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2006 Clifford Geertz, American Scientist
2006 Steve Irwin, Australian Scientist 2005 Jack Kilby, American Scientist 2005 Philip Morrison, American Scientist 2005 Jef Raskin, American Scientist 2005 Ernst Mayr, German Scientist 2004 William Mitchell, food scientist, invented Pop Rocks, dies at 92 2004 Edward B. Lewis, American Scientist 2004 John Maynard Smith, English Scientist 2004 William H. Pickering, rocket scientist, manager of the Mariner missions to Venus and Mars in the 1960s, dies at 93 2003 Edward Teller, scientist/professor, The father of the H-bomb, dies at 95 2003 Anita Borg, American Scientist 2002 George Porter, English Scientist 2001 Marvin Harris, American Scientist 2001 John Lilly, American Scientist 2001 Herbert Simon, American Scientist 2000 Cyril Clarke, British Scientist 2000 Abraham Pais, Dutch Scientist 2000 John Tukey, American Scientist 2000 Mark Oliphant, Australian Scientist 1999 Ashley Montague, English Scientist 1999 Daniel Nathans, American Scientist 1999 Henry W. Kendall, American Scientist 1998 Tetsuya Ted Fujita, scientist, rated the strength of tornados, dies at 78 1998 Derek Harold Richard Barton, British Scientist 1998 Benjamin Spock, American Scientist 1997 John Pinkerton, compuer scientist, dies at 78 1997 Reginald Victor Jones, scientist, dies at 86 1997 Kenneth WIlliam Gatland, aerospace scientist, dies at 73 1997 Alfred Day Hershey, American Scientist 1997 George Wald, scientist, dies at 90 1997 Edward M. Purcell, American Scientist 1997 Melvin Calvin, scientist, dies at 85 1996 Carl Sagan, scientist (Contact), dies at 62 1996 Yuli Borisovich Khariton, scientist, dies at 82 1996 Mary Leakey, British Scientist 1996 Brian Keith-Lucas, political scientist, dies at 84 1996 Claude Ake, political scientist, dies at 57 1996 James Aubrey Turner, scientist, dies at 57 1996 William James Moyce, armaments scientist, dies at 82 1996 William James Millar Mackenzie, political scientist, dies at 87 1996 Rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie, conservation scientist, dies at 69 1996 Masao Maruyama, social scientist, dies at 82 1996 John Corner, scientist, dies at 80 1996 Harold William Woolhouse, plant scientist, dies at 63 1996 George D. Snell, American Scientist 1996 Walter Charles Marshall, scientist, dies at 63 1996 John Howard Purnell, scientist, dies at 70 1995 Joseph Needham, British Scientist 1994 Jerome Bert Weisner, military Scientist/Disarmer, dies at 79 1994 Linus Pauling, Nobel prize scientist (Vitamin C advocate), dies at 93 1993 Bruno Rossi, Italian Scientist 1992 Peter D. Mitchell, British Scientist 1992 Grace Hopper, computer scientist, dies at 85 1991 University of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system 1991 Carl D. Anderson, American Scientist 1990 James M. Gavin, American Scientist 1990 Alan Perlis, American Scientist 1989 Japanese scientist achieve -271.8 degrees C, coldest temp ever recorded 1989 Edmund Leach, British Scientist 1987 L. T. Coggeshall, medical scientist and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 1956 - 1958, dies at 86 1987 Peter Brian Medawar, medical scientist, dies 1986 Albert Szent-Gyorgi, Hungarian Scientist 1986 James Rainwater, American Scientist 1986 Helen B. Taussig, American Scientist 1986 J. Allen Hynek, American Scientist 1985 Rodney Robert Porter, British Scientist 1985 Alister Hardy, British Scientist 1985 Charles Francis Richter, American Scientist 1984 George Gaylord Simpson, American Scientist 1983 Raymond Aron, French sociologist/political scientist, dies at 78 1983 Haldan Keffer Hartline, American Scientist 1981 Clarence A Bacote, historian/political scientist, dies at 75 1980 Willard Libby, American Scientist 1980 Gregory Bateson, British Scientist 1980 William Howard Stein, American Scientist 1978 Warren Weaver, American Scientist 1978 James Bryant Conant, American Scientist 1977 Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (V1/V2), dies at 65 of smoking 1976 Jacques Lucien Monod, French Scientist 1975 Edward Lawrie Tatum, American Scientist 1974 Jacob Bronowski, English Scientist 1974 Marston Bates, American Scientist 1974 Ernest Becker, Canadian Scientist 1973 Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss Scientist 1970 John Carmack, American Scientist 1968 Rasmus Lerdorf, Danish Scientist 1968 Theo de Raadt, South African Scientist 1965 Edward Appleton, English Scientist 1965 Bjorn Lomborg, Danish Scientist 1963 Philip Greenspun, American Scientist 1963 Sivananda, Indian Scientist 1963 Bruce Schneier, American Scientist 1962 Arthur H. Compton, American Scientist 1962 Arthur Holly Compton, American Scientist 1962 Steve Irwin, Australian Scientist 1961 Greg Egan, Australian Scientist 1959 Stephen Wolfram, English Scientist 1959 Koichi Tanaka, Japanese Scientist 1958 Ernest Lawrence, American Scientist 1956 Frederick Soddy, English Scientist 1956 Alfred Kinsey, American Scientist 1956 Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist 1955 Dave Winer, American Scientist 1954 Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli Scientist 1954 Steven Pinker, Canadian Scientist 1953 Steven Hatfill, American Scientist 1953 Edwin Powell Hubble, American Scientist 1953 Richard Stallman, Scientist 1950 Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish Scientist 1950 George Richards Minot, American Scientist 1949 Peter Agre, American Scientist 1949 Anita Borg, American Scientist 1948 Steven Chu, American Scientist 1947 Thomas R. Cech, American Scientist 1947 Ben Shneiderman, American Scientist 1947 John Dykstra, American Scientist 1947 Zahi Hawass, Egyptian Scientist 1947 Michio Kaku, American Scientist 1946 Patricia K Kuhl, speech and hearing scientist 1946 Gilbert Newton Lewis, American Scientist 1946 Rudy Rucker, American Scientist 1945 Francis William Aston, British Scientist 1944 Kary Mullis, American Scientist 1944 Mary Archer, British Scientist 1944 Whitfield Diffie, American Scientist 1944 Charles Davenport, American Scientist 1943 Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched 1943 Jef Raskin, American Scientist 1943 George Washington Carver, famous black scientist, dies at 81 1942 Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian Scientist 1942 Bronislaw Malinowski, Polish Scientist 1941 Stephen Jay Gould, American Scientist 1941 Dennis Ritchie, American Scientist 1941 Hans Berger, German Scientist 1941 James G. Frazer, Scottish Scientist 1941 Richard Dawkins, English Scientist 1941 Dave Parnas, American Scientist 1941 John E. Walker, English Scientist 1940 John Warnock, American Scientist 1940 Alan Kay, American Scientist 1939 Wen Ho Lee, American Scientist 1939 Harvey Cushing, American Scientist 1939 William J. Mayo, American Scientist 1939 Sidney Altman, Canadian Scientist 1939 James Aubrey Turner, scientist 1939 Claude Ake, political scientist 1938 William Wallace Campbell, American Scientist 1938 David Baltimore, American Scientist 1938 Donald Knuth, American Scientist 1936 Edward Bach, English Scientist 1936 Yuan T. Lee, Chinese Scientist 1936 David Suzuki, Canadian Scientist 1936 Marion Farouk-Sluglett, political scientist 1935 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian Scientist 1934 Marie Curie, French Scientist 1933 John Joly, Irish Scientist 1933 Richard Ernst, Swiss Scientist 1933 Oliver Sacks, American Scientist 1932 Harold William Woolhouse, plant scientist 1932 Paul Erlich, born in Bad Homburg, Germany, scientist, immunologist, won Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, developed first antibacterial drug in modern medicine 1932 Walter Gilbert, American Scientist 1932 Walter Charles Marshall, scientist 1931 Riccardo Giacconi, American Scientist 1931 Fred Brooks, American Scientist 1931 Burton Richter, American Scientist 1929 Gerald M. Edelman, Scientist 1929 Edward O. Wilson, American Scientist 1929 E. O. Wilson, American Scientist 1929 Margaret Pereira, forensic scientist 1929 John Charles Polanyi, Canadian Scientist 1928 Daniel Nathans, American Scientist 1928 Vera Rubin, American Scientist 1928 G R Hall, nuclear scientist 1928 Margaret Pereira, forensic scientist 1927 Marvin Harris, American Scientist 1927 Marvin Minsky, Artifical intelligence computer scientist, MIT 1927 George Andrew Olah, American Scientist 1927 Rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie, conservation scientist 1927 Sydney Brenner, British Scientist 1926 Henry W. Kendall, American Scientist 1926 Clifford Geertz, American Scientist 1926 Paul Berg, American Scientist 1926 George C. Williams, American Scientist 1926 David Attenborough, producer/TV host/scientist 1925 Patrick Steptoe, scientist, perfected in vitro fertilization 1925 Francis Darwin, English Scientist 1925 John Howard Purnell, scientist 1924 Frank Press, American Scientist 1924 Kenneth WIlliam Gatland, aerospace scientist 1924 James W. Black, Scottish Scientist 1923 Jack Kilby, American Scientist 1923 Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian Scientist 1923 James Dewar, Scottish Scientist 1923 Edward E. Barnard, American Scientist 1922 Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist 1922 Alan Perlis, American Scientist 1921 Rosalyn S. Yalow, American Scientist 1920 George Porter, English Scientist 1920 Peter D. Mitchell, British Scientist 1920 Maurice Cranston, political scientist 1920 Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss Scientist 1920 John Maynard Smith, English Scientist 1920 Isaac Asimov, Russia, scientist/writer, I Robot, Foundation Trilogy 1919 William Osler, Canadian Scientist 1919 John Pinkerton, compuer scientist 1919 James Lovelock, scientist 1918 Derek Harold Richard Barton, British Scientist 1918 Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist 1918 Paul D. Boyer, American Scientist 1918 Edward B. Lewis, American Scientist 1918 Abraham Pais, Dutch Scientist 1917 David Bohm, American Scientist 1917 James Rainwater, American Scientist 1917 Rodney Robert Porter, British Scientist 1917 Don Herbert, born in Waconia, Minnesota, scientist/TV host, Watch Mr. Wizard 1917 William Standish Knowles, American Scientist 1916 Percival Lowell, American Scientist 1916 Herbert Simon, American Scientist 1916 Joseph W. Kennedy, scientist, 1 of 4 discoverers of plutonium 1916 Bernice Levin Neugarten, social scientist/gerontologist 1916 John Corner, scientist 1915 Philip Morrison, American Scientist 1915 John Tukey, American Scientist 1915 Jerome Bert Weisner, military scientist/disarmer 1915 Frederick W. Taylor, American Scientist 1915 John Lilly, American Scientist 1914 Edward T. Hall, American Scientist 1914 Charles Pierce, philosopher/scientist, dies 1914 Masao Maruyama, social scientist 1914 David Gill, Scottish Scientist 1913 Alfred Russel Wallace, British Scientist 1913 William James Moyce, armaments scientist 1913 Mary Leakey, British Scientist 1912 George Howard Darwin, British Scientist 1912 Edward M. Purcell, American Scientist 1912 Brian Keith-Lucas, political scientist 1912 E Cuyler Hammond, scientist, 1st to link smoking with lung cancer 1912 Wernher von Braun, German Scientist 1911 William Howard Stein, American Scientist 1911 Louis Wain, agricultural scientist 1910 Edmund Leach, British Scientist 1910 J. Allen Hynek, American Scientist 1910 Jacques Lucien Monod, French Scientist 1909 Edward Lawrie Tatum, American Scientist 1909 Simon Conway Morris, British Scientist 1909 Wietse Venema, Dutch Scientist 1909 William James Millar Mackenzie, political scientist 1908 Willard Libby, American Scientist 1908 Alfred Day Hershey, American Scientist 1908 Jacob Bronowski, English Scientist 1908 Hannes Alfven, Swedish Scientist 1907 Cyril Clarke, British Scientist 1907 Roy K Marshall, Glen Carbon, Illinois, TV scientist, Nature of Things 1907 Charles Cawley, British chief scientist/minister of power 1907 James M. Gavin, American Scientist 1907 Sergei Korolev, scientist 1906 Marston Bates, American Scientist 1906 Albert Hofmann, born in Baden, Switzerland, scientist, first to synthesize, examine, study, the psychedelic effects of LSD 1905 Charles P Snow, England, novelist/scientist, Death Under Sail 1905 Carl D. Anderson, American Scientist 1905 Erwin Chargaff, Austrian Scientist 1905 Ashley Montague, English Scientist 1905 Bruno Rossi, Italian Scientist 1905 Raymond Aron, French sociologist and political scientist 1904 Ernst Mayr, German Scientist 1904 Gregory Bateson, British Scientist 1903 Haldan Keffer Hartline, American Scientist 1903 George D. Snell, American Scientist 1902 George Gaylord Simpson, American Scientist 1902 Edward Uhler Condon, atomic scientist, Manhattan Project 1901 Mark Oliphant, Australian Scientist 1901 Ernest Lawrence, American Scientist 1901 L T Coggeshall, medical scientist/ U.S. Secretary of HEW, 1956 - 1958 1901 George Mercer Dawson, Canadian Scientist 1900 Joseph Needham, British Scientist 1900 W. Edwards Deming, American Scientist 1900 Charles Francis Richter, American Scientist 1900 Howard Aiken, American Scientist 1898 William Pepper, American Scientist 1898 Helen B. Taussig, American Scientist 1896 Alister Hardy, British Scientist 1895 Louis Pasteur, scientist (Pasteurization) dies 1895 Thomas Henry Huxley, English Scientist 1895 Thomas Huxley, English Scientist 1895 James Dwight Dana, American Scientist 1894 Warren Weaver, American Scientist 1894 William Robertson Smith, Scottish Scientist 1893 Albert Szent-Gyorgi, Hungarian Scientist 1893 James Bryant Conant, American Scientist 1892 Arthur H. Compton, American Scientist 1892 Arthur Holly Compton, American Scientist 1890 Vannevar Bush, American Scientist 1889 Edwin Powell Hubble, American Scientist 1888 Carl Zeiss, German Scientist 1887 Karl Taylor Compton, physicist/atomic bomb scientist 1887 Sivananda, Indian Scientist 1886 Paul Bert, French Scientist 1886 Edward Bach, English Scientist 1885 George Richards Minot, American Scientist 1885 Thomas Davidson, Scottish Scientist 1885 Henry Thomas Tizard, scientist 1884 George Bentham, English Scientist 1884 Otto Bohm, born in Prussia, scientist, helped create England Radar 1884 Bronislaw Malinowski, Polish Scientist 1884 Auguste Piccard, born in Switzerland, scientist and explorer, balloonist 1884 Jean Felix Piccard, born in Switzerland, scientist, explorer, and balloonist 1884 Roy Chapman Andrews, U.S., scientist/explorer 1883 Alfred Korzybski, born in Poland, scientist, Science and Sanity 1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB 1881 Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss Scientist 1880 Robert Fortune, Scottish Scientist 1879 Alfred Korzybski, Polish Scientist 1878 Joseph Henry, American Scientist 1878 Julius Robert Mayer, German Scientist 1877 Frederick Soddy, English Scientist 1877 Francis William Aston, British Scientist 1875 Gilbert Newton Lewis, American Scientist 1874 Thomas J. Watson, American Scientist, IBM 1873 Louis Agassiz, Swiss Scientist 1873 Hans Berger, German Scientist 1871 Florence Sabin, scientist/1st woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins 1871 Ernest Rutherford, nuclear scientist 1867 Marie Curie, French Scientist, discovered radium, Nobel 1903, 1911 1866 Charles Davenport, American Scientist 1865 Sven Hedin, Sweden, scientist/explorer, Tibet 1865 George Phillips Bond, American Scientist 1864 Lucien Herr, France, scientist, Corresp entre Schiller et Schiller 1864 George Washington Carver, American Scientist 1862 William Wallace Campbell, American Scientist 1861 William J. Mayo, American Scientist 1859 Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, explorer/scientist, dies 1859 Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist 1858 Johannes P. Muller, German Scientist 1857 Edward E. Barnard, American Scientist 1857 John Joly, Irish Scientist 1857 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian Scientist 1856 Frederick W. Taylor, American Scientist 1855 Percival Lowell, American Scientist 1854 Edward Forbes, British Scientist 1854 James G. Frazer, Scottish Scientist 1849 George Mercer Dawson, Canadian Scientist 1848 Francis Darwin, English Scientist 1846 William Robertson Smith, Scottish Scientist 1845 George Howard Darwin, British Scientist 1843 William Pepper, American Scientist 1843 David Gill, Scottish Scientist 1835 Simon Newcomb, U.S., scientist, mathematician and astronomer 1833 Alfred Nobel, Swedish Scientist 1833 Paul Bert, French Scientist 1832 Jose Echegaray y Elizaguirre, playwright and scientist, Teatro Escogido 1829 Humphry Davy, scientist/inventor (Miner's safety lamp), dies at 84 1828 Jonathan Hutchinson, surgeon/scientist 1825 George Phillips Bond, American Scientist 1825 Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist/humanist/Darwinist 1825 Thomas Huxley, English Scientist 1817 Thomas Davidson, Scottish Scientist 1816 Carl Zeiss, German Scientist 1815 Edward Forbes, British Scientist 1814 Julius Robert Mayer, German Scientist 1813 Robert Fortune, Scottish Scientist 1813 James Dwight Dana, American Scientist 1801 Norinaga Moto'ori, Japanese scientist, dies 1801 Johannes P. Muller, German Scientist 1800 George Bentham, English Scientist 1797 Joseph Henry, U.S., scientist/inventor/pioneer of electromagnetism 1794 Leopold Zunz, German scientist, Synagogical Poetry 1794 Antoine Lavoisier, French Scientist 1771 E I Du Pont, France, chemist/scientist, Du Pont 1764 Pieter Nieuwland, Dutch scientist, Newton 1753 Charles, 3rd earl Stanhope, England, radical politician/scientist 1743 Antoine Lavoisier, French Scientist 1742 Edmond Halley, English Scientist 1738 Herman Boerhaave, Dutch Scientist 1733 Joseph Priestley, born in England, clergyman and scientist, discovered oxygen 1730 Norinaga Moto'ori, Japanese scientist 1701 Anders Celsius, Sweden, scientist/inventor, centigrade temp scale 1689 Thomas Sydenham, English Scientist 1679 Firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scientist 1668 Herman Boerhaave, Dutch Scientist 1657 Bernard Fontenelle, France, scientist/writer, Plurality of Worlds 1656 Edmond Halley, English Scientist 1647 Evangelista Torricelli, Italian Scientist 1644 Florentine scientist describe invention of barometer 1630 Johannes Kepler, German Scientist 1624 Thomas Sydenham, English Scientist 1608 Evangelista Torricelli, Italian Scientist 1592 Pierre Gassendi, Champtercier Provence, scientist/philosopher 1571 Johannes Kepler, German Scientist 1541 Paracelsus, Swiss Scientist 1519 Leonardo Da Vinci, artist/scientist, dies at 67 1517 Jacques Peletier, du Mans, French poet/scientist 1493 Paracelsus, Swiss Scientist 1452 Leonardo da Vinci, Italy, painter/sculptor/scientist/visionary |
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