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| Mathematician | Psychiatrists | Medical Professionals | Computer Scientists | Philosophers |
| Carl Jung | CH | 1875-1961 | psychiatrist; founder of analytical psychology. | |||||
| Lise Meitner | AT | 1878-1968 | physicist whose work contributed to the development of the atomic bomb. | |||||
| A. C. Becquerel | FR | 1788-1878 | ||||||
| Angelo Secchi | IT | 1818-78 | ||||||
| Otto Hahn | DE | 1879-1968 | chemist; worked on atomic fission. | |||||
| James Clerk Maxwell | GB | 1831-79 | ||||||
| Albert Einstein | DE/US | 1879-1955 | theoretical physicist; known for formulation of relativity theory. | |||||
| Alfred L. Wegener | DE | 1880-1930 | meteorologist, geophysicist; postulated theory of continental drift. | |||||
| Alexander Fleming | GB | 1881-1955 | bacteriologist; discovered penicillin. | |||||
| Irving Langmuir | US | 1881-1957 | physical chemist; colloid research and biochemistry. | |||||
| James Franck | DE | 1882-1964 | physicist; proved value of quantum theory. | |||||
| Max Born | DE | 1882-1970 | physicist known for research in quantum mechanics. | |||||
| Charles Darwin | GB | 1809-82 | ||||||
| Robert H. Goddard | US | 1882-8/10/1945 | physicist; father of modern rocketry. | |||||
| Gregor J. Mendel | AT | 1822-84 | ||||||
| Otto Rank | US | 1884-10/31/1939 | Psychiatrist, focused on birth trauma as a source of neuroses. | |||||
| Cyrus H. McCormick | Graceland Cemetery | Chicago | IL | 1809-5/13/1884 | ||||
| Niels Bohr | DK | 1885-1962 | physicist; leading figure in the development of quantum theory. | |||||
| Harlow Shapley | US | 1885-1972 | astronomer; noted for his studies of the galaxy. | |||||
| Karen Horney | US | 1885-12/4/1952 | Psychiatrist who emphasized environmental and cultural factors in determining personality. | |||||
| Sister Elizabeth Kenny | AU | 1886-1952 | nurse; developed method of treatment for polio. | |||||
| Julian Huxley | GB | 1887-1975 | biologist; a gifted exponent and philosopher of science. | |||||
| James P. Joule | GB | 1818-89 | ||||||
| Edwin P. Hubble | US | 1889-1953 | astronomer; produced first observational evidence of expanding universe. | |||||
| Sewall Wright | US | 1889-1988 | evolutionary theorist. | |||||
| Maria Mitchell | Prospect Hill Cemetery | Nantucket | MA | 1818-6/28/1889 | ||||
| Edwin Howard Armstrong | US | 1890-3/31/1954 | The inventor of FM radio. | |||||
| Vannevar Bush | US | 1890-1974 | electrical engineer; developed differential analyzer, 1st electronic analogue computer. | |||||
| James Chadwick | GB | 1891-1974 | physicist; discovered the neutron. | |||||
| Richard Owen | GB | 1804-92 | ||||||
| J. B. S. Haldane | GB | 1892-1964 | scientist; known for work as geneticist and application of mathematics to science. God seems 'inordinately fond of beetles'. | |||||
| Louis de Broglie | FR | 1893-1987 | physicist; best known for wave theory. | |||||
| Jean M. Charcot | FR | 1825-93 | ||||||
| Heinrich Hertz | DE | 1857-94 | ||||||
| Hermann von Helmholtz | DE | 1821-94 | ||||||
| Satyendranath Bose | IN | 1894-1974 | physicist, chemist, mathematician; forerunner of modern quantum theory. | |||||
| Norbert Wiener | US | 1894-1964 | mathematician; founder of the science of cybernetics. | |||||
| Alfred C. Kinsey | US | 1894-8/25/1956 | Zoologist, famous for his study of human sexual behavior; died while working on research on the sex lives of men in prisons. | |||||
| Louis Pasteur | FR | 1822-95 | ||||||
| Irene Joliot-Curie | FR | 1897-1956 | physicist; continued work of Curies in radioactivity. | |||||
| John D. Cockcroft | GB | 1897-1967 | nuclear physicist; constructed first atomic particle accelerator with E. T. S. Walton. | |||||
| Galileo Ferraris | IT | 1847-97 | ||||||
| John F. Enders | US | 1897-1985 | virologist who helped discover vaccines against polio, measles, and mumps. | |||||
| George M. Pullman | Graceland Cemetery | Chicago | IL | 1831-10/19/1897 | ||||
| William Jenner | GB | 1815-98 | ||||||
| Henry Bessemer | GB | 1813-98 | ||||||
| Leo Szilard | HU/US | 1898-1964 | physicist; helped create first sustained nuclear reaction. | |||||
| Albert Claude | BE | 1899-1983 | a founder of modern cell biology. | |||||
| Robert Bunsen | DE | 1811-99 | ||||||
| Isidor Isaac Rabi | US | 1899-1988 | physicist; pioneered atom exploration. | |||||
| Ottmar Mergenthaler | Loudon Park Cemetery | Baltimore | MD | 1854-10/28/1899 | ||||
| Gottlieb Daimler | DE | 1834-1900 | ||||||
| Frederic Joliot-Curie | FR | 1900-58 | physicist; with his wife continued work of Curies on radioactivity. | |||||
| Howard H. Aiken | US | 1900-73 | mathematician; credited with designing forerunner of digital computer. | |||||
| Ernest Orlando Lawrence | Canton | SD | 57013 | 8/8/1901-8/27/1958 | physicist; invented the cyclotron. | |||
| Linus Carl Pauling | Portland | OR | 2/28/1901-8/19/1994 | chemist; specializing in chemical bonds; political activist. | ||||
| Enrico Fermi | Rome | IT | 97208* | 9/29/1901-11/29/1954 | physicist; one of primary architects of the nuclear age. | |||
| Rudolf Virchow | DE | 1821-1902 | ||||||
| Eugene Paul Wigner | Budapest | HU | 11/17/1902-1/1/1995 | quantum theorist, nuclear physicist; helped perfect world's first nuclear reactor. | ||||
| Walter S. Reed | Arlington National Cemetery | Arlington | VA | 1851-11/23/1902 | ||||
| Barbara McClintock | Brooklyn | NY | 10001* | 6/16/1902-9/2/1992 | geneticist; significant studies in the nature of mobile genetic elements. | |||
| Walter Hauser Brattain | US | 2/10/1902-10/13/1987 | inventor; worked on invention of transistor. | |||||
| Louis Leakey | GB | 1903-72 | anthropologist; discovered important fossils, remains of early hominids. | |||||
| Josiah W. Gibbs | US | 1839-1903 | ||||||
| Robert Morris Page | US | 1903-92 | physicist; a leading figure in development of radar technology. | |||||
| Frederick Stewart | GB | 1904-93 | botanist, cell biologist; studies considered foundations of molecular biology. | |||||
| George Stibitz | US | 1904-95 | invented first digital computer. | |||||
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | New York | NY | 10001* | 4/22/1904-2/18/1967 | physicist; director of Los Alamos during development of the atomic bomb. | |||
| Pierre Curie | FR | 1859-1906 | ||||||
| Daryl M. Chapin | US | 1906-95 | physicist; co-developer of the solar energy cell. | |||||
| Maria G\:oppert-Mayer | Katowice | PL | 6/28/1906-2/2/1972 | physicist; independently developed theory of structure of atomic nuclei. | ||||
| Albert B. Sabin | Biaystok | PL | 8/26/1906-3/3/1993 | In 1954, developed oral polio live-virus vaccine, which was licensed in 1961. | ||||
| Wm. Thomson Kelvin | GB | 1824-1907 | ||||||
| Max Delbr\:uck | Berlin | DE | 9/4/1906-3/9/1981 | pioneer in modern molecular genetics. | ||||
| A. H. Becquerel | FR | 1852-1908 | ||||||
| John W. Mauchly | US | 1908-80 | co-inventor with J. Presper Eckert of the first electronic digital computer, the Eniac. | |||||
| John Bardeen | Madison | WI | 53714* | 5/23/1908-1/30/1991 | co-inventor of the transistor that led to modern electronics. | |||
| Edwin Herbert Land | Bridgeport | CT | 06602* | 5/7/1909-3/1/1991 | invented Polaroid camera. | |||
| Roy J. Plunkett | New Carlisle | OH | 45344 | 6/26/1910-5/12/1994 | chemist; created Teflon TM. | |||
| Giovanni Schiaparelli | IT | 1835-1910 | ||||||
| Wernher von Braun | Wirsitz, Provinz Posen | DE | 3/23/1912-6/16/1977 | pioneered development of rockets for warfare and space exploration. | ||||
| Henri Poincari | FR | 1854-1912 | ||||||
| Joseph Lister | GB | 1827-1912 | ||||||
| Wilbur Wright | Woodland Cemetery | Dayton | OH | 1867-5/30/1912 | ||||
| Rudolf Diesel | DE | 1858-1913 | ||||||
| Alfred Russell Wallace | GB | 1823-1913 | ||||||
| Roger Sperry | US | 1913-94 | brain expert; studied relationship between the right and left sides of the brain. | |||||
| Jonas Salk | New York | NY | 10001* | 10/28/1914-6/23/1995 | developed the first successful polio vaccine, which came into widespread use in 1955 when it was found to be safe and effective. | |||
| John Muir | John Muir National Historic Site | Martinez | CA | 1838-12/24/1914 | ||||
| Paul Ehrlich | DE | 1854-1915 | ||||||
| Percival Lowell | US | 1855-1916 | ||||||
| Marvin Camras | Chicago | IL | 60607* | 1/1/1916-6/23/1995 | inventor, electrical engineer; invented magnetic tape recording. Marvin Camras | |||
| Cleveland Abbe | Rock Creek Cemetery | Washington | DC | 1838-10/28/1916 | ||||
| Ferdinand von Zeppelin | DE | 1838-1917 | ||||||
| Richard Feynman | Far Rockaway, Queens, New York | NY | 10001* | 5/11/1918-2/15/1988 | a leading theoretical physicist of the postwar generation. | |||
| Ernest Haeckel | DE | 1834-1919 | ||||||
| William Crookes | GB | 1832-1919 | ||||||
| J. Presper Eckert, Jr. | US | 1919-95 | co-inventor with John W. Mauchly of the first electronic digital computer, the Eniac. | |||||
| William C. Gorgas | US | 1854-1920 | ||||||
| John Burroughs | Burroughs Memorial Field | Roxbury | NY | 1837-3/29/1921 | Naturalist and writer | |||
| Alexander Graham Bell | US | 1847-1922 | ||||||
| Wilhelm Roentgen | DE | 1845-1923 | ||||||
| Charles P. Steinmetz | DE/US | 1865-1923 | ||||||
| August von Wasserman | DE | 1866-1925 | ||||||
| Camille Flammarion | FR | 1842-1925 | ||||||
| Luther Burbank | Burbank Home | Santa Rosa | CA | 1849-4/11/1926 | ||||
| Jerome Lejeune | FR | 6/13/1927-4/3/1994 | geneticist; discovered the cause of Down's syndrome. | |||||
| Thomas Dooley | Saint Louis | MO | 63166* | 1927-1/18/1961 | "jungle doctor," noted for efforts to supply medical aid to developing countries. | |||
| Robert Norton Noyce | Burlington | IA | 52601 | 12/12/1927-6/3/1990 | inventor of the microchip, which revolutionized the electronics industry. | |||
| George Washington Goethals | West Point Cemetery, U.S. Military Academy | West Point | NY | 1858-1/22/1928 | ||||
| Alfred L. Wegener | DE | 1880-1930 | ||||||
| Elmer A. Sperry | Green-Wood Cemetery | Brooklyn | NY | 1860-6/16/1930 | ||||
| Albert A. Michelson | US | 1852-1931 | ||||||
| Thomas A. Edison | Glenmont | West Orange | NJ | 1847-10/18/1931 | ||||
| Wilhelm Ostwald | DE | 1853-1932 | ||||||
| Marie Curie | PL/FR | 1867-1934 | ||||||
| Louis Bliriot | FR | 1872-1936 | ||||||
| Ernest Rutherford | GB | 1871-1937 | ||||||
| Guglielmo Marconi | IT | 1874-1937 | ||||||
| Sigmund Freud | AT | 1856-1939 | ||||||
| Charles Horace Mayo | Oakwood Cemetery | Rochester | MN | 1865-5/26/1939 | ||||
| William J. Mayo | Oakwood Cemetery | Rochester | MN | 1861-7/28/1939 | ||||
| Otto Rank | Ferncliff Cemetery | Hartsdale | NY | 1884-10/31/1939 | ||||
| David Hilbert | DE | 1862-1943 | ||||||
| Nikola Tesla | YU1/US | 1856-1943 | ||||||
| George Washington Carver | Tuskegee Institute | Tuskegee Institute | AL | 1864-1/5/1943 | ||||
| Alexis Carrel | FR | 1873-1944 | ||||||
| Thomas Hunt Morgan | US | 1866-1945 | ||||||
| Robert H. Goddard | Hope Cemetery | Worcester | MA | 1882-8/10/1945 | ||||
| Georges Kohler | Munich | DE | 1946-3/1/1995 | immunologist; co-inventor of monoclonal antibody technique. | ||||
| Max Planck | DE | 1858-1947 | ||||||
| Orville Wright | Woodland Cemetery | Dayton | OH | 1871-1/30/1948 | ||||
| Sister Elizabeth Kenny | AU | 1886-1952 | ||||||
| Karen Horney | Ferncliff Cemetery | Hartsdale | NY | 1885-12/4/1952 | ||||
| Edwin P. Hubble | US | 1889-1953 | ||||||
| Robert A. Millikan | US | 1868-1953 | ||||||
| Auguste Lumihre | FR | 1862-1954 | ||||||
| Edwin Howard Armstrong | Woodlawn Cemetery | Bronx | NY | 1890-3/31/1954 | ||||
| Enrico Fermi | Oak Woods Cemetery | Chicago | IL | 1901-11/28/1954 | ||||
| Alexander Fleming | GB | 1881-1955 | ||||||
| Albert Einstein | DE/US | 1879-1955 | ||||||
| Irene Joliot-Curie | FR | 1897-1956 | ||||||
| Alfred C. Kinsey | Rose Hill Cemetery | Bloomington | IN | 1894-8/25/1956 | ||||
| Irving Langmuir | US | 1881-1957 | ||||||
| Frederic Joliot-Curie | FR | 1900-58 | ||||||
| Ernest O. Lawrence | US | 1901-58 | ||||||
| Carl Jung | CH | 1875-1961 | ||||||
| Thomas Dooley | Calvary Cemetery | St. Louis | MO | 1927-1/18/1961 | ||||
| Lee De Forest | San Fernando Mission Cemetery | Mission Hills | CA | 1873-6/30/1961 | ||||
| Niels Bohr | DK | 1885-1962 | ||||||
| James Franck | DE | 1882-1964 | ||||||
| J. B. S. Haldane | GB | 1892-1964 | ||||||
| Norbert Wiener | US | 1894-1964 | ||||||
| Leo Szilard | HU/US | 1898-1964 | ||||||
| John D. Cockcroft | GB | 1897-1967 | ||||||
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | US | 1904-67 | ||||||
| Lise Meitner | AT | 1878-1968 | ||||||
| Otto Hahn | DE | 1879-1968 | ||||||
| Max Born | DE | 1882-1970 | ||||||
| Bertrand Russell | GB | 1872-1970 | ||||||
| Louis Leakey | GB | 1903-72 | ||||||
| Harlow Shapley | US | 1885-1972 | ||||||
| Maria Goeppert Mayer | DE/US | 1906-72 | ||||||
| Howard H. Aiken | US | 1900-73 | ||||||
| James Chadwick | GB | 1891-1974 | ||||||
| Satyendranath Bose | IN | 1894-1974 | ||||||
| Vannevar Bush | US | 1890-1974 | ||||||
| Julian Huxley | GB | 1887-1975 | ||||||
| Werner von Braun | DE | 1912-77 | ||||||
| John W. Mauchly | US | 1908-80 | ||||||
| Max Delbruck | US | 1907-81 | ||||||
| Albert Claude | BE | 1899-1983 | ||||||
| Louis Lumihre | FR | 1864-1984 | ||||||
| John F. Enders | US | 1897-1985 | ||||||
| Louis de Broglie | FR | 1893-1987 | ||||||
| Walter Brattain | US | 1902-87 | ||||||
| Isidor Isaac Rabi | US | 1899-1988 | ||||||
| Richard Feynman | US | 1918-88 | ||||||
| Sewall Wright | US | 1889-1988 | ||||||
| Robert N. Noyce | US | 1927-89 | ||||||
| Edwin Land | US | 1910-91 | ||||||
| John Bardeen | US | 1908-91 | ||||||
| Robert Morris Page | US | 1903-92 | ||||||
| Barbara McClintock | US | 1902-92 | ||||||
| Frederick Stewart | GB | 1904-93 | ||||||
| Albert B. Sabin | SU/US | 1906-93 | ||||||
| Jerome Lejeune | FR | 1927-94 | ||||||
| Roger Sperry | US | 1913-94 | ||||||
| Linus C. Pauling | US | 1901-94 | ||||||
| Roy J. Plunkett | US | 1922-94 | ||||||
| Georges Kvhler | DE | 1946-95 | ||||||
| George Stibitz | US | 1904-95 | ||||||
| J. Presper Eckert, Jr. | US | 1919-95 | ||||||
| Darly Chapin | US | 1906-95 | ||||||
| Eugene Wigner | US | 1902-95 | ||||||
| Jonas Salk | US | 1914-95 | ||||||
| Marvin Camras | US | 1916-95 |
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