Home›Scientists›Era›By Decade›1920sBrowse By1920sThis 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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Battersby1920sAlexander Grothendieck1920sAlexander Rich1920sAlexei Abrikosov1920sAlfred G. Fischer1920sAllen Newell1920sAnthony T. James1920sAntony Hewish1920sArthur Ashkin1920sArthur S. Abramson1920sArthur Schawlow1920sArun Kumar Sharma1920sBaruj Benacerraf1920sBen Mottelson1920sBenoit Mandelbrot1920sBert Achong1920sBirendra Bijoy Biswas1920sC. R. Rao1920sCalvin Quate1920sCarl Djerassi1920sCarl Woese1920sCésar Milstein1920sCharles A. Ferguson1920sCharles Bachman1920sCharles J. Fillmore1920sCharles Yanofsky1920sCheikh Anta Diop1920sChen-Ning Yang1920sDaniel Nathans1920sDarleane C. Hoffman1920sDavid Cox1920sDavid Hubel1920sDell Hymes1920sDonald Glaser1920sDouglas Engelbart1920sE. J. Corey1920sE. O. Wilson1920sEdgar F. Codd1920sElias James Corey1920sElwyn Welch1920sEmile Zuckerkandl1920sEmmon Bach1920sEric P. Hamp1920sErnest L. Eliel1920sErwin Hahn1920sF. Sherwood Rowland1920sFernando Corbato1920sFrancois Jacob1920sFrank Press1920sFranklin Stahl1920sFred Basolo1920sFreeman Dyson1920sGeoffrey Eglinton1920sGeoffrey Wilkinson1920sGeorge A. Olah1920sGeorge C. Pimentel1920sGeorge Miller1920sGeorge Plafker1920sGeorge Porter1920sGeorge S. Hammond1920sGeorges Charpak1920sGerald Joseph Wasserburg1920sHans Georg Dehmelt1920sHar Gobind Khorana1920sHatten Schuyler Yoder Jr.1920sHayk Mirzayans1920sHenry Stommel1920sHenry Way Kendall1920sHerbert Kroemer1920sHoward E. Simmons Jr.1920sHugh Huxley1920sIlse Lehiste1920sImre Lakatos1920sIrwin Rose1920sIsamu Akasaki1920sIvar Giaever1920sJack E. Oliver1920sJack Steinberger1920sJames Lighthill1920sJames Watson1920sJanet Rowley1920sJean-Pierre Serre1920sJohn B. Goodenough1920sJohn Backus1920sJohn C. Polanyi1920sJohn Cocke1920sJohn Maynard Smith1920sJohn McCarthy1920sJohn Nash1920sJohn Pople1920sJohn Stewart Bell1920sJoshua Fishman1920sJoshua Lederberg1920sJuris Hartmanis1920sK. Alex Müller1920sKatsuko Saruhashi1920sKenneth Iverson1920sKenneth J. Hsu1920sKevin C. A. Burke1920sKlaus Roth1920sKristen Nygaard1920sLeo Esaki1920sLeon M. Lederman1920sLila Gleitman1920sM. Frederick Hawthorne1920sM. Gordon Wolman1920sMaarten Schmidt1920sManfred Eigen1920sMarie Tharp1920sMarshall W. Nirenberg1920sMartha Chase1920sMartin Harold Phillips Bott1920sMartin Lewis Perl1920sMarvin Minsky1920sMary Lyon1920sMasatoshi Koshiba1920sMd. Hanifuddin Miah1920sMichael Atiyah1920sMichael Halliday1920sMinze Stuiver1920sMorris Halle1920sMotoo Kimura1920sMurray Gell-Mann1920sNicolaas Bloembergen1920sNikolay Basov1920sNoam Chomsky1920sOsamu Shimomura1920sOwen Chamberlain1920sPaul Berg1920sPaul Feyerabend1920sPeter D. Mitchell1920sPeter Higgs1920sPeter Ladefoged1920sPeter Naur1920sPhilip Warren Anderson1920sRaymond Wilson1920sRené Thom1920sRichard E. Taylor1920sRobert Brout1920sRobert Bruce Merrifield1920sRobert Kraichnan1920sRobert L. Folk1920sRobert Mills1920sRobert W. Holley1920sRoger Altounyan1920sRonald Gillespie1920sRosalind Franklin1920sRosalyn Yalow1920sRoy J. Glauber1920sRudolf Mössbauer1920sRudolf Trumpy1920sRudolph A. Marcus1920sSeymour Benzer1920sShu-Park Chan1920sSimon van der Meer1920sSiva Brata Bhattacherjee1920sStanley Cohen1920sSusumu Ohno1920sSydney Brenner1920sTed Irving1920sTheodore Maiman1920sThomas Gold1920sThomas Kuhn1920sTorsten Wiesel1920sTsung-Dao Lee1920sUriel Weinreich1920sVal Fitch1920sValentine Telegdi1920sVera Rubin1920sVictor McKusick1920sWalter Kohn1920sWarren B. Hamilton1920sWerner Arber1920sWilliam Bright1920sWilliam Labov1920sWilliam Sefton Fyfe1920sYoichiro Nambu1920sConnectionsShowing 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? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.