Home›Scientists›Era›By Decade›1950sBrowse By1950sThis 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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Romanowicz1950sBarry Marshall1950sBernard L. Feringa1950sBidyut Baran Chaudhuri1950sBiman Bagchi1950sBrian D. Joseph1950sBruce Beutler1950sBruce Hayes1950sC. David Allis1950sCarlos Bustamante1950sCato T. Laurencin1950sCelâl Şengör1950sCharles L. Bennett1950sCharles M. Rice1950sChieko Asakawa1950sChryssa Kouveliotou1950sCurtis T. McMullen1950sDavid Baulcombe1950sDavid C. Jewitt1950sDavid Julius1950sDeb Shankar Ray1950sDonald Eigler1950sDonna Strickland1950sDrew Weissman1950sE. Allen Emerson1950sEdward Stolper1950sEdward Witten1950sEfim Zelmanov1950sElliot Meyerowitz1950sEwine van Dishoeck1950sF. Duncan M. Haldane1950sFrances Arnold1950sFrank Wilczek1950sGary Ruvkun1950sGeoffrey Marcy1950sGeorg Bednorz1950sGeorge Efstathiou1950sGeraldine Richmond1950sGerd Faltings1950sGilles Brassard1950sGregg L. Semenza1950sGregory Ward1950sGregory Winter1950sHaseena Khan1950sHugo J. Bellen1950sJack Dongarra1950sJack W. Szostak1950sJacqueline Barton1950sJames A. Jackson1950sJames P. Eisenstein1950sJames Rothman1950sJean Bourgain1950sJean-Christophe Yoccoz1950sJoanne Chory1950sJohn A. Peacock1950sJohn F. Hawley1950sJohn Goldsmith1950sJohn L. Hennessy1950sJohn Richard Bond1950sJorgen Christensen-Dalsgaard1950sKatalin Kariko1950sKathryn Whaler1950sKeith Campbell1950sKoichi Tanaka1950sLennart Lindegren1950sLyman Page1950sMark Stoneking1950sMaureen Raymo1950sMaximilian Haider1950sMichael Freedman1950sMichael Perryman1950sMohammad Ataul Karim1950sMona Nemer1950sMorten Meldal1950sOndrej Krivanek1950sPat Hanrahan1950sPatrick Soon-Shiong1950sPaul Alivisatos1950sPaul Tseng1950sPeter J. Ratcliffe1950sPeter Zoller1950sPier Vellinga1950sPierre-Louis Lions1950sPurushottam Chakraborty1950sRadia Perlman1950sRalph Nuzzo1950sRebecca Cann1950sReinhard Genzel1950sRichard Alley1950sRichard Borcherds1950sRobert B. Laughlin1950sRoderick MacKinnon1950sRoger Y. Tsien1950sRussell A. Hulse1950sRuth Lehmann1950sSalawat Gallyamov1950sSankar Kumar Pal1950sSaul Perlmutter1950sShafi Goldwasser1950sShigefumi Mori1950sShobhona Sharma1950sShrinivas Kulkarni1950sShuji Nakamura1950sSilvio Micali1950sSimon Donaldson1950sSimon White1950sSomdatta Sinha1950sStephen J. Elledge1950sStephen Shing-Toung Yau1950sStephen Wolfram1950sSteven Balbus1950sSteven Pinker1950sSubhasish Dey1950sSusan L. Brantley1950sSvante Paabo1950sTakaaki Kajita1950sTheunis Piersma1950sThomas C. Sudhof1950sThomas Ebbesen1950sThomas O. Mensah1950sTim Berners-Lee1950sTrond Helge Torsvik1950sVaughan Jones1950sVenkatraman Ramakrishnan1950sVictor Ambros1950sVirginijus Šikšnys1950sVladimir Drinfeld1950sWilliam E. Moerner1950sWilliam G. Kaelin Jr.1950sYitang Zhang1950sConnectionsShowing 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.