Home›Scientists›Era›By Decade›1900sBrowse By1900sThis 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. 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Waters1900sAbraham Wald1900sAbram Alikhanov1900sAdolf Butenandt1900sAgnes Yewande Savage1900sAlexander R. Todd1900sAlfred Hershey1900sAlfred Kastler1900sAlfred Tarski1900sAlonzo Church1900sAndre Lwoff1900sAndre Martinet1900sAndrey Kolmogorov1900sArne Tiselius1900sArnold Beckman1900sBarbara McClintock1900sBengt Stromgren1900sBruno Rossi1900sCarl David Anderson1900sCarl Hempel1900sCecil Frank Powell1900sCecilia Payne-Gaposchkin1900sCharles A. Thomas1900sCharles Elton1900sCharles Huggins1900sCharles J. Pedersen1900sCharles Richter1900sClaude Levi-Strauss1900sClyde Tombaugh1900sCyril Stanley Smith1900sDennis Gabor1900sEdward Tatum1900sEdward Teller1900sEdwin McMillan1900sÉmile Benveniste1900sEmilio Segre1900sEnrico Fermi1900sErnest Lawrence1900sErnest Nagel1900sErnest Walton1900sErnst Boris Chain1900sErnst Mayr1900sErnst Ruska1900sEugene Wigner1900sFelix Bloch1900sFrancis Birch1900sFrancis John Pettijohn1900sFrank Yates1900sFrédéric Joliot-Curie1900sFritz London1900sG. Arthur Cooper1900sGeorge Beadle1900sGeorge Gaylord Simpson1900sGeorge Kingsley Zipf1900sGeorge Kistiakowsky1900sGeorge Uhlenbeck1900sGerard Kuiper1900sGerhard Gentzen1900sGerhard Herzberg1900sGiulio Natta1900sGiuseppe Occhialini1900sGrace Hopper1900sHannes Alfvén1900sHans Bethe1900sHans Krebs1900sHarry Hess1900sHenry Eyring1900sHideki Yukawa1900sHollis Dow Hedberg1900sHomi J. Bhabha1900sIgor Kurchatov1900sIlya Frank1900sJ. Hans D. Jensen1900sJ. Robert Oppenheimer1900sJ. Tuzo Wilson1900sJan Oort1900sJohn Bardeen1900sJohn C. Bailar Jr.1900sJohn von Neumann1900sKarl August Folkers1900sKarl Bleyl1900sKarl Jansky1900sKarl Popper1900sKathleen Lonsdale1900sKonrad Lorenz1900sKurt Alder1900sKurt Godel1900sLars Ahlfors1900sLars Onsager1900sLev Landau1900sLev Pontryagin1900sLinus Pauling1900sLouis Leakey1900sLouis Néel1900sLuis Federico Leloir1900sM. King Hubbert1900sManfred von Ardenne1900sMargaret Mead1900sMaria Goeppert Mayer1900sMarland P. Billings1900sMarshall Kay1900sMax Delbruck1900sMax Tishler1900sMildred K. Nobles1900sMilton Harris1900sMorris Swadesh1900sMuhammad Qudrat-i-Khuda1900sNevill Francis Mott1900sNikolaas Tinbergen1900sNikolai Bogolyubov1900sNorman D. Newell1900sOtto Frisch1900sParam Nath Bhaduri1900sPaul Dirac1900sPavel Cherenkov1900sPhilip Burke King1900sPhilip Henry Kuenen1900sRachel Carson1900sReinout Willem van Bemmelen1900sRichard Kuhn1900sRita Levi-Montalcini1900sRobert Jemison Van de Graaff1900sRoger Revelle1900sRudolf Peierls1900sSevero Ochoa1900sShin'ichirō Tomonaga1900sSin-Itiro Tomonaga1900sStanislaw Ulam1900sStephen Kleene1900sTheodosius Dobzhansky1900sUkichiro Nakaya1900sUlf von Euler1900sVictor Weisskopf1900sVincent du Vigneaud1900sVladimir Prelog1900sVladimir Veksler1900sWallace R. Brode1900sWalter Brattain1900sWalter Heitler1900sWendell Stanley1900sWerner Heisenberg1900sWillard Libby1900sWillard Van Orman Quine1900sWilliam Feller1900sWilliam Gould Young1900sWilliam J. Sparks1900sWilliam Maurice Ewing1900sWolfgang Pauli1900sZellig Harris1900sConnectionsShowing the first 400 of 1,925 connections.Sources1. Online Etymology Dictionary: scientisttier 2Online Etymology DictionaryOnline Etymology Dictionary, scientist entryQuote, 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.View the SourceÉdouard Roche (Wikipedia)tier 3WikipediaContains: Édouard RocheView the SourceJames Van Allen (Wikipedia)tier 3WikipediaContains: James Van AllenView the SourceEnrico Fermi (Wikipedia)tier 3WikipediaContains: Enrico FermiView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? 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