Famous Scientists

This list currently contains 243 personalities among which there are for example, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Marie Curie, Louis Pasteur, Nicolas Copernic, Galilée, Charles Darwin, Pierre Curie, Isaac Newton, Karl Marx, Auguste Lumière, Thomas Edison, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Alan Turing, Isaac Asimov, ...

Agronomists Anthropologists Archaeologists Astronomes Astrophysicists Bacteriologists Biochemists Biologists Botanists Chemists Climatologists Egyptologists Ethnologists Ethologists Geneticists Geochemists Linguists Mathematicians Microbiologists Naturalists Nobel Peace Prize (scientists) Nobel Prize in Chemistry Paleontologists Physicists Physics’ Nobel prize Seismologists Sociologists Zoologists

Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince

† at 49 years

Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince

1841 • 1890

† at ~70 years

~780 • ~850

Claude Allègre

André-Marie Ampère

Born 250 years ago in 2025

† at 61 years

André-Marie Ampère

1775 • 1836

† at 67 years

François Arago

1786 • 1853

† at ~75 years

~-287 • ~-212

† at 78 years

1905 • 1983

† at 72 years

1920 • 1992

John B. Goodenough

† at 100 years

John B. Goodenough

1922 • 2023

Charles Babbage

† at 79 years

Charles Babbage

1791 • 1871

† at 80 years

1863 • 1944

Frederick Banting

† at 49 years

Frederick Banting

1891 • 1941

Aurélien Barrau

Aurélien Barrau

Astrophysicists

† at 67 years

1740 • 1807

Henri Becquerel

† at 55 years

Henri Becquerel

1852 • 1908

Died 25 years ago in 2024

† at 89 years

1910 • 1999

† at 77 years

1885 • 1962

Died 20 years ago in 2025

† at 80 years

1924 • 2005

† at 95 years

1914 • 2009

Pierre Bourdieu

† at 71 years

Pierre Bourdieu

1930 • 2002

† at 64 years

1627 • 1691

† at 54 years

1546 • 1601

† at 95 years

Édouard Branly

1844 • 1940

† at 56 years

1824 • 1880

† at 56 years

1907 • 1964

† at 64 years

1874 • 1939

† at 42 years

1701 • 1744

Jean-François Champollion

† at 41 years

Jean-François Champollion

1790 • 1832

Gilles Clément

James Clerk Maxwell

† at 48 years

James Clerk Maxwell

1831 • 1879

† at 59 years

1798 • 1857

Nicolas Copernic

† at 70 years

Nicolas Copernic

1473 • 1543

† at 87 years

1934 • 2022

Paleontologists

Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis

† at 51 years

Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis

1792 • 1843

† at 88 years

1916 • 2004

† at 66 years

1867 • 1934

† at 46 years

1859 • 1906

† at 62 years

1769 • 1832

† at 77 years

1766 • 1844

† at 73 years

1809 • 1882

Henry David Thoreau

† at 44 years

Henry David Thoreau

1817 • 1862

Nicolas de Condorcet

† at 50 years

Nicolas de Condorcet

1743 • 1794

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck

† at 85 years

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck

1744 • 1829

Pierre-Simon de Laplace

† at 77 years

Pierre-Simon de Laplace

1749 • 1827

Ferdinand de Saussure

† at 55 years

Ferdinand de Saussure

1857 • 1913

Alexis de Tocqueville

† at 53 years

Alexis de Tocqueville

1805 • 1859

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicists

Piero della Francesca

† at ~80 years

Piero della Francesca

~1412 • 1492

† at 53 years

René Descartes

1596 • 1650

James Dewey Watson

James Dewey Watson

Died 40 years ago in 2024

† at 82 years

1902 • 1984

Christian Doppler

† at 49 years

Christian Doppler

1803 • 1853

† at 59 years

Émile Durkheim

1858 • 1917

James E. Hansen

James E. Hansen

Gordon Earle Moore

† at 94 years

Gordon Earle Moore

1929 • 2023

† at 84 years

1847 • 1931

Albert Einstein

† at 76 years

Albert Einstein

1879 • 1955

† at 89 years

1903 • 1992

† at ~82 years

~-276 • ~-194

† at ~70 years

~-320 • ~-250

† at 76 years

1707 • 1783

Gabriel Fahrenheit

† at 50 years

Gabriel Fahrenheit

1686 • 1736

Michael Faraday

† at 75 years

Michael Faraday

1791 • 1867

† at 53 years

1901 • 1954

Richard Feynman

† at 69 years

Richard Feynman

1918 • 1988

Leonardo Fibonacci

† at ~80 years

Leonardo Fibonacci

~1170 • ~1250

Alexander Fleming

† at 73 years

Alexander Fleming

1881 • 1955

John Forbes Nash

Died 10 years ago in 2025

† at 86 years

John Forbes Nash

1928 • 2015

† at 53 years

1932 • 1985

† at 48 years

1819 • 1868

† at 62 years

1768 • 1830

Richard Francis Burton

† at 69 years

Richard Francis Burton

1821 • 1890

Charles Francis Richter

† at 85 years

Charles Francis Richter

1900 • 1985

Rosalind Franklin

† at 37 years

Rosalind Franklin

1920 • 1958

Carl Friedrich Gauss

† at 77 years

Carl Friedrich Gauss

1777 • 1855