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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
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Paul Fourmarier

Earth Sciences

Paul Heinrich von Groth

Earth Sciences

Paul J. Chapin

Linguistics

Paul J. Crutzen

Chemistry

Paul Karrer

Chemistry

Paul Kiparsky

Linguistics

Paul Langevin

Physics

Paul Modrich

Chemistry

Paul Nurse

Life Sciences

Paul S. Anderson

Chemistry

Paul Sabatier

Chemistry

Paul Tseng

Formal Sciences

Pavel Cherenkov

Physics

Peggy Assinck

Life Sciences

Pentti Eskola

Earth Sciences

Per Uhlén

Life Sciences

Percival Lowell

Astronomy

Percy Williams Bridgman

Physics

Peter Agre

Chemistry

Peter B. Dervan

Chemistry

Peter Culicover

Linguistics

Peter D. Mitchell

Chemistry

Peter Debye

Chemistry

Peter Freuchen

Life Sciences

Peter Goldreich

Astronomy

Peter Grünberg

Physics

Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet

Mathematics

Peter Higgs

Physics

Peter Hirsch

Materials Science

Peter J. Ratcliffe

Medicine

Peter J. Stang

Chemistry

Peter John Wyllie

Earth Sciences

Peter Ladefoged

Linguistics

Peter Martin Duncan

Earth Sciences

Peter Medawar

Life Sciences

Peter Naur

Computer Science

Peter R. Vail

Earth Sciences

Peter Scholze

Mathematics

Peter Zoller

Physics

Peyton Rous

Life Sciences

Philip Burke King

Earth Sciences

Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton

Earth Sciences

Philip Hench

Medicine

Philip Henry Kuenen

Earth Sciences

Philip Warren Anderson

Physics

Philipp Lenard

Physics

Philippe Loys de Cheseaux

Astronomy

Philippe Nozières

Physics

Pier Antonio Micheli

Life Sciences

Pier Vellinga

Earth Sciences

Pierre Agostini

Physics

Pierre Armand Dufrenoy

Earth Sciences

Pierre Curie

Physics

Pierre de Fermat

Mathematics

Pierre Deligne

Mathematics

Pierre Duhem

Formal Sciences

Pierre Mechain

Astronomy

Pierre Pruvost

Earth Sciences

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Physics

Pierre-Louis Lions

Mathematics

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Mathematics

Pieter Zeeman

Physics

Polykarp Kusch

Physics

Prabodh Chandra Sengupta

Mathematics

Pradyut Ghosh

Chemistry

Pramatha Nath Bose

Earth Sciences

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

Mathematics

Preston Cloud

Earth Sciences

Priyabrata Mukherjee

Medicine

Proby Thomas Cautley

Earth Sciences

Purushottam Chakraborty

Physics

Pyotr Kapitsa

Physics

Pythagoras

Mathematics

Qian Xuesen

Physics

Rachel Carson

Life Sciences

Radhanath Sikdar

Formal Sciences

Radia Perlman

Computer Science

Rafi Bistritzer

Physics

Rainer Weiss

Physics

Raj Reddy

Computer Science

Ralph Alger Bagnold

Earth Sciences

Ralph Connor

Chemistry

Ralph M. Steinman

Medicine

Ralph Nuzzo

Chemistry

Randy Schekman

Medicine

Ranjan Mallik

Formal Sciences

Rasmus Rask

Linguistics

Ray Jackendoff

Linguistics

Raymond A. Price

Earth Sciences

Raymond Cecil Moore

Earth Sciences

Raymond Davis Jr.

Physics

Raymond Wilson

Astronomy

Rebecca Cann

Life Sciences

Reginald Aldworth Daly

Earth Sciences

Reinhard Genzel

Physics

Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

Earth Sciences

Renato Dulbecco

Life Sciences

René Descartes

Mathematics

René Thom

Mathematics

Riccardo Giacconi

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)
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Enrico Fermi (Wikipedia)
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