Alan TuringAlan Mathison Turing (/ˈtjʊərɪŋ/; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He…View analysis →
Ernst MayrErnst Walter Mayr (/maɪər/ MYRE; German: ; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was a German-American evolutionary biologist. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer…View analysis →
Jack LaytonJohn Gilbert Layton (July 18, 1950 – August 22, 2011) was a Canadian politician and academic who served as the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) from 2003 to 2011 and…View analysis →
Leonhard EulerLeonhard Euler (/ˈɔɪlər/ OY-lər; 15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, music…View analysis →
David BellamyDavid James Bellamy OBE (18 January 1933 – 11 December 2019) was an English academic, botanist, television presenter, author, and prominent environmental campaigner in the UK and…View analysis →
E. T. WhittakerSir Edmund Taylor Whittaker (24 October 1873 – 24 March 1956) was a British mathematician, physicist, and historian of science. Whittaker was a leading mathematical scholar of…View analysis →
PhysicistA physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical…View analysis →
Ash CarterAshton Baldwin Carter (September 24, 1954 – October 24, 2022) was an American government official and academic who served as the 25th United States secretary of defense from…View analysis →
Augustin-Louis CauchyBaron Augustin-Louis Cauchy (21 August 1789 – 23 May 1857) was a French mathematician, engineer, and physicist. He was one of the first to rigorously state and prove the key…View analysis →
Paul EhrlichPaul Ehrlich (German: [ˈpaʊl ˈeːɐ̯lɪç] ⓘ; 14 March 1854 – 20 August 1915) was a German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology and…View analysis →
George DantzigGeorge Bernard Dantzig (/ˈdæntsɪɡ/; November 8, 1914 – May 13, 2005) was an American mathematical scientist who made contributions to industrial engineering, operations research…View analysis →
Yoshua BengioYoshua Bengio OC OQ OBE FRS FRSC (born March 5, 1964) is a Canadian computer scientist, and a pioneer of artificial neural networks and deep learning.View analysis →
Stephen WolframStephen Wolfram (/ˈwʊlfrəm/ WUUL-frəm; born 29 August 1959) is a British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman. He works in computer algebra and theoretical…View analysis →
Leon M. LedermanLeon Max Lederman (July 15, 1922 – October 3, 2018) was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack…View analysis →
Robert Winston, Baron WinstonRobert Maurice Lipson Winston, Baron Winston (born 15 July 1940) is a British professor, medical doctor, scientist, television presenter, and Labour peer.View analysis →
August WeismannAugust Friedrich Leopold Weismann (German: ; 17 January 1834 – 5 November 1914) was a German evolutionary biologist. Fellow German Ernst Mayr ranked him as the second most…View analysis →
Michael ShellenbergerMichael D. Shellenberger (born June 16, 1971) is an American professor, author, and journalist whose views are seen as controversial by some academics.View analysis →
Dennis RitchieDennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – c. October 12, 2011) was an American computer scientist. He created, together with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix…View analysis →
Peter GrestePeter Greste (Latvian: Pēteris Greste; born 1 December 1965) is a dual citizen Latvian Australian academic, memoirist and writer. Formerly a journalist and foreign correspondent…View analysis →
Mostafa ChamranMostafa Chamran Savehi (Persian: مصطفی چمران ساوهای; 2 October 1932 – 21 June 1981) was an Iranian scientist, politician, and guerrilla, best known for serving as the first…View analysis →
Patrick MichelPatrick Michel (born 25 February 1970 in Saint-Tropez, France) is a French planetary scientist, Senior Researcher Exceptionnal Class at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche…View analysis →
Robin MilnerArthur John Robin Gorell Milner (13 January 1934 – 20 March 2010) was a British computer scientist, and he won the 1991 ACM Turing Award.View analysis →
Suzanne CorySuzanne Cory (born 11 March 1942) is an Australian molecular biologist. She has worked on the genetics of the immune system and cancer and has lobbied her country to invest in…View analysis →
Jay PasachoffJay Myron Pasachoff (July 1, 1943 – November 20, 2022) was an American astronomer. Pasachoff was Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams College and the author of…View analysis →
Edwin FeulnerEdwin John Feulner Jr. (/ˈfʊlnər/; August 12, 1941 – July 18, 2025) was an American political scientist, think tank executive, congressional aide and foreign relations consultant…View analysis →
AstronomerAn astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. Astronomers study astronomical objects, such as…View analysis →
Max TaitzMax Taitz (Max Arkadyevich Taitz, Russian: Макс Аркадьевич Тайц; 1904–1980) was a Soviet scientist, engineer, and one of the founders of Gromov Flight Research Institute (1941)…View analysis →
Bertil OhlinBertil Gotthard Ohlin (Swedish: [ˈbæ̌ʈːɪl ʊˈliːn]) (23 April 1899 – 3 August 1979) was a Swedish economist and politician. He was a professor of economics at the Stockholm School…View analysis →
Jean E. SammetJean E. Sammet (March 23, 1928 – May 20, 2017) was an American computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language in 1962. She was also one of the developers of the…View analysis →
Hal AbelsonHarold Abelson (born April 26, 1947) is an American mathematician and computer scientist. He is a professor of computer science and engineering in the Department of Electrical…View analysis →
John Eric HolmesJohn Eric Holmes (February 16, 1930 – March 20, 2010) was an American professor of neurology and writer of non-fiction, fantasy and science fiction. His writings appeared under…View analysis →
Edgar F. CoddEdgar Frank "Ted" Codd (19 August 1923 – 18 April 2003) was a British computer scientist who, while working for IBM, invented the relational model for database management, the…View analysis →
Dan MaffeiDaniel Benjamin Maffei (/məˈfeɪ/ mə-FAY; born July 4, 1968) is an American politician and professor who served two non-consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives…View analysis →
Ralph KohnSir Ralph Kohn (9 December 1927 – 11 November 2016) was a British medical scientist, recipient of the Queen's Award for Export Achievement for his work in the pharmaceutical…View analysis →
Walter A. ShewhartWalter Andrew Shewhart (pronounced like "shoe-heart"; March 18, 1891 – March 11, 1967) was an American physicist, engineer and statistician. He is sometimes also known as the…View analysis →
Robert JarvikRobert Koffler Jarvik (May 11, 1946 – May 26, 2025) was an American scientist, researcher and businessman known for his role in developing the Jarvik-7 artificial heart.View analysis →
