Short Biography's of Famous & not so

Famous People in Science

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Babbage, Charles (1791-1871)

Bernoulli, Daniel (1700-82)

Bernoulli, Jacques (1655-1705)

Boltzmann, Ludwig (Eduard) (1844-1906)

Bolyai, János (1802-1860)

Chittenden, Russell (Henry) (1856-1943)

Curie, Marie née Manya Sklodowska (1867-1934)

Darwin, Charles (1809-82)

Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley (1882-1944)

Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)

Euclid (Eucleides) (4th-3rd c B.C.E.)

Eudoxos of Cnidus (c.408-c.353 B.C.)

Euler, Leonhard (1707-83)

Faraday, Micheal (1791-1867)

Feigenbaum, Mitchell (1945- )

Foucault, (Jean Bernard) Léon (1819-68)

Fourier, (Jean Baptiste) Joseph, Baron (1768-1830)

Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)

Galle, Johann Gottfried (1812-1910)

Galois, Evariste (1811-32)

Galvani, Luigi (1737-98)

Gauss, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855)

Heisenberg, Werner (Karl) (1901-76)

Hess, Germain Henri (1802-50)

Hess, Victor (Francis) (1883-1964)

Hevelius, Johannes (1611-87)

Hevesy, Gerge Charles de (1885-1966)

Hewish, Antony (1924- )

Pearson, Karl (1857-1936)

Lobachevsky, Nikolay (1792-1856)

Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon (1853-1928)

Lorenz, Edward N(orton) (1917- )

Lovelace, Augusta Ada King, Countess of (née Byron) (1815-52)

Mandelbrot, Benoit (1924- )

Markov, Andrey Andreyevich (1856-1922)

Mendeleyev, Dmitri Ivanovich (1834-1907)

Von Neumann, John (originally Johann) (1903-1957)

Newton, Isaac (1642-1727)

Pascal, Blaise (1623-62)

Pasteur, Louis (1822-95)

Peano, Guiseppe (1858-1932)

Pearson, Gerald (Leondus) (1905- )

Piazzi, Giuseppe (1746-1826)

Planck, Max (Karl Ernst Ludwig) (1858-1947)

Prigogine, Ilya (1917- )

Riemann, (Georg Friedrich) Bernhard (1826-66)

Rutherford (of Nelson), Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron (1871-1937)

Schrieffer, John Robert (1931- )

Schrödinger, Erwin (1887-1961)

Seaborg, Glenn (1912- )

Shannon, Claude Elwood (1916- )

Soddy, Frederick (1877-1956)

Szent-Györgyi, Albert von Nagyrapoit (1893-1986)

Szilard, Leo (1898-1964)

Tesla, Nikola (1856-1943)

Turing, Alan (1912-54)

Venn, John (1834-1923)

Volta, Alessandro (Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio) (1745-1827)

Wiener, Norbert (1894-1964)

Wigner, Eugene Paul (1902- )

Zeeman, Erik Christopher (1925- )

Zermelo, Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand (1871-1953)

Zeeman, Pieter (1865-1943)


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Compiled April 2000