Dictionary of Scientists

A Dictionary of Scientists, by Oxford University Press
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: D'Alembert, Jean Rond to Dirichlet, Peter Gustav Lejeune.
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D'Alembert, Jean Rond (French mathematician & philosopher)
D'Elhuyar, Don Fausto (Spanish chemist and mineralogist)
Daguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mandé (French painter, physicist, inventor & photographer)
Daimler, Gottlieb Wilhelm (German engineer & inventor)
Dale, Henry Hallett, Sir (English scientist)
Dalén, Nils Gustaf (Swedish physicist)
Dam, Carl Peter Henrik (Danish biologist & chemist)
Dana, James Dwight (American geologist & biologist)
Dansgaard, Willi (Danish meteorologist)
Dart, Raymond Arthur (Anthropology)
Darwin, Erasmus (English physician & poet)
Darwin, George Howard, Sir (English astronomer & mathematician)
Dausset, Jean (French physician)
Davis, Raymond (American chemist)
Davis, William Morris (American geographer, geologist & educator)
Davisson, Clinton Joseph (American physicist)
De Duve, Christian René (Belgian biologist)
De Forest, Lee (American inventor)
De la Beche, Henry Thomas, Sir (English geologist)
De Luc, Jean André (French mathematician, philosopher & politician)
De Moivre, Abraham (French-English mathematician)
De Sitter, Willem (Dutch astronomer & mathematician)
De Vries, Hugo (Dutch botanist)
Debierne, André Louis (French chemist)
Debye, Peter Joseph William (American physicist)
Dedekind, Julius Wilhelm Richard (German mathematician)
Dehmelt, Hans Georg (American physicist)
Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph (French astronomer & mathematician)
Delbrück, Max (German-born American biologist)
Demarçay, Eugene Anatole (French chemist)
Desargues, Girard (French mathematician and engineer)
Dewar, James, Sir (English chemist & physicist)
Dewar, Michael James Stuart (British–American chemist)
Dicke, Robert Henry (American physicist)
Diels, Otto Paul Hermann (German chemist)
Diesenhofer, Johann (German chemist)
Diophantus of Alexandria (Ancient Greek mathematician)
Dioscorides, Pedanius (Ancient Greek physician)
Dirichlet, Peter Gustav Lejeune (German mathematician)