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Perfect Numbers and our Cramped Universe

The orders of magnitude spanned by perfect numbers reveal how few orders were required to build the observable universe from the Planck length … Read More

What Happens when the Universe chooses its own Units?

In 1874, George Johnstone Stoney scrapped kilograms, meters, and seconds replacing them with units based on Nature itself. A century later … Read More

Hipparchus and the 2000 Year-Old Clue

In 1870, Ernst Schroeder revealed the concept of Schröder numbers. Nobody realized that two thousand years earlier, the greatest of ancient astronomers, Hipparchus, was already using these numbers … Read More

Charles Darwin Pleaded for Cheaper Origin of Species

Moved by letters from workers, who could not afford the book or who needed to pool their money to buy and share a single copy between several people … Read More

You Will Die For Showing I’m Wrong!

The wife of a leading scientist opened her mail one morning. She was shocked to find a threatening message saying that her husband wouldn’t live long enough to … Read More

Getting Through Hard Times – The Triumph of Stoic Philosophy

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests … Read More

Johannes Kepler, God, and the Solar System

Kepler said to himself that God’s design for the universe must be aesthetically pleasing, regular, and logical. Kepler trusted God to have wanted His universe to have these properties. Following this line of thinking … Read More

Charles Babbage and Street Musicians – Rage and Revenge

Charles Babbage, designer in 1837 of the world’s first general purpose computer, frequently worked himself up into a rage about people playing music in the street … Read More

Howard Robertson – the Man who Proved Einstein Wrong

Einstein insisted that his paper showed gravitational waves were a mathematical quirk, and he vowed never to submit another paper to the Physical Review … Read More

Susskind, Alice, and Wave-Particle Gullibility

Leonard Susskind begins Chapter 4 with some remarkable lines – you’ll see them below – from Lewis Carroll’s 1865 masterpiece Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland … Read More

Great Scientists Who Rose From Harsh Beginnings

Here are some of the greatest scientists in history whose difficult backgrounds made their achievements all the more remarkable … Read More

Great Scientists Who Were Home-schooled

Here are some of the greatest scientists in history who were home-schooled … Read More

Was Archimedes’ Father Really an Astronomer?

The question of whether Archimedes’ father was really an astronomer has wider implications for our pursuit of knowledge. … Read More

Interesting Facts about Numbers 0 to 10

Pythagoras and his followers believed 10 was a divine number. Their holy symbol the tetractys or decad consisted of 10 points; the number symbolized … Read More

Quotes – Scientists Bashing Philosophy and Philosophers

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead … Read More

Einstein did NOT say that!

Einstein is so venerated that when people have a point to make, they call on the great man’s authority to back them up. And when they can’t find an apt quote … Read More

Evolution by Natural Selection – Essential Quotes

In our view the evolution of terrestrial life is controlled and directed by the continuing input of cometary debris in the form of bacteria, fragments of bacteria … Read More

The Watson Crick Feud

Crick threatened Watson with legal action for defamation if the book were published. He saw it as a huge invasion of privacy; he had always avoided … Read More

The Unsung Heros of DNA (Not Rosalind)

DNA’s structure and replication mechanism were discovered by Francis Crick and James Watson in 1953 – the greatest discovery in twentieth century biology. Remarkably … Read More

Scientists Behaving Badly

The iconoclastic Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman once likened his fellow scientists to worms in a jar crawling over one another to reach the top … Read More

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Astonishing Ancient Greek Automatons

The Ancient Greeks were well-acquainted with sophisticated metal gearing mechanisms and valves, enabling them to produce a surprising variety of machines … Read More

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The Extraordinary Ancient Greek Computer

Some technology has been around for a long time. Concepts and machines we might think were invented recently are actually thousands of years old … Read More

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16 great scientists who died before they were 40

Here are 16 scientists whose achievements made them famous and whose tragically short lives have left us wondering how much more they might have achieved … Read More

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22 Things Scientists Wish They Had Never Said

Most scientific mistakes are made in private – scientists don’t like bungling in public. But some of the greatest scientists and inventors in history have bungled in public … Read More

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7 Leading Scientists Who Believed in Ghosts

These days it’s unlikely that any reputable scientist would publicly admit that they believe in ghosts. This wasn’t always the case. Here are seven prominent … Read More

Gauss and Non-Euclidean Geometry

Gauss and Non-Euclidean Geometry

Carl Friedrich Gauss, probably the greatest mathematician in history, realized that alternative two-dimensional geometries are possible – he described them as non-Euclidean. … Read More

Great Scientists Who Were Christians

34 Great Scientists Who Were Committed Christians

Here are some of the greatest scientists in history who were also deeply committed to their Christian faiths. … Read More

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What is Science? Quotes from Great Scientists

Ever wondered what scientists have to say about their own subject? Like Einstein, who said science is great, provided you don’t have to earn a living doing it. Here are … Read More

Top 10 Physicists

The 10 Greatest Physicists in History

Who have been history’s most influential physicists? I tried to pick the physicists most influential in fulfilling … Read More

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Busting Fraud with Benford’s Law

Benford’s number law can be used to detect fraud in financial and scientific documents. Joan Smith was falling behind with mortgage payments and needed money fast … Read More

How Heinrich Hertz Discovered Radio Waves

How Heinrich Hertz Discovered Radio Waves

In November 1886 Heinrich Hertz became the first person to transmit and receive controlled radio waves. Considering how indispensable his wireless transmissions quickly became, it seems a little odd looking back that … Read More

Evolution Theories Before Darwin

Evolution Theories Before Darwin

The concepts of evolution and natural selection have very long histories, with the first theories preceding Darwin and Wallace’s by thousands of years. About 2600 years ago, a genius by the name of … Read More

Brilliant Biology Quotes

Brilliant Biology Quotes

An eclectic mix of fantastically quotable scientists talking about biology. Victor Scheffer: Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one … Read More

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The Brown Dog Riots

Animal rights activists, feminists, and students clashing with one-another and the police… It may sound like it happened recently, but it actually happened over a century ago, between … Read More

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12 scientists and their brilliant inventions

A scientist is someone who investigates the secrets of nature. An inventor is someone who tries to create useful products and devices. Some people have been incredibly successful in both endeavors. Here are twelve of the best: … Read More

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Top 10 Scientists’ Beards

Throughout the ages, men have worn beards. Sometimes beards have been fashionable, and sometimes not. Scientists born in the first half of the 19th century seem to have been especially susceptible … Read More

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82 Great Scientists who lived into their nineties

Here are profiles of 82 great scientists who lived into their 90s, from Pearl Kendrick, who developed the world’s first whooping cough vaccine, to Charles Townes, who invented the laser. It’s by no means … Read More

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25 Great Scientists who lived for 100 years or more

Here are profiles of 25 great scientists who lived for over 100 years, with the oldest reaching 110 years of age. The highest age at which any of the people featured here published new work was 103. The four who reached the greatest ages were all … Read More

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Two centuries of right and left handed molecules

In 1815, the same year as the Battle of Waterloo, French scientist Jean-Baptiste Biot discovered he could make up solutions of organic chemicals that rotated the plane of polarized light to the left or right. He proposed a remarkable cause for the phenomenon … Read More

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7 Scientists whose ideas were rejected during their lifetimes

We’ve all had ideas – some good, some not so good. I can’t begin to imagine how hair-pullingly frustrating it must be to hatch a brilliant new idea, believe passionately that it’s right, then find everyone else ignoring you … Read More

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Magnificent Mathematics Quotes

Magnificent mathematicians talk mathematics and, for the sake of balance, a few non-mathematicians’ thoughts too! … Read More

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7 Scientists Who Died Violently

Violent death is something modern scientists don’t usually need to worry about. This hasn’t always been the case. Here are seven of the most famous examples of scientists whose lives were brought to an abrupt end. … Read More

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Science Myth or Truth? Can you tell?

Can you tell truth from myth? Test yourself with these tales. Each could be true, part-myth or myth. The truth about each story can be found below the image that follows the story. … Read More

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10 of Science’s Best BAD ideas – Part 2

When he took a break from inventing light bulbs, movies, and phonographs, Thomas Edison thought a lot about how the natural world worked. In 1920, he announced that he had a ‘spirit phone’ in the works that would allow people to talk to the dead … Read More

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Fantastic Physics Quotes

Fantastically quotable scientists on physics: “Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics!” … Read More

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The 11 Youngest Nobel Prize Winners – Scientists

Here are the 11 youngest winners of a scientific Nobel Prize, with a quick, interesting ‘did you know’ fact about each of them. And also the teenager: … Read More

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Science Quiz: Which came first?

Challenge: try our science quiz. It’s just ten questions. Decide which events came first to test your knowledge of scientific progress. … Read More

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7 Great Examples of Scientific Discoveries Made in Dreams

While we sleep, our subconscious minds continue to work on problems our conscious minds have failed to solve. ‘Sleeping on it’ has led to major scientific discoveries, such as the seven … Read More

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The Universe that Understands Itself?

Once upon a time, about 200 million human lifetimes ago, a universe began. This was not just any universe. It was a universe with some very remarkable properties. … Read More

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How Far Can Birds Fly Without Needing to Land?

Advances in technology are allowing us to learn more and more about how birds can travel huge distances under their own power. Very light GPS tracking equipment can be used to track birds without … Read More

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Scientists In Pop Songs – The Top 10

Pop music needs science and technology: microphones, amplifiers, electric guitars, synthesizers, light shows and dry-ice are all examples of science applied to the world of entertainment. While scientists and science aren’t what pop groups usually sing about, a few … Read More

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Brilliant Chemistry Quotes

A selection of brilliantly quotable quotes from chemists through the ages … Read More

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10 of Science’s Best BAD ideas – Part 1

You want bad ideas, but they have to be good bad ideas? You’ve come to the right place. First, a brilliant mathematician, who had already found one planet by sheer mind-power … Read More

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Original Jokes About Scientists

James Joule and James Watt were having a drink together and talking about their research. Joule said to Watt, “Oh, here are my wife and children, come over and meet them … Read More

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Which Animal Gets Most Daylight?

Mr. Spock would appreciate the answer to this question, because it’s completely logical. To get the most daylight, you need to go where the sun never sets! … Read More

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When British Scientists Fled from Mob Rule

1789 was the year of the French Revolution. Dr. Joseph Priestley wholeheartedly approved of the Revolution. Priestley had discovered oxygen; invented fizzy, carbonated water … Read More

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Shoemaker-Levy 20th Anniversary

20 years ago, comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 made headlines around the world when it crashed into Jupiter. The impacts produced the biggest planetary explosions scientists have ever seen. … Read More

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30 Brilliant Scientist Quotes

Fantastically quotable scientists on science … Read More

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Pros & Cons of Neanderthal & Denisovan Genes

Many of us have genes from extinct human species in our DNA. Some of these genes have been helpful, but others seem to be destructive. … Read More

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Archimedes Makes his Greatest Discovery

Archimedes was fascinated by curves. His powerful mind had mastered straight line shapes in both 2D and 3D. He needed something more intellectually challenging to test him. This came … Read More

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How Archimedes Invented the Beast Number

Archimedes was fed up with people saying you couldn’t calculate the number of grains of sand on a beach. In response to this nonsense (as he saw it) he invented new, enormous numbers. … Read More

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Your Genes Programmed by your Ancestors’ Terror

One of your ancestors had a terrifying experience? New research shows your genes might have a memory of this terrifying experience built into them … Read More

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  • Jan Ingenhousz: Discovered photosynthesis
  • Barry Marshall: Overturned the Medical Establishment
  • Linus Pauling: Maverick Giant of Chemistry
  • William Röntgen: The Discovery of X-rays
  • Howard Florey: Brought penicillin to the world
  • Henrietta Leavitt: The key to the size of the universe
  • Archimedes: A mind beyond his time
  • Stanley Milgram: The infamous Obedience Experiments
  • C. V. Raman: Color change allows harm-free health check of living cells
  • Rosalind Franklin: Shape-shifting DNA
  • Robert Boyle: A new science is born: chemistry
  • Carl Woese: Rewrote Earth’s history of life
  • Alfred Wegener: Shunned after he discovered that continents move
  • Henri Poincaré: Is the solar system stable?
  • Polly Matzinger: The dog whisperer who rewrote our immune system’s rules
  • Otto Guericke: In the 1600s found that space is a vacuum
  • Alister Hardy: Aquatic ape theory: our species evolved in water
  • Elizebeth Friedman: Became the world’s most famous codebreaker
  • Evangelista Torricelli: We live at the bottom of a tremendously heavy sea of air
  • Eudoxus: The first mathematical model of the universe
  • James Black: Revolutionized drug design with the Beta-blocker
  • Inge Lehmann: Discovered our planet’s solid inner core
  • Chen-Ning Yang: Shattered a fundamental belief of physicists
  • Robert Hooke: Unveiled the spectacular microscopic world
  • Barbara McClintock: A Nobel Prize after years of rejection
  • Pythagoras: The cult of numbers and the need for proof
  • J. J. Thomson: Discovered the electron
  • Johannes Kepler: Solved the mystery of the planets
  • Dmitri Mendeleev: Discovered 8 new chemical elements by thinking
  • Maurice Hilleman: Record breaking inventor of over 40 vaccines
  • Marie Curie: Won – uniquely – both the chemistry & physics Nobel Prizes
  • Jacques Cousteau: Marine pioneer, inventor, Oscar winner
  • Niels Bohr: Founded the bizarre science of quantum mechanics
  • Srinivasa Ramanujan: Untrained genius of mathematics
  • Milutin Milankovic: Proved Earth’s climate is regulated by its orbit
  • Antoine Lavoisier: The giant of chemistry who was executed
  • Emmy Noether: The greatest of female mathematicians, she unlocked a secret of the universe
  • Wilder Penfield: Pioneer of brain surgery; mapped the brain’s functions
  • Charles Nicolle: Eradicated typhus epidemics
  • Samuel Morse: The telegraph and Morse code
  • Jane Goodall: Major discoveries in chimpanzee behavior
  • John Philoponus: 6th century anticipation of Galileo and Newton
  • William Perkin: Youthful curiosity brought the color purple to all
  • Democritus: Atomic theory BC and a universe of diverse inhabited worlds
  • Susumu Tonegawa: Discovered how our bodies make millions of different antibodies
  • Cecilia Payne: Discovered that stars are almost entirely hydrogen and helium

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Alphabetical List of Scientists

Louis Agassiz | Maria Gaetana Agnesi | Al-BattaniAbu Nasr Al-Farabi | Alhazen | Jim Al-Khalili | Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi | Mihailo Petrovic Alas | Angel Alcala | Salim Ali | Luis Alvarez | Andre Marie Ampère | Anaximander | Carl Anderson | Mary Anning | Virginia Apgar | Archimedes | Agnes Arber | Aristarchus | Aristotle | Svante Arrhenius | Oswald Avery | Amedeo Avogadro | Avicenna

Charles Babbage | Francis Bacon | Alexander Bain | John Logie Baird | Joseph Banks | Ramon Barba | John Bardeen | Charles Barkla | Ibn Battuta | William Bayliss | George Beadle | Arnold Orville Beckman | Henri Becquerel | Emil Adolf Behring | Alexander Graham Bell | Emile Berliner | Claude Bernard | Timothy John Berners-Lee | Daniel Bernoulli | Jacob Berzelius | Henry Bessemer | Hans Bethe | Homi Jehangir Bhabha | Alfred Binet | Clarence Birdseye | Kristian Birkeland | James Black | Elizabeth Blackwell | Alfred Blalock | Katharine Burr Blodgett | Franz Boas | David Bohm | Aage Bohr | Niels Bohr | Ludwig Boltzmann | Max Born | Carl Bosch | Robert Bosch | Jagadish Chandra Bose | Satyendra Nath Bose | Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe | Robert Boyle | Lawrence Bragg | Tycho Brahe | Brahmagupta | Hennig Brand | Georg Brandt | Wernher Von Braun | J Harlen Bretz | Louis de Broglie | Alexander Brongniart | Robert Brown | Michael E. Brown | Lester R. Brown | Eduard Buchner | Linda Buck | William Buckland | Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | Robert Bunsen | Luther Burbank | Jocelyn Bell Burnell | Macfarlane Burnet | Thomas Burnet

Benjamin Cabrera | Santiago Ramon y Cajal | Rachel Carson | George Washington Carver | Henry Cavendish | Anders Celsius | James Chadwick | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | Erwin Chargaff | Noam Chomsky | Steven Chu | Leland Clark | John Cockcroft | Arthur Compton | Nicolaus Copernicus | Gerty Theresa Cori | Charles-Augustin de Coulomb | Jacques Cousteau | Brian Cox | Francis Crick | James Croll | Nicholas Culpeper | Marie Curie | Pierre Curie | Georges Cuvier | Adalbert Czerny

Gottlieb Daimler | John Dalton | James Dwight Dana | Charles Darwin | Humphry Davy | Peter Debye | Max Delbruck | Jean Andre Deluc | Democritus | René Descartes | Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel | Diophantus | Paul Dirac | Prokop Divis | Theodosius Dobzhansky | Frank Drake | K. Eric Drexler

John Eccles | Arthur Eddington | Thomas Edison | Paul Ehrlich | Albert Einstein | Gertrude Elion | Empedocles | Eratosthenes | Euclid | Eudoxus | Leonhard Euler

Michael Faraday | Pierre de Fermat | Enrico Fermi | Richard Feynman | Fibonacci – Leonardo of Pisa | Emil Fischer | Ronald Fisher | Alexander Fleming | John Ambrose Fleming | Howard Florey | Henry Ford | Lee De Forest | Dian Fossey | Leon Foucault | Benjamin Franklin | Rosalind Franklin | Sigmund Freud | Elizebeth Smith Friedman

Galen | Galileo Galilei | Francis Galton | Luigi Galvani | George Gamow | Martin Gardner | Carl Friedrich Gauss | Murray Gell-Mann | Sophie Germain | Willard Gibbs | William Gilbert | Sheldon Lee Glashow | Robert Goddard | Maria Goeppert-Mayer | Thomas Gold | Jane Goodall | Stephen Jay Gould | Otto von Guericke

Fritz Haber | Ernst Haeckel | Otto Hahn | Albrecht von Haller | Edmund Halley | Alister Hardy | Thomas Harriot | William Harvey | Stephen Hawking | Otto Haxel | Werner Heisenberg | Hermann von Helmholtz | Jan Baptist von Helmont | Joseph Henry | Caroline Herschel | John Herschel | William Herschel | Gustav Ludwig Hertz | Heinrich Hertz | Karl F. Herzfeld | George de Hevesy | Antony Hewish | David Hilbert | Maurice Hilleman | Hipparchus | Hippocrates | Shintaro Hirase | Dorothy Hodgkin | Robert Hooke | Frederick Gowland Hopkins | William Hopkins | Grace Murray Hopper | Frank Hornby | Jack Horner | Bernardo Houssay | Fred Hoyle | Edwin Hubble | Alexander von Humboldt | Zora Neale Hurston | James Hutton | Christiaan Huygens | Hypatia

Ernesto Illy | Jan Ingenhousz | Ernst Ising | Keisuke Ito

Mae Carol Jemison | Edward Jenner | J. Hans D. Jensen | Irene Joliot-Curie | James Prescott Joule | Percy Lavon Julian

Michio Kaku | Heike Kamerlingh Onnes | Pyotr Kapitsa | Friedrich August Kekulé | Frances Kelsey | Pearl Kendrick | Johannes Kepler | Abdul Qadeer Khan | Omar Khayyam | Alfred Kinsey | Gustav Kirchoff | Martin Klaproth | Robert Koch | Emil Kraepelin | Thomas Kuhn | Stephanie Kwolek

Joseph-Louis Lagrange | Jean-Baptiste Lamarck | Hedy Lamarr | Edwin Herbert Land | Karl Landsteiner | Pierre-Simon Laplace | Max von Laue | Antoine Lavoisier | Ernest Lawrence | Henrietta Leavitt | Antonie van Leeuwenhoek | Inge Lehmann | Gottfried Leibniz | Georges Lemaître | Leonardo da Vinci | Niccolo Leoniceno | Aldo Leopold | Rita Levi-Montalcini | Claude Levi-Strauss | Willard Frank Libby | Justus von Liebig | Carolus Linnaeus | Joseph Lister | John Locke | Hendrik Antoon Lorentz | Konrad Lorenz | Ada Lovelace | Percival Lowell | Lucretius | Charles Lyell | Trofim Lysenko

Ernst Mach | Marcello Malpighi | Jane Marcet | Guglielmo Marconi | Lynn Margulis | Barry Marshall | Polly Matzinger | Matthew Maury | James Clerk Maxwell | Ernst Mayr | Barbara McClintock | Lise Meitner | Gregor Mendel | Dmitri Mendeleev | Franz Mesmer | Antonio Meucci | John Michell | Albert Abraham Michelson | Thomas Midgeley Jr. | Milutin Milankovic | Maria Mitchell | Mario Molina | Thomas Hunt Morgan | Samuel Morse | Henry Moseley

Ukichiro Nakaya | John Napier | Giulio Natta | John Needham | John von Neumann | Thomas Newcomen | Isaac Newton | Charles Nicolle | Florence Nightingale | Tim Noakes | Alfred Nobel | Emmy Noether | Christiane Nusslein-Volhard | Bill Nye

Hans Christian Oersted | Georg Ohm | J. Robert Oppenheimer | Wilhelm Ostwald | William Oughtred

Blaise Pascal | Louis Pasteur | Wolfgang Ernst Pauli | Linus Pauling | Randy Pausch | Ivan Pavlov | Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin | Wilder Penfield | Marguerite Perey | William Perkin | John Philoponus | Jean Piaget | Philippe Pinel | Max Planck | Pliny the Elder | Henri Poincaré | Karl Popper | Beatrix Potter | Joseph Priestley | Proclus | Claudius Ptolemy | Pythagoras

Adolphe Quetelet | Harriet Quimby | Thabit ibn Qurra

C. V. Raman | Srinivasa Ramanujan | William Ramsay | John Ray | Prafulla Chandra Ray | Francesco Redi | Sally Ride | Bernhard Riemann | Wilhelm Röntgen | Hermann Rorschach | Ronald Ross | Ibn Rushd | Ernest Rutherford

Carl Sagan | Abdus Salam | Jonas Salk | Frederick Sanger | Alberto Santos-Dumont | Walter Schottky | Erwin Schrödinger | Theodor Schwann | Glenn Seaborg | Hans Selye | Charles Sherrington | Gene Shoemaker | Ernst Werner von Siemens | George Gaylord Simpson | B. F. Skinner | William Smith | Frederick Soddy | Mary Somerville | Arnold Sommerfeld | Hermann Staudinger | Nicolas Steno | Nettie Stevens | William John Swainson | Leo Szilard

Niccolo Tartaglia | Edward Teller | Nikola Tesla | Thales of Miletus | Theon of Alexandria | Benjamin Thompson | J. J. Thomson | William Thomson | Henry David Thoreau | Kip S. Thorne | Clyde Tombaugh | Susumu Tonegawa | Evangelista Torricelli | Charles Townes | Youyou Tu | Alan Turing | Neil deGrasse Tyson

Harold Urey

Craig Venter | Vladimir Vernadsky | Andreas Vesalius | Rudolf Virchow | Artturi Virtanen | Alessandro Volta

Selman Waksman | George Wald | Alfred Russel Wallace | John Wallis | Ernest Walton | James Watson | James Watt | Alfred Wegener | John Archibald Wheeler | Maurice Wilkins | Thomas Willis | E. O. Wilson | Sven Wingqvist | Sergei Winogradsky | Carl Woese | Friedrich Wöhler | Wilbur and Orville Wright | Wilhelm Wundt

Chen-Ning Yang

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