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The people category: researchers, inventors and theorists whose work the atlas records, spanning every discipline and era. It excludes institutions, which have their own category even when named for a person, and excludes the theories, experiments and instruments a scientist is credited with, which are recorded as their own entities with a scientist connection.

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1834 1
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A. W. Peet

Physics

A.R. Radcliffe-Brown

Life Sciences

Aage Bohr

Physics

Aaron C. Waters

Earth Sciences

Aaron Ciechanover

Chemistry

Aaron Klug

Chemistry

Abd al-Wahhab Adarrak

Life Sciences

Abdus Salam

Physics

Abhijit Mukherjee (earth scientist)

Earth Sciences

Abraham Fraenkel

Formal Sciences

Abraham Wald

Formal Sciences

Abram Alikhanov

Physics

Abul Hussam

Chemistry

Ada E. Yonath

Chemistry

Ada Lovelace

Mathematics

Adam Riess

Astronomy

Adam Sedgwick

Earth Sciences

Adi Shamir

Computer Science

Adolf Butenandt

Chemistry

Adolf von Baeyer

Chemistry

Adolf Windaus

Chemistry

Adolph Knopf

Earth Sciences

Adolphe d'Archiac

Earth Sciences

Adolphe-Theodore Brongniart

Life Sciences

Adolphus Ypey

Life Sciences

Adriana Briscoe

Genetics

Adrien-Marie Legendre

Mathematics

Agnes Yewande Savage

Medicine

Ahmed Zewail

Chemistry

Akira Suzuki

Chemistry

Akira Yoshino

Chemistry

Akshay Venkatesh

Mathematics

Alain Aspect

Physics

Alain Connes

Mathematics

Alan Baker

Mathematics

Alan Cottrell

Materials Science

Alan Fersht

Chemistry

Alan Guth

Physics

Alan Heeger

Chemistry

Alan Kay

Computer Science

Alan MacDiarmid

Chemistry

Alan Perlis

Computer Science

Alan R. Battersby

Chemistry

Alan Turing

Mathematics

Al-Battani

Astronomy

Albert A. Michelson

Physics

Albert Baez

Physics

Albert Einstein

Physics

Albert Fert

Physics

Albert Gaudry

Earth Sciences

Albert Heim

Earth Sciences

Albert Libchaber

Physics

Albert Seward

Life Sciences

Al-Biruni

Astronomy

Alec Jeffreys

Life Sciences

Alessandro Volta

Physics

Alessio Figalli

Mathematics

Alexander Fleming

Medicine

Alexander Grothendieck

Mathematics

Alexander Karpinsky

Earth Sciences

Alexander Mitchell

Physical Sciences

Alexander Oparin

Life Sciences

Alexander Prokhorov

Physics

Alexander R. Todd

Chemistry

Alexander Rich

Life Sciences

Alexander von Humboldt

Life Sciences

Alexei Abrikosov

Physics

Alexei Starobinsky

Physics

Alexey Ekimov

Chemistry

Alexis Carrel

Life Sciences

Alfred Aho

Computer Science

Alfred Des Cloizeaux

Earth Sciences

Alfred G. Fischer

Earth Sciences

Alfred Harker

Earth Sciences

Alfred Hershey

Genetics

Alfred Kastler

Physics

Alfred Lacroix

Earth Sciences

Alfred Lee Loomis

Physics

Alfred Nobel

Chemistry

Alfred Ringwood

Earth Sciences

Alfred Russel Wallace

Life Sciences

Alfred Sherwood Romer

Earth Sciences

Alfred Sturtevant

Genetics

Alfred Tarski

Formal Sciences

Alfred Wegener

Earth Sciences

Alfred Werner

Chemistry

Ali Aliev

Physics

Al-Jazari

Physical Sciences

Al-Khwarizmi

Mathematics

Al-Kindi

Physical Sciences

Allan C. Spradling

Genetics

Allan MacDonald

Physics

Allan S. Jacobson

Genetics

Allan Wilson

Life Sciences

Allen J. Bard

Chemistry

Allen Newell

Computer Science

Alok Krishna Gupta

Earth Sciences

Alonzo Church

Computer Science

Al-Tughra'i

Chemistry

Al-Zahrawi

Life Sciences
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1. Online Etymology Dictionary: scientist
Online Etymology DictionaryOnline Etymology Dictionary, scientist entry
Quote, Online Etymology Dictionary, scientist entry
"person versed in or devoted to science," 1834, a hybrid coined from Latin scientia (see science) by the Rev. William Whewell, English polymath, by analogy with artist, in the same paragraph in which he coined physicist.
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Édouard Roche (Wikipedia)
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James Van Allen (Wikipedia)
WikipediaContains: James Van AllenView the Source
Enrico Fermi (Wikipedia)
WikipediaContains: Enrico FermiView the Source
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