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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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Manfred Eigen

Chemistry

Manfred von Ardenne

Physics

Mani Lal Bhaumik

Physics

Manjul Bhargava

Mathematics

Manne Siegbahn

Physics

Manuel Berberian

Earth Sciences

Manuel Blum

Computer Science

Marcellin Berthelot

Chemistry

Marcellin Boule

Earth Sciences

Margaret Burbidge

Astronomy

Margaret Mead

Life Sciences

Maria Goeppert Mayer

Physics

Maria Mitchell

Astronomy

Maria Sibylla Merian

Life Sciences

Mariam al-Ijliya

Astronomy

Marianne Mithun

Linguistics

Marie Curie

Physics

Marie Tharp

Earth Sciences

Mario Capecchi

Genetics

Mario Molina

Chemistry

Mark Aronoff

Linguistics

Mark Liberman

Linguistics

Mark Stoneking

Life Sciences

Marland P. Billings

Earth Sciences

Marshall Kay

Earth Sciences

Marshall W. Nirenberg

Life Sciences

Marston T. Bogert

Chemistry

Martha Chase

Genetics

Martin Chalfie

Chemistry

Martin Evans

Life Sciences

Martin Hairer

Mathematics

Martin Harold Phillips Bott

Earth Sciences

Martin Hellman

Computer Science

Martin Karplus

Chemistry

Martin Lewis Perl

Physics

Martin Rees

Astronomy

Martin Ryle

Astronomy

Martinus Beijerinck

Life Sciences

Martinus J. G. Veltman

Physics

Marvin Minsky

Computer Science

Mary Anning

Life Sciences

Mary L. Good

Chemistry

Mary Leakey

Life Sciences

Mary Lyon

Genetics

Maryam Mirzakhani

Mathematics

Mary-Claire King

Genetics

Maryna Viazovska

Mathematics

Masatoshi Koshiba

Physics

Matthew Bailes

Astronomy

Matthew Fontaine Maury

Earth Sciences

Matthew Meselson

Genetics

Matthias Schleiden

Life Sciences

Maura McLaughlin

Astronomy

Maureen Raymo

Earth Sciences

Maurice Gignoux

Earth Sciences

Maurice Goldhaber

Physics

Maurice Lugeon

Earth Sciences

Maurice Wilkes

Computer Science

Maurice Wilkins

Genetics

Max Born

Physics

Max Delbruck

Genetics

Max Perutz

Chemistry

Max Planck

Physics

Max Tishler

Chemistry

Max Trautz

Chemistry

Max von Laue

Physics

Maxim Kontsevich

Mathematics

Maximilian Haider

Physics

May-Britt Moser

Medicine

Maynard Olson

Genetics

Md. Hanifuddin Miah

Computer Science

Meenakshi Banerjee

Life Sciences

Meghnad Saha

Astronomy

Melvin Alvah Traylor Jr.

Life Sciences

Melvin Calvin

Chemistry

Melvin Schwartz

Physics

Michael Atiyah

Mathematics

Michael Berry

Physics

Michael E. Brown

Astronomy

Michael E. Fisher

Physics

Michael E. Krauss

Linguistics

Michael Faraday

Physics

Michael Freedman

Mathematics

Michael Grunstein

Genetics

Michael Halliday

Linguistics

Michael Houghton

Medicine

Michael Levitt

Chemistry

Michael O. Rabin

Computer Science

Michael Perryman

Astronomy

Michael Polanyi

Formal Sciences

Michael Rosbash

Medicine

Michael Smith

Chemistry

Michael Stonebraker

Computer Science

Michael W. Young

Medicine

Michel Breal

Linguistics

Michel Mayor

Physics

Michiyo Tsujimura

Life Sciences

Mihir Chowdhury

Chemistry

Mihir Kumar Bose

Earth Sciences

Mildred Dresselhaus

Materials Science
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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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