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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
All Scientists
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Kathryn Whaler

Earth Sciences

Katsuko Saruhashi

Chemistry

Keith Campbell

Genetics

Ken Thompson

Computer Science

Kenichi Fukui

Chemistry

Ken'ichi Nomoto

Astronomy

Kenneth G. Wilson

Physics

Kenneth Iverson

Computer Science

Kenneth J. Hsu

Earth Sciences

Kenneth Pike

Linguistics

Kenneth Pitzer

Chemistry

Kent Condie

Earth Sciences

Keren Rice

Linguistics

Kevin C. A. Burke

Earth Sciences

Kingsley Charles Dunham

Earth Sciences

Kip Thorne

Physics

Klaus Hasselmann

Physics

Klaus Roth

Mathematics

Klaus von Klitzing

Physics

Knut Urban

Physics

Koichi Tanaka

Chemistry

Kono Yasui

Life Sciences

Konrad Lorenz

Life Sciences

Konstantin Mereschkowski

Life Sciences

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Physical Sciences

Kristen Nygaard

Computer Science

Kshitindramohan Naha

Earth Sciences

Kunihiko Kodaira

Mathematics

Kurt Alder

Chemistry

Kurt Godel

Mathematics

Kurt Lambeck

Earth Sciences

Kurt Wüthrich

Chemistry

L. E. J. Brouwer

Mathematics

Larry Laudan

Formal Sciences

Larry M. Hyman

Linguistics

Lars Ahlfors

Mathematics

Lars Hörmander

Mathematics

Lars Onsager

Chemistry

Laurence L. Sloss

Earth Sciences

Laurence R. Horn

Linguistics

Laurent Lafforgue

Mathematics

Laurent Schwartz

Mathematics

Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck

Earth Sciences

Lazarus Fletcher

Earth Sciences

Lee Sang-mook

Earth Sciences

Lennart Lindegren

Astronomy

Lenur Arifov

Physics

Leo Esaki

Physics

Leo Kadanoff

Physics

Leon M. Lederman

Physics

Leon N. Cooper

Physics

Leonard Adleman

Computer Science

Leonard Bloomfield

Linguistics

Leonard Hawkes

Earth Sciences

Leonard Johnston Wills

Earth Sciences

Leonard Susskind

Physics

Leonardo of Pisa

Mathematics

Leonhard Euler

Mathematics

Leopold Kronecker

Mathematics

Leopold Ruzicka

Chemistry

Leopold von Buch

Earth Sciences

Leslie Lamport

Computer Science

Leslie Valiant

Computer Science

Lev Landau

Physics

Lev Pontryagin

Mathematics

Lewis Fry Richardson

Earth Sciences

Li Guohao

Physical Sciences

Liang Boqiang

Medicine

Lila Gleitman

Linguistics

Linus Pauling

Chemistry

Lise Meitner

Physics

Lise Menn

Linguistics

Liu Hui

Mathematics

Lord Rayleigh

Physics

Louis Agassiz

Earth Sciences

Louis Brus

Chemistry

Louis de Broglie

Physics

Louis Hjelmslev

Linguistics

Louis Leakey

Life Sciences

Louis Néel

Physics

Louis Pasteur

Chemistry

Louis Plack Hammett

Chemistry

Luc Montagnier

Medicine

Ludwig Boltzmann

Physics

Luis Federico Leloir

Life Sciences

Luis Walter Alvarez

Physics

Luke Howard

Earth Sciences

Luna B. Leopold

Earth Sciences

Lyman Page

Physics

Lynn Margulis

Life Sciences

Lynne E. Maquat

Genetics

M. Frederick Hawthorne

Chemistry

M. Gordon Wolman

Earth Sciences

M. King Hubbert

Earth Sciences

M. Stanley Whittingham

Chemistry

Maarten Schmidt

Astronomy

Madhava of Sangamagrama

Formal Sciences

Madhulika Guhathakurta

Astronomy

Madhusudan Gupta

Life Sciences

Magdalena Bezanilla

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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