Most Famous American Scientists

United States has produced 1,144 notable scientists throughout history, led by Richard Feynman. Rankings are drawn from a cross-verified academic dataset of 152,953 people.

Top Ranked

  1. Richard Feynman — American Physicist (1918–1988) , ranked #319
  2. Linus Pauling — American Chemist (1901–1994) , ranked #934
  3. John Forbes Nash Jr. — American Mathematician (1928–2015) , ranked #1235
  4. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar — American Mathematician (1910–1995) , ranked #1392
  5. Paul Krugman — American Economist (Born 1953) , ranked #1483
  6. B. F. Skinner — American Psychologist (1904–1990) , ranked #1532
  7. Claude Shannon — American Mathematician (1916–2001) , ranked #1599
  8. Rachel Carson — American Biologist (1907–1964) , ranked #1808
  9. Joseph Schumpeter — American Economist (1883–1950) , ranked #2139
  10. Talcott Parsons — American Sociologist (1902–1979) , ranked #2357
  11. Edwin Hubble — American Astronomer (1889–1953) , ranked #2855
  12. Ted Kaczynski — American Mathematician (Born 1942) , ranked #2928
  13. Franz Boas — American Anthropologist (1858–1942) , ranked #2940
  14. Norbert Wiener — American Mathematician (1894–1964) , ranked #2962
  15. John B. Watson — American Psychologist (1878–1958) , ranked #3169
  16. Kip Thorne — American Physicist (Born 1940) , ranked #3214
  17. Har Gobind Khorana — American Geneticist (1922–2011) , ranked #3454
  18. Robert Andrews Millikan — American Physicist (1868–1953) , ranked #3510
  19. John James Audubon — American Botanist (1785–1851) , ranked #4024
  20. John Bardeen — American Physicist (1908–1991) , ranked #4346