Benjamin Banneker
first African-American scientist
Reid Barton
mathematician and programmer; first student to win four gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad
Wilson A. Bentley
"The Snowflake Man"
George Washington Carver
agricultural researcher
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician
Pafnuty Chebyshev
Russian mathematician
Pierre Curie
discovered radium
Albert Einstein
theoretical physicist
Paul Erdos
Hungarian mathematician
Michael Faraday
electrochemist
Pierre de Fermat
greatest amateur mathematician in history
Evariste Galois
French mathematical prodigy
Sophie Germain
French mathematician
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Nobel Prize winner in physics
William Hamilton
Irish mathematician
Oliver Heaviside
electromagnetism researcher
Fred Hoyle
British physicist
T.H. Huxley
biologist, zoologist, Darwinist
Carl Jacobi
German mathematician
Ruth Lawrence
mathematician
Gilbert Newton Lewis
physical chemist
John D. Linsley
astrophysicist
Ada Lovelace
founder of scientific computing
Benoit Mandelbrot
pioneer in fractal geometry
Isaac Newton
English physicist, astronomer, mathematician
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician and philosopher
Charles Sanders Peirce
American logician, mathematician, philosopher
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician and man of letters
Joseph Priestley
father of modern chemistry
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician
Erwin Schrodinger
Austrian physicist
Samuel C. C. Ting
Chinese American physicist
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian rocket scientist
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