Scientist
Discover amazing scientists who changed our world! Read short biographies of brilliant minds who made incredible discoveries and inventions.
Biographies (24)
Roger Penrose
1931-
Proved black holes are real
Francesco Redi
1626-1697
Disproved spontaneous generation with experiments
Henri Becquerel
1852-1908
Discovered natural radioactivity
Ibn al-Haytham
965–1040
Father of optics
Jennifer Doudna
1964-present
CRISPR gene-editing pioneer
Liu Yang
1978-present
China's first woman in space
Srinivasa Ramanujan
1887-1920
Genius of numbers and patterns
Ignaz Semmelweis
1818-1865
Pioneer of handwashing and antisepsis
Irène Joliot-Curie
1897-1956
Discovered artificial radioactivity
Annie Jump Cannon
1863-1941
Creator of modern star classification
Dorothy Hodgkin
1910-1994
Solved molecular shapes of lifesaving medicines
Sean Carroll
1966-present
Theoretical physicist and science communicator
Stephen Hawking
1942-2018
Revealing the secrets of black holes
Nikola Tesla
1856-1943
Father of alternating current
Jacques Cousteau
1910-1997
Ocean explorer and conservationist
Rachel Carson
1907-1964
Pioneering marine biologist and environmentalist
Guglielmo Marconi
1874-1937
Pioneer of wireless radio communication
Galileo Galilei
1564-1642
Father of modern observational astronomy
Richard Feynman
1918-1988
Playful physicist who explained nature
Marie Curie
1867-1934
Pioneer of radioactivity and medicine
Charles Darwin
1809-1882
Father of evolutionary theory
Isaac Newton
1642-1727
Discovered gravity; invented calculus
Rosalind Franklin
1920-1958
Captured DNA's hidden shape
Albert Einstein
1879-1955
Father of modern physics