Scientists from Chicago

James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he and Francis Crick co-authored an academic paper in Nature proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, building on research by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling. In 1962, Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".

Danish nuclear physicist (1926–2022)

American biochemist, cell biologist, and university teacher (born 1947)

American biochemist (1901–1978)

US genetics scientist (1909-1975)

American philosopher

American astronomer and astrophysicist (1930–2022)

American biologist

American mathematician and information theorist (1915–1998)

American theoretical physicist

American atmospheric chemist

American astronaut and astronomer

American computer scientist (born 1945)

Community Class speaker at MIT, working on human-centered AI and podcaster

American molecular biologist

American chemist and Women's Army Corps officer (1908–1997)

American nuclear physicist (1915–2006)

American physicist (1937–2007)

Greek American physicist (1915–1999)

American biologist (1902–1968)

American astronomer (1847–1933)

American forensic scientist and "mother of forensic science"

American physicist (1934–2024)

American geochronologist and oceanographer (1931–2019)

American volcanologist (1949–1980)

American academic (1916–2007)

American biologist and ornithologist (1944–2021)

American biochemist and molecular biologist (1913–2002)

American astronomer (1918-1969)

American marine biologist (1897–1948)

American chemist

American ornithologist and paleontologist (1908–1992)

American mathematician

American zoologist (1870–1947)

American mathematician and physicist (1911-1999)

American physicist (1921–2010)

American zoologist and ecologist (1885–1955)

American computer scientist

American physicist (1939-2020)

American chemist (1919–2022)

American geologist

American computer scientist (1933-2018)

American computer scientist

American behavioral scientist (1920-2006)

American educational psychologist

American meteorologist, planetary scientist and physicist

American chemist

American biologist (1922-1980)

chemist, engineer, professor and high-altitude balloonist (1884-1963)

American chemist

American paleoanthropologist

Native American ethnographer

American zoologist (1867-1923)

American geographer & academic (1912–1976)

American physicist

American oncologist

American physicist (1909–1996)

American electrical engineer

Physicist, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

American mathematician and computer scientist (1928–2006)