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18th century

This dimension groups scientists by the era in which they worked. Wikipedia notes that "it was not until the 19th century that the term scientist came into regular use," a term coined long after many of the people the atlas now calls scientists had already done their work. Browsing by era lets a visitor compare scientists active in the same period.

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18th century
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Adam Sedgwick

18th century

Adolphus Ypey

18th century

Adrien-Marie Legendre

18th century

Alessandro Volta

18th century

Alexander Mitchell

18th century

Alexander von Humboldt

18th century

Amedeo Avogadro

18th century

Ami Boue

18th century

Anders Gustaf Ekeberg

18th century

André-Marie Ampère

18th century

Andrew Crosse

18th century

Antoine Lavoisier

18th century

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

18th century

Benjamin Franklin

18th century

Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford

18th century

Bernard Bolzano

18th century

Bernhard Studer

18th century

Carl Friedrich Gauss

18th century

Carl Friedrich Naumann

18th century

Carl Linnaeus

18th century

Carl Wilhelm Scheele

18th century

Caroline Herschel

18th century

Charles Babbage

18th century

Charles Lyell

18th century

Charles Messier

18th century

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

18th century

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg

18th century

Edward Jenner

18th century

Emile Clapeyron

18th century

Emilie du Chatelet

18th century

Franz Bopp

18th century

Friedrich Bessel

18th century

Friedrich Wöhler

18th century

Georg Ohm

18th century

Georg Simon Ohm

18th century

George Cayley

18th century

George Poulett Scrope

18th century

Georges Cuvier

18th century

Gérard Paul Deshayes

18th century

Gideon Mantell

18th century

Giuseppe Piazzi

18th century

Goldsworthy Gurney

18th century

Gustav Bischof

18th century

Hans Christian Orsted

18th century

Hans Momsen

18th century

Heinrich Georg Bronn

18th century

Henry Cavendish

18th century

Henry De la Beche

18th century

Henry Fox Talbot

18th century

Humphry Davy

18th century

Jacob Grimm

18th century

Jakob Grimm

18th century

James Bowdoin

18th century

James Braid

18th century

James Dunlop

18th century

James Hutton

18th century

James Smithson

18th century

Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont

18th century

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

18th century

Joachim Barrande

18th century

Johann Schweigger

18th century

John Dalton

18th century

John Michell

18th century

John Phillips

18th century

Jons Jacob Berzelius

18th century

Joseph Priestley

18th century

Joseph Proust

18th century

Joseph von Fraunhofer

18th century

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

18th century

Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti

18th century

Karl Ludwig Harding

18th century

Leonhard Euler

18th century

Leopold von Buch

18th century

Luke Howard

18th century

Madhusudan Gupta

18th century

Mary Anning

18th century

Michael Faraday

18th century

Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille

18th century

Philippe Loys de Cheseaux

18th century

Pierre Armand Dufrenoy

18th century

Pierre Mechain

18th century

Pierre-Simon Laplace

18th century

Rasmus Rask

18th century

Roderick Murchison

18th century

Sadi Carnot

18th century

Searles Valentine Wood

18th century

Sir Richard Griffith

18th century

Sir William Jones

18th century

Thomas Bayes

18th century

Thomas Godfrey

18th century

Thomas Young

18th century

Wang Zhenyi

18th century

Wilhelm Olbers

18th century

Wilhelm von Humboldt

18th century

William Brownrigg

18th century

William Buckland

18th century

William Conybeare

18th century

William Edmond Logan

18th century

William Henry Fitton

18th century

William Herschel

18th century

William Hopkins

18th century

William Jackson Hooker

18th century

William Kirby

18th century

William Lassell

18th century

William Lonsdale

18th century

William Smith

18th century
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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)
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