J. Robert Oppenheimer22 April 1904, American
Richard Feynman11 May 1918, American
Physicist
Pierre Curie15 May 1859, French
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Bertrand Russell18 May 1872, British, Welsh
Philosopher
Max Planck23 April 1858, German
Physicist
Guglielmo Marconi25 April 1874, Italian
Inventor
Kurt Gödel28 April 1906, American
Mathematician, Philosopher
Omar Khayyam18 May 1048, Iranian
Mathematician
Andrei Sakharov21 May 1921, Russian
The Father of Soviet nuclear bomb’
John James Audubon26 April 1785, American
Naturalist, Painter, Ornithologist
Thomas Henry Huxley04 May 1825, British
Biologist
Wolfgang Pauli25 April 1900, Austrian
Nobel Laureate in Physics
J. Allen Hynek01 May 1910, American
Astronomer, Ufologist
Alan Kay17 May 1940, American
Computer Scientist
Steven Weinberg03 May 1933, American
Santiago Ramón y Cajal01 May 1852, Spanish
Father of Modern Neuroscience
Dorothy Hodgkin12 May 1910, British
Biochemist
Andrey Kolmogorov25 April 1903, Russian
Mathematician
Ronald Ross13 May 1857, British
Medical doctor
Rita Levi-Montalcini22 April 1909, Italian
Neurologist
Michael Atiyah22 April 1929, British
Mathematician
George Paget Thomson03 May 1892, British
Physicist
Douglas Mawson05 May 1882, Australian
Explorer, Geologist
Augustin-Jean Fresnel10 May 1788, French
Physicist
Harold Urey29 April 1893, American
Chemist
Wallace Carothers27 April 1896, American
Inventor of Neoprene & Nylon
Maria Gaetana Agnesi16 May 1718, Italian
Mathematician, Philosopher, Theologian
Arno Allan Penzias26 April 1933, American
Physicists
Max Perutz19 May 1914, British
Molecular Biologist
Inge Lehmann13 May 1888, Danish
Seismologist, Geophysicist
Eduard Buchner20 May 1860, German
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
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Percy Williams Bridgman21 April 1882, American
Physicist
Antony Hewish11 May 1924, British
Radio Astronomer
Victor Grignard06 May 1871, French
Chemist
Abraham Pais19 May 1918, American
Physicist
Ferdinand von Richthofen05 May 1833, German
Geographer, Traveler, Scientist
Sidney Altman07 May 1939, Canadian, American
Molecular Biologist
Owen Willans Richardson26 April 1879, British
Physicist
Arthur Leonard Schawlow05 May 1921, American
Physicist
Manfred Eigen09 May 1927, German
Biophysical Chemist
Edward B. Lewis20 May 1918, American
Geneticist
Donald J. Cram22 April 1919, American
Chemist
Alfred Kastler03 May 1902, French
Physicist
Vincent du Vigneaud18 May 1901, American
Biochemist
Odd Hassel17 May 1897, Norwegian
Chemist
Paul Karrer21 April 1889, Swiss
Chemist
Róbert Bárány22 April 1876, Austrian
Otologist
Bengt I. Samuelsson21 May 1934, Swedish
Biochemist
Max Volmer03 May 1885, German
Chemist
Otto Wilhelm von Struve07 May 1819, German
Astronomer
J. Georg Bednorz16 May 1950, German
Physicist
Henri Poincare29 April 1854, French
Mathematician and Philosopher
Carl F. Gauss30 April 1777, German
Mathematician
Michael Smith (Chemist)26 April 1932, Canadian
Biochemist
André Lwoff08 May 1902, French
Microbiologist
Felix Christian Klein25 April 1849, German
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Andre Weil06 May 1906, French
Mathematician
Jaron Lanier03 May 1960, American
Computer scientist, Composer, Programmer, Writer,
Fredrik Neij27 April 1978, Swedish
Engineer, Computer scientist
Carl Friedrich Gauss30 April 1777, German
Mathematician, Geophysicist, Astronomer, Science
Maryam Mirzakhani03 May 1977, Iranian
mathematician, topologist, university teacher
James Gosling19 May 1955, Canadian, American
Programmer, Inventor, Computer scientist
Edsger W. Dijkstra11 May 1930, Netherlands Antilles, Dutch
Computer scientist
Bruce Edwards Ivins22 April 1946, American
Biologist, Scientist, Circus performer, Politician
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin10 May 1900, British, American
Astronomer, University teacher
Michael Levitt09 May 1947, American, South African
Physicist, Biologist, Bioinformatician, Chemist,
Pranav Mistry14 May 1981, Indian
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Gary Kildall19 May 1942, American
Computer scientist, Programmer, University teacher
Robert Cialdini27 April 1945, American
Psychologist
Bill Hewlett20 May 1913, American
Entrepreneur
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach11 May 1752, German
Physician
Oliver Heaviside18 May 1850, British
Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer, Telegraphy
José Ortega y Gasset09 May 1883, Spanish
Philosopher, Educationist, Writer, University
Max Tegmark05 May 1967, Swedish, American
Physicist, Astronomer, Astrophysicist
David Deutsch18 May 1953, Israeli, British
Physicist
Gustave Le Bon07 May 1841, French
Physician, Anthropologist, Archaeologist,
Carlo Rovelli03 May 1956, Italian
Physicist, Writer
Taylor Wilson07 May 1994, American
Nuclear scientist
Daniel M. Lewin14 May 1970, Israeli
Computer scientist
Frank Wilczek15 May 1951, American
American theoretical physicist
Sebastian Thrun14 May 1967, German, American
Computer scientist
Justus von Liebig12 May 1803, German
Scientist
Eugene Merle Shoemaker28 April 1928, American
Geologist
Ian Murdock28 April 1973, American
Computer scientist, Engineer, Programmer
Ivan Sutherland16 May 1938, American
Computer scientist
Ron Rivest06 May 1947, American
Cryptographer
Charles Rothschild09 May 1877, British
Banker, Entomologist
Liu Chuanzhi29 April 1944
Entrepreneur, Businessperson, Computer scientist
Jeff Minter22 April 1962, British
Programmer, Engineer, Computer scientist
Paul Davies22 April 1946
Physicist, Writer, University teacher, Cosmologist
Pafnuty Chebyshev04 May 1821, Russian
mathematician, statistician
Max Euwe20 May 1901, Dutch
Chess player, Mathematician, Chess official,
Lazare Carnot13 May 1753, French
Mathematician, Politician, Engineer, Officer,
Roger Joseph Boscovich18 May 1711, Croatian, Italian
Physicist