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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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Frederick Soddy

Chemistry

Freeman Dyson

Physics

Friedrich Bergius

Chemistry

Friedrich Bessel

Astronomy

Friedrich Johann Karl Becke

Earth Sciences

Friedrich Schmidt

Earth Sciences

Friedrich Wöhler

Chemistry

Frits Zernike

Physics

Fritz Haber

Chemistry

Fritz London

Physics

Fritz Pregl

Chemistry

Fritz Zwicky

Astronomy

Fusakichi Omori

Earth Sciences

G. Arthur Cooper

Earth Sciences

G. F. Laundon

Life Sciences

Gábor A. Somorjai

Chemistry

Gabriel Lippmann

Physics

Galileo Galilei

Physics

Garrett Lisi

Physics

Gary Ruvkun

Medicine

Geerat J. Vermeij

Life Sciences

Geoffrey Eglinton

Earth Sciences

Geoffrey Hinton

Physics

Geoffrey Marcy

Astronomy

Geoffrey Pullum

Linguistics

Geoffrey Wilkinson

Chemistry

Georg Bednorz

Physics

Georg Cantor

Mathematics

Georg Ernst Stahl

Chemistry

Georg Ohm

Physics

Georg Simon Ohm

Physics

Georg Wittig

Chemistry

George A. Olah

Chemistry

George A. Thompson

Earth Sciences

George Aghajanian

Medicine

George Beadle

Genetics

George Boole

Mathematics

George Busk

Life Sciences

George C. Pimentel

Chemistry

George Cayley

Physical Sciences

George de Hevesy

Chemistry

George E. P. Box

Formal Sciences

George Efstathiou

Astronomy

George Ellery Hale

Astronomy

George Emil Palade

Life Sciences

George Frederick Kunz

Earth Sciences

George Gaylord Simpson

Earth Sciences

George Graham

Physics

George Kingsley Zipf

Linguistics

George Kistiakowsky

Chemistry

George Miller

Formal Sciences

George P. Smith

Chemistry

George Paget Thomson

Physics

George Plafker

Earth Sciences

George Porter

Chemistry

George Poulett Scrope

Earth Sciences

George S. Hammond

Chemistry

George Smoot

Astronomy

George Uhlenbeck

Physics

George Whitesides

Chemistry

George William Lamplugh

Earth Sciences

Georges Charpak

Physics

Georges Cuvier

Earth Sciences

Georges Lemaitre

Astronomy

Gerald Fink

Genetics

Gerald J. Fishman

Astronomy

Gerald Joseph Wasserburg

Earth Sciences

Geraldine Richmond

Chemistry

Geraldine Seydoux

Genetics

Gerard De Geer

Earth Sciences

Gerard Kuiper

Astronomy

Gerard Mourou

Physics

Gérard Paul Deshayes

Earth Sciences

Gerard 't Hooft

Physics

Gerd Binnig

Physics

Gerd Faltings

Mathematics

Gerhard Domagk

Life Sciences

Gerhard Ertl

Chemistry

Gerhard Gentzen

Formal Sciences

Gerhard Herzberg

Chemistry

Gerolamo Cardano

Mathematics

Gerrit van der Mey

Formal Sciences

Gerty Cori

Medicine

Gideon Mantell

Earth Sciences

Gilbert N. Lewis

Chemistry

Gilbert Walker

Earth Sciences

Gilles Brassard

Formal Sciences

Giorgio Parisi

Physics

Giovanni Battista Hodierna

Astronomy

Giovanni Cassini

Astronomy

Giovanni Schiaparelli

Astronomy

Girindrasekhar Bose

Life Sciences

Giulio Natta

Chemistry

Giuseppe Occhialini

Physics

Giuseppe Peano

Mathematics

Giuseppe Piazzi

Astronomy

Gladys West

Formal Sciences

Glenn T. Seaborg

Chemistry

Goldsworthy Gurney

Physical Sciences

Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya

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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