Scientists
The following people made discoveries that have impacted the world.
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Marie Curie
Scientist Marie Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
Charles Darwin
Scientist Charles Robert Darwin, was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.
Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Heafield Hamilton is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She is credited with coining the term "software engineering".
Stephen Hawking
Astrophysicist Stephen William Hawking was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author, who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge.
Ada Lovelace
Computer Scientist Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first compiler related tools.
John Muir
Environmentalist John Muir also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States of America.
Isaac Newton
Scientist Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time, and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
Vivien Thomas
Surgeon for Babies Heart Vivien Theodore Thomas was an African-American surgical technician who developed the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s.
Neil Degrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. Since 1996, he has been the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City.
Sally Ride
Sally Kristen Ride was an American astronaut, physicist, and engineer. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983.
Scott Kelly
Scott Joseph Kelly is an engineer, retired American astronaut, and a retired U.S. Navy Captain. A veteran of four space flights, Kelly commanded the International Space Station on Expeditions 26, 45, and 46.
Jane Goodall
Biologist Dame Jane Morris Goodall is an English primatologist and anthropologist.
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver was an American botanist and inventor. He actively promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion.
Katherine Johnson
Mathematician (Hidden Figures) Katherine Johnson is an African-American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. manned spaceflights
Michael Collins
Michael Collins is an American former astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew into space twice.
John Glenn
Colonel John Glenn was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic United States Senator from Ohio.
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. Galileo has been called the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of the scientific method", and the "father of modern science".
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics.
Edwin Hubble
Edwin Powell Hubble was an American astronomer. He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology and is regarded as one of the most important astronomers of all time.
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Johann Mendel was a scientist, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno, Margraviate of Moravia. Mendel gained posthumous recognition as the founder of the modern science of genetics.
