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Carl Sagan thumbnail
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
Richard Stallman thumbnail
Richard Stallman
American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project
Sergey Brin thumbnail
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
Steven Weinberg thumbnail
Steven Weinberg
American theoretical physicist (1933-2021)
James Franck thumbnail
James Franck
German physicist (1882–1964)
Jonas Salk thumbnail
Jonas Salk
Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914–1995)
Gerty Cori thumbnail
Gerty Cori
Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist (1896–1957)
Gertrude B. Elion thumbnail
Gertrude B. Elion
American biochemist and pharmacologist (1918–1999)
Felix Bloch thumbnail
Felix Bloch
Swiss physicist (1905-1983)
Norbert Wiener thumbnail
Norbert Wiener
American mathematician, scientist in cybernetics and artificial intelligence (1894–1964)
Andrea M. Ghez thumbnail
Andrea M. Ghez
American astronomer
Selman Abraham Waksman thumbnail
Selman Abraham Waksman
American scientist, biochemist, microbiologist who discovered Streptomycin and many antibiotics
Kenneth Arrow thumbnail
Kenneth Arrow
American economist (1921–2017)
Herbert Simon thumbnail
Herbert Simon
American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist (1916–2001)
Vera Rubin thumbnail
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
Paul Berg thumbnail
Paul Berg
American biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1926–2023)
Roger D. Kornberg thumbnail
Roger D. Kornberg
American biochemist
Baruch Samuel Blumberg thumbnail
Baruch Samuel Blumberg
American physician, geneticist and Nobel prize winner (1925–2011)
Roman Jakobson thumbnail
Roman Jakobson
Russian linguist (1896–1982)
David Baltimore thumbnail
David Baltimore
American biologist and Nobel laureate (1938–2025)
Stephen Jay Gould thumbnail
Stephen Jay Gould
American biologist and historian of science (1941–2002)
Baruj Benacerraf thumbnail
Baruj Benacerraf
Venezuelan-American immunologist
Casimir Funk thumbnail
Casimir Funk
Jewish-Polish biochemist
Robert Lefkowitz thumbnail
Robert Lefkowitz
American physician and biochemist
Arthur Kornberg thumbnail
Arthur Kornberg
American biochemist
Christian B. Anfinsen thumbnail
Christian B. Anfinsen
American biochemist (1916–1995)
Robert Aumann thumbnail
Robert Aumann
Israeli-American mathematician
Otto Fritz Meyerhof thumbnail
Otto Fritz Meyerhof
German biochemist (1884-1951)
Stanley B. Prusiner thumbnail
Stanley B. Prusiner
American neurologist and biochemist
Stanley Cohen thumbnail
Stanley Cohen
American biochemist
Michael Levitt thumbnail
Michael Levitt
biophysicist and Professor of Structural biology
George Andrew Olah thumbnail
George Andrew Olah
Hungarian chemist (1927-2017)
Sidney Altman thumbnail
Sidney Altman
Canadian American molecular biologist (1939-2022)
Martin Chalfie thumbnail
Martin Chalfie
American biochemist, cell biologist, and university teacher (born 1947)
Walter Kohn thumbnail
Walter Kohn
American physicist (1923–2016)
Marshall Warren Nirenberg thumbnail
Marshall Warren Nirenberg
American biochemist and geneticist (1927-2010)
Irwin Rose thumbnail
Irwin Rose
American biologist (1926-2015)
Konrad Emil Bloch thumbnail
Konrad Emil Bloch
German American biochemist (1912–2000)
Herbert C. Brown thumbnail
Herbert C. Brown
American chemist (1912–2004)
Richard Axel thumbnail
Richard Axel
American molecular biologist
Jerome Karle thumbnail
Jerome Karle
American physical chemist (1918–2013)
Eric Kandel thumbnail
Eric Kandel
American neuropsychiatrist
Bruce Beutler thumbnail
Bruce Beutler
American immunologist and geneticist
Joseph Erlanger thumbnail
Joseph Erlanger
American doctor (1874-1965)
Herbert A. Hauptman thumbnail
Herbert A. Hauptman
American mathematician (1917–2011)
Andrew Fire thumbnail
Andrew Fire
American biologist
Julius Axelrod thumbnail
Julius Axelrod
American biochemist (1912–2004)
Otto Loewi thumbnail
Otto Loewi
Jewish-German pharmacologist
Roald Hoffmann thumbnail
Roald Hoffmann
Nobel laureate organic and inorganic chemist and Holocaust child survivor (born 1937)
Randy Schekman thumbnail
Randy Schekman
Nobel prize winning American cell biologist
Joshua Lederberg thumbnail
Joshua Lederberg
American molecular biologist (1925–2008)
Rudolph A. Marcus thumbnail
Rudolph A. Marcus
Canadian chemist
George Wald thumbnail
George Wald
American biologist, biochemist, physiologist and Nobel laureate (1906–1997)
Fritz Albert Lipmann thumbnail
Fritz Albert Lipmann
German-American biochemist
Salvador Luria thumbnail
Salvador Luria
Italian American microbiologist (1912–1991)
Mayim Bialik thumbnail
Mayim Bialik
American actress, television personality, and author (born 1975)
James Rothman thumbnail
James Rothman
American biologist and Nobel laureate
Harvey J. Alter thumbnail
Harvey J. Alter
American medical researcher
Howard Gardner thumbnail
Howard Gardner
american developmental psychologist & academic
Robert F. Furchgott thumbnail
Robert F. Furchgott
American biochemist (1916-2009)