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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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Virginijus Šikšnys

Chemistry

Vitaly Ginzburg

Physics

Vladimir Drinfeld

Mathematics

Vladimir Prelog

Chemistry

Vladimir Veksler

Physics

Vladimir Voevodsky

Mathematics

W. Albert Noyes Jr.

Chemistry

W. D. Hamilton

Life Sciences

W. Gary Ernst

Earth Sciences

Waldemar Christofer Brogger

Earth Sciences

Waldemar Lindgren

Earth Sciences

Wallace R. Brode

Chemistry

Wallace Smith Broecker

Earth Sciences

Walt Wolfram

Linguistics

Walter Alvarez

Earth Sciences

Walter Baade

Astronomy

Walter Brattain

Physics

Walter C. Alvarez

Life Sciences

Walter Gilbert

Genetics

Walter Heitler

Physics

Walter Hermann Bucher

Earth Sciences

Walter Kohn

Chemistry

Walter Munk

Earth Sciences

Walter Sutton

Genetics

Walther Bothe

Physics

Walther Nernst

Chemistry

Wang Zhenyi

Astronomy

Wangari Maathai

Life Sciences

Warren B. Hamilton

Earth Sciences

Warren K. Lewis

Chemistry

Wendelin Werner

Mathematics

Wendell P. Woodring

Earth Sciences

Wendell Stanley

Life Sciences

Werner Arber

Genetics

Werner Heisenberg

Physics

Whitfield Diffie

Computer Science

Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston

Earth Sciences

Wilhelm Olbers

Astronomy

Wilhelm Ostwald

Chemistry

Wilhelm Röntgen

Physics

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Linguistics

Wilhelm Wien

Physics

Wilhelm Wundt

Life Sciences

Willard Libby

Chemistry

Willard Van Orman Quine

Formal Sciences

William A. Fowler

Astronomy

William A. Noyes

Chemistry

William Berryman Scott

Earth Sciences

William Borucki

Astronomy

William Bright

Linguistics

William Brownrigg

Chemistry

William Buckland

Earth Sciences

William C. Campbell

Medicine

William Chandler Roberts-Austen

Materials Science

William Conybeare

Earth Sciences

William Crawford Williamson

Life Sciences

William D. Phillips

Physics

William Dwight Whitney

Linguistics

William E. Moerner

Chemistry

William Edmond Logan

Earth Sciences

William Feller

Formal Sciences

William Francis Giauque

Chemistry

William G. Kaelin Jr.

Medicine

William Garrow Lettsom

Earth Sciences

William Gould Young

Chemistry

William Harvey

Medicine

William Henry Bragg

Physics

William Henry Fitton

Earth Sciences

William Henry Pickering

Astronomy

William Herschel

Astronomy

William Hopkins

Earth Sciences

William Howard Stein

Chemistry

William J. Sparks

Chemistry

William Jackson Hooker

Life Sciences

William Johnson Sollas

Earth Sciences

William Kahan

Computer Science

William Kirby

Life Sciences

William Labov

Linguistics

William Lassell

Astronomy

William Lawrence Bragg

Physics

William Lipscomb

Chemistry

William Lonsdale

Earth Sciences

William Maurice Ewing

Earth Sciences

William Morris Davis

Earth Sciences

William O. Baker

Chemistry

William R. Dickinson

Earth Sciences

William Ramsay

Chemistry

William Rowan Hamilton

Physics

William S. Knowles

Chemistry

William Sealy Gosset

Mathematics

William Sefton Fyfe

Earth Sciences

William Shockley

Physics

William Smith

Earth Sciences

William Thomas Blanford

Earth Sciences

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin

Physics

William Thurston

Mathematics

William Walden Rubey

Earth Sciences

William Whitaker

Earth Sciences

William Whitehead Watts

Earth Sciences

Williamina Fleming

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)
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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