Famous Scientists
Science & Nature 59 records updated 2026-07-19
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| ID | Name | Field | Nationality | Era |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aristotle | Natural philosophy | Greek | Ancient Greece |
| 2 | Archimedes | Mathematics | Greek | Ancient Greece |
| 3 | Hippocrates | Medicine | Greek | Ancient Greece |
| 4 | Ptolemy | Astronomy | Greek | Classical antiquity |
| 5 | Al-Khwarizmi | Mathematics | Persian | 9th century |
| 6 | Ibn al-Haytham | Physics | Arab | 11th century |
| 7 | Avicenna | Medicine | Persian | 11th century |
| 8 | Nicolaus Copernicus | Astronomy | Polish | 16th century |
| 9 | Leonardo da Vinci | Anatomy | Italian | 15th and 16th century |
| 10 | Tycho Brahe | Astronomy | Danish | 16th century |
| 11 | Galileo Galilei | Astronomy | Italian | 17th century |
| 12 | Johannes Kepler | Astronomy | German | 17th century |
| 13 | William Harvey | Medicine | English | 17th century |
| 14 | Robert Boyle | Chemistry | Irish | 17th century |
| 15 | Robert Hooke | Biology | English | 17th century |
| 16 | Blaise Pascal | Mathematics | French | 17th century |
| 17 | Christiaan Huygens | Physics | Dutch | 17th century |
| 18 | Isaac Newton | Physics | English | 17th century |
| 19 | Gottfried Leibniz | Mathematics | German | 17th century |
| 20 | Carl Linnaeus | Biology | Swedish | 18th century |
| 21 | Benjamin Franklin | Physics | American | 18th century |
| 22 | Antoine Lavoisier | Chemistry | French | 18th century |
| 23 | Edward Jenner | Medicine | English | 18th century |
| 24 | Alessandro Volta | Physics | Italian | 18th and 19th century |
| 25 | John Dalton | Chemistry | English | 19th century |
Notes
- Last updated on July 19, 2026.
- Famous Scientists data courtesy of Encyclopaedia Britannica . Used with permission.