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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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Mildred K. Nobles

Life Sciences

Milton Harris

Chemistry

Milton Humason

Astronomy

Milutin Milankovitch

Earth Sciences

Minze Stuiver

Earth Sciences

Mitchell Feigenbaum

Physics

Mohammad Ataul Karim

Physics

Mona Nemer

Life Sciences

Mordehai Heiblum

Physics

Morris Halle

Linguistics

Morris Swadesh

Linguistics

Morten Meldal

Chemistry

Mostafa El-Sayed

Chemistry

Motoo Kimura

Life Sciences

Moungi Bawendi

Chemistry

Muhammad Qudrat-i-Khuda

Chemistry

Murray Gell-Mann

Physics

N. C. Paul

Medicine

N. David Mermin

Physics

Nadrian Seeman

Chemistry

Nani Gopal Majumdar

Earth Sciences

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

Astronomy

Natasha Batalha

Astronomy

Nelson Horatio Darton

Earth Sciences

Nettie Stevens

Genetics

Nevil Story Maskelyne

Earth Sciences

Nevill Francis Mott

Physics

Ngô Bao Chau

Mathematics

Nibir Mandal

Earth Sciences

Nicholas John Shackleton

Earth Sciences

Nicolaas Bloembergen

Physics

Nicolas Steno

Earth Sciences

Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille

Astronomy

Nicolaus Copernicus

Astronomy

Niels Bohr

Physics

Niels Henrik Abel

Mathematics

Niels Kaj Jerne

Life Sciences

Niklaus Wirth

Computer Science

Nikola Tesla

Physics

Nikolaas Tinbergen

Life Sciences

Nikolai Bogolyubov

Physics

Nikolai Trubetzkoy

Linguistics

Nikolai Vavilov

Life Sciences

Nikolay Basov

Physics

Nikolay Semyonov

Chemistry

Niles Eldredge

Life Sciences

Nilratan Sircar

Life Sciences

Nils Gustaf Dalén

Physics

Noam Chomsky

Linguistics

Norbert Wiener

Computer Science

Norman D. Newell

Earth Sciences

Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.

Physics

Norman Haworth

Chemistry

Norman Levi Bowen

Earth Sciences

Norman Sleep

Earth Sciences

Odd Hassel

Chemistry

Olaf Hassel

Astronomy

Olaf Holtedahl

Earth Sciences

Ole-Johan Dahl

Computer Science

Olga Skorokhodova

Life Sciences

Oliver Heaviside

Physics

Omar Khayyam

Formal Sciences

Ondrej Krivanek

Physics

Orna Berry

Computer Science

Osamu Shimomura

Chemistry

Osmond Fisher

Earth Sciences

Oswald Avery

Genetics

Oswald Heer

Life Sciences

Oswald Schmiedeberg

Life Sciences

Othniel Charles Marsh

Earth Sciences

Otto Diels

Chemistry

Otto Frisch

Physics

Otto Hahn

Chemistry

Otto Jespersen

Linguistics

Otto Loewi

Medicine

Otto Neurath

Formal Sciences

Otto Stern

Physics

Otto von Guericke

Physics

Owen Chamberlain

Physics

Owen Richardson

Physics

Owen Thomas Jones

Earth Sciences

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Physics

Pafnuty Chebyshev

Mathematics

Panini

Linguistics

Param Nath Bhaduri

Life Sciences

Partha Sarathi Mukherjee

Chemistry

Pat Hanrahan

Computer Science

Patrick Blackett

Physics

Patrick Soon-Shiong

Life Sciences

Paul Alivisatos

Chemistry

Paul Berg

Genetics

Paul Cohen

Mathematics

Paul Corkum

Physics

Paul D. Boyer

Chemistry

Paul Dirac

Physics

Paul Ehrlich

Life Sciences

Paul Erdős

Mathematics

Paul F. Hoffman

Earth Sciences

Paul Feyerabend

Formal Sciences

Paul Flory

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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