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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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David Hubel

Medicine

David J. Thouless

Physics

David J. Wineland

Physics

David Julius

Medicine

David Lightfoot

Linguistics

David Lloyd

Life Sciences

David M. Lee

Physics

David M. Perlmutter

Linguistics

David MacMillan

Chemistry

David Meredith Seares Watson

Earth Sciences

David Mumford

Mathematics

David Patterson

Computer Science

David Politzer

Physics

David Spergel

Astronomy

Deb Shankar Ray

Chemistry

Debendra Mohan Bose

Physics

Dell Hymes

Linguistics

Demis Hassabis

Chemistry

Dennis Gabor

Physics

Dennis Ritchie

Computer Science

Derek Barton

Chemistry

Derek Freeman

Life Sciences

Didier Queloz

Physics

Dilip Mahalanabis

Life Sciences

Diophantus

Mathematics

Dmitri Ivanovsky

Life Sciences

Dmitri Mendeleev

Chemistry

Donald Eigler

Physics

Donald Glaser

Physics

Donald J. Cram

Chemistry

Donald Johanson

Life Sciences

Donald Knuth

Computer Science

Donald Lynden-Bell

Astronomy

Donna Strickland

Physics

Donnel Foster Hewett

Earth Sciences

Dorothy Hodgkin

Life Sciences

Douglas C. Wallace

Genetics

Douglas Engelbart

Computer Science

Douglas James Shearman

Earth Sciences

Douglas Osheroff

Physics

Drew Weissman

Medicine

Dudley R. Herschbach

Chemistry

Dukinfield Henry Scott

Life Sciences

Duncan Lorimer

Astronomy

E. Allen Emerson

Computer Science

E. J. Corey

Chemistry

E. J. Crane

Chemistry

E. O. Wilson

Life Sciences

Edgar F. Codd

Computer Science

Edgar Fahs Smith

Chemistry

Edgeworth David

Earth Sciences

Edmond Halley

Astronomy

Edmund M. Clarke

Computer Science

Edna Paisano

Formal Sciences

Edouard de Verneuil

Earth Sciences

Édouard Roche

Astronomy

Edsger Dijkstra

Computer Science

Eduard Buchner

Life Sciences

Eduard Suess

Earth Sciences

Edvard Moser

Medicine

Edward B. Lewis

Genetics

Edward Battersby Bailey

Earth Sciences

Edward Burnett Tylor

Life Sciences

Edward C. Stone

Physics

Edward Doisy

Medicine

Edward Drinker Cope

Earth Sciences

Edward Feigenbaum

Computer Science

Edward Jenner

Medicine

Edward Kendall

Medicine

Edward L. Keenan

Linguistics

Edward Mills Purcell

Physics

Edward Morley

Chemistry

Edward Norton Lorenz

Earth Sciences

Edward Oscar Ulrich

Earth Sciences

Edward R. Weidlein

Chemistry

Edward Sapir

Linguistics

Edward Stolper

Earth Sciences

Edward Tatum

Genetics

Edward Teller

Physics

Edward Victor Appleton

Physics

Edward Witten

Physics

Edwin Catmull

Computer Science

Edwin Hubble

Astronomy

Edwin J. Vandenberg

Chemistry

Edwin McMillan

Physics

Efim Zelmanov

Mathematics

Egas Moniz

Medicine

Egon Pearson

Mathematics

Ei-ichi Negishi

Chemistry

Elias James Corey

Chemistry

Elizabeth Anionwu

Genetics

Elizabeth Blackburn

Life Sciences

Elizabeth Closs Traugott

Linguistics

Ellen F. Prince

Linguistics

Elliot Meyerowitz

Genetics

Elon Lindenstrauss

Mathematics

Elwyn Welch

Life Sciences

Emil Fischer

Chemistry

Emil Post

Formal Sciences

Emil von Behring

Life 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)
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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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