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: Liebig, Justus von to Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich.

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Liebig, Justus von (German chemist)
Lin, Chia-Chiao (Chinese–American mathematician)
Linde, Karl von (German engineer)
Lipmann, Fritz Albert (American biologist & chemist)
Lippmann, Gabriel (French physicist)
Lipscomb, William Nunn (American physicist & chemist)
Lister, Joseph, Baron (English surgeon)
Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich (Russian mathematician)
Lockyer, Joseph Norman, Sir (English astronomer)
Lodge, Oliver Joseph, Sir (English physicist)
Loeb, Jacques (American anatomist)
Loewi, Otto (American anatomist & pharmacologist)
Löffler, Friedrich August Johannes (German microbiologist)
London, Heinz (German–British physicist)
Long, Crawford Williamson (American physician)
Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon (Dutch physicist)
Lorenz, Konrad Zacharias (Austrian zoologist & anthropologist)
Lowell, Percival (American astronomer)
Lummer, Otto (German physicist)
Lwoff, André Michael (French microbiologist)
Lyman, Theodore (American naturalist)
Lynen, Feodor (German biologist & chemist)
Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich (Russian agriculturalist)