20th-century American scientists

Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)

American aviation pioneers

American anthropologist (1901-1978)

American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)

American marine science educator and artist (1961-2018)

American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence (1894–1964)

American astronaut

Dutch theoretical physicist (1931–2021)

African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891–1960)

British-born American astronomer

American physician and university teacher, Nobel laureate in Medicine, author of many retracted papers

American economist (born 1943)

American computer scientist (1932–2020)

Russian video game designer (born 1955)

American computer scientist (1931–2022); author of The Mythical Man-Month and 'No Silver Bullet' (1986), which distinguished essential from accidental complexity in software engineering

American computer scientist (1949-2003)

American computer scientist and Internet pioneer

American Internet pioneer, computer scientist (born 1938)

American photographer (1898-1991)

American computer scientist (1924–2017)

neuroscientist and professor at the University of Southern California (born 1944)

American computer scientist (1945–2020)

American theoretical computer scientist (b.1935)

American mathematician and computer scientist

Latvian computer scientist (1928–2022)

American mathematician (1930–2026)

American cryptographer

American physicist, computer scientist and professor of cognitive science

American computer scientist and electrical engineer (1938–2024)

American geologist and eugenicist (1857–1935)

Venezuelan computer scientist

American computer scientist

American ENIAC computer programmer (1924–2011)

American medical scientist (1871–1953)

Israeli mathematician and computer scientist

Israeli-American computer scientist (born 1936)

American computer programmer (1917–2001)

American computer scientist (born 1934)

American computer scientist (born 1943)

computer scientist and computational theorist

American geneticist

American computer scientist

American microbiologist and pioneer of bacterial genetics (1922–2006)

American computer scientist (born 1952)

American professor of applied mathematics at MIT

American computer scientist (born 1945)

American paleontologist (born 1957)

Chinese-American geographer (1930-2022)

English geneticist (1925–2014)

American environmental scientist, teacher, and writer (1941–2001)

American computer scientist

American botanist and limnologist (1907–2013)

American computer scientist (1925–2018)

American computer scientist

Taiwanese businessman

American anthropologist

American human geneticist (1925–2013)

American computer scientist (born 1943)

Greek computer scientist (b. 1949)

African-American mathematician (1924–2023)