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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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James Franck

Physics

James G. Moore

Earth Sciences

James Gilluly

Earth Sciences

James H. Wilkinson

Computer Science

James Hutton

Earth Sciences

James Lighthill

Formal Sciences

James Lovelock

Life Sciences

James Maynard

Mathematics

James P. Allison

Medicine

James P. Eisenstein

Physics

James Peebles

Physics

James Prescott Joule

Physics

James Priess

Genetics

James Rainwater

Physics

James Rothman

Medicine

James Smithson

Chemistry

James Van Allen

Earth Sciences

James W. Head

Earth Sciences

James Watson

Genetics

Jamini Bhushan Ray

Medicine

Jan Baudouin de Courtenay

Linguistics

Jan Oort

Astronomy

Janaki Ammal

Life Sciences

Jane Goodall

Life Sciences

Jane Luu

Astronomy

Janet Dean Fodor

Linguistics

Janet Rowley

Genetics

Jaroslav Heyrovský

Chemistry

Jay Jasanoff

Linguistics

Jayanta Bandyopadhyay

Earth Sciences

Jean Bourgain

Mathematics

Jean Perrin

Physics

Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont

Earth Sciences

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Life Sciences

Jean-Christophe Yoccoz

Mathematics

Jean-Loup Puget

Astronomy

Jean-Marie Lehn

Chemistry

Jean-Pierre Sauvage

Chemistry

Jean-Pierre Serre

Mathematics

Jeffrey C. Hall

Medicine

Jeffrey Goldstone

Physics

Jeffrey I. Gordon

Life Sciences

Jeffrey Ullman

Computer Science

Jennifer Doudna

Chemistry

Jens C. Skou

Chemistry

Jerome Isaac Friedman

Physics

Jerome Karle

Chemistry

Jerrold Sadock

Linguistics

Jerry Nelson

Astronomy

Jerzy Kuryłowicz

Linguistics

Jerzy Neyman

Formal Sciences

Jesse Douglas

Mathematics

Jethro Teall

Earth Sciences

Jim Gray

Computer Science

Jisnu Basu

Physics

Joachim Barrande

Earth Sciences

Joachim Frank

Chemistry

Joan Bresnan

Linguistics

Joan Bybee

Linguistics

Joan Maling

Linguistics

Joanne Chory

Genetics

JoAnne Stubbe

Chemistry

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Physics

Joe Hin Tjio

Genetics

Joel H. Hildebrand

Chemistry

Johan Herman Lie Vogt

Earth Sciences

Johann Deisenhofer

Chemistry

Johann Galle

Astronomy

Johann Joachim Becher

Chemistry

Johann Schweigger

Physics

Johannes Acronius Frisius

Mathematics

Johannes Diderik van der Waals

Physics

Johannes Fabricius

Astronomy

Johannes Kepler

Astronomy

Johannes Phocylides Holwarda

Astronomy

Johannes Stark

Physics

John A. Peacock

Astronomy

John Archibald Wheeler

Physics

John B. Fenn

Chemistry

John B. Goodenough

Chemistry

John Backus

Computer Science

John Bardeen

Physics

John C. Baez

Mathematics

John C. Bailar Jr.

Chemistry

John C. Crowell

Earth Sciences

John C. Mather

Astronomy

John C. Polanyi

Chemistry

John Clauser

Physics

John Cockcroft

Physics

John Cocke

Computer Science

John Cornforth

Chemistry

John Couch Adams

Astronomy

John D. Bredehoeft

Earth Sciences

John D. Hamaker

Earth Sciences

John D. Roberts

Chemistry

John Dalton

Chemistry

John E. Walker

Chemistry

John Edward Marr

Earth Sciences

John Enders

Medicine

John F. Hawley

Astronomy
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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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