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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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Émile Benveniste

Linguistics

Emile Clapeyron

Physics

Emile Zuckerkandl

Life Sciences

Emilie du Chatelet

Physics

Emilio Segre

Physics

Emmanuel de Margerie

Earth Sciences

Emmanuelle Charpentier

Chemistry

Emmon Bach

Linguistics

Emmy Noether

Mathematics

Enitan Carrol

Medicine

Enrico Bombieri

Mathematics

Enrico Costa

Astronomy

Enrico Fermi

Physics

Eric Betzig

Chemistry

Eric J. Essene

Earth Sciences

Eric P. Hamp

Linguistics

Eric Wieschaus

Genetics

Erik Stensio

Earth Sciences

Ernest H. Volwiler

Chemistry

Ernest L. Eliel

Chemistry

Ernest Lawrence

Physics

Ernest Nagel

Formal Sciences

Ernest Rutherford

Physics

Ernest Walton

Physics

Ernst Boris Chain

Life Sciences

Ernst Haeckel

Life Sciences

Ernst Mayr

Life Sciences

Ernst Otto Fischer

Chemistry

Ernst Ruska

Physics

Ernst Zermelo

Formal Sciences

Erwin Hahn

Physics

Erwin Schrödinger

Physics

Esper S. Larsen Jr.

Earth Sciences

Esther Odekunle

Life Sciences

Euclid

Mathematics

Eudoxus of Cnidus

Mathematics

Eugene Nida

Linguistics

Eugene Odum

Life Sciences

Eugene Wigner

Physics

Eva Andrei

Physics

Evangelista Torricelli

Physics

Évariste Galois

Mathematics

Ewine van Dishoeck

Astronomy

F. Albert Cotton

Chemistry

F. Duncan M. Haldane

Physics

F. Sherwood Rowland

Chemistry

Farida Bedwei

Computer Science

Farrington Daniels

Chemistry

Fazle Hussain

Physics

Felix Andries Vening Meinesz

Earth Sciences

Felix Bloch

Physics

Felix Hausdorff

Mathematics

Felix Klein

Mathematics

Ferdinand de Saussure

Linguistics

Ferdinand von Richthofen

Earth Sciences

Ferdinand Zirkel

Earth Sciences

Ferenc Krausz

Physics

Fernando Corbato

Computer Science

Florence Bascom

Earth Sciences

Florence Nightingale

Medicine

Frances Allen

Computer Science

Frances Arnold

Chemistry

Francis Aston

Physics

Francis Bacon

Formal Sciences

Francis Birch

Earth Sciences

Francis Crick

Genetics

Francis Galton

Mathematics

Francis John Pettijohn

Earth Sciences

Francis P. Garvan

Physical Sciences

Francis Parker Shepard

Earth Sciences

Francis Willughby

Life Sciences

Francisc Rainer

Life Sciences

Francisco J. Ayala

Genetics

Francois Englert

Physics

Francois Jacob

Medicine

Francoise Barre-Sinoussi

Medicine

Frank Dawson Adams

Earth Sciences

Frank Drake

Astronomy

Frank Fenner

Life Sciences

Frank H. Westheimer

Chemistry

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

Life Sciences

Frank Press

Earth Sciences

Frank S. Spear

Earth Sciences

Frank Shu

Astronomy

Frank Wilczek

Physics

Frank Yates

Formal Sciences

Franklin Stahl

Genetics

Franz Boas

Life Sciences

Franz Bopp

Linguistics

Franz Ritter von Hauer

Earth Sciences

Fred Basolo

Chemistry

Fred Hoyle

Astronomy

Frédéric Joliot-Curie

Chemistry

Frederick Banting

Life Sciences

Frederick Brooks Jr.

Computer Science

Frederick D. Rossini

Chemistry

Frederick Griffith

Genetics

Frederick Reines

Physics

Frederick Robbins

Medicine

Frederick Sanger

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)
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Enrico Fermi (Wikipedia)
WikipediaContains: Enrico FermiView the Source
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