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People of Science

Mary Anning

Mary Anning

Pioneering English fossil collector and palaeontologist

Niels Bohr

Niels Bohr

Danish Nobel Prize-winning Physicist

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

English Evolutionary Biologist and Naturalist

Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday

British scientist and pioneer in electricity, magnetism and electrochemistry

Dorothy Hodgkin

Dorothy Hodgkin

Nobel Prize-winning British biochemist and x-ray crystallographer

Charles Lyell

Charles Lyell

Scottish geologist

Lise Meitner

Lise Meitner

Austrian-born pioneering nuclear physicist

Linus Pauling

Linus Pauling

American Nobel Prize-winning chemist, biochemist and peace activist.

Vera Rubin

Vera Rubin

American astronomer

Frederick Banting

Frederick Banting

Canadian Nobel laureate, scientist and physician

Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson

American marine biologist, conservationist, and author

Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy

English chemist, inventor and experimenter

Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Franklin

British physical chemist and x-ray crystallographer

Irene Joliot-Curie

Irene Joliot-Curie

Nobel-winning French scientist

Anne McLaren

Anne McLaren

British developmental biologist and animal geneticist

Sir Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton

English natural philosopher, mathematician, physicist, astronomer and polymath

Marguerite Perey

Marguerite Perey

French Physicist

Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford

New Zealand Nobel Prize-winning physicist

Christiaan Barnard

Christiaan Barnard

Pioneering South African Heart Surgeon

Marie Curie

Marie Curie

Polish-born Nobel Prize-winning physicist and chemist

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Influential Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking

English theoretical physicist and cosmologist

Stephanie Kwolek

Stephanie Kwolek

American polymer chemist

Barbara McClintock

Barbara McClintock

American Nobel Prize-winning cytogeneticist

Hideyo Noguchi

Hideyo Noguchi

Respected Japanese Bacteriologist

Max Planck

Max Planck

German Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist

Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan

Popular American astronomer and cosmologist

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