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Academic genealogy of chemists An academic genealogy (or scientific genealogy) organizes a family tree of scientists and scholars according to mentorship, mentoring relationships, often in the form of doctoral advisor, dissertation supervision relationships, and not according ...

List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field. Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineat ...

List of the 72 names on the Eiffel Tower On the Eiffel Tower, 72 names of France, French men (scientists, engineers, and mathematicians) are engraved in recognition of their contributions. Gustave Eiffel chose this "invocation of science" because of his concern over the Eiffel Tower#Art ...

Apostles of Linnaeus The Apostles of Linnaeus were a group of students who carried out botanical and zoological expeditions throughout the world that were either devised or approved by botanist Carl Linnaeus. The expeditions took place during the latter half of the 1 ...

List of Arab scientists and scholars Arab scientists and scholars from the Muslim World, including Al-Andalus (Spain), who lived from antiquity up until the beginning of the modern age, include the following. The list consists primarily of scholars during the Middle Ages. Both th ...

List of modern Arab scientists and engineers The following is a non-conclusive list of some notable modern Arab scientists and engineers. For medieval Arab scientists and scholars, see List of pre-modern Arab scientists and scholars A * Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American chemist, 1999 Nobel P ...

List of archaeologists This is a list of archaeologists – people who study or practise archaeology, the study of the human past through material remains. A * Charles Conrad Abbott (1843–1919) American; advocate of early occupation of Americas * Kamyar Abdi (born ...

Astronomer Royal Astronomer Royal is a senior post in the Royal Households of the United Kingdom. There are two officers, the senior being the astronomer royal dating from 22 June 1675; the junior is the astronomer royal for Scotland dating from 1834. The Astro ...

List of astronomers The following is a list of astronomers, astrophysicists and other notable people who have made contributions to the field of astronomy. They may have won major prizes or awards, developed or invented widely used techniques or technologies within ...

List of French astronomers The following are list of French astronomers, astrophysicists and other notable French people who have made contributions to the field of astronomy. They may have won major prizes or awards, developed or invented widely used techniques or technolog ...

List of Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science The Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science is made up of about 500 Australian scientists. Scientists judged by their peers to have made an exceptional contribution to knowledge in their field may be elected to Fellowship of the Academy ...

List of biologists This is a list of notable biologists with a biography in Wikipedia. It includes zoologists, botanists, biochemists, ornithologists, entomologists, malacologists, and other specialities. A Ab–Ag *John Jacob Abel (1857–1938), Amer ...

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List of coleopterists {{Short description, none Notable students of coleopterology (beetles) include the following. Coleopterists from Australia * George Bornemissza, George Francis Bornemissza (born Hungary) * John Francis Lawrence (born U.S.A) Coleopterists from Aust ...

List of entomologists The following is a list of entomologists, scientists who study insects. See also * List of Estonian entomologists References {{Reflist Entomologists Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and - ...

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List of herpetologists This is a list of herpetologists who are discussed in Wikipedia articles, in alphabetical order by surname. Some articles are from non-English versions of Wikipedia. By surname A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P ...

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List of microbiologists Major contributions to the science of microbiology (as a scientific discipline, discipline in its modern sense) have spanned the time from the mid-17th century month by month to the present day. The following is a list of notable microbiologists wh ...

** List of paleoethnobotanists ** List of plant scientists ** List of plant pathologists * List of biophysicists *

List of Catholic clergy scientists This is a list of Catholic clergy throughout history who have made contributions to science. These churchmen-scientists include Nicolaus Copernicus, Gregor Mendel, Georges Lemaître, Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, Roger Joseph B ...

List of lay Catholic scientists Many Catholics have made significant contributions to the development of science and mathematics from the Middle Ages to today. These scientists include Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Louis Pasteur, Blaise Pascal, André-Marie Ampère, Charles ...

List of chemists This is a list of chemists. It should include those who have been important to the development or practice of chemistry. Their research or application has made significant contributions in the area of basic or applied chemistry. __NOTOC__ A * Ri ...

List of Christians in science and technology This is a list of Christians in science and technology. People in this list should have their Christianity as relevant to their notable activities or public life, and who have publicly identified themselves as Christians or as of a Christian deno ...

List of Christian Nobel laureates In an estimate by Baruch Shalev, between 1901 and 2000 about 65.4% of Nobel Prize winners were either Christians or had a Christian background.Baruch A. Shalev, ''100 Years of Nobel Prizes'' (2003), Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, p. 57: betwe ...

List of Christian scientists and scholars of medieval Islam This is a list of Christian scientists and scholars from the Muslim world and Spain (Al-Andalus) who lived during medieval Islam up until the beginning of the modern age. Christian converts to Islam are also included. The following Muslim naming ...

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List of computer scientists This is a list of computer scientists, people who do work in computer science, in particular researchers and authors. Some persons notable as programmers are included here because they work in research as well as program. A few of these people ...

List of cosmologists This is a list of people who have made noteworthy contributions to cosmology (the study of the history and large-scale structure of the universe) and their cosmological achievements. A * Tom Abel (cosmologist), Tom Abel (1970–) studied primo ...

List of criminologists A list is a Set (mathematics), set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of t ...

* List of ecologists * List of Ethiopian scientists * List of participants in the Evolving Genes and Proteins symposium * List of Fellows of the Royal Society by election year * List of foresters * Fullerian Professor of Chemistry *

Fullerian Professor of Physiology The Fullerian Chairs at the Royal Institution in London, England, were established by John 'Mad Jack' Fuller. Fullerian Professors of Physiology & Comparative Anatomy * 1834–1837 Peter Mark Roget * 1837–1838 Robert Edmond Grant * 1841–1844 ...

List of geologists A geologist is a contributor to the science of geology. Geologists are also known as earth scientists or geoscientists. The following is a list of notable geologists. Many have received such awards as the Penrose Medal or the Wollaston Medal, o ...

* List of women geologists *

List of geophysicists This is a list of geophysicists, people who made Notability in English Wikipedia, notable contributions to geophysics, whether or not geophysics was their primary field. These include historical figures who laid the foundations for the field of ge ...

List of Germans relocated to the US via the Operation Paperclip Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II ...

List of Jewish Nobel laureates Of the 965 individual recipients of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences between 1901 and 2023, at least 216 have been Jews or people with at least one Jewish parent, representing 22% of all recipients. Jews constitut ...

List of Kyoto Prize winners This is a list of Kyoto Prize winners, awarded annually by the Inamori Foundation. Basic sciences SourceKyoto Prize Advanced technology SourceKyoto Prize Arts and philosophy SourceKyoto Prize See also * The Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology ...

* List of atheists in science and technology * List of loop quantum gravity researchers *

Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award The Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award is an annual prize presented by the American Physical Society in recognition of an outstanding contribution to physics research by a woman. It recognizes and enhances outstanding achievements by women physicists in th ...

List of medieval and pre-modern Persian doctors The following is a non-comprehensive list of Iranian doctors that lived from medieval times up until the beginning of the modern age. By "Iranian", all the peoples of historic Persia are meant, i.e., what is today Iran, Afghanistan, and all the co ...

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List of minor planet discoverers This is a list of minor-planet discoverers credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of one or several minor planets (such as near-Earth and main-belt asteroids, Jupiter trojans and distant objects). , the discovery of 612,011 ...

* List of Muslim Nobel laureates *

List of National Medal of Science laureates The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the following six fields: behavioral and s ...

List of neurochemists This is a list of neurochemists. * David R. Brown (born 1964), American research scientist * Michaela Jaksch-Angerer, German medical doctor * Fernando Garcia de Mello (born 1944), Brazilian neurochemist * David Nutt (born 1951), English neurop ...

List of neurologists and neurosurgeons This is a list of neurologists and neurosurgeons, with their year of birth and death and nationality. This list compiles the names of neurologists and neurosurgeons with a corresponding Wikipedia biographical article, and is not necessarily a refle ...

* List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry * List of physicians and scientists of Upstate New York *

List of ornithologists __NOTOC__ This is a list of ornithologists who have articles, in alphabetical order by surname. See also :Ornithologists. A * John Abbot – US * Clinton Gilbert Abbott – US * William Louis Abbott – US * Humayun Abdulali — India * Joseph ...

List of paleontologists This is a list of notable paleontologists who have made significant contributions to the field of paleontology. Only paleontologists with biographical articles in Wikipedia are listed here. A * Othenio Abel (Austria, 1875-1946) * William Abler ...

List of pathologists A list of people notable in the field of pathology. A * John Abercrombie, Scottish physician, neuropathologist and philosopher. * Maude Abbott (1869–1940), Canadian pathologist, one of the earliest women graduated in medicine, expert in c ...

List of pharmacists This is a list of notable pharmacists, sorted by particular fields in which they distinguished themselves: Pharmacy practice * Dora Akunyili (1954-2010), Director General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control of Nigeria ...

* List of photochemists *

List of physicists Following is a list of physicists who are notable for their achievements. A *Aryabhatta – India (Bharat) (476–550 CE) *Jules Aarons – United States (1921–2016) *Ernst Karl Abbe – Germany (1840–1905) *Derek Abbott – Austral ...

* List of plasma physicists * List of presidents of the Geological Society of London * List of presidents of the Geologists' Association * List of psephologists * Quakers in science * List of quantum gravity researchers *

Racah Lectures in Physics ''The Racah Lecture'' is annual memorial lecture given at The Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem commemorating Prof. Giulio Racah Giulio (Yoel) Racah (; February 9, 1909 – August 28, 1965) was an Italian–Isr ...

* List of Researchers at Racah Institute * List of rheologists *

RNA Tie Club The RNA Tie Club was an informal scientific club, meant partly to be humorous, of select scientists who were interested in how proteins were synthesised from genes, specifically the genetic code. It was created by George Gamow upon a suggestion by ...

List of runologists This is a list of notable runologists. Runologists are people who study runes and runic inscriptions. Runologists * Elmer H. Antonsen (1929–2008), US * Erik Brate (1857–1924), Sweden * Jackson Crawford (born 1985), US * Klaus Düwel (1935 ...

Savilian Professor of Astronomy The position of Savilian Professor of Astronomy was established at the University of Oxford in 1619. It was founded (at the same time as the Savilian Professorship of Geometry) by Sir Henry Savile, a mathematician and classical scholar who was ...

* List of scientists whose names are used as units *

List of people whose names are used in chemical element names This list of chemical elements named after people includes elements named for people both directly and indirectly. Of the 118 elements, 19 are connected with the names of 20 people. 15 elements were named to honor 16 scientists (as curium hono ...

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List of statisticians This list of statisticians lists people who have made notable contributions to the theories or application of statistics, or to the related fields of probability or machine learning. It includes the founders of statistics and others. It includes ...

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List of authors of names published under the ICZN This is a list of notable zoologists who have published names of new taxa under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. A * Abe – Tokiharu Abe (1911–1996) * Abeille de Perrin, Ab. – Elzéar Abeille de Perrin (1843–1910) * ...

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List of Argentine scientists Argentines who are notable include: Artists * Roberto Aizenberg, painter and sculptor * Oscar Alemán, jazz guitarist * Antonio Alice, portrait painter *Marcelo Álvarez, tenor * Fermín Arango, painter *Martha Argerich, concert pianist *Daniel ...

* List of Armenian scientists and philosophers **

List of African-American inventors and scientists This list of African-American inventors and scientists documents many of the African-Americans who have invented a multitude of items or made discoveries in the course of their lives. These have ranged from practical everyday devices to applicati ...

List of Austrian scientists This is a list of Austrian scientists and scientists from the Austria of Austria-Hungary. Economists * Siegfried Becher, economist and government minister *Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk *Ernst Fehr *Simon Gächter *Friedrich Hayek, economist and social ...

List of Azerbaijani scientists and philosophers A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...

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List of Byzantine scholars This is a list of Byzantine scientists and other scholars. Before the 9th century Most important scholars known before the Macedonian Renaissance were active under the Byzantium under the Justinian dynasty, Justinian dynasty. * Theon of Alexandri ...

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List of Catholic scientists Many Catholic laity, Catholics have made significant contributions to the development of science and mathematics from the Middle Ages to today. These scientists include Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Louis Pasteur, Blaise Pascal, André-Marie ...

List of Jesuit scientists This is a list of Catholic clergy throughout history who have made contributions to science. These churchmen-scientists include Nicolaus Copernicus, Gregor Mendel, Georges Lemaître, Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, Roger Joseph B ...

List of Roman Catholic cleric-scientists This is a list of Catholic clergy throughout history who have made contributions to science. These churchmen-scientists include Nicolaus Copernicus, Gregor Mendel, Georges Lemaître, Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, Pierre Gassendi, Roger Joseph Bo ...

** List of Quaker scientists * List of Croatian scientists * List of Czech scientists *

List of Egyptian scientists A list of Egpytians, Egyptian scientists. * Ahmad Fakhri * Ahmed Kamal (Egyptologist), Ahmed Kamal * Ahmed Zewail * Ahmed Shafik (Surgeon), Ahmed Shafik * Ali Moustafa Mosharafa * Aziz Suryal Atiya * Essam E. Khalil * Essam Heggy * Farouk El-Baz ...

* List of Estonian scientists * List of female scientists ** List of female scientists before the 20th century **

List of female scientists in the 20th century This is a historical list dealing with women scientists in the 20th century. During this time period, women working in scientific fields were rare. Women at this time faced barriers in higher education and often denied access to scientific insti ...

** List of female scientists in the 21st century *

List of French scientists This is a list of notable French people, French scientists. A * José Achache (20th-21st centuries), geophysicist and ecologist * Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783), mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher * Claude Allègre ...

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List of Persian scientists and scholars The following is a list of Iranian peoples, Iranian scientists, engineers, and scholars who lived from antiquity up until the beginning of the modern age. A * Abdul Qadir Gilani (12th century) theologian and philosopher * Abu al-Qasim Muqane' ...

List of contemporary Iranian scientists, scholars, and engineers The following is a list of notable Iranian scholars, scientists and engineers around the world from the contemporary period. For pre-modern era, see List of pre-modern Iranian scientists and scholars. For mathematicians, see List of Iranian mathe ...

* List of Italian scientists *

List of Jewish scientists and philosophers A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...

List of Jewish American chemists A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...

List of Muslim scientists Islamic scientific achievements encompassed a wide range of subject areas, especially medicine, mathematics, astronomy, agriculture as well as physics, economics, engineering and optics. Muslim scientists who have contributed significantly to scie ...

Lists of Muslim scientists and scholars Lists of Muslim scientists and scholars cover scientists and scholars who were active in the Islamic world before the modern era. They include: * List of scientists in medieval Islamic world *List of pre-modern Arab scientists and scholars *List o ...

List of New Zealand scientists This page is a ''list of New Zealand scientists'' with articles on Wikipedia and is necessarily incomplete. * Helen Anderson – seismonologist, public servant * Alexander Aitken – mathematician/statistician, writer, mental calculator, music ...

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List of Swedish scientists {{Lists of Swedes This is a list of Sweden, Swedish scientists. Archaeology * Lili Kaelas (1919–2007), Stone and Bronze Age archaeologist Biology and environmental science * Albertina Carlsson (1848–1930), zoologist *Augusta Christie-Lin ...

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List of Nobel laureates The Nobel Prizes (, ) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make outstanding contributions in the f ...

Lists of Nobel laureates Lists of Nobel laureates cover winners of Nobel Prizes for outstanding contributions for humanity in chemistry, literature, peace, physics, and physiology or medicine. The lists are organized by prize, by ethnicity, by origination and by nationali ...