21st Century Scientists
Stephen Hawking08 January 1942, British
Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist
Katherine Johnson26 August 1918, American
Mathematician
Edward Snowden21 June 1983, American
Computer Professional, Former CIA Employee
Larry Page26 March 1973, American
Co-founder of Google
Neil deGrasse Tyson05 October 1958, American
Astrophysicist
Eduardo Saverin19 March 1982, Brazilian
Entrepreneur
Sergey Brin21 August 1973, Russian, American
Computer scientist
Tim Berners-Lee08 June 1955, British
Inventor of the World Wide Web
Richard Dawkins26 March 1941, British
Evolutionary Biologist
Juliane Koepcke10 October 1954, German, Peruvian
Lone Survivor of 1971 LANSA Plane Crash
Dian Fossey16 January 1932, Rwandan, American
Zoologist, Conservationist
Shigeru Miyamoto16 November 1952, Japanese
Video Game Designer, Artist
Tom Lehrer09 April 1928, American
American musician
Gabe Newell03 November 1962, American
Entrepreneur
Terence Tao17 July 1975, Australian, American
Mathematician
James Watson06 April 1928, American
Molecular Biologist
Guido van Rossum31 January 1956, Dutch
Programmer
Grigori Perelman13 June 1966, Russian
Mathematician
Zbigniew Brzezinski28 March 1928, Polish, American
Former Diplomat, Political Scientist
Jared Diamond10 September 1937, American
Scientist & Author
Ken Thompson04 February 1943, American
Computer Scientist
M. S. Swaminathan07 August 1925, Indian
Agricultural Scientist
Kip Thorne01 June 1940, American
Physicist
Robert Ballard30 June 1942, American
Deep Sea Explorer
E. O. Wilson10 June 1929, American
Biologist
Arthur D. Levinson31 March 1950, American
Microbiologist
Barry Marshall30 September 1951, Australian
Australian physician
Philip Warren Anderson13 December 1923, American
Physicist
Alan Kay17 May 1940, American
Computer Scientist
René Girard25 December 1923, French
Philosopher
Peggy Whitson09 February 1960, American
Astronaut, Biochemist
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James Harris Simons1938 AD, American
Mathematicians & Hedge Fund Manager
Steven Chu28 February 1948, American
Former United States Secretary of Energy
Manjul Bhargava08 August 1974, American
Mathematician
Murray Gell-Mann15 September 1929, American
Physicist
Steven Weinberg03 May 1933, American
Robert Winston15 July 1940, British
Surgeon, Scientist, TV Presenter
Radia Perlman18 December 1951, American
Computer Network Engineer
David Baltimore07 March 1938, American
Virologist
Harold E. Varmus18 December 1939, American
Physician
Elizabeth Blackburn26 November 1948, Australian, American
American-Australian researcher
Richard Leakey19 December 1944, Kenyan
Paleoanthropologist and Conservationist
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan1952 AD, Indian, British, American
Structural biologist
Tsung-Dao Lee24 November 1926, Chinese, American
Physicist
Franklin Chang Díaz05 April 1950, Chinese, Costa Rican, American
Former NASA Astronaut
Leon M. Lederman15 July 1922, American
Physicist
Mario J. Molina19 March 1943, Mexican
Chemist
Ada Yonath22 June 1939, Israeli
Scientist
Paul Berg30 June 1926, American
Biochemist
Ivar Giaever05 April 1929, Norwegian, American
Physicist
Roald Hoffmann18 July 1937, American
Theoretical Chemist
Aaron Klug11 August 1926, British
Chemist & Biophysicist
Elias James Corey12 July 1928, American
Organic Chemist
Vanessa Nadal18 August 1982, American
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Wife
Sheldon Lee Glashow05 December 1932, American
Physicist
Robert Woodrow Wilson10 January 1936, American
Physicist
John Robert Schrieffer31 May 1931, American
Physicist
Arno Allan Penzias26 April 1933, American
Physicists
Walter Gilbert21 March 1932, American
Biochemist, Physicist, Molecular Biologist
Ferid Murad14 September 1936, American
Physician and Pharmacologist
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard20 October 1942, German
Researcher
Brian Josephson04 January 1940, British
Physicist
Jack Steinberger25 May 1921, American
Physicist
Dan Shechtman24 January 1941, Israeli
Nicolaas Bloembergen11 March 1920, American
Physicist
Stanley B. Prusiner28 May 1942, American
Neurologist and Biochemist
Leon Cooper28 February 1930, American
Physicist
Ian Frazer06 January 1953, Australian
Australian scientist
Carlo Rubbia31 March 1934, Italian
Physicist
Susumu Tonegawa06 September 1939, Japanese
Immunologist, Molecular Biologist
Samuel C. C. Ting07 January 1936, American
Physicist
Yuan T. Lee19 November 1936, American
Chemist
Thomas Cech08 December 1947, American
Chemist
Rudolph A. Marcus21 July 1923, Canadian
Chemist
Richard Axel02 July 1946, American
Researcher
Robin Warren11 June 1937, Australian
Australian pathologist
Burton Richter22 March 1931, American
Physicist
Paul J. Crutzen03 December 1933, Dutch
Atmospheric Chemist
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji01 April 1933, French
Physicist
Robert B. Laughlin01 November 1950, American
Physicist
Torsten Wiesel03 June 1924, Swedish
Neurophysiologist
Gerd Binnig20 July 1947, German
Physicist
Richard R. Ernst14 August 1933, Swiss
Chemist
Antony Hewish11 May 1924, British
Radio Astronomer
Richard J. Roberts06 September 1943, British
Biochemist, Molecular Biologist
Joseph L. Goldstein18 April 1940, American
Molecular Geneticist
John Polanyi23 January 1929, Canadian
Chemist
Salvador Moncada03 December 1944, Honduran, British
Honduran-British pharmacologist and professor
William Daniel Phillips05 November 1948, American
Physicist
Manfred Eigen09 May 1927, German
Biophysical Chemist
Dudley R. Herschbach18 June 1932, American
Chemist
Herbert Kroemer25 August 1928, German
Physicist
Sidney Altman07 May 1939, Canadian, American
Molecular Biologist
Chen Ning Yang01 October 1922, Chinese, American
Physicist