Scientist
Discover amazing scientists who changed our world! Read short biographies of brilliant minds who made incredible discoveries and inventions.
Biographies (24)
Tycho Brahe
1546-1601
Astronomer whose data revealed planetary motion
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
1736-1813
Mathematical genius of classical mechanics
Blaise Pascal
1623-1662
Inventor of the mechanical calculator
Mary Anning
1799-1847
Pioneering fossil hunter and paleontologist
Lise Meitner
1878-1968
Pioneering physicist of nuclear fission
Alessandro Volta
1745-1827
Inventor of the voltaic pile
George Washington Carver
c.1864-1943
Agricultural scientist who helped farmers
Jane Goodall
1934-present
Pioneer of chimpanzee research and conservation
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
1868-1921
Mapped stars to measure the universe
Maria Mitchell
1818-1889
Pioneer woman who discovered a comet
Akira Endo
1933-present
Discoverer of statins
Homi Bhabha
1909-1966
Father of India's nuclear program
Satoshi Omura
1935-
Discovered medicines that defeat parasites.
Frances Arnold
1956-
Pioneer of directed enzyme evolution
Eratosthenes
c. 276 BC - c. 194 BC
Measured Earth's size with shadows
Hubble
1889-1953
Showed the universe is expanding
Paul Erdős
1913-1996
Most collaborative mathematician ever.
Omar Khayyam
1048-1131
Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet
Jonas Salk
1914-1995
Developed the first polio vaccine
Patricia Bath
1942-2019
Inventor of the cataract laser probe
Francesco Redi
1626-1697
Disproved spontaneous generation with experiments
Erwin Schrödinger
1887-1961
Father of wave mechanics
Stephen Hawking
1942-2018
Revealing the secrets of black holes
Nikola Tesla
1856-1943
Father of alternating current