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: Cagniard de la Tour, Charles to Clarke, Cyril Astley, Sir.

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Cagniard de la Tour, Charles (French physicist)
Cailletet, Louis Paul (French physicist)
Calvin, Melvin (American chemist and biochemist)
Camerarius, Rudolph Jacob (German botanist)
Cannizzaro, Stanislao (Italian chemist)
Cannon, Annie Jump (American astronomer)
Cannon, Walter Bradford (American physiologist)
Cardano, Gerolamo (Italian mathematician, physician, and astrologer)
Carnot, Nicolas Leonard Sadi (French physicist)
Carothers, Wallace Hume (American industrial chemist)
Carrel, Alexis (French surgeon)
Cartan, Elie Joseph (French mathematician)
Carter, Brandon (British physicist)
Carver, George Washington (American agricultural chemist)
Caspersson, Torbjörn Oskar (Swedish cytochemist)
Castner, Hamilton Young (American chemist)
Cavalieri, Francesco Bonaventura (Italian mathematician and geometer)
Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca (Italian geneticist)
Cavendish, Margaret (British natural philosopher)
Caventou, Jean Bienaimé (French pharmacist and organic chemist)
Cayley, Arthur (British mathematician)
Cech, Thomas Robert (American chemist)
Celsius, Anders (Swedish astronomer)
Cesalpino, Andrea (Italian physician and botanist)
Chain, Ernst Boris (German–British biochemist)
Chamberlain, Owen (American physicist)
Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder (American geologist)
Chance, Britton (American biophysicist)
Chandler, Seth Carlo (American astronomer)
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (Indian–American astrophysicist)
Chang, Min Chueh (Chinese–American biologist)
Chapman, Sydney (British mathematician and geophysicist)
Charcot, Jean-Martin (French neurologist)
Chargaff, Erwin (Austrian–American biochemist)
Charles, Jacques Alexandre César (French physicist and physical chemist)
Charpak, Georges (French physicist)
Charpentier, Jean de (Swiss geologist and glaciologist)
Chevreul, Michel Eugène (French organic chemist)
Chittenden, Russell Henry (American physiologist and biochemist)
Chu, Paul Ching-Wu (American physicist)
Chu, Steven (American physicist)
Clairaut, Alexis Claude (French mathematical physicist)
Clark, Alvan Graham (American astronomer and instrument-maker)
Clarke, Cyril Astley, Sir (British physician)