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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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Aziz Sancar

Chemistry

B. Clark Burchfiel

Earth Sciences

Bailey Willis

Earth Sciences

Barada Charan Gupta

Earth Sciences

Barbara Liskov

Computer Science

Barbara McClintock

Genetics

Barbara Partee

Linguistics

Barbara Romanowicz

Earth Sciences

Barbara Sherwood Lollar

Earth Sciences

Barnum Brown

Earth Sciences

Barry Barish

Physics

Barry Marshall

Life Sciences

Baruj Benacerraf

Medicine

Basiswar Sen

Life Sciences

Ben Mottelson

Physics

Ben Peach

Earth Sciences

Bengt Stromgren

Astronomy

Benjamin Franklin

Physics

Benjamin Lee Whorf

Linguistics

Benjamin List

Chemistry

Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford

Physics

Beno Gutenberg

Earth Sciences

Benoit Mandelbrot

Mathematics

Bernard Bolzano

Mathematics

Bernard Comrie

Linguistics

Bernard Katz

Medicine

Bernard L. Feringa

Chemistry

Bernard Lovell

Astronomy

Bernardo Houssay

Life Sciences

Bernhard Riemann

Mathematics

Bernhard Studer

Earth Sciences

Bert Achong

Medicine

Bert Vogelstein

Genetics

Berthold Delbrück

Linguistics

Bertram N. Brockhouse

Physics

Bertrand Halperin

Physics

Bertrand Russell

Formal Sciences

Bhabatarak Bhattacharyya

Life Sciences

Bhaskara II

Formal Sciences

Bi Sheng

Physical Sciences

Bibha Chowdhuri

Physics

Bidyendu Mohan Deb

Chemistry

Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri

Computer Science

Billy Barr

Earth Sciences

Biman Bagchi

Chemistry

Biraj Mohan Das Gupta

Life Sciences

Birendra Bijoy Biswas

Life Sciences

Biswa Ranjan Nag

Physics

Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya

Physics

Blaise Pascal

Formal Sciences

Bonnie Bassler

Genetics

Bradley Efron

Formal Sciences

Brahmagupta

Formal Sciences

Brian D. Joseph

Linguistics

Brian Josephson

Physics

Brian Schmidt

Astronomy

Bronislaw Malinowski

Life Sciences

Bruce Beutler

Medicine

Bruce Hayes

Linguistics

Bruno Rossi

Physics

Bruno Sander

Earth Sciences

Bryce Crawford Jr.

Chemistry

Burton Richter

Physics

Butler Lampson

Computer Science

C. David Allis

Genetics

C. R. Rao

Mathematics

C. T. R. Wilson

Physics

C. V. Raman

Physics

C.V. Raman

Physics

Calvert Watkins

Linguistics

Calvin Quate

Physics

Camillo Golgi

Life Sciences

Carl Bosch

Chemistry

Carl Cori

Medicine

Carl David Anderson

Physics

Carl Djerassi

Chemistry

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics

Carl Friedrich Naumann

Earth Sciences

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

Mathematics

Carl Gustav Witt

Astronomy

Carl Hempel

Formal Sciences

Carl Linnaeus

Life Sciences

Carl Sagan

Astronomy

Carl Shipp Marvel

Chemistry

Carl Wilhelm Scheele

Chemistry

Carl Woese

Life Sciences

Carl-Gustaf Rossby

Earth Sciences

Carlo Fornasini

Earth Sciences

Carlo Rubbia

Physics

Carlos Bustamante

Life Sciences

Carlos Chagas

Life Sciences

Carol W. Greider

Life Sciences

Caroline Herschel

Astronomy

Carolyn Bertozzi

Chemistry

Cato T. Laurencin

Physical Sciences

Caucher Birkar

Mathematics

Cecil Edgar Tilley

Earth Sciences

Cecil Frank Powell

Physics

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

Astronomy

Cédric Villani

Mathematics
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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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