Dictionary of Scientists


Here are authoritative and up-to-date biographies of the world's scientists, from ancient times to the cutting edge. All areas of science are represented, from physics and astronomy to medicine and ecology, plus key figures in the fields of mathematics and technology.
On this page: Abbe, Cleveland to Averroës.

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Abbe, Cleveland (American meteorologist)
Abbe, Ernst (German physicist)
Abegg, Richard (German physical chemist)
Abel, John Jacob (American biochemist)
Abel, Niels Henrik (Norwegian mathematician)
Abelson, Philip Hauge (American physical chemist)
Adams, John Couch (British astronomer)
Adams, Walter Sydney (American astronomer)
Adhemar, Alphonse Joseph (French mathematician)
Adler, Alfred (Austrian psychologist)
Adrian, Edgar Douglas (British neurophysiologist)
Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe (Swiss-American biologist)
Airy, George Biddell, Sir (British astronomer)
Aitken, Robert Grant (American astronomer)
Al-Battani (Arab astronomer)
Al-Khwarizmi, Abu Ja'far Muhammad Ibn Musa (Arab mathematician, astronomer, and geographer)
Alcmaeon (Greek philosopher and physician)
Alder, Kurt (German organic chemist)
Alfvén, Hannes Olof Gösta (Swedish physicist)
Allen, Edgar (American endocrinologist)
Alpher, Ralph Asher (American physicist)
Altman, Sidney (American chemist)
Alzheimer, Alois (German psychiatrist)
Amagat, Emile Hilaire (French physicist)
Ambartsumian, Viktor Amazaspovich (Armenian astrophysicist)
Amontons, Guillaume (French physicist)
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (Greek philosopher)
Anaximander of Miletus (Greek philosopher)
Anaximenes of Miletus (Greek philosopher)
Anderson, Carl David (American physicist)
Anderson, Philip Warren (American physicist)
Andrews, Thomas (Irish physical chemist)
Anfinsen, Christian Boehmer (American biochemist)
Antoniadi, Eugène Michael (Greek–French astronomer)
Apollonius of Perga (Greek mathematician)
Appel, Kenneth (American mathematician)
Appleton, Edward Victor, Sir (British physicist)
Arber, Werner (Swiss microbiologist)
Aristarchus of Samos (Greek astronomer)
Arrhenius, Svante August (Swedish physical chemist)
Astbury, William Thomas (British x-ray crystallographer and molecular biologist)
Aston, Francis William (British chemist and physicist)
Atanasoff, John Vincent (American physicist and computer pioneer)
Audubon, John James (American ornithologist and naturalist)
Auer (Austrian chemist)
Auger, Pierre Victor (French physicist)
Averroës (Spanish–Muslim physician and philosopher)