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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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Rudolf Clausius

Physics

Rudolf Jaenisch

Genetics

Rudolf Mössbauer

Physics

Rudolf Peierls

Physics

Rudolf Trumpy

Earth Sciences

Rudolph A. Marcus

Chemistry

Russell A. Hulse

Physics

Ruth Lehmann

Genetics

Ryoji Noyori

Chemistry

S. C. Dutta Roy

Computer Science

S. M. Ullah

Earth Sciences

Sadi Carnot

Physics

Salawat Gallyamov

Linguistics

Sally McConnell-Ginet

Linguistics

Salvador Luria

Genetics

Samarendra Kumar Mitra

Computer Science

Samaresh Bhattacharya

Chemistry

Samuel C. C. Ting

Physics

Samuel C. Lind

Chemistry

Samuel Epstein

Earth Sciences

Sandra A. Thompson

Linguistics

Sandra Chung

Linguistics

Sankar Kumar Pal

Computer Science

Santiago Ramon y Cajal

Life Sciences

Sara Seager

Astronomy

Sarah G. Thomason

Linguistics

Sasanka Chandra Bhattacharyya

Chemistry

Satoshi Omura

Medicine

Satyendra Nath Bose

Physics

Saul Perlmutter

Astronomy

Searles Valentine Wood

Earth Sciences

Selman Waksman

Life Sciences

Senjuti Saha

Medicine

Serena Auñón-Chancellor

Medicine

Sergei Adian

Mathematics

Sergei Novikov

Mathematics

Severo Ochoa

Medicine

Sewall Wright

Genetics

Sextil Pușcariu

Linguistics

Seymour Benzer

Genetics

Shafi Goldwasser

Computer Science

Shana Poplack

Linguistics

Sharat Kumar Roy

Earth Sciences

Sharmila Bhattacharya

Life Sciences

Shaun Cole

Astronomy

Sheila Blumstein

Linguistics

Sheldon Glashow

Physics

Shen Kuo

Earth Sciences

Shibasaburo Kitasato

Life Sciences

Shigefumi Mori

Mathematics

Shing-Tung Yau

Mathematics

Shin'ichirō Tomonaga

Physics

Shinya Yamanaka

Genetics

Shobhona Sharma

Life Sciences

Shrinivas Kulkarni

Astronomy

Shuji Nakamura

Physics

Shu-Park Chan

Formal Sciences

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Medicine

Sidney Altman

Chemistry

Silvio Micali

Computer Science

Simon Donaldson

Mathematics

Simon Newcomb

Astronomy

Simon van der Meer

Physics

Simon White

Astronomy

Sin-Itiro Tomonaga

Physics

Sir Richard Griffith

Earth Sciences

Sir William Jones

Linguistics

Siva Brata Bhattacherjee

Physics

Sofia Kovalevskaya

Mathematics

Somdatta Sinha

Life Sciences

Sophus Lie

Mathematics

Srinivasa Ramanujan

Mathematics

Stanford Moore

Chemistry

Stanford Woosley

Astronomy

Stanislav Smirnov

Mathematics

Stanislaw Ulam

Mathematics

Stanley B. Prusiner

Life Sciences

Stanley Cohen

Life Sciences

Stanley N. Cohen

Genetics

Stanley Peters

Linguistics

Stefan Banach

Mathematics

Stefan Hell

Chemistry

Stephen Cook

Computer Science

Stephen Hawking

Astronomy

Stephen J. Elledge

Genetics

Stephen J. Lippard

Chemistry

Stephen Jay Gould

Life Sciences

Stephen Kleene

Mathematics

Stephen R. Anderson

Linguistics

Stephen Shing-Toung Yau

Formal Sciences

Stephen Smale

Mathematics

Stephen Wolfram

Formal Sciences

Steven Balbus

Astronomy

Steven Chu

Physics

Steven M. Stanley

Earth Sciences

Steven Pinker

Linguistics

Steven Weinberg

Physics

Stuart Orkin

Genetics

Su Song

Astronomy

Subhasish Dey

Earth 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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