Home›Scientists›Era›By Decade›1940sBrowse By1940sThis 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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Spradling1940sAlok Krishna Gupta1940sAmir Pnueli1940sAndrei Linde1940sAndrew Fabian1940sAndrew Yao1940sAnton Zeilinger1940sArieh Warshel1940sArnold Zwicky1940sArthur B. McDonald1940sAziz Sancar1940sBarbara Partee1940sBernard Comrie1940sBert Vogelstein1940sBertrand Halperin1940sBhabatarak Bhattacharyya1940sBidyendu Mohan Deb1940sBrian Josephson1940sButler Lampson1940sCharles Fefferman1940sCharles H. Bennett1940sCharles P. Thacker1940sChristiane Nusslein-Volhard1940sChristoph Gerber1940sChristopher Hawkesworth1940sCraig Venter1940sDan Shechtman1940sDaniel Quillen1940sDavid Botstein1940sDavid D. Pollard1940sDavid Gross1940sDavid J. Wineland1940sDavid Lightfoot1940sDavid Patterson1940sDavid Politzer1940sDennis Ritchie1940sDonald Johanson1940sDouglas C. Wallace1940sDouglas Osheroff1940sEdmund M. Clarke1940sEdna Paisano1940sEdwin Catmull1940sElizabeth Anionwu1940sElizabeth Blackburn1940sEllen F. Prince1940sEnrico Bombieri1940sEric Wieschaus1940sFazle Hussain1940sFrancoise Barre-Sinoussi1940sFrank S. Spear1940sFrank Shu1940sGeerat J. Vermeij1940sGeoffrey Hinton1940sGeoffrey Pullum1940sGeorge P. Smith1940sGeorge Smoot1940sGerald Fink1940sGerald J. Fishman1940sGerard Mourou1940sGerard 't Hooft1940sGerd Binnig1940sGiorgio Parisi1940sGrigory Margulis1940sH. Robert Horvitz1940sHartmut Michel1940sHolger Bech Nielsen1940sHorst L. Stormer1940sHoward Lasnik1940sIan Wilmut1940sIvan Sag1940sJ. Craig Venter1940sJ. Fraser Stoddart1940sJ. Michael Kosterlitz1940sJ. W. Kebabian1940sJacob Bekenstein1940sJacques Dubochet1940sJames P. Allison1940sJames W. Head1940sJanet Dean Fodor1940sJay Jasanoff1940sJayanta Bandyopadhyay1940sJean-Loup Puget1940sJean-Pierre Sauvage1940sJeffrey C. Hall1940sJeffrey I. Gordon1940sJeffrey Ullman1940sJim Gray1940sJoachim Frank1940sJoan Bresnan1940sJoan Bybee1940sJoan Maling1940sJoAnne Stubbe1940sJocelyn Bell Burnell1940sJohann Deisenhofer1940sJohn C. Mather1940sJohn Clauser1940sJohn E. Walker1940sJohn Ohala1940sJohn Pendry1940sJohn Rickford1940sJohn Sulston1940sJoseph Hooton Taylor Jr.1940sJoseph Sifakis1940sJudith Aissen1940sK. Barry Sharpless1940sKary Mullis1940sKen Thompson1940sKen'ichi Nomoto1940sKeren Rice1940sKip Thorne1940sKlaus von Klitzing1940sKnut Urban1940sKurt Lambeck1940sLarry Laudan1940sLarry M. Hyman1940sLaurence R. Horn1940sLeonard Adleman1940sLeonard Susskind1940sLeslie Lamport1940sLeslie Valiant1940sLise Menn1940sLouis Brus1940sM. Stanley Whittingham1940sManuel Berberian1940sMarianne Mithun1940sMario Molina1940sMark Aronoff1940sMartin Chalfie1940sMartin Evans1940sMartin Hellman1940sMartin Rees1940sMary-Claire King1940sMaynard Olson1940sMichael Berry1940sMichael Grunstein1940sMichael Houghton1940sMichael Levitt1940sMichael Rosbash1940sMichael Stonebraker1940sMichael W. Young1940sMichel Mayor1940sMitchell Feigenbaum1940sMordehai Heiblum1940sNadrian Seeman1940sNiles Eldredge1940sNorman Sleep1940sOrna Berry1940sPaul Corkum1940sPaul F. Hoffman1940sPaul Kiparsky1940sPaul Modrich1940sPaul Nurse1940sPeter Agre1940sPeter B. Dervan1940sPeter J. Stang1940sPierre Agostini1940sPierre Deligne1940sRalph M. Steinman1940sRandy Schekman1940sRay Jackendoff1940sRichard Dawkins1940sRichard E. Smalley1940sRichard H. Sibson1940sRichard Henderson1940sRichard Leakey1940sRichard R. Schrock1940sRichard S. Kayne1940sRobert D. Hatcher1940sRobert H. Grubbs1940sRobert Kirshner1940sRobert Langer1940sRobert Metcalfe1940sRobert Tarjan1940sRobert Waterston1940sRoger Angel1940sRoger Blandford1940sRoger D. Kornberg1940sRonald Rivest1940sRonald W. Davis1940sRudolf Jaenisch1940sSandra A. Thompson1940sSheila Blumstein1940sShing-Tung Yau1940sStanford Woosley1940sStanley B. Prusiner1940sStephen Hawking1940sStephen J. Lippard1940sStephen Jay Gould1940sStephen R. Anderson1940sSteven Chu1940sSteven M. Stanley1940sStuart Orkin1940sSubrata Roy1940sSudipta Sengupta1940sSusan Goldin-Meadow1940sSusan W. Kieffer1940sTanya Atwater1940sTasuku Honjo1940sTheodor W. Hansch1940sThomas A. Steitz1940sThomas R. Cech1940sThure E. Cerling1940sTobin J. Marks1940sToshihide Maskawa1940sUzi Even1940sVint Cerf1940sWalt Wolfram1940sWalter Alvarez1940sWangari Maathai1940sWhitfield Diffie1940sWilliam D. Phillips1940sWilliam Thurston1940sYoshinori Ohsumi1940sConnectionsShowing 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.