Nikola Tesla10 July 1856, Austrian, American
Inventor, Father of Radio
Alan Turing23 June 1912, British
Mathematician
Gregor Mendel22 July 1822, Austrian
Terence Tao17 July 1975, Australian, American
Mathematician
Alfred Kinsey23 June 1894, American
Sexologist
John Dee13 July 1527, British
Mathematician, Philosopher
Georges Lemaître17 July 1894, Belgian
Scientist & Priest
Samuel Colt19 July 1814, American
Inventor
Robert Ballard30 June 1942, American
Deep Sea Explorer
Thomas Kuhn18 July 1922, American
Physicist
Stamford Raffles06 July 1781, Jamaican, British
Former Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
Claude Bernard12 July 1813, French
Physiologist
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis29 June 1893, Indian
Statistician
John Archibald Wheeler09 July 1911, American
Physicist
Hans Bethe02 July 1906, American
Physicist
Hendrik Lorentz18 July 1853, Dutch
Physicist
Henrietta Swan Leavitt04 July 1868, American
Astronomer
C. N. R. Rao30 June 1934, Indian
Chemist
Robert Winston15 July 1940, British
Surgeon, Scientist, TV Presenter
Vladimir Demikhov18 July 1916, Russian
Organ Transplant Pioneer
John Stewart Bell28 June 1928, Northern Irish
Physicist
Hermann Minkowski22 June 1864, German
Ernst Mayr05 July 1904, American
Biologist
Alexis Carrel28 June 1873, French
Surgeon, Biologist
Camillo Golgi07 July 1843, Italian
Physician, Pathologist, Biologist
William Henry Bragg02 July 1862, British
Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
Leon M. Lederman15 July 1922, American
Physicist
Ada Yonath22 June 1939, Israeli
Scientist
Paul Berg30 June 1926, American
Biochemist
Charles Messier26 June 1730, French
Astronomer
Roald Hoffmann18 July 1937, American
Theoretical Chemist
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Selman Waksman22 July 1888, Ukrainian
Discoverer of Streptomycin
Lord Kelvin26 June 1824, British
Mathematician, Physicist
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow19 July 1921, American
Medical Physicist
Elias James Corey12 July 1928, American
Organic Chemist
Walther Nernst25 June 1864, German
Physicist and Chemist
Gerald Edelman01 July 1929, American
Immunologist
Pyotr Kapitsa08 July 1894, Russian
Physicist
Rudolph A. Marcus21 July 1923, Canadian
Chemist
Richard Axel02 July 1946, American
Researcher
Johannes Peter Müller14 July 1801, German
Physiologist
Igor Tamm08 July 1895, Russian
Physicist
Maria Goeppert-Mayer28 June 1906, American
Physicist
Frits Zernike16 July 1888, Dutch
Physicist
Gerd Binnig20 July 1947, German
Physicist
Willis Lamb12 July 1913, American
Physicist
Alfred G. Gilman01 July 1941, American
Pharmacologist, Biochemist
Gustav Ludwig Hertz22 July 1887, German
Physicists
Vladimir Prelog23 July 1906, Swiss
Chemist
Bertram Brockhouse15 July 1918, Canadian
Physicist
Kurt Alder10 July 1902, German
Chemist
Victor Francis Hess24 June 1883, American
Discoverer of Cosmic Rays
Geoffrey Wilkinson14 July 1921, British
Chemist
Owen Chamberlain10 July 1920, American
Physicist
Robert Coleman Richardson26 June 1937, American
Physicist
Martin Lewis Perl24 June 1927, American
Physicist
J. Hans D. Jensen25 June 1907, German
Physicist
Ben Roy Mottelson09 July 1926, Danish, American
Physicist
Ferdinand von Mueller30 June 1825, Australian, German
Botanist and Geographer
Martinus J. G. Veltman27 June 1931, Dutch
Theoretical Physicist
Tadeusz Reichstein20 July 1897, Polish
Chemist
Robert Bruce Merrifield15 July 1921, American
Biochemist
Hartmut Michel18 July 1948, German
Biochemist
William Howard Stein25 June 1911, American
Biochemist
David Karoly12 July 1955, Australian
Australian scientist
Hugo Theorell06 July 1903, Swedish
Swedish scientist
Ibn-al-Haytham01 July 0965, Iraqi
Scientist, Physicist, Mathematician
Frank Sherwood Rowland28 June 1927, American
Atmospheric Chemist
Gottfried W. Leibniz01 July 1646, German
Philosopher, Mathematician
James Young (Chemist)13 July 1811, Scottish
Chemist
Gerard ’t Hooft05 July 1946, Dutch
Physicist
Aleksandr Prokhorov11 July 1916, Russian
Physicist
Rajnath Singh10 July 1951, Indian
Politician
Oliver Sacks09 July 1933, British
Scientist, Neurologist, Educator, Psychiatrist
Bill Oddie07 July 1941, British
Writer
Bernhard Caesar Einstein10 July 1930, Swiss, American
Physicist, Engineer
Kathy Reichs07 July 1948, American
Writer
Vilfredo Pareto15 July 1848, French, Italian
Economist, Writer, Philosopher, Sociologist,
Harrison Schmitt03 July 1935, American
Geologist
Anatoli Bugorski25 June 1942, Russian
physicist, nuclear scientist
Rupert Sheldrake28 June 1942, British
Author
Jocelyn Bell Burnell15 July 1943, British
Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Vera Rubin23 July 1928, American
Astronomer
Willard Van Orman Quine25 June 1908, American
Mathematician, Analytic philosopher, Philosopher
Max Levchin11 July 1975, American
Computer scientist, Entrepreneur, Businessperson
Jeff Corwin11 July 1967, American
biologist, television presenter, actor
Fred Hoyle24 June 1915, British
Screenwriter, Astronomer, Writer, Physicist,
Siddhartha Mukherjee21 July 1970, Indian, American
Physician
Pervez Hoodbhoy11 July 1950, Pakistani
Physicist, Teacher
Jayant Narlikar19 July 1938, Indian
Physicist, Astronomer, Astrophysicist, Scientist,
Elio Di Rupo18 July 1951, Belgian
Politician
Richard Owen20 July 1804, British
Biologist
Dean Ornish16 July 1953, American
Physician
Martin Rees23 June 1942, British
Cosmologist