Goodyear29 December 1800
Inventor, Chemist, Engineer
Thomas J. Watson17 February 1874
Entrepreneur
Walter Reed13 September 1851
Military physician, Zoologist, Entomologist
Josiah Willard Gibbs11 February 1839
Scientist
Luther Burbank07 March 1849
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John Pemberton08 July 1831
Pharmacist, Inventor, Chemist
Charles Proteus Steinmetz09 April 1865
Mathematician, Electrical engineer, Engineer,
Gilbert N. Lewis23 October 1875
Chemist, Physicist, University teacher,
Harvey Cushing08 April 1869
Physician, Neuroscientist, Neurosurgeon, Academic,
Madison Grant19 November 1865
Lawyer, Anthropologist, Racial theorist,
William John McGee17 April 1853
Explorer, Anthropologist, University teacher
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Asa Gray18 November 1810
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Fritz Zwicky14 February 1898
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C. W. Post26 October 1854
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Samuel Pierpont Langley22 August 1834
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Matthew Fontaine Maury14 January 1806
Astronomer
Percival Lowell13 March 1855
Astronomer, Mathematician
Simon Newcomb12 March 1835
Astronomer, Mathematician, Economist, Novelist,
Wilson Bentley09 February 1865
Farmer, Photographer, Meteorologist
Sewall Wright21 December 1889
Geneticist
Nettie Stevens07 July 1861
Geneticist
Ellen Swallow Richards03 December 1842
Chemist, University teacher, Economist
Charles Davenport01 June 1866
Biologist
Alice Hamilton27 February 1869
Toxicologist, Pathologist, University teacher,
David Starr Jordan19 January 1851
Botanist, Peace activist, Zoologist,
Albert C. Barnes02 January 1872
Chemist
Harry Nyquist07 February 1889
Physicist, Computer scientist, Engineer,
Walter Bradford Cannon19 October 1871
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John Gorrie03 October 1803
Physician
William Worrall Mayo31 May 1819
Chemist, Politician, Gynaecologist, Editor
Karl Patterson Schmidt19 June 1890
American zoologist
Thomas Alva Edison11 February 1847
Charles Wilkes03 April 1798
Naval Officer
Harlow Shapley02 November 1885
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Roy Chapman Andrews26 January 1884
Explorer
Williamina Fleming15 May 1857
Astronomer
Nathaniel Bowditch26 March 1773
Mathematician, Astronomer, Actuary, Physicist,
Ignatius L. Donnelly03 November 1831
Politician
Solomon Lefschetz03 September 1884
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Brooks Adams24 June 1848
Geopolitician, Historian, Author, University
Warren Weaver17 June 1894
mathematician, university teacher, computer
Henry Fairfield Osborn08 August 1857
Geologist, Paleontologist
Herbert Henry Dow26 February 1866
Chemist, Inventor
Earnest Hooton20 November 1887
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Prehistorian,