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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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Richard Alley

Earth Sciences

Richard Borcherds

Mathematics

Richard Dawkins

Life Sciences

Richard Dedekind

Mathematics

Richard E. Smalley

Chemistry

Richard E. Taylor

Physics

Richard F. Heck

Chemistry

Richard Feynman

Physics

Richard H. Sibson

Earth Sciences

Richard Hamming

Computer Science

Richard Henderson

Chemistry

Richard Kuhn

Chemistry

Richard Leakey

Life Sciences

Richard M. Karp

Computer Science

Richard Owen

Earth Sciences

Richard R. Ernst

Chemistry

Richard R. Schrock

Chemistry

Richard S. Kayne

Linguistics

Richard Stearns

Computer Science

Richard Synge

Chemistry

Richard Willstätter

Chemistry

Richard Zare

Chemistry

Richard Zsigmondy

Chemistry

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Life Sciences

Roald Hoffmann

Chemistry

Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen

Earth Sciences

Robert B. Laughlin

Physics

Robert Barany

Medicine

Robert Boyle

Physics

Robert Broom

Earth Sciences

Robert Brout

Physics

Robert Bruce Merrifield

Chemistry

Robert Bunsen

Chemistry

Robert Burns Woodward

Chemistry

Robert C. Richardson

Physics

Robert D. Hatcher

Earth Sciences

Robert F. Curl Jr.

Chemistry

Robert FitzRoy

Earth Sciences

Robert H. Grubbs

Chemistry

Robert Hofstadter

Physics

Robert Hooke

Physics

Robert Huber

Chemistry

Robert Jemison Van de Graaff

Physics

Robert Kahn

Computer Science

Robert Kirshner

Astronomy

Robert Koch

Life Sciences

Robert Kraichnan

Physics

Robert L. Folk

Earth Sciences

Robert Langer

Chemistry

Robert Mallet

Earth Sciences

Robert May

Life Sciences

Robert Metcalfe

Computer Science

Robert Millikan

Physics

Robert Mills

Physics

Robert Minard Garrels

Earth Sciences

Robert P. Sharp

Earth Sciences

Robert Robinson

Chemistry

Robert S. Dietz

Earth Sciences

Robert S. Mulliken

Chemistry

Robert Tarjan

Computer Science

Robert W. Floyd

Computer Science

Robert W. Holley

Life Sciences

Robert W. Parry

Chemistry

Robert Waterston

Genetics

Robert Wilson

Astronomy

Robert Woodrow Wilson

Physics

Robin Hill

Life Sciences

Robin Milner

Computer Science

Robin Warren

Life Sciences

Roderick MacKinnon

Chemistry

Roderick Murchison

Earth Sciences

Rodney Robert Porter

Life Sciences

Rodrigo Ibata

Astronomy

Roger Adams

Chemistry

Roger Altounyan

Life Sciences

Roger Angel

Astronomy

Roger Blandford

Astronomy

Roger D. Kornberg

Chemistry

Roger Penrose

Physics

Roger Revelle

Earth Sciences

Roger Shuy

Linguistics

Roger Sperry

Medicine

Roger Y. Tsien

Chemistry

Rollan Kadyev

Physics

Roman Jakobson

Linguistics

Roman Kozlowski

Earth Sciences

Ronald Breslow

Chemistry

Ronald Drever

Physics

Ronald Fisher

Genetics

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish

Chemistry

Ronald Gillespie

Chemistry

Ronald Nyholm

Chemistry

Ronald Rivest

Computer Science

Ronald W. Davis

Genetics

Rosalind Franklin

Chemistry

Rosalyn Yalow

Medicine

Rotem Sorek

Genetics

Roy Chapman Andrews

Earth Sciences

Roy J. Glauber

Physics

Rudolf Carnap

Formal 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)
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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