Most Famous Scientists & Academics in the World
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Albert Einstein German Physicist 1879 – 1955
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Charles Darwin British Biologist 1809 – 1882
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Karl Marx German Economist 1818 – 1883
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Aristotle Greek Biologist -383 – -322
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Galileo Galilei Italian Astronomer 1564 – 1642
#28
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Stephen Hawking British Physicist 1942 – 2018
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Isaac Newton British Mathematician 1643 – 1727
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Marie Curie Polish Physicist 1867 – 1934
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Thomas Edison American Inventor 1847 – 1931
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Louis Pasteur French Biologist 1822 – 1895
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Nicolaus Copernicus Polish Astronomer 1473 – 1543
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Alan Turing British Computer Scientist 1912 – 1954
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Bertrand Russell British Mathematician 1872 – 1970
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Nikola Tesla Austrian Inventor 1856 – 1943
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Carl Linnaeus Swedish Geologist 1707 – 1778
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Adam Smith British Economist 1723 – 1790
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Neil Armstrong American Astronaut 1930 – 2012
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Arthur Schopenhauer German Academic 1788 – 1860
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Blaise Pascal French Mathematician 1623 – 1662
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Max Weber German Sociologist 1864 – 1920
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John Maynard Keynes British Economist 1883 – 1946
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Johannes Kepler German Naturalist 1571 – 1630
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Richard Feynman American Physicist 1918 – 1988
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Giordano Bruno Italian Astronomer 1548 – 1600
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Friedrich Engels German Economist 1820 – 1895
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Leonhard Euler Swiss Mathematician 1707 – 1783
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Archimedes Greek Mathematician -287 – -212
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Werner Heisenberg German Physicist 1901 – 1976
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Richard Dawkins British Biologist Born 1941
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Carl Friedrich Gauss German Mathematician 1777 – 1855
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Émile Durkheim French Anthropologist 1858 – 1917
#468
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John von Neumann Hungarian Mathematician 1903 – 1957
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Max Planck German Physicist 1858 – 1947
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Hippocrates Greek Physician -460 – -370
#535
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Omar Khayyam Turkish Mathematician 1048 – 1131
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Fridtjof Nansen Norwegian Zoologist 1861 – 1930
#610
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Ernest Rutherford New Zealand Scientist 1871 – 1937
#634
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Jean Piaget Swiss Psychologist 1896 – 1980
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Nostradamus French Physician 1503 – 1566
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Wernher von Braun German Physicist 1912 – 1977
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Gregor Mendel Austrian Biologist 1822 – 1884
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Tycho Brahe Danish Astronomer 1546 – 1601
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Paracelsus Swiss Physician 1493 – 1541
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Dmitri Mendeleev Russian Chemist 1834 – 1907
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J. J. Thomson British Physicist 1856 – 1940
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Linus Pauling American Chemist 1901 – 1994
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Robert Koch German Biologist 1843 – 1910
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Srinivasa Ramanujan Indian Mathematician 1887 – 1920
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Jacques Lacan French Psychiatrist 1901 – 1981
#999
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Alfred Nobel Swedish Engineer 1833 – 1896
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Amartya Sen Indian Economist Born 1933
#1,031
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Ibn Khaldun Tunisian Anthropologist 1332 – 1406
#1,037
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George Boole British Mathematician 1815 – 1864
#1,045
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Maria Montessori Italian Psychologist 1870 – 1952
#1,046
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Ptolemy Roman Mathematician 100 – 160
#1,049
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Ivan Pavlov Russian Chemist 1849 – 1936
#1,076
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck French Botanist 1744 – 1829
#1,138
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Wilhelm Röntgen German Physicist 1845 – 1923
#1,141
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Buzz Aldrin American Astronaut Born 1930
#1,147
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Max Born German Physicist 1882 – 1970
#1,149
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Dutch Zoologist 1632 – 1723
#1,183
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Kurt Gödel Austrian Mathematician 1906 – 1978
#1,209
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Galen Roman Physician 129 – 216
#1,221
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Pierre-Simon Laplace French Mathematician 1749 – 1827
#1,233
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John Forbes Nash Jr. American Mathematician 1928 – 2015
#1,235
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Henri Poincaré French Mathematician 1854 – 1912
#1,238
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Gustave Eiffel French Engineer 1832 – 1923
#1,242
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Alfred Russel Wallace British Mathematician 1823 – 1913
#1,276
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James Watt British Engineer 1736 – 1819
#1,332
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Edmund Husserl German Mathematician 1859 – 1938
#1,335
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Thomas Robert Malthus British Economist 1766 – 1834
#1,342
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar American Mathematician 1910 – 1995
#1,392
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Edward Jenner British Physician 1749 – 1823
#1,402
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Paul Krugman American Economist Born 1953
#1,483
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Christiaan Huygens Dutch Astronomer 1629 – 1695
#1,485
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B. F. Skinner American Psychologist 1904 – 1990
#1,532
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Rosalind Franklin British Chemist 1920 – 1958
#1,538
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Thor Heyerdahl Norwegian Anthropologist 1914 – 2002
#1,567
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Wilhelm Reich Austrian Psychiatrist 1897 – 1957
#1,576
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Claude Shannon American Mathematician 1916 – 2001
#1,599
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Robert Boyle Irish Physicist 1627 – 1691
#1,609
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Ernst Haeckel German Biologist 1834 – 1919
#1,611
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John Dalton British Chemist 1766 – 1844
#1,654
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Rachel Carson American Biologist 1907 – 1964
#1,808
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Santiago Calatrava Spanish Engineer Born 1951
#1,809
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Mircea Eliade Romanian Anthropologist 1907 – 1986
#1,843
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Mikhail Lomonosov Russian Astronomer 1711 – 1765
#1,866
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Alan Shepard American Astronaut 1923 – 1998
#1,882
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Irène Joliot-Curie French Physicist 1897 – 1956
#1,893
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Ibn al-Haytham Iraqi Mathematician 965 – 1039
#1,909
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Frederick Banting Canadian Physician 1891 – 1941
#1,930
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Thomas Henry Huxley British Biologist 1825 – 1895
#1,951
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Oliver Sacks British Neurologist 1933 – 2015
#1,970
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Rudolf Virchow German Biologist 1821 – 1902
#1,991
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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi Turkish Mathematician 780 – 850
#2,015
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Évariste Galois French Mathematician 1811 – 1832
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Albertus Magnus German Chemist 1206 – 1280
#2,047
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B. R. Ambedkar Indian Economist 1891 – 1956
#2,069
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal Spanish Physician 1852 – 1934
#2,085
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Ludwig Feuerbach German Anthropologist 1804 – 1872
#2,092
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