Bancroft, Edward
Double agent of the Revolutionary War
Famous Scientists
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Crick, Francis
Co-discoverer of the structure of DNA -
Curie, Marie
Discoverer of radium and polonium -
Curie, Pierre
The scientist husband of Marie Curie -
Dalton, John
The weather pioneer who advocated atomic theory -
Da Vinci, Leonardo
Painter of the Mona Lisa -
Fleming, Alexander
The bacteriologist who discovered penicillin -
Franklin, Rosalind
The woman whose crystal studies showed the structure of DNA -
Garfield, Eugene
Founder of the Institute for Scientific Information -
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
The German dramatist known for Faust -
Haber, Fritz
The German chemist who made fertilizer and poison gas in World War I -
Halley, Edmond
Discoverer of Halley's Comet -
Hubble, Edwin
The astronomer the Hubble space telescope is named after -
Lee, Wen Ho
U.S. scientist falsely accused of being a Chinese spy -
McClintock, Barbara
The genetics scientist who learned from maize -
Mendel, Gregor
The founding father of modern genetics -
Messier, Charles
French comet hunter who first catalogued nebulae -
Narin, Francis
Scientometrics pioneer who started CHI Research -
Newton, Sir Isaac
The genius who explained gravity -
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
The physicist who directed the Manhattan Project -
Pasteur, Louis
Renowned inventor of pasteurization -
Priestley, Joseph
The Englishman credited with discovering oxygen -
Salk, Jonas
Developer of the polio vaccine -
Servetus, Michael
The 16th century heretic who also explained pulmonary circulation -
Smithson, James
The man whose money founded the Smithsonian Institution -
Stopes, Marie
The UK birth control pioneer who wrote 'Married Love' -
Swammerdam, Jan
The 17th-century Dutch microscopist who studied insects -
Vesalius, Andreas
16th-century Belgian anatomist who wrote The Structure of the Human Body -
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Darwin's contemporary who came up with natural selection -
Watson, James
Co-discoverer of the structure of DNA