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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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John Flamsteed

Astronomy

John Flett

Earth Sciences

John Frederick Dewey

Earth Sciences

John G. Ramsay

Earth Sciences

John G. Thompson

Mathematics

John Goldsmith

Linguistics

John Gurdon

Genetics

John Hadley

Astronomy

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck

Physics

John Hopcroft

Computer Science

John Hopfield

Physics

John Horne

Earth Sciences

John Howard Northrop

Chemistry

John Kendrew

Chemistry

John L. Hennessy

Computer Science

John M. Jumper

Chemistry

John Maynard Smith

Life Sciences

John McCarthy

Computer Science

John Michell

Astronomy

John Milne

Earth Sciences

John Milnor

Mathematics

John Napier

Mathematics

John Nash

Mathematics

John Ohala

Linguistics

John O'Keefe

Medicine

John Pardon

Mathematics

John Pendry

Physics

John Phillips

Earth Sciences

John Pople

Chemistry

John R. L. Allen

Earth Sciences

John Ray

Life Sciences

John Richard Bond

Astronomy

John Rickford

Linguistics

John Robert Schrieffer

Physics

John Rodgers

Earth Sciences

John Rupert Firth

Linguistics

John Snow

Medicine

John Stewart Bell

Physics

John Sulston

Life Sciences

John T. Andrews

Earth Sciences

John Tukey

Formal Sciences

John von Neumann

Computer Science

John Wesley Judd

Earth Sciences

John Whitaker Hulke

Earth Sciences

John Wilkinson

Chemistry

Jokichi Takamine

Chemistry

Jonas Salk

Life Sciences

Jons Jacob Berzelius

Chemistry

Jordan Nguyen

Life Sciences

Jorgen Christensen-Dalsgaard

Astronomy

Joseph Burr Tyrrell

Earth Sciences

Joseph Greenberg

Linguistics

Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.

Astronomy

Joseph Lister

Medicine

Joseph M. Acaba

Earth Sciences

Joseph Prestwich

Earth Sciences

Joseph Priestley

Chemistry

Joseph Proust

Chemistry

Joseph Sifakis

Computer Science

Joseph von Fraunhofer

Physics

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Mathematics

Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti

Life Sciences

Joshua Fishman

Linguistics

Joshua Lederberg

Life Sciences

Juan Ignacio Cirac

Physics

Judea Pearl

Computer Science

Judith Aissen

Linguistics

Jule Charney

Earth Sciences

Julian Barbour

Physics

Julian Schwinger

Physics

Julius Axelrod

Medicine

June Huh

Mathematics

Juris Hartmanis

Computer Science

Justin Yerbury

Medicine

Justus von Liebig

Chemistry

K. Alex Müller

Physics

K. Barry Sharpless

Chemistry

Kadir Timergazin

Earth Sciences

Kai Siegbahn

Physics

Kamala Sohonie

Life Sciences

Kamrun Nahar

Earth Sciences

Karl Alfred von Zittel

Earth Sciences

Karl August Folkers

Chemistry

Karl Bleyl

Life Sciences

Karl Brugmann

Linguistics

Karl Ferdinand Braun

Physics

Karl Jansky

Astronomy

Karl Karekin Turekian

Earth Sciences

Karl Landsteiner

Life Sciences

Karl Ludwig Harding

Astronomy

Karl Pearson

Formal Sciences

Karl Popper

Formal Sciences

Karl Verner

Linguistics

Karl von Frisch

Life Sciences

Karl Weierstrass

Mathematics

Karl Ziegler

Chemistry

Kary Mullis

Life Sciences

Katalin Kariko

Medicine

Katherine Johnson

Formal Sciences

Kathleen Lonsdale

Chemistry
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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)
WikipediaContains: Édouard RocheView the Source
James Van Allen (Wikipedia)
WikipediaContains: James Van AllenView the Source
Enrico Fermi (Wikipedia)
WikipediaContains: Enrico FermiView the Source
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