J. Robert Oppenheimer22 April 1904, American
Pierre Curie15 May 1859, French
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Richard Feynman11 May 1918, American
Physicist
Bertrand Russell18 May 1872, British, Welsh
Philosopher
Guglielmo Marconi25 April 1874, Italian
Inventor
Max Planck23 April 1858, German
Physicist
Kurt Gödel28 April 1906, American
Mathematician, Philosopher
J. Allen Hynek01 May 1910, American
Astronomer, Ufologist
Omar Khayyam18 May 1048, Iranian
Mathematician
John James Audubon26 April 1785, American
Naturalist, Painter, Ornithologist
Andrei Sakharov21 May 1921, Russian
The Father of Soviet nuclear bomb’
Thomas Henry Huxley04 May 1825, British
Biologist
Wolfgang Pauli25 April 1900, Austrian
Nobel Laureate in Physics
Alan Kay17 May 1940, American
Computer Scientist
Steven Weinberg03 May 1933, American
Ronald Ross13 May 1857, British
Medical doctor
Dorothy Hodgkin12 May 1910, British
Biochemist
Santiago Ramón y Cajal01 May 1852, Spanish
Father of Modern Neuroscience
Rita Levi-Montalcini22 April 1909, Italian
Neurologist
Augustin-Jean Fresnel10 May 1788, French
Physicist
Michael Atiyah22 April 1929, British
Mathematician
Douglas Mawson05 May 1882, Australian
Explorer, Geologist
Harold Urey29 April 1893, American
Chemist
George Paget Thomson03 May 1892, British
Physicist
Wallace Carothers27 April 1896, American
Inventor of Neoprene & Nylon
Arno Allan Penzias26 April 1933, American
Physicists
Maria Gaetana Agnesi16 May 1718, Italian
Mathematician, Philosopher, Theologian
Max Perutz19 May 1914, British
Molecular Biologist
Percy Williams Bridgman21 April 1882, American
Physicist
Inge Lehmann13 May 1888, Danish
Seismologist, Geophysicist
Abraham Pais19 May 1918, American
Physicist
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Victor Grignard06 May 1871, French
Chemist
Antony Hewish11 May 1924, British
Radio Astronomer
Eduard Buchner20 May 1860, German
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Ferdinand von Richthofen05 May 1833, German
Geographer, Traveler, Scientist
Manfred Eigen09 May 1927, German
Biophysical Chemist
Owen Willans Richardson26 April 1879, British
Physicist
Arthur Leonard Schawlow05 May 1921, American
Physicist
Edward B. Lewis20 May 1918, American
Geneticist
Sidney Altman07 May 1939, Canadian, American
Molecular Biologist
Donald J. Cram22 April 1919, American
Chemist
Alfred Kastler03 May 1902, French
Physicist
Vincent du Vigneaud18 May 1901, American
Biochemist
Paul Karrer21 April 1889, Swiss
Chemist
Odd Hassel17 May 1897, Norwegian
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
Michael Smith (Chemist)26 April 1932, Canadian
Biochemist
André Lwoff08 May 1902, French
Microbiologist
Felix Christian Klein25 April 1849, German
Mathematician
Andre Weil06 May 1906, French
Mathematician
Carl F. Gauss30 April 1777, German
Mathematician
Carl Friedrich Gauss30 April 1777, German
Mathematician, Geophysicist, Astronomer, Science
Eugene Merle Shoemaker28 April 1928, American
Geologist
Maryam Mirzakhani03 May 1977, Iranian
mathematician, topologist, university teacher
Jaron Lanier03 May 1960, American
Computer scientist, Composer, Programmer, Writer,
Williamina Fleming15 May 1857, British, American, Scottish
Astronomer
Edsger W. Dijkstra11 May 1930, Netherlands Antilles, Dutch
Computer scientist
James Gosling19 May 1955, Canadian, American
Programmer, Inventor, Computer scientist
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
Computer scientist
Bruce Edwards Ivins22 April 1946, American
Biologist, Scientist, Circus performer, Politician
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach11 May 1752, German
Physician
Oliver Heaviside18 May 1850, British
Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer, Telegraphy
Max Tegmark05 May 1967, Swedish, American
Physicist, Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Gary Kildall19 May 1942, American
Computer scientist, Programmer, University teacher
Andrey Kolmogorov25 April 1903, Russian
Mathematician
José Ortega y Gasset09 May 1883, Spanish
Philosopher, Educationist, Writer, University
Gustave Le Bon07 May 1841, French
Physician, Anthropologist, Archaeologist,
David Deutsch18 May 1953, Israeli, British
Physicist
Frank Wilczek15 May 1951, American
American theoretical physicist
Sebastian Thrun14 May 1967, German, American
Computer scientist
Taylor Wilson07 May 1994, American
Nuclear scientist
Carlo Rovelli03 May 1956, Italian
Physicist, Writer
Ian Murdock28 April 1973, American
Computer scientist, Engineer, Programmer
Justus von Liebig12 May 1803, German
Chemist, Scientist, Inventor, University teacher,
Liu Chuanzhi29 April 1944
Entrepreneur, Businessperson, Computer scientist
David Blackwell24 April 1919, American
Statistician
Ivan Sutherland16 May 1938, American
Computer scientist
Ron Rivest06 May 1947, American
Cryptographer
Charles Rothschild09 May 1877, British
Banker, Entomologist
Jeff Minter22 April 1962, British
Programmer, Engineer, Computer scientist
Paul Davies22 April 1946
Physicist, Writer, University teacher, Cosmologist
Roger Joseph Boscovich18 May 1711, Croatian, Italian
Physicist
Leonid Khachiyan03 May 1952, American, Russian
Mathematician
Max Euwe20 May 1901, Dutch
Chess player, Mathematician, Chess official,
Lazare Carnot13 May 1753, French
Mathematician, Politician, Engineer, Officer,
Daniel M. Lewin14 May 1970, Israeli
Computer scientist
Pafnuty Chebyshev04 May 1821, Russian
mathematician, statistician