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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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Celâl Şengör

Earth Sciences

César Milstein

Life Sciences

Chad Mirkin

Chemistry

Chanchal Kumar Majumdar

Physics

Charles A. Ferguson

Linguistics

Charles A. Kraus

Chemistry

Charles A. Thomas

Chemistry

Charles Alexander Johns

Life Sciences

Charles Babbage

Computer Science

Charles Bachman

Computer Science

Charles Barrois

Earth Sciences

Charles Chilton

Life Sciences

Charles Darwin

Life Sciences

Charles Doolittle Walcott

Earth Sciences

Charles Elton

Life Sciences

Charles Fefferman

Mathematics

Charles Frank

Physics

Charles Glover Barkla

Physics

Charles H. Bennett

Physics

Charles Hockett

Linguistics

Charles Huggins

Medicine

Charles J. Fillmore

Linguistics

Charles J. Pedersen

Chemistry

Charles K. Kao

Physics

Charles Kenneth Leith

Earth Sciences

Charles L. Bennett

Astronomy

Charles L. Parsons

Chemistry

Charles Lapworth

Earth Sciences

Charles Lyell

Earth Sciences

Charles M. Rice

Medicine

Charles Messier

Astronomy

Charles P. Thacker

Computer Science

Charles Richet

Medicine

Charles Richter

Earth Sciences

Charles Schuchert

Earth Sciences

Charles Sherrington

Life Sciences

Charles Townes

Physics

Charles Wyville Thomson

Earth Sciences

Charles Yanofsky

Genetics

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

Physics

Charles-Édouard Guillaume

Physics

Cheikh Anta Diop

Life Sciences

Chen-Ning Yang

Physics

Chieko Asakawa

Computer Science

Chien-Shiung Wu

Physics

Chika Kuroda

Chemistry

Chinmoy Sankar Dey

Life Sciences

Christiaan Huygens

Physics

Christian B. Anfinsen

Chemistry

Christian de Duve

Life Sciences

Christian Doppler

Physics

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg

Life Sciences

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Genetics

Christoph Gerber

Physics

Christopher Hawkesworth

Earth Sciences

Chryssa Kouveliotou

Astronomy

Clara Immerwahr

Chemistry

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Physics

Claude Levi-Strauss

Life Sciences

Claude Shannon

Mathematics

Claudia Benitez-Nelson

Earth Sciences

Claudia Wascher

Life Sciences

Claudius Ptolemy

Astronomy

Clifford G. Shull

Physics

Clinton Joseph Davisson

Physics

Clyde Tombaugh

Astronomy

Conny Aerts

Astronomy

Conyers Herring

Physics

Corneille Heymans

Medicine

Cornelius Gemma

Astronomy

Craig Mello

Genetics

Craig Venter

Genetics

Curtis T. McMullen

Mathematics

Cyril Hinshelwood

Chemistry

Cyril Stanley Smith

Materials Science

D. Terence Langendoen

Linguistics

Dan Arvizu

Physical Sciences

Dan Shechtman

Materials Science

Dan Slobin

Linguistics

Dana Scott

Computer Science

Daniel C. Tsui

Physics

Daniel Eisenstein

Astronomy

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

Physics

Daniel Jones

Linguistics

Daniel Kleppner

Physics

Daniel Nathans

Genetics

Daniel Quillen

Mathematics

Daniela Blanco

Chemistry

Darleane C. Hoffman

Chemistry

David Allara

Chemistry

David Baker

Chemistry

David Baltimore

Life Sciences

David Baulcombe

Genetics

David Botstein

Genetics

David C. Jewitt

Astronomy

David Charbonneau

Astronomy

David Cox

Formal Sciences

David D. Pollard

Earth Sciences

David Gross

Physics

David Hilbert

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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