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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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Subir Kumar Ghosh

Earth Sciences

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Astronomy

Subrata Roy

Physics

Sudipta Sengupta

Earth Sciences

Sumio Iijima

Physics

Surya Ganguli

Physics

Susan Goldin-Meadow

Linguistics

Susan L. Brantley

Earth Sciences

Susan W. Kieffer

Earth Sciences

Susmita Bose

Chemistry

Susumu Ohno

Genetics

Susumu Tonegawa

Genetics

Suvendra Nath Bhattacharyya

Life Sciences

Suzanne Mahlburg Kay

Earth Sciences

Svante Arrhenius

Chemistry

Svante Paabo

Medicine

Sydney Brenner

Life Sciences

Sylvia Acevedo

Physical Sciences

Sylvia Earle

Earth Sciences

Syukuro Manabe

Physics

T. Wayland Vaughan

Earth Sciences

Tadeusz Reichstein

Medicine

Takaaki Kajita

Physics

Tanya Atwater

Earth Sciences

Tapas Kumar Kundu

Life Sciences

Tasuku Honjo

Medicine

Ted Irving

Earth Sciences

Terence Tao

Mathematics

Terry Plank

Earth Sciences

Thabit ibn Qurra

Formal Sciences

Thales of Miletus

Mathematics

Theodor Svedberg

Chemistry

Theodor W. Hansch

Physics

Theodore Maiman

Physics

Theodore William Richards

Chemistry

Theodosius Dobzhansky

Genetics

Theophrastus

Life Sciences

Theunis Piersma

Life Sciences

Thomas A. Steitz

Chemistry

Thomas Bayes

Formal Sciences

Thomas C. Sudhof

Medicine

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin

Earth Sciences

Thomas Davidson

Earth Sciences

Thomas Ebbesen

Chemistry

Thomas George Bonney

Earth Sciences

Thomas Godfrey

Formal Sciences

Thomas Gold

Astronomy

Thomas Henry Huxley

Life Sciences

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Genetics

Thomas Jaggar

Earth Sciences

Thomas Kuhn

Formal Sciences

Thomas Midgley Jr.

Chemistry

Thomas O. Mensah

Materials Science

Thomas R. Cech

Chemistry

Thomas Weller

Medicine

Thomas Wright

Earth Sciences

Thomas Young

Physics

Thure E. Cerling

Earth Sciences

Tim Berners-Lee

Computer Science

Timothy Gowers

Mathematics

Ting-Chao Chou

Life Sciences

Tinku Acharya

Formal Sciences

Tista Bagchi

Formal Sciences

Tobin J. Marks

Chemistry

Tomas Lindahl

Chemistry

Tony Hoare

Computer Science

Tor Bergeron

Earth Sciences

Torsten Wiesel

Medicine

Toshihide Maskawa

Physics

Trond Helge Torsvik

Earth Sciences

Tsung-Dao Lee

Physics

Tu Youyou

Chemistry

Tycho Brahe

Astronomy

Ujjwal Maulik

Computer Science

Ukichiro Nakaya

Physics

Ulf von Euler

Medicine

Ulugh Beg

Astronomy

Ume Tange

Life Sciences

Urbain Le Verrier

Astronomy

Uriel Weinreich

Linguistics

Usha Ranjan Ghatak

Chemistry

Uzi Even

Chemistry

Val Fitch

Physics

Valentine Telegdi

Physics

Vannevar Bush

Computer Science

Varahamihira

Formal Sciences

Vaughan Jones

Mathematics

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Chemistry

Vera Rubin

Astronomy

Vesto Slipher

Astronomy

Victor Ambros

Medicine

Victor Franz Hess

Physics

Victor Grignard

Chemistry

Victor McKusick

Genetics

Victor Weisskopf

Physics

Victoria Kaspi

Astronomy

Vilém Mathesius

Linguistics

Vilhelm Bjerknes

Earth Sciences

Vincent du Vigneaud

Chemistry

Vint Cerf

Computer 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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