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This dimension names the scientist credited with founding a specific discipline. Wikipedia notes that specialized scientific disciplines "often possess their own terminologies and expertises," expertise that in many cases traces back to one founding figure. Browsing this way collects every discipline founded by the same person.

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Aristotle

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Carl Linnaeus

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Ernest Rutherford

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Georges Cuvier

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Robert Bunsen

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Alan Turing

Founded By
1 entry

Albert Einstein

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1 entry

Alexander von Humboldt

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Allen Newell

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Antoine Lavoisier

Founded By
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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Camillo Golgi

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Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Charles Wyville Thomson

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Dmitri Ivanovsky

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Edmond Halley

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Edward Burnett Tylor

Founded By
1 entry

Edward Jenner

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Emil Fischer

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Ernst Haeckel

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Euclid

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Felix Bloch

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Ferdinand de Saussure

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Francis Crick

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Francis Willughby

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Franz Boas

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Frederick Sanger

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George Miller

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Georges Lemaitre

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Gregor Mendel

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Gustav Kirchhoff

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Henry Clifton Sorby

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1 entry

Herbert Simon

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1 entry

Hermann von Helmholtz

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1 entry

Hippocrates

Founded By
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Ibn al-Haytham

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Isaac Newton

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1 entry

J. J. Thomson

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James Clerk Maxwell

Founded By
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James Hutton

Founded By
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Founded By
1 entry

John McCarthy

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John Milne

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1 entry

John Ray

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1 entry

John Snow

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1 entry

Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti

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Justus von Liebig

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Karl Pearson

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1 entry

Karl Popper

Founded By
1 entry

Louis Agassiz

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1 entry

Martinus Beijerinck

Founded By
1 entry

Nicolaus Copernicus

Founded By
1 entry

Niels Bohr

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Noam Chomsky

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1 entry

Oswald Schmiedeberg

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Pier Antonio Micheli

Founded By
1 entry

Ronald Fisher

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1 entry

Sadi Carnot

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Santiago Ramon y Cajal

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Sir William Jones

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Theophrastus

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Thomas Jaggar

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Wilhelm Wundt

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William Henry Bragg

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William Kirby

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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Branches of science
WikipediaBranches of science, lead section, three-group division
Quote, Branches of science, lead section, three-group division
The branches of science, also referred to as sciences, scientific fields or scientific disciplines, are commonly divided into three major groups: Formal sciences...Natural sciences...Social sciences...
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