Tim Berners-Lee08 June 1955, British
Inventor of the World Wide Web
John Forbes Nash Jr.13 June 1928, American
Mathematician
Sally Ride26 May 1951, American
Physicist, Astronaut
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Botanist
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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
Francis Crick08 June 1916, British
Co-discoverer of the Structure of the DNA
Oswald Spengler29 May 1880, German
Philosopher
Kip Thorne01 June 1940, American
Physicist
Andrei Sakharov21 May 1921, Russian
The Father of Soviet nuclear bomb’
E. O. Wilson10 June 1929, American
Biologist
John Bardeen23 May 1908, American
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Barbara McClintock16 June 1902, American
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Louis Agassiz28 May 1807, American
Geologist
Philipp Lenard07 June 1862, German
Physicist
Charles Augustin De Coulomb14 June 1736, French
French physicist
Luis Walter Alvarez13 June 1911, American
Physicist
Sadi Carnot01 June 1796, French
Physicist and Scientist
Karl Landsteiner14 June 1868, American
Physician
Giovanni Domenico Cassini08 June 1625, French, Italian
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William Gilbert24 May 1544, British
Astronomer, Physicist and Physician
Franco Modigliani10 June 1918, Italian
Economist
Dennis Gabor05 June 1900, Hungarian
Father of Holography
Aage Bohr19 June 1922, Danish
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John Cockcroft27 May 1897, British
Physicist
Karl Ferdinand Braun06 June 1850, German
German Physicist & Inventor
Joshua Lederberg23 May 1925, American
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François Jacob17 June 1920, French
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Louis J. Ignarro31 May 1941, American
Pharmacologist
Ernst Boris Chain19 June 1906, German
Biochemist
John Robert Schrieffer31 May 1931, American
Physicist
Kenneth G. Wilson08 June 1936, American
Physicist
Jack Steinberger25 May 1921, American
Physicist
Stanley B. Prusiner28 May 1942, American
Neurologist and Biochemist
Willebrord Snell13 June 1580, Dutch
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Pieter Zeeman25 May 1865, Dutch
Discovered the 'Zeeman Effect'
Sir James W. Black14 June 1924, British, Scottish
Pharmacologist
Gustav Nossal04 June 1931, Australian
Immunologist
Robin Warren11 June 1937, Australian
Australian pathologist
Philip Allen Sharp06 June 1944, American
Geneticist, Molecular Biologist
Torsten Wiesel03 June 1924, Swedish
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Richard E. Smalley06 June 1943, American
Father of Nanotechnology
Henry Faulds01 June 1843, British
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Heinrich Otto Wieland04 June 1877, German
Father of Biochemistry
Julius Axelrod30 May 1912, American
Biochemist
Frederick Gowland Hopkins20 June 1861, British
English biochemist
George A. Olah22 May 1927, Hungarian, American
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Henry Hallett Dale09 June 1875, British
Physiologist & Pharmacologist
Werner Arber03 June 1929, Swiss
Microbiologist & Geneticist
Herbert C. Brown22 May 1912, American
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Robert S. Mulliken07 June 1896, American
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Heinrich Rohrer06 June 1933, Swiss
Physicist
Jules Bordet13 June 1870, Belgian
Microbiologist and Immunologist
Georg Wittig16 June 1897, German
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Paul Flory19 June 1910, American
Chemist
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Biochemist
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Eric F. Wieschaus08 June 1947, American
Development Biologist
Bengt I. Samuelsson21 May 1934, Swedish
Biochemist
Charles Greeley Abbot31 May 1872, American
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Jerome Karle18 June 1918, American
Physical Chemist
James Clerk Maxwell13 June 1831, British, Scottish
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Jan Smuts24 May 1870, South African
Botanist, Officer, Lawyer
Chien-Shiung Wu31 May 1912, Chinese
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Biochemist
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Astronomer, Physicist, Astrophysicist, Academic,
Helen Sharman30 May 1963, British
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Peter Higgs29 May 1929, British
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Lawrence Lessig03 June 1961, American
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Thomas Young13 June 1773, British
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Paul R. Ehrlich29 May 1932, American
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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb14 June 1736, French
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Ward Cunningham26 May 1949, American
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Andrey Markov14 June 1856, Russian
Mathematician
James Hutton03 June 1726, British, Scottish
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Charles Lucien Bonaparte24 May 1803, French
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John Edensor Littlewood09 June 1885, British
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Lisa Randall18 June 1962, American
Physicist, Writer, University teacher, Theoretical
Frank Drake28 May 1930, American
American astronomer
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Donna Strickland27 May 1959, Canadian
Optical physicist
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