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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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Hermann von Helmholtz

Physics

Hermann von Meyer

Earth Sciences

Hermann Weyl

Mathematics

Hermanus Haga

Physics

Hideki Shirakawa

Chemistry

Hideki Yukawa

Physics

Hippocrates

Medicine

Hiroo Kanamori

Earth Sciences

Hiroshi Amano

Physics

Holger Bech Nielsen

Physics

Hollis Dow Hedberg

Earth Sciences

Homi J. Bhabha

Physics

Hong Wang

Mathematics

Horace Bolingbroke Woodward

Earth Sciences

Horst L. Stormer

Physics

Howard E. Simmons Jr.

Chemistry

Howard Florey

Life Sciences

Howard Lasnik

Linguistics

Howard Temin

Life Sciences

Hua Luogeng

Formal Sciences

Hugh Everett III

Physics

Hugh Falconer

Earth Sciences

Hugh Huxley

Life Sciences

Hugo de Vries

Genetics

Hugo Duminil-Copin

Mathematics

Hugo J. Bellen

Genetics

Humphry Davy

Chemistry

Hypatia

Astronomy

Ian Dalziel

Earth Sciences

Ian Hacking

Formal Sciences

Ian Heilbron

Chemistry

Ian Wilmut

Genetics

Ibn al-Haytham

Physics

Ibn al-Nafis

Life Sciences

Ibn al-Yasamin

Formal Sciences

Ibn Ghazi al-Miknasi

Mathematics

Ibn Sina

Medicine

Ignaz Semmelweis

Medicine

Igor Kurchatov

Physics

Igor Tamm

Physics

Ikuo Kushiro

Earth Sciences

Ilan Amit

Mathematics

Ilse Lehiste

Linguistics

Ilya Frank

Physics

Ilya Prigogine

Chemistry

Imre Lakatos

Formal Sciences

Indira Nath

Medicine

Indumadhab Mallick

Physical Sciences

Inge Lehmann

Earth Sciences

Ira Remsen

Chemistry

Irène Joliot-Curie

Chemistry

Irving Langmuir

Chemistry

Irwin Rose

Chemistry

Isaac Newton

Physics

Isamu Akasaki

Physics

Isidor Isaac Rabi

Physics

Ivan Pavlov

Life Sciences

Ivan Sag

Linguistics

Ivan Sutherland

Computer Science

Ivar Giaever

Physics

J Harlen Bretz

Earth Sciences

J. B. S. Haldane

Life Sciences

J. Craig Venter

Life Sciences

J. Fraser Stoddart

Chemistry

J. Hans D. Jensen

Physics

J. J. Thomson

Physics

J. Michael Kosterlitz

Physics

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Physics

J. Tuzo Wilson

Earth Sciences

J. W. Kebabian

Life Sciences

J. Willard Gibbs

Chemistry

Jabir ibn Hayyan

Chemistry

Jack Dongarra

Computer Science

Jack E. Oliver

Earth Sciences

Jack Steinberger

Physics

Jack W. Szostak

Life Sciences

Jacob Bekenstein

Physics

Jacob Grimm

Linguistics

Jacob Sagiv

Chemistry

Jacob Tsimerman

Mathematics

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

Chemistry

Jacqueline Barton

Chemistry

Jacques Dubochet

Chemistry

Jacques Miller

Life Sciences

Jacques Monod

Medicine

Jagadish Chandra Bose

Physics

Jainendra K. Jain

Physics

Jakob Grimm

Linguistics

Jakob Johannes Sederholm

Earth Sciences

James A. Jackson

Earth Sciences

James B. Sumner

Chemistry

James Bjorken

Physics

James Bowdoin

Physics

James Braid

Life Sciences

James Bryant Conant

Chemistry

James Chadwick

Physics

James Clerk Maxwell

Physics

James Cronin

Physics

James Dunlop

Astronomy

James Dwight Dana

Earth 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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