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Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
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Wright brothers
American aviation pioneers
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Margaret Mead
American anthropologist (1901-1978)
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Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
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Stephen Hillenburg
American marine science educator and artist (1961-2018)
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Norbert Wiener
American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence (1894–1964)
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Kalpana Chawla
American astronaut
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Martinus J. G. Veltman
Dutch theoretical physicist (1931–2021)
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Zora Neale Hurston
African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891–1960)
Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin thumbnail
Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin
British-born American astronomer
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Gregg L. Semenza
American physician and university teacher, Nobel laureate in Medicine, author of many retracted papers
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Michael Spence
American economist (born 1943)
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Frances Allen
American computer scientist (1932–2020)
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Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
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Fred Brooks
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
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Anita Borg
American computer scientist (1949-2003)
Ivan Sutherland
American computer scientist and Internet pioneer
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Bob Kahn
American Internet pioneer, computer scientist (born 1938)
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Berenice Abbott
American photographer (1898-1991)
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Charles Bachman
American computer scientist (1924–2017)
António Damásio thumbnail
António Damásio
neuroscientist and professor at the University of Southern California (born 1944)
Larry Tesler
American computer scientist (1945–2020)
Richard M. Karp
American theoretical computer scientist (b.1935)
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Dana Scott
American mathematician and computer scientist
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Juris Hartmanis
Latvian computer scientist (1928–2022)
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Gladys West
American mathematician (1930–2026)
Ron Rivest
American cryptographer
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Douglas Hofstadter
American physicist, computer scientist and professor of cognitive science
Lynn Conway
American computer scientist and electrical engineer (1938–2024)
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Henry Fairfield Osborn
American geologist and eugenicist (1857–1935)
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Manuel Blum
Venezuelan computer scientist
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Leonard Adleman
American computer scientist
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Jean Bartik
American ENIAC computer programmer (1924–2011)
Florence R. Sabin
American medical scientist (1871–1953)
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Avi Wigderson
Israeli mathematician and computer scientist
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Judea Pearl
Israeli-American computer scientist (born 1936)
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Betty Holberton
American computer programmer (1917–2001)
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Leonard Kleinrock
American computer scientist (born 1934)
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Butler Lampson
American computer scientist (born 1943)
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Andrew Yao
computer scientist and computational theorist
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Mary-Claire King
American geneticist
John Edward Hopcroft
American computer scientist
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Esther Lederberg
American microbiologist and pioneer of bacterial genetics (1922–2006)
John L. Hennessy
American computer scientist (born 1952)
Peter Shor
American professor of applied mathematics at MIT
Adele Goldberg
American computer scientist (born 1945)
Paul Sereno
American paleontologist (born 1957)
Yi-Fu Tuan
Chinese-American geographer (1930-2022)
Mary F. Lyon
English geneticist (1925–2014)
Donella Meadows
American environmental scientist, teacher, and writer (1941–2001)
Bruce Perens
American computer scientist
Ruth Patrick
American botanist and limnologist (1907–2013)
Evelyn Berezin
American computer scientist (1925–2018)
David A. Patterson
American computer scientist
Kai-Fu Lee
Taiwanese businessman
Eugenie Scott
American anthropologist
Janet Rowley
American human geneticist (1925–2013)
Michael Stonebraker
American computer scientist (born 1943)
Christos Papadimitriou
Greek computer scientist (b. 1949)
Evelyn Boyd Granville
African-American mathematician (1924–2023)