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A Abel, Frederick
Abel, John Jacob
Abel, Niels Henrik
Abrikosov, Alexei A.
Acton, Loren Wilber
Agricola, Georgius
Aiken, Howard H.
Akers, John Fellows
Al-Battani
Al-Biruni
al-Khwārizmī, Muhammad ibn Mūsā
Al-Saud, Sultan ibn Salman ibn Abdul Aziz
Alcock, Sir John William
Alder, Kurt
Aldrin, Buzz
Alembert, Jean le Rond d’
Alfvén, Hannes Olof Gösta
Alhazen
Allen, Joseph P.
Altman, Sidney
Alvarez, Luis Walter
Ameghino, Florentino
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Ampère, André Marie
Anders, William Alison
Anderson, Carl David
Anderson, Philip Warren
Andersson, Johan Gunnar
Anfinsen, Christian B.
Ångström, Anders Jonas
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
Apollonius of Perga
Appleton, Sir Edward Victor
Arago, Dominique François Jean
Archer, Frederick Scott
Archimedes
Arduino, Giovanni
Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm August
Aristarchus of Sámos
Arkwright, Sir Richard
Armstrong, Edwin Howard
Armstrong, Neil Alden
Arrhenius, Svante August
Aryabhata
Asimov, Isaac
Aston, Francis William
Atanasoff, John Vincent
Auer, Carl Freiher von Welsbach
Avogadro, Amedeo, Conte di Quaregna e Ceretto
B Baade, (Wilhelm Heinrich) Walter
Babbage, Charles
Babcock, Stephen Moulton
Bacon, Roger
Baekeland, Leo Hendrik
Baeyer, (Johann Friedrich Wilhelm) Adolf von
Bagian, James Philip
Baird, John Logie
Balmer, Johann Jakob
Bardeen, John
Barkla, Charles Glover
Barnard, Edward Emerson
Barnett, Samuel Johnson
Bartoe, John-David Francis
Barton, Derek H(arold) R(ichard)
Basov, Nikolay Gennadiyevich
Baudry, Patrick Pierre Roger
Bean, Alan LaVern
Becquerel, Antoine Henri
Bednorz, Johannes Georg
Bell, Alexander Graham
Bell Burnell, (Susan) Jocelyn
Belyayev, Pavel I.
Benz, Karl
Berg, Paul
Bergius, Friedrich Karl Rudolph
Bernoulli, Daniel
Berthelot, Pierre-Eugène-Marcelin
Berthollet, Claude Louis, Comte
Berzelius, Jöns Jakob, Baron
Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm
Bessemer, Sir Henry
Bethe, Hans Albrecht
Binnig, Gerd Karl
Biot, Jean Baptiste
Bjerknes, Vilhelm Firman Koren
Black, Harold Stephen
Black, Joseph (chemist)
Blackett, Patrick M(aynard) S(tuart), Baron
Blaha, John Elmer
Blanchard, Jean Pierre
Blériot, Louis
Bloch, Felix
Bloembergen, Nicolaas
Bluford, Guion Stewart
Bobko, Karol Joseph
Boeing, William Edward
Bogardus, James
Bohr, Aage Niels
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Bolden, Charles F., Jr.
Boltzmann, Ludwig
Bolyai, János
Bolzano, Bernhard
Bond, George Phillips
Bond, William Cranch
Bondar, Roberta Lynn
Boole, George
Borden, Gail
Borman, Frank
Born, Max
Bosch, Carl
Bosch, Robert August
Bose, Satyendra Nath
Bothe, Walther Wilhelm Georg
Boulton, Matthew
Bowen, Norman Levi
Boyer, Paul D.
Boyle, Robert
Bradley, James
Bragg, Sir William Henry
Bragg, Sir (William) Lawrence
Brahe, Tycho
Brand, Vance DeVoe
Brandenstein, Daniel Charles
Brattain, Walter Houser
Braun, Karl Ferdinand
Breguet, Abraham-Louis
Bréguet, Louis Charles
Brewster, David
Bridges, Roy Dubard, Jr.
Bridgman, Percy Williams
Bright, Sir Charles Tilston
Brockhouse, Bertram N.
Broglie, Louis Victor, Prince de
Brønsted, Johannes Nicolaus
Brown, Herbert Charles
Brown, Sir Arthur Whitten
Browning, John Moses
Brunel, Sir Marc Isambard
Brush, Charles Francis
Buch, (Christian) Leopold von
Buchli, James F.
Buchner, Eduard
Buckland, William
Bullard, Edward Crisp
Bunau-Varilla, Philippe Jean
Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm
Bush, Vannevar
Bushnell, David
Bushnell, Nolan Kay
Butenandt, Adolf Friedrich Johann
Buys Ballot, Christoph Hendrik Diederik
C Calvin, Melvin
Campbell, William Wallace
Cannizzaro, Stanislao
Cannon, Annie Jump
Cantor, Georg
Cardano, Gerolamo
Carlson, Chester F.
Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite
Carnot, Nicolas Léonard Sadi
Carothers, Wallace Hume
Carpenter, M. Scott
Carr, Gerald
Carrier, Willis
Cartwright, Edmund
Cauchy, Augustin Louis
Cavendish, Henry
Cayley, Arthur
Cayley, Sir George
Cech, Thomas Robert
Celsius, Anders
Cenker, Robert J.
Cernan, Eugene Andrew
Chadwick, Sir James
Chaffee, Roger
Chamberlain, Owen
Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
Chang-Díaz, Franklin R.
Chanute, Octave
Chardonnet, Comte de
Charles, Jacques Alexandre César
Charpak, George
Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseyevich
Chu, Steven
Clausius, Rudolf Julius Emanuel
Cleave, Mary Louise
Coats, Michael Loyd
Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas
Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude
Collins, Eileen Marie
Collins, Michael Allen
Compton, Arthur Holly
Condon, Edward U(hler)
Conrad, Pete
Cooper, Leon N.
Cooper, Leroy Gordon, Jr.
Cope, Edward Drinker
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Corey, Elias James
Corliss, George Henry
Cormack, Allan MacLeod
Cornforth, Sir John W.
Coulomb, Charles Augustin de
Cousteau, Jacques-Yves
Covey, Richard Oswalt
Cram, Donald James
Cray, Seymour
Creighton, John Oliver
Crippen, Robert Laurel
Crompton, Samuel
Cronin, James Watson
Crookes, Sir William
Crutzen, Paul J.
Ctesibius
Cunningham, R(onnie) Walter
Curie, Marie
Curie, Pierre
Curl, Robert F. Jr.
Curtiss, Glenn Hammond
D Daimler, Gottlieb
Dalén, Nils Gustaf
Dalton, John
Dana, James Dwight
Davisson, Clinton Joseph
Davy, Sir Humphry
Dawson, George Mercer
Dawson, Sir John William
De Forest, Lee
De Havilland, Sir Geoffrey
De Seversky, Alexander Procofieff
Debye, Peter Joseph Wilhelm
Deere, John
Dehmelt, Hans Georg
Deisenhofer, Johann
Dewar, Sir James
Diels, Otto
Diesel, Rudolf Christian Karl
Diophantus
Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice
Donati, Giovanni Battista
Dondi, Giovanni de’
Donkin, Bryan
Doppler, Christian Johann
Douglas, Donald Wills
Dow, Herbert Henry
Drake, Edwin
Draper, John William
Drebbel, Cornelis Jacobszoon
Dryden, Hugh Latimer
Du Vigneaud, Vincent
Duke, Charles Moss, Jr.
Dumas, Jean Baptiste André
Dunbar, Bonnie J.
Dunlop, John Boyd
Duryea, Charles Edgar
Dyson, Freeman
E Eastman, George
Eckert, John Presper, Jr.
Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley
Edgerton, Harold Eugene
Edison, Thomas Alva
Eiffel, Alexandre-Gustave
Eigen, Manfred
Einstein, Albert
Eisele, Donn Fulton
Encke, Johann Franz
England, Anthony Wayne
Engle, Joe Henry
Ericsson, John
Ernst, Richard Robert
Esaki, Leo
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Eudoxus (of Cnidus)
Euler-Chelpin, Hans von
Euler, Leonhard
Evans, Ronald Ellwin
Ewing, (William) Maurice
F Fabian, John McCreary
Fahrenheit, Gabriel Daniel
Fairchild, Sherman Mills
Faraday, Michael
Farnsworth, Philo Taylor
Feoktistov, Konstantin P.
Fermat, Pierre de
Fermi, Enrico
Feynman, Richard Phillips
Fibonacci, Leonardo
Fischer, Emil Hermann
Fischer, Ernst Otto
Fischer, Hans
Fisher, Anna Lee
Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer
Fisher, William Frederick
Fitch, John
Fitch, Val Logsdon
Flamsteed, John
Fleming, Sir John Ambrose
Flory, Paul John
Fokker, Anthony Herman Gerard
Forrester, Jay W.
Foucault, Jean Bernard Léon
Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph, Baron
Fowler, William
Franck, James
Frank, Ilya Mikhailovich
Frankland, Sir Edward
Franklin, Rosalind Elsie
Fraunhofer, Joseph von
Frege, Gottlob
Fresenius, Karl Remigius
Fresnel, Augustin Jean
Friedel, Charles
Friedman, Jerome Isaac
Friedmann, Alexander
Froude, William
Fukui Kenichi
Fuller, R(ichard) Buckminster
Fullerton, Charles Gordon
Fulton, Robert
Furrer, Reinhard
G Gabor, Dennis
Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich
Galileo
Galois, Évariste
Gamow, George
Gardner, Dale Allan
Gardner, Guy Spence
Gardner, Julia Anna
Garn, Jake
Garneau, Marc
Garriott, Owen K.
Gates, William Henry, III
Gatling, Richard Jordan
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis
Geber
Ged, William
Geiger, Hans Wilhelm
Geissler, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm
Gell-Mann, Murray
Gennes, Pierre-Gilles de
Giaever, Ivar
Giauque, William Francis
Gibbs, J(osiah) Willard
Gibson, Edward George
Gibson, Robert Lee
Gilbert, Walter
Gilbert, William
Ginzburg, Vitaly L.
Glaser, Donald Arthur
Glashow, Sheldon Lee
Glauber, Johann Rudolph
Glenn, John Herschell, Jr.
Glidden, Carlos
Glidden, Joseph Farwell
Gmelin, Leopold
Goddard, Robert Hutchings
Gödel, Kurt
Goeppert-Mayer, Maria
Goethals, George Washington
Gold, Thomas
Goldmark, Peter Carl
Goldschmidt, Victor Moritz
Goodyear, Charles
Gordon, Richard Francis, Jr.
Gorrie, John
Gould, Gordon
Gould, Stephen Jay
Gourdine, Meredith Charles
Grabe, Ronald John
Graham, George
Graham, Thomas
Gray, Elisha
Gregory, Frederick Drew
Griggs, Stanley David
Grignard, Victor
Grissom, Virgil Ivan
Gross, David J.
Grumman, Leroy Randle
Guericke, Otto von
Guillaume, Charles-Édouard
Gutenberg, Beno
H Haber, Fritz
Hahn, Otto
Haise, Fred Wallace, Jr.
Hale, George Ellery
Hall, Charles Martin
Halley, Edmond
Hamilton, Sir William Rowan
Harden, Sir Arthur
Hargreaves, James
Hart, Terry Jonathan
Hartsfield, Henry Warren
Hassel, Odd
Hauck, Frederick Hamilton
Hauptman, Herbert Aaron
Haüy, René-Just
Hawking, Stephen William
Hawley, Steven Alan
Haworth, Sir Walter Norman
Heaviside, Oliver
Heisenberg, Werner
Helmont, Jan Baptista van
Henize, Karl Gordon
Henlein, Peter
Henry, Joseph
Hermite, Charles
Hero of Alexandria
Héroult, Paul Louis Toussaint
Herschbach, Dudley Robert
Herschel, Caroline Lucretia
Herschel, Sir John Frederick William
Herschel, Sir William
Hershey, Milton
Hertz, Gustav
Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf
Hertzsprung, Ejnar
Herzberg, Gerhard
Hess, Harry Hammond
Hess, Victor Franz
Hevelius, Johannes
Hevesy, Georg von
Hewish, Antony
Heyrovsky, Jaroslav
Hilbert, David
Hille, Einar
Hilmers, David Carl
Hinshelwood, Sir Cyril Norman
Hipparchus
Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot
Hoe, Richard M.
Hoffman, Jeffrey Alan
Hoffmann, Roald
Hofmann, August Wilhelm von
Hofstadter, Robert
Hogg, Helen Battles Sawyer
Hollerith, Herman
Holmes, Arthur
Hooke, Robert
Hopper, Grace Murray
Hounsfield, Sir Godfrey Newbold
Howe, Elias
Hoyle, Sir Fred
Hubble, Edwin Powell
Huber, Robert
Hückel, Erich Armand Arthur Joseph
Hulse, Russell A.
Humboldt, (Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich) Alexander, Freiherr von
Hutton, James
Huygens, Christiaan
Hyatt, Alpheus
Hyatt, John Wesley
I Ingold, Sir Christopher
Irwin, James B.
Ives, Frederic Eugene
J Jackson, Charles Thomas
Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jakob
Jacquard, Joseph-Marie
Jansky, Karl Guthe
Janssen, Pierre Jules César
Jarvis, Gregory B.
Jeans, Sir James Hopwood
Jeffreys, Sir Harold
Jeffries, John
Jemison, Mae
Jensen, J(ohannes) Hans Daniel
Jobs, Steven
Joliot-Curie, Frédéric
Joliot-Curie, Irène
Jones, Sir Harold Spencer
Josephson, Brian David
Joule, James Prescott
Julian, Percy Lavon
K Kaiser, Henry J(ohn)
Kamerlingh Onnes, Heike
Kapitza, Peter Leonidovich
Karle, Jerome
Kármán, Theodore von
Karrer, Paul
Kastler, Alfred
Kay, John
Kekulé von Stradonitz, Friedrich August
Kelvin, William Thomson, 1st Baron
Kemeny, John G.
Kendall, Henry Way
Kendrew, Sir John Cowdery
Kepler, Johannes
Kerwin, Joseph P.
Kettering, Charles Franklin
Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert
Klaproth, Martin Heinrich
Klug, Aaron
Kohn, Walter
Kolmogorov, Andrey Nikolayevich
Komarov, Vladimir M.
Köppen, Wladimir Peter
Korolyev, Sergey Pavlovich
Kroto, Sir Harold W.
Kubasov, Valeriy Nikolayevich
Kuiper, Gerard Peter
Kusch, Polykarp
L Ladenburg, Albert
Lagrange, Joseph Louis, Comte de
Lamb, Willis Eugene, Jr.
Land, Edwin Herbert
Landau, Lev Davidovich
Langevin, Paul
Langley, Samuel Pierpont
Langmuir, Irving
Laplace, Pierre Simon, Marquis de
Lartet, Edouard Armand
Latimer, Lewis Howard
Laue, Max Theodor Felix von
Laughlin, Robert B.
Laval, Carl Gustaf de
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando
Le Bel, Joseph Achille
Le Châtelier, Henri Louis
Leavitt, Henrietta Swan
Leblanc, Nicolas
Lederman, Leon Max
Lee, David M.
Lee, Tsung-Dao
Lee, Yuan Tseh
Leestma, David Cornell
Lefschetz, Solomon
Leggett, Anthony J.
Lehmann, Inge
Lehn, Jean-Marie
Leloir, Luis F.
Lemaître, Georges Édouard
Lenard, Philipp Eduard Anton
Lenoir, Jean-Joseph-Étienne
Lenoir, William Benjamin
Leonov, Alexei A.
Lesseps, Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de
Leverrier, Urbain Jean Joseph
Lewis, Gilbert Newton
Libby, Willard Frank
Lichtenberg, Byron Kurt
Liebig, Justus, Baron von
Lilienthal, Otto
Lind, Don Leslie
Lippmann, Gabriel Jonas
Lipscomb, William N., Jr.
Lobachevsky, Nikolay Ivanovich
Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman
Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph
Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilyevich
Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon
Lounge, John Michael
Lousma, Jack Robert
Lovelace, Ada
Lovell, James Arthur
Lowell, Percival
Lucid, Shannon Wells
Lydekker, Richard
Lyell, Sir Charles
M Mach, Ernst
Macintosh, Charles
Maiman, Theodore Harold
Malus, Étienne Louis
Mandelbrot, Benoit B.
Marconi, Guglielmo
Marcus, Rudolph Arthur
Marey, Etienne-Jules
Marlin, John Mahlon
Marsh, Othniel Charles
Martin, Archer J. P.
Martin, Glenn Luther
Matthews, Drummond
Mattingly, Thomas Kenneth, II
Maudslay, Henry
Maury, Matthew Fontaine
Mauser, Peter Paul
Maxim, Hiram Percy
Maxim, Hudson
Maxim, Sir Hiram Stevens
Maxwell, James Clerk
Maybach, Wilhelm
Mayer, Julius Robert von
McAdam, John Loudon
McAuliffe, Sharon Christa Corrigan
McBride, Jon Andrew
McCandless, Bruce, II
McCormick, Cyrus Hall
McCoy, Elijah
McDivitt, James Alton
McMillan, Edwin Mattison
McNair, Ronald Erwin
Meitner, Lise
Mendeleyev, Dmitry Ivanovich
Merbold, Ulf D.
Mercer, John
Merrifield, Robert Bruce
Messerschmid, Ernst W.
Messerschmitt, Wilhelm
Messier, Charles
Meucci, Antonio
Meusnier, Jean Baptiste Marie
Meyer, Julius Lothar
Meyer, Viktor
Michel, Hartmut
Michell, John
Michelson, Albert Abraham
Millikan, Robert Andrews
Minkowski, Hermann
Mitchell, Edgar D.
Mitchell, Maria
Mitchell, Peter Dennis
Modjeski, Ralph
ElBaradei, Mohamed
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Moseley, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys
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Mottelson, Benjamin Roy
Mullane, Richard Michael
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Mulliken, Robert Sanderson
Murchison, Sir Roderick Impey
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Musgrave, Franklin Story
N Nagel, Steven Ray
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Nasmyth, James
National Academy of Sciences
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Neri Vela, Rodolfo
Nernst, Walther Hermann
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Newcomen, Thomas
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Nipkow, Paul Gottlieb
Nobel, Alfred Bernhard
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O O’Connor, Bryan Daniel
Ockels, Wubbo J.
Oersted, Hans Christian
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Olah, George A.
Olbers, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus
Oliphant, Sir Mark Laurence
Omar Khayyam
Onizuka, Ellison S.
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Oppenheimer, J. Robert
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Overmyer, Robert Franklyn
Owen, Richard
P Pailes, William A.
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Tomonaga Shin’ichirō
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Wieland, Heinrich Otto
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