Tim Berners-Lee08 June 1955, British
Inventor of the World Wide Web
Carl Linnaeus23 May 1707, Swedish
Botanist
Sally Ride26 May 1951, American
Physicist, Astronaut
Blaise Pascal19 June 1623, French
French Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Writer
James Maxwell13 June 1831, Scottish
Mathematician & Physicist
Grigori Perelman13 June 1966, Russian
Mathematician
Jean-Paul Marat24 May 1743, Swiss, French
Physician
Rachel Carson27 May 1907, American
Marine biologist
Kip Thorne01 June 1940, American
Physicist
Francis Crick08 June 1916, British
Co-discoverer of the Structure of the DNA
Oswald Spengler29 May 1880, German
Philosopher
E. O. Wilson10 June 1929, American
Biologist
John Bardeen23 May 1908, American
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Jack Steinberger25 May 1921, American
Physicist
Barbara McClintock16 June 1902, American
Scientist
John Forbes Nash Jr.13 June 1928, American
Mathematician
Charles Augustin De Coulomb14 June 1736, French
French physicist
Sadi Carnot01 June 1796, French
Physicist and Scientist
Louis Agassiz28 May 1807, American
Geologist
Karl Landsteiner14 June 1868, American
Physician
Luis Walter Alvarez13 June 1911, American
Physicist
Philipp Lenard07 June 1862, German
Physicist
Giovanni Domenico Cassini08 June 1625, French, Italian
Astronomer and Mathematician
Aage Bohr19 June 1922, Danish
Physicist
Dennis Gabor05 June 1900, Hungarian
Father of Holography
Franco Modigliani10 June 1918, Italian
Economist
Joshua Lederberg23 May 1925, American
Geneticist
Karl Ferdinand Braun06 June 1850, German
German Physicist & Inventor
François Jacob17 June 1920, French
Biologist
John Cockcroft27 May 1897, British
Physicist
Louis J. Ignarro31 May 1941, American
Pharmacologist
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John Robert Schrieffer31 May 1931, American
Physicist
Willebrord Snell13 June 1580, Dutch
Astronomer & Mathematician
Sir James W. Black14 June 1924, British, Scottish
Pharmacologist
Kenneth G. Wilson08 June 1936, American
Physicist
Philip Allen Sharp06 June 1944, American
Geneticist, Molecular Biologist
William Gilbert24 May 1544, British
Astronomer, Physicist and Physician
Stanley B. Prusiner28 May 1942, American
Neurologist and Biochemist
Pieter Zeeman25 May 1865, Dutch
Discovered the 'Zeeman Effect'
Torsten Wiesel03 June 1924, Swedish
Neurophysiologist
Heinrich Otto Wieland04 June 1877, German
Father of Biochemistry
Robin Warren11 June 1937, Australian
Australian pathologist
Julius Axelrod30 May 1912, American
Biochemist
Ernst Boris Chain19 June 1906, German
Biochemist
Henry Faulds01 June 1843, British
Scientist
Frederick Gowland Hopkins20 June 1861, British
English biochemist
Richard E. Smalley06 June 1943, American
Father of Nanotechnology
Werner Arber03 June 1929, Swiss
Microbiologist & Geneticist
Henry Hallett Dale09 June 1875, British
Physiologist & Pharmacologist
George A. Olah22 May 1927, Hungarian, American
Chemist
Herbert C. Brown22 May 1912, American
Chemist
Robert S. Mulliken07 June 1896, American
Chemist, Physicist
Charles Glover Barkla07 June 1877, British
Physicist
Heinrich Rohrer06 June 1933, Swiss
Physicist
Robert F. Furchgott04 June 1916, American
Biochemist
Jules Bordet13 June 1870, Belgian
Microbiologist and Immunologist
Edwin G. Krebs06 June 1918, American
Biochemist
Gustav Nossal04 June 1931, Australian
Immunologist
Paul Flory19 June 1910, American
Chemist
Georg Wittig16 June 1897, German
Organic Chemist
Dudley R. Herschbach18 June 1932, American
Chemist
Eric F. Wieschaus08 June 1947, American
Development Biologist
Jerome Karle18 June 1918, American
Physical Chemist
Charles Greeley Abbot31 May 1872, American
Astrophysicist
John Forbes Nash, Jr.13 June 1928, American
Mathematician
Carolus Linnaeus23 May 1707, Swedish
Botanist
James C. Maxwell13 June 1831, British, Scottish
Scientist
James Clerk Maxwell13 June 1831, British, Scottish
Scientist
James Robertson Justice15 June 1907, British
Actor
Jan Smuts24 May 1870, South African
Botanist, Officer, Lawyer
Lawrence Lessig03 June 1961, American
Jurist, Activist, Lawyer, Non-fiction writer,
Alexander Shulgin17 June 1925, American
Biochemist
Lawrence M. Krauss27 May 1954, American
Astronomer, Physicist, Astrophysicist, Academic,
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit24 May 1686, Polish
Physicist, Inventor
Thomas Young13 June 1773, British
Physician
Chien-Shiung Wu31 May 1912, Chinese
Physicist
Peter Higgs29 May 1929, British
Physicist
Helen Sharman30 May 1963, British
Chemist
David Herold16 June 1842, American
Politician
Paul Nemenyi05 June 1895, Hungarian
Physicist
Raj Reddy13 June 1937, Indian, American
Computer scientist, University teacher
Ted Nelson17 June 1937, American
Philosopher
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb14 June 1736, French
Physicist
Charles Lucien Bonaparte24 May 1803, French
Biologist
Paul R. Ehrlich29 May 1932, American
Entomologist, Zoologist, University teacher
Ward Cunningham26 May 1949, American
Programmer, Computer scientist
Alonzo Church14 June 1903, American
Mathematician, Philosopher, University teacher,
Siméon Denis Poisson21 June 1781, French
Mathematician
Frank Drake28 May 1930, American
American astronomer
James Hutton03 June 1726, British, Scottish
Geologist
Andrey Markov14 June 1856, Russian
Mathematician
John Edensor Littlewood09 June 1885, British
Mathematician, University teacher
Donna Strickland27 May 1959, Canadian
Optical physicist
Lisa Randall18 June 1962, American
Physicist, Writer, University teacher, Theoretical