Edward Snowden21 June 1983, American
Computer Professional, Former CIA Employee
John Forbes Nash Jr.13 June 1928, American
Mathematician
Tim Berners-Lee08 June 1955, British
Inventor of the World Wide Web
Carl Linnaeus23 May 1707, Swedish
Botanist
Grigori Perelman13 June 1966, Russian
Mathematician
Sally Ride26 May 1951, American
Physicist, Astronaut
Blaise Pascal19 June 1623, French
French Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Writer
Rachel Carson27 May 1907, American
Marine biologist
Francis Crick08 June 1916, British
Co-discoverer of the Structure of the DNA
Kip Thorne01 June 1940, American
Physicist
E. O. Wilson10 June 1929, American
Biologist
Luis Walter Alvarez13 June 1911, American
Physicist
John Bardeen23 May 1908, American
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Barbara McClintock16 June 1902, American
Scientist
Giovanni Domenico Cassini08 June 1625, Italian
Astronomer and Mathematician
Karl Landsteiner14 June 1868, American
Physician
Louis Agassiz28 May 1807, American
Geologist
John Robert Schrieffer31 May 1931, American
Physicist
Philipp Lenard07 June 1862, German
Physicist
Dennis Gabor05 June 1900, Hungarian
Father of Holography
Franco Modigliani10 June 1918, Italian
Economist
Aage Bohr19 June 1922, Danish
Physicist
Joshua Lederberg23 May 1925, American
Geneticist
John Cockcroft27 May 1897, British
Physicist
Karl Ferdinand Braun06 June 1850, German
German Physicist & Inventor
Kenneth G. Wilson08 June 1936, American
Physicist
François Jacob17 June 1920, French
Biologist
Torsten Wiesel03 June 1924, Swedish
Neurophysiologist
Jack Steinberger25 May 1921, American
Physicist
Pieter Zeeman25 May 1865, Dutch
Discovered the 'Zeeman Effect'
Stanley B. Prusiner28 May 1942, American
Neurologist and Biochemist
Julius Axelrod30 May 1912, American
Biochemist
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Frederick Gowland Hopkins20 June 1861, British
English biochemist
Robin Warren11 June 1937, Australian
Australian pathologist
Henry Hallett Dale09 June 1875, British
Physiologist & Pharmacologist
Dudley R. Herschbach18 June 1932, American
Chemist
Heinrich Otto Wieland04 June 1877, German
Father of Biochemistry
Heinrich Rohrer06 June 1933, Swiss
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Herbert C. Brown22 May 1912, American
Chemist
Henry Faulds01 June 1843, British
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Eric F. Wieschaus08 June 1947, American
Development Biologist
Paul Flory19 June 1910, American
Chemist
Werner Arber03 June 1929, Swiss
Microbiologist & Geneticist
Charles Glover Barkla07 June 1877, British
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Ernst Boris Chain19 June 1906, German
Biochemist
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Immunologist
Robert S. Mulliken07 June 1896, American
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Jules Bordet13 June 1870, Belgian
Microbiologist and Immunologist
Robert F. Furchgott04 June 1916, American
Biochemist
James Maxwell13 June 1831, Scottish
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Edwin G. Krebs06 June 1918, American
Biochemist
Charles Augustin De Coulomb14 June 1736, French
French physicist
Georg Wittig16 June 1897, German
Organic Chemist
Charles Greeley Abbot31 May 1872, American
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Willebrord Snell13 June 1580, Dutch
Astronomer & Mathematician
Jerome Karle18 June 1918, American
Physical Chemist
William Gilbert24 May 1544, British
Astronomer, Physicist and Physician
Sir James W. Black14 June 1924, British, Scottish
Pharmacologist
Sadi Carnot01 June 1796, French
Physicist and Scientist
George A. Olah22 May 1927, Hungarian, American
Chemist
Louis J. Ignarro31 May 1941, American
Pharmacologist
Philip Allen Sharp06 June 1944, American
Geneticist, Molecular Biologist
Richard E. Smalley06 June 1943, American
Father of Nanotechnology
Jean-Paul Marat24 May 1743, Swiss, French
Politician, Journalist, Physician, Physicist,
Ken Jennings23 May 1974, American
Software engineer, Blogger, Non-fiction writer,
Lawrence Lessig03 June 1961, American
Jurist, Activist, Lawyer, Non-fiction writer,
Lawrence M. Krauss27 May 1954, American
Astronomer, Physicist, Astrophysicist, Academic,
Jan Smuts24 May 1870, South African
Botanist, Officer, Lawyer
Herbert A. Simon15 June 1916, American
Economist, Psychologist, Politician, Sociologist,
Alexander Shulgin17 June 1925, American
Biochemist, Pharmacologist, Chemist
Ward Cunningham26 May 1949, American
Programmer, Computer scientist
Oswald Spengler29 May 1880, German
Writer, Historian, Philosopher, Sociologist,
Peter Higgs29 May 1929, British
Theoretical physicist, Physicist
Allan Octavian Hume06 June 1829, British
Botanist, Ornithologist, Civil servant
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit24 May 1686, Polish
Physicist, Inventor
Paul R. Ehrlich29 May 1932, American
Entomologist, Zoologist, University teacher
Chien-Shiung Wu31 May 1912, Chinese
Physicist
James Hutton03 June 1726, British, Scottish
Geologist
Lisa Randall18 June 1962, American
Physicist, Writer, University teacher, Theoretical
Alonzo Church14 June 1903, American
Mathematician, Philosopher, University teacher,
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb14 June 1736, French
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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot01 June 1796, French
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Raj Reddy13 June 1937, Indian, American
Computer scientist, University teacher
William Whewell24 May 1794, British
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Whitfield Diffie05 June 1944, American
Cryptographer, Mathematician, Computer scientist
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Mathematician, University teacher
Edward Norton Lorenz23 May 1917, American
Mathematician, Meteorologist, University teacher
Donald Davies07 June 1924, British
Computer scientist
Siméon Denis Poisson21 June 1781, French
Mathematician, Astronomer, Physicist, University
William Crookes17 June 1832, British
Chemist, Physicist, Psychic
Robert Axelrod27 May 1943, American
Mathematician, Professor, Political scientist
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mathematician, statistician, university teacher
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Politician
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Mathematician, Statistician
Shuji Nakamura22 May 1954, Japanese, American
Physicist, Engineer, Inventor, Professor
Leonard Kleinrock13 June 1934, American
Mathematician, Computer scientist, Patent