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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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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Mathematics

Gottlob Frege

Formal Sciences

Grace Hopper

Computer Science

Gregg L. Semenza

Medicine

Gregor Mendel

Genetics

Gregory Ward

Linguistics

Gregory Winter

Chemistry

Grigori Perelman

Mathematics

Grigory Margulis

Mathematics

Grote Reber

Astronomy

Grove Karl Gilbert

Earth Sciences

Guglielmo Marconi

Physics

Guo Shoujing

Astronomy

Gustaaf Adolf Frederik Molengraaff

Earth Sciences

Gustaf Dalén

Physics

Gustav Bischof

Earth Sciences

Gustav Hertz

Physics

Gustav Kirchhoff

Physics

H. Robert Horvitz

Life Sciences

Hamilton O. Smith

Genetics

Hannes Alfvén

Physics

Hans Bethe

Physics

Hans Christian Orsted

Physics

Hans Cloos

Earth Sciences

Hans Fischer

Chemistry

Hans Geiger

Physics

Hans Georg Dehmelt

Physics

Hans Krebs

Life Sciences

Hans Lippershey

Physics

Hans Momsen

Astronomy

Hans Ramberg

Earth Sciences

Hans Reichenbach

Formal Sciences

Hans von Euler-Chelpin

Chemistry

Hantaro Nagaoka

Physics

Har Gobind Khorana

Life Sciences

Harald Rose

Physics

Harald zur Hausen

Medicine

Harinath De

Linguistics

Harlow Shapley

Astronomy

Harold Basil Christian

Life Sciences

Harold Urey

Chemistry

Harold W. Kroto

Chemistry

Harry Blackmore Whittington

Earth Sciences

Harry Gray

Chemistry

Harry Hess

Earth Sciences

Harry Kroto

Chemistry

Hartmut Michel

Chemistry

Harvey J. Alter

Medicine

Haseena Khan

Genetics

Hassan Suhrawardy

Life Sciences

Hatten Schuyler Yoder Jr.

Earth Sciences

Hayat Sindi

Life Sciences

Hayk Mirzayans

Life Sciences

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

Physics

Heinrich Georg Bronn

Earth Sciences

Heinrich Hertz

Physics

Heinrich Rohrer

Physics

Heinrich Rosenbusch

Earth Sciences

Heinrich Wieland

Chemistry

Heisuke Hironaka

Mathematics

Hemendra Nath Chatterjee

Life Sciences

Hemendranath Tagore

Physics

Hendrik Lorentz

Physics

Henri Becquerel

Physics

Henri Lebesgue

Mathematics

Henri Moissan

Chemistry

Henri Poincare

Mathematics

Henrietta Swan Leavitt

Astronomy

Henrik Dam

Medicine

Henry Alexander Miers

Earth Sciences

Henry Benedict Medlicott

Earth Sciences

Henry Bryant Bigelow

Earth Sciences

Henry Cavendish

Chemistry

Henry Clifton Sorby

Materials Science

Henry Dale

Medicine

Henry De la Beche

Earth Sciences

Henry Eyring

Chemistry

Henry Fairfield Osborn

Earth Sciences

Henry Fox Talbot

Chemistry

Henry Gilman

Chemistry

Henry Louis Le Chatelier

Chemistry

Henry Stommel

Earth Sciences

Henry Sutton

Physical Sciences

Henry Taube

Chemistry

Henry Way Kendall

Physics

Henry Woods

Earth Sciences

Henry Woodward

Earth Sciences

Herbert A. Hauptman

Chemistry

Herbert Boyer

Genetics

Herbert C. Brown

Chemistry

Herbert Friedman

Physics

Herbert Harold Read

Earth Sciences

Herbert Kroemer

Physics

Herbert Simon

Computer Science

Hermann Bondi

Astronomy

Hermann Irving Schlesinger

Chemistry

Hermann Joseph Muller

Genetics

Hermann Minkowski

Mathematics

Hermann Paul

Linguistics

Hermann Staudinger

Chemistry
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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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