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: Baade, Wilhelm Heinrich Walter to Berthollet, Comte Claude-Louis.

Title Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z
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Baade, Wilhelm Heinrich Walter (German–American astronomer)
Babcock, Harold Delos (American astronomer)
Babcock, Horace Welcome (American astronomer)
Babcock, Stephen Moulton (American agricultural chemist)
Babinet, Jacques (French physicist)
Backus, John (American computer scientist)
Baekeland, Leo Hendrik (Belgian–American industrial chemist)
Bahcall, John Noris (American physicist)
Baird, John Logie (British inventor)
Bakker, Robert (American paleontologist)
Balard, Antoine-Jérôme (French chemist)
Balfour, Francis Maitland (British zoologist)
Balmer, Johann Jakob (Swiss mathematician)
Baltimore, David (American molecular biologist)
Barkhausen, Heinrich Georg (German physicist)
Barkla, Charles Glover (British x-ray physicist)
Barnard, Edward Emerson (American astronomer)
Barr, Murray Llewellyn (Canadian geneticist and anatomist)
Barrow, Isaac (British mathematician)
Bartholin, Erasmus (Danish mathematician)
Bartlett, Neil (British–American chemist)
Basov, Nikolai Gennediyevich (Russian physicist)
Bates, Henry Walter (British naturalist and explorer)
Bawden, Frederick Charles, Sir (British plant pathologist)
Bayer, Johann (German astronomer)
Bayliss, William Maddock, Sir (British physiologist)
Beadle, George Wells (American geneticist)
Beaufort, Francis, Sir (British hydrographer)
Becquerel, Antoine Henri (French physicist)
Bednorz, Johannes Georg (German physicist)
Beilstein, Friedrich Konrad (Russian organic chemist)
Bell, John Stuart (British physicist)
Belon, Pierre (French naturalist)
Belousov, Vladimir Vladimirovich (Russian geologist and geophysicist)
Benacerraf, Baruj (American immunologist)
Bentham, George (British botanist)
Berg, Paul (American molecular biologist)
Berger, Hans (German psychiatrist)
Bergeron, Tor Harold Percival (Swedish meteorologist)
Bergius, Friedrich Karl Rudolph (German industrial chemist)
Bergman, Torbern Olaf (Swedish chemist)
Bergmann, Max (German organic chemist and biochemist)
Bergström, Sune (Swedish biochemist)
Bernal, John Desmond (British crystallographer)
Bernard, Claude (French physiologist)
Bernoulli, Jakob Jacques (Swiss mathematician)