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Abbe, Ernst (1840-1905)
Adams, John Couch (1819-1892)
Aepinus, Franz (1724-1802)
Agricola, Georgius (1494-1555)
Airy, George (1801-1892)
Ames, Bruce
Andrews, George E.
Appell, Paul Emile (1855-1930)
Armstrong, Edwin (1890-1954)
Arnol'd, Vladimir
Askey, Richard A.
Baldwin, John
Banach, Stefan
Bardeen, John (1908-1991)
Barnard, Edward Emerson (1857-1923)
Barnes, Ernest (1874-1953)
Barthez, Paul (1734-1806)
Bell, Charles (1774-1842)
Bell, Eric Temple (1883-1960)
Bernoulli, Nicholas (1695-1726)
Berti, Gaspar (ca. 1600-1643)
Betti, Enrico (1823-1892)
Bézout, Étienne (1730-1783)
Bhabha, Homi Jehangir (1909-1966)
Bloembergen, Nicolaas (1920-)
Boerhaave, Hermann (1668-1738)
Bohm, David Joseph (1917-1992)
Bok, Bart J. (1906-1983)
Bolyai, Farkas (or Wolfgang) (1775-1856)
Borchardt, Karl (1817-1880)
Borel, Emile (1871-1956)
Bourguet, Louis (1678-1742)
Boussinesq, Valentin Joseph (1842-1929)
Brackett, F. S.
Bradwardine, Thomas (1290-1349)
Bragg, Lawrence William (1891-1971)
Brattain, Walter Houser (1902-1987)
Braun, Wernher von (1912-1977)
Breit, Gregory (1899-)
Brianchon, Charles (1785-1864)
Bridges, Calvin (1889-1938)
Brisseau-Mirbel, Charles (1776-1854)
Broca, Pierre Paul (1824-1880)
Brodie, Benjamin (1817-1880)
Brouncker, William Viscount (ca. 1620-1684)
Brouwer, Luitzen (1881-1966)
Brown, Ernest William (1866-1936)
Brown, Robert Hanbury (1916-)
Brugmans, Anton (1732-1789)
Burali-Forti, Cesare (1861-1931)
Burrau
Callippus of Cyzicus (ca. 370-ca. 300 BC)
Calvin, Melvin (1911-)
Camerarius, Rudolph Jakob (1665-1721)
Canton, John (1718-1772)
Cardano, Gerolamo (1501-1576)
Cartan, Élie (1869-1951)
Carver, George Washington (1860-1943)
Casimir, Hendrik Bugt (1909-2000)
Castelli, Benedetto (1578-1643)
Catalan, Eugène Charles (1814-1894)
Cherenkov, Pavel (1904-1990)
Cesalpino, Andrea (1519-1603)
Chalcidius (ca. 300)
Charles
Chasles, Michel (1793-1880)
Christoffel, Elwin (1882-1935)
Christy (?-)
Church
Cockcroft, John (1897-1967)
Collins, John (1625-1683)
Compton, Arthur Holly (1892-1962)
Condon, Edward (1902-1974)
Cooper
Cori, Gerty Radnitz (1896-1957)
Coulomb, Charles (1736-1806)
Courant, Richard (1888-1972)
Cremona, Luigi (1830-1903)
Cullen, William (1710-1790)
Curtis, Heber Doust (1872-1942)
Cysat, Johann (1586-1657)
Da Vinci, Leonardo (1452-1519)
Darboux, Gaston (1842-1917)
Davis, John
de la Hire, Phillipe (1640-1719)
de Laloubere, Antoine (1600-1664)
de Longchamps, G. (1842-1906)
de Moivre, Abraham (1667-1754)
de Montmort, Pierre (1654-1722)
Delaunay, Charles-Eugene (1816-1872)
Delbrück, Max
Di Salvo, Francis
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge (1832-1898)
Drell, Sidney (1926-)
Ehrenfest, Paul (1880-1933)
Erdos, Paul (1913-1996)
Esaki, Leo (1925-)
Fagnano, Giovanni Francesco dei Toschi (1715-1797)
Fagnano, Giulio Carlo dei Toschi (1682-1766)
Faulhaber, J. (1580-1635)
Ferrari (1522-1565)
Fichte, Johann (1762-1814)
Ficino, Marsilo (1433-1499)
Florey, Howard (1898-1968)
Flourens, Pierre (1794-1867)
Fokker, Adriaan (1887-1972)
Fraenkel, Adolf Abraham (1891-1965)
Franck, James (1882-1964)
Fraunhofer, Joseph von (1787-1826)
Fréchet, Maurice (1878-1973)
Frederick the Great
Fredholm, Erik (1866-1927)
Frénicle, Bernard (ca. 1606-1670)
Friedmann, Alexander (1888-1925)
Frobenius, Georg (1849-1917)
Frontius, Sextus Julius (ca. 30-104)
Fuchs, Immanuel (1833-1902)
Gabor, Dennis (1900-1979)
Gall, Franz Joseph (1758-1828)
Gay-Lussac, Joseph (1778-1850)
Geiger, Hans (1882-1945)
Gelfond, Aleksandr (1906-1968)
Gell-Mann, Murray (1929-)
Gergonne, Joseph-Diaz (1771-1859)
Germer, Lester Halbert (1896-1971)
Giaever, Ivar (1929-)
Glashow, Sheldon Lee (1932-)
Goldstein, Eugen (1850-1930)
Graham, Thomas (1805-1869)
Gramme, Zenobe Theophile (1826-1901)
Grassmann, Hermann (1809-1877)
Gray, Stephen (1696-1736)
Greenstein, Jesse (1909-)
Gregory, James (1638-1675)
Grimaldi, Francesco Maria (1618-1663)
Gudermann, Christof 1798-1852)
Guldberg, Cato (1836-1902)
Guldin, Paul (1577-1643)
Hadamard, Jacques (1865-1963)
Hadfield, Robert (1858-1940)
Hahn, Otto (1879-1968)
Hall, Asaph (1829-1907)
Hamilton, William (1788-1856)
Hankel, Hermann (1839-1873)
Harrington, Roy (1934-)
Hauksbee, Francis (1666-1713)
Hazard, Cyril
Heine, Heinrich Eduard (1821-1881)
Heisenberg, Werner (1901-1976)
Henle, Friedrich (1809-1885)
Heracleitus of Ephesus (ca. 540-ca. 475 BC)
Heron of Alexandria (ca. 75 AD)
Herophilus of Chalcedon (ca. 320-unknown BC)
Héroult, Paul (1863-1914)
Herschel, John (1792-1871)
Hertz, Gustav (1887-1975)
Hertzsprung, Ejnar (1873-1967)
Hesiod (ca. 700 BC)
Hess, Victor (1883-1964)
Hessenberg, Gerhard (1874-1925)
Hey, J. B.
Hill, George William (1838-1914)
Hippocrates of Chios (ca. 450 BC)
His, Wilhelm (1831-1904)
Hittorf, Johann (1824-1914)
Högbom, Jan
Holmberg, Erik
Holmes, Frederick Hale
Homer (ca. 750)
Hooke, Robert (1635-1703)
Horner, William (1786-1837)
Horrocks, Jeremiah (1618-1641)
Hoyle, Fred (1915-2001)
Hudde, Johann (1633-1704)
Huggins, Charles Brenton (1901-)
Huggins, William (1824-1910)
Humboldt, Alexander von (1769-1859)
Hume, David (1711-1776)
Hunter, John (1728-1793)
Huxley, Thomas (1825-1895)
Hypatia (370?-415)
Ingalls, Albert (1888-1958)
Ingenhousz, Jan (1730-1799)
Isidore of Seville (ca. 560-636)
Jackson, F.E.
Janssen, Pierre (1824-1907)
Jeans, James (1877-1946)
Jeffreys, Sir Harold (1891-1989)
Jenner, Edward (1749-1823)
Jerome, St. (347-419)
Jerrard, G.B (1863-?)
Joliot-Curie, Frédéric (1900-1958)
Joliot-Curie, Iréne (1897-1956)
Jones, William (1675-1749)
Jordan, Pascual (1902-1980)
Justin the Martyr (100-165)
Kármán, Theodore von (1881-1963)
Kendrew, John (1917-1997)
Kennelly, Arthur (1861-1939)
Kerr, Roy (1934-)
Kiddinu (340-unknown BC)
Kinoshita, Toichiro
Klein, Felix (1849-1925)
Kleist, Ewald Juergen (1700-1748)
Kneser, Adolf (1862-1930)
Koch, Robert (1843-1910)
Kölreuter, Joseph (1733-1806)
Kohlrausch, Friedrich (1840-1910)
Kölliker, Rudolf von (1817-1905)
Kolmogorov, Andrei Nikolaevich (1903-1987)
Arthur Kornberg
Kossel, Albrecht (1853-1927)
Kowal, Charles
Kummer, Ernst (1810-1893)
Kutta, Wilhelm (1867-1944)
L'Hospital, Guillaume de (1661-1704)
Labeyrie, Antoine (1943-)
Lacaille, Nicolas de (1713-1762)
Lamb, Horace (1849-1934)
Lamé
Lapp, Ralph (1917-)
Larmor, Joseph (1857-1942)
Laue, Max von (1879-1960)
Lawrence, Ernest (1901-1958)
Le Bel, Achille (1847-1930)
Le Châtelier, Henri (1850-1936)
Le Verrier, Urbain (1811-1877)
Leavitt, Henrietta (1868-1921)
Lebesgue, Henri (1875-1941)
Lederberg, Joshua (1925-)
Lederman, Leon Max (1922-)
Lee, David Morris (1931-)
Lemaître, Georges Édouard (1894-1966)
Lemery, Nicolas (1645-1715)
Lemoine, E. (1840-1912)
Leucippus of Miletus (ca. 490-unknown BC)
Levene, Phoebus (1869-1940)
Levi-Civita, Tullio (1873-1941)
Lewis, Gilbert (1875-1946)
Ley, Willy (1906-1969)
Libby, Willard (1908-1980)
Lie, Sophus (1842-1899)
Liebig, Georg (ca. 1800)
Lightfoot, John (1602-1675)
Lindemann, Ferdinand (1852-1939)
Liouville, Joseph (1809-1882)
Lister, Joseph (1827-1912)
Littlewood, John Edensor (1885-1977)
Lobachevsky, Nicolai (1793-1856)
Lomonosov, Mikhail (1711-1765)
Lorenz, Ludwig (1829-1891)
Loschmidt, Josef (1821-1895)
Lotka, Alfred (1880-1949)
Lucas, Howard (1885-?)
Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) (ca. 95-ca. 55 BC)
Luria, Salvador Edward (1912-1991)
Lyman, Theodore (1874-?)
Lyot, Bernard (1897-1952)
Maclure, William (1763-1840)
Mach, Ernst (1838-1916)
Maclaurin, Colin (1698-1746)
Magnus, Heinrich Gustav (1802-1870)
Malpighi, Marcello (1628-1694)
Malthus, Thomas Robert (1766-1834)
Maquois (ca. 1714)
Marius, Simon (1573-1624)
Markov Andrei (1856-1922)
Martin, Archer (1910-)
Mascheroni, Lorenzo (1750-1800)
Mayer, Johann (1723-1762)
Mayer, Julius Robert von (1814-1878)
McClintock, Barbara
McCready, L. L.
Meckel, Johann (1781-1833)
Meijer, C.S.
Melissus of Samos (ca. 440 BC)
Melloni, Macedonio (1798-1854)
Menzel, Donald (1901-1976)
Mercator, Nicholas (1620-1687)
Mermin, David
Mersenne, Marin (1588-1648)
Mettrie, Julien la (1709-1751)
Meyer, Julius Lothar (1830-1895)
Michell, John (1724-1793)
Millikan, Robert (1868-1953)
Milne, Edward Arthur (1896-1950)
Mises, Richard von (1883-1953)
Mitchell, Maria (1818-1889)
Mitscherlich, Eilhardt (1794-1863)
Mittag-Leffler, Gösta (1846-1927)
Mohs, Friedrich (1773-1839)
M{ø}ller, Christian (1904-?)
Monge, Gaspard (1746-1818)
Morgan, Thomas (1866-1945)
Morley, Edward (1838-1923)
Morley, Frank (1860-1937)
Moseley, Henry (1887-1915)
Mott, Neville Francis (1905-1996)
Mottelson, Ben (1926-)
Moulton, Forest Ray (1872-1952)
Mueller, Erwin (1911-1977)
Nagaoka, Hantaro (1865-1950)
Nägeli, Karl von (1817-1891)
Napier, John (1550-1617)
Nash, John
Nathans, Daniel (1928-1999)
Navier, Claude (1785-1836)
Ne'eman, Yuval (1925-)
Néel
Neuberg, Joseph (1840-1926)
Neumann, Franz (1798-1895)
Neumann, John von (1903-1957)
Neumann, Karl (1832-1925)
Newcomen, Thomas (1663-1729)
Nicole, Francois (1683-1758)
Nicholson, William (1853-1815)
Noether, Emmy (1882-1935)
Nollet, Floris (d. 1853)
Noyes, Arthur (1866-1936)
Oberth, Hermann (1894-1989)
Ockham, William of (ca. 1285-1349)
Oenopides of Chios (b. ca. 480 BC)
Oken, Lorenz (1779-1851)
Oliphant, Marcus (1901-)
Oppenheimer, J. Robert (1904-1967)
Ostrogradski, Michel (1801-1861)
Ostwald, Wilhelm (1853-1932)
Pacioli, Luca (1445-1514)
Palitzsch, Johann (1723-1788)
Pander, Christian (1794-1865)
Parent, Antoine (1666-1716)
Paschen, Louis (1865-1947)
Pauli, Wolfgang (1900-1958)
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich (1849-1936)
Payne-Scott, Ruby Violet (1912-1981)
Peacock, George (1791-1858)
Peano, Giuseppe (1858-1932)
Pearson, Karl (1857-1936)
Pease, Francis Gladheim (1881-1938)
Peaucellier
Peierls, Rudolph E. (1907-1995)
Peirce, Charles (1839-1914)
Pell, John (1610-1685)
Penzias, Arno Allan (1933-)
Perrin, Jean-Baptiste (1870-1942)
Perrine, Charles (1867-1951)
Perthes, Jacques de (1788-1868)
Perutz, Max (1914-)
Petit, Alexis (1791-1820)
Petrarca, Francesco (1304-1374)
Petzval, J. (ca. 1800)
Pfeffer, Wilhelm (1845-1920)
Pfüger, Eduard (1829-1910)
Picard, Émile (1856-1941)
Pierce, John Robinson (1910-)
Pohlke, Karl (1810-1876)
Poiseuille, Jean (1797-1869)
Popper, Karl (1902-1994)
Porter, Russell (1871-1949)
Poseidonius of Apamea (ca. 135-ca. 50 BC)
Potapenko, Gennady (1895-1979)
Powell, Cecil (1903-1969)
Poynting, John (1852-1914)
Prévost, Jean (1790-1850)
Prévost, Pierre (1751-1839)
Proust, Joseph-Louis (1754-1826)
Prout, William (1785-1850)
Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel (1783-1840)
Rankine, William (1820-1872)
Rayleigh, John William Strutt (1842-1919)
Réaumur, René (1683-1757)
Redi, Francesco (1626-1678)
Reines, Frederick (1918-1998)
Remak, Robert (1815-1865)
Riccati, Jacopo (1667-1754)
Ricci-Curbastro, Gregorio (1853-1925)
Riccioli, Giovanni (1598-1671)
Richelot, Friedrich Julius (1808-1875)
Richter, Jeremias (1762-1807)
Ritchey, Georg (1864-1945)
Ritter, Johann (1776-1810)
Roberval, Gilles (1602-1675)
Robbins, Frederick Chapman (1916-)
Robinson, John (ca. 1725-?)
Röntgen, Wilhelm (1845-1923)
Rolle, Michel (1652-1719)
Rosen, Nathan (1909-1995)
Roux, Pierre (1853-1933)
Roux, Wilhelm (1850-1924)
Rowland, Henry (1848-1901)
Rubner, Max (1854-1932)
Ruffini, Paolo (1765-1822)
Runge, Carl (1856-1927)
Russell, Henry Noris (1877-1957)
Rydberg, Johannes (1854-1919)
Ryle, Gilbert (1900-1976)
Ryle, Sir Martin (1918-1984)
Sabin, Albert Bruce (1906-1993)
Saint Vincent, Grégoire de (1584-1667)
Sakharov, Ardrey Dmitriyevich (1921-1989)
Salam, Abdus (1926-1996)
Salk, Jonas Edward (1914-1995)
Sandage, Allan (1926-)
Savart, Félix (1791-1841)
Savery, Thomas A. (1650-1715)
Say, Thomas (1787-1834)
Scaliger, Joseph (1540-1609)
Scheuer, Peter (1930-)
Schliemann, Heinrich (1822-1890)
Schmidt, Bernhard (1879-1935)
Schmidt, Maarten (1929-)
Schönbein, Christian (1799-1868)
Schrödinger, Erwin (1887-1961)
Schuster, Arthur (1851-1934)
Schwarz, Herman Amandus (1843-1921)
Schwarzschild, Karl (1873-1916)
Seebeck, Thomas (1770-1831)
Segré, Emilio (1905-1989)
Seidel, Philipp Ludwig von (1821-1896)
Seleucus of Seleucia (ca. 190-unknown BC)
Semmelweiss, Ignaz (1818-1865)
Seneca (ca. 63)
Shain, C. A.
Shakeshaft, John
Shimura, Goro (1930-)
Shockley, William B. (1910-1989)
Sierpinski, Waclaw (1882-1969)
Simplicius (ca. early 6 C.)
Simpson, Thomas (1710-1761)
Slater, John Clarke (1900-1976)
Slee, Bruce
Slipher, Vesto (1875-1969)
Sluze, René (1622-1685)
Smith, Hamilton (1931-)
Smith, Henry (1824-1883)
Smith, William (1769-1839)
Snell, Willebrord (1591-1626)
Socrates (ca. 470-399 BC)
Soddy, Frederick (1877-1956)
Sommerfeld, Arnold (1868-1951)
Sosigenes (ca. 90-unknown BC)
Spencer, Herbert (1820-1903)
Stanley, Gorden James (1922-)
Stanley, Wendell (1904-1971)
Stark, Johannes (1874-1957)
Stas, Jean (1813-1891)
Steinmetz, Charles Proteus (1865-1923)
Steno, Nicolaus (1638-1686)
Stephan, Édouard Jean Marie (1837-1923)
Stern, Moritz (1807-1894)
Stern, Otto (1888-1969)
Stevin, Simon (1548-1620)
Stieltjes, Thoman Jan (1856-1894)
Stirling, James (1692-1770)
Stodola, Edwin King (1914-1992)
Stoney, George (1826-1911)
Strassman, Fritz (1902-1980)
Strato of Lampsacus (ca. 340-ca. 270 BC)
Struve, Otto (1897-1963)
Sturm, Charles (1803-1855)
Sullivan, Woodruff (1944-)
Sundman, Karl Frithiof (1873-1949)
Swan, Joseph (1828-1914)
Synge, Richard Laurence Millington (1914-1994)
Szalay, Sandor (1909-)
Szilard, Leo (1898-1964)
Tamm, Igor (1895-1971)
Taniyama, Yutaka (1927-1958)
Tarski, Alfred (1902-1983)
Tartaglia, Niccolò (1499-1557)
Tatum, Edward Lawrie (1909-1975)
Taylor, Brook (1685-1731)
Taylor, Frank B. (1860-1939)
Thâbit ibn Kurrah (836-901)
Theophrastus of Eresus (ca. 372-ca. 287 BC)
Thiele, Thorvald Nicolai (1838-1910)
Thomae, Johannes Karl (1840-1921)
Thomson, Sir Joseph John (1856-1940)
Timocharis (ca. 200 BC)
Tomonaga, Shin-Ichiro (1906-1979)
Traube, Moritz (1826-1894)
Trumpler, Robert (1886-1956)
Tschirnhausen, Ehrenfried (1651-1708)
Tsvett, Mikhail (1872-1919)
Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacque (1727-1781)
Turing, Alan (1912-1954)
Tyndall, John (1820-1893)
Uhlenbeck, George (1900-1988)
Ulam, Stanslaw (1909-1986)
Ulugh Beg (1394-1449)
Ussher, Archbishop James (1581-1656)
Vallée Poussin, Charles Jean Gustave Nicolas de la (1866-1962)
van de Hulst, Hendrik (1918-2000)
van der Pol, Balthasar (1889-1959)
van Shooten, Frans (1615-1660)
Varignon, Pierre (1654-1722)
Varro, Marcus Terrentius (ca. 120 BC)
Verdet, Emile (1824-1866)
Villard, Paul (1860-1934)
Virchow, Rudolph (1821-1902)
Vitruvius (ca. 70-ca. 25 BC)
Viviani, Vincenzo (1622-1703)
Volta, Alessandro (1745-1827)
Voltaire (1694-1778)
Volterra, Vito (1860-1940)
Waage, Peter (1833-1900)
Wakeford, E. K. (1894-1916)
Wallace, Alfred (1823-1913)
Wallis, John (1616-1703)
Walton, Ernest Thomas Sinton (1903-1995)
Waring, Edward (1734-1798)
Watson, William (1715-1787)
Watson-Watt, Robert (1892-1973)
Weinberg, Steven (1933-)
Weisskopf, Victor Frederick (1908-2002)
Weizsäcker, von
Weller, Thomas Huckle (1915-)
Wessel, Caspar (1745-1818)
Westinghouse, George (1846-1914)
Weyl, Hermann (1885-1955)
Whitehead, Alfred (1861-1947)
Wilcke, Johan (1732-1796)
Wilkins, Maurice (1916-)
William of Conches (1080-1154)
Williamson, Alexander (1824-1904)
Willstätter, Richard (1872-1942)
Wilson, Charles (1869-1959)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1889-1951)
Wolf, Maximilian (1863-1932)
Wolff, Friedrich (1734-1794)
Wollaston, William (1766-1828)
Wren, Sir Christopher (1632-1723)
Wright, Orville (1871-1948)
Wright, Thomas (1711-1786)
Wright, Wilbur (1867-1912)
Wurtz, Charles-Adolphe (1817-1884)
Yalow, Rosalyn (1921-)
Yang, Chen-Ning (1922-)
Zeeman, Pieter (1865-1943)
Zeiss, Carl (1816-1888)
Zeldovich, Iakov Borisovich (1914-1987)
Zeno of Elea (ca. 490-ca. 425 BC)
Zermelo, Ernst (1871-1953)
Zuse, Konrad (1910-1995)
Zwicky, Fritz (1898-1974)