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Steven Chu
American physicist, former United States Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
Selman Abraham Waksman
American scientist, biochemist, microbiologist who discovered Streptomycin and many antibiotics
Sam Harris
American author, philosopher and neuroscientist (born 1967)
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
Raymond Kurzweil
American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor (born 1948)
Simon Newcomb
American astronomer (1835–1909)
David Brin
American scientist and science fiction author (born 1950)
Michael Shermer
American science writer
David Starr Jordan
American ichthyologist and educator (1851-1931)
Harvey Williams Cushing
American neurosurgeon (1869-1939)
Edward B. Titchener
American psychologist (1867–1927)
Fei-Fei Li
American computer scientist
Joel Asaph Allen
American zoologist and ornithologist (1838–1921)
Diane Ackerman
author, poet, and naturalist
Liberty Hyde Bailey
U.S. botanist (1858-1954)
Matthew Fontaine Maury
United States Navy officer
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
American Wikipedia editor, focused on closing its gender gap; Knight of Serbia
William Beebe
American naturalist and explorer (1877–1962)
Cleveland Abbe
American meteorologist and advocate of time zones (1838-1916)
Robert Zubrin
American aerospace engineer
Leonard Mlodinow
American physicist, author and screenwriter
James Gleick
American author and historian of science (born 1954)
Charles Conrad Abbott
American archaeologist and naturalist (1843-1919)
Forest Ray Moulton
American astronomer and mathematician of the XXth century (1872–1952)
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
American geologist and educator (1843–1928)
Mary Roach
American science writer
Paul Stamets
American mycologist
Adolf Meyer
Swiss-American psychiatrist (1866-1950)
Edmund Beecher Wilson
American zoologist, geneticist (1856–1939)
Alan Lightman
American physicist, science writer, essayist, novelist
Neil Shubin
American paleontologist (born 1960)
Samuel George Morton
American physician and naturalist (1799–1851)
Dava Sobel
American writer
Charles Edwin Bessey
American botanist (1845-1915)
Addison Emery Verrill
U.S. zoologist (1839–1926)
Sean B. Carroll
American biologist (born 1960)
Peter D. Ward
American paleontologist
Howard Atwood Kelly
American academic and gynecologist (1858–1943)
Frank Shu
American astronomer (1943–2023)
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U.S. entomologist, botanist and zoologist (1866–1948)
George Nuttall
American-British bacteriologist (1862–1937)
Kate Marvel
American climate scientist and communicator
Kenneth R. Miller
American biologist
William Fogg Osgood
American mathematician (1864–1943)
Walter Russell
American artist (1871-1963)
Massimo Pigliucci
chair of the Department of Philosophy at CUNY-Lehman College
Robert Wright
American journalist and author (born 1957)
Theodor Reik
Austrian-American psychoanalyst (1888-1969)
Carl Zimmer
American science writer and blogger (1966-)
Jacques A. Gauthier
American paleontologist (1948- )
Hubert Anson Newton
American astronomer and scientist (1830–1896)
Steven Johnson
American journalist
John Brockman
American literary agent
Mary Treat
American biologist, botanist and entomologist (1830-1923)
Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg
United States botanist and Lutheran clergyman (1753-1815)
Harriet A. Hall
American medical doctor and skeptic
Zelia Nuttall
American archaeologist and anthropologist (1857-1933)
Daniel Levitin
American psychologist
Garrett Putnam Serviss
American astronomer, and early science fiction writer (1851–1929)