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Scientists from Philadelphia

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Benjamin Franklin

American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)

American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)

Karl Barry Sharpless

American chemist and Nobel Laureate (born 1941)

Theodore William Richards

United States chemist (1868–1928)

Edward Drinker Cope

American paleontologist, geologist, and biologist (1840–1897)

William Morris Davis

American geographer (1850–1934)

American naturalist (1787-1834)

American inventor (1853–1937)

Betty Holberton

American computer programmer (1917–2001)

American ornithologist and inspiration for the name of the fictional spy (1900-1989)

Mitchell Feigenbaum

American mathematical physicist (1944–2019)

J. Presper Eckert

American electrical engineer and computer pioneer (1919-1995)

American linguist (1926–2015)

American physicist and computer scientist

American anatomist and paleontologist (1823 – 1891)

American physicist (1907-1980)

Sean M. Carroll

American theoretical cosmologist

William Bartram

American naturalist (1739-1823)

American physicist (1909–1997)

Henry Charles Carey

American economist and publisher

U.S. ornithologist (1813–1869)

American psychologist

Mary Engle Pennington

American bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer (1872-1952)

Henry Weed Fowler

American zoologist (1878–1965)

linguist (1930–2008)

Charles M. Lieber

American chemist (1959-)

Herbert E. Ives

American physicist (1882-1953)

William Barton Rogers

American scientist, founder of MIT (1804-1882)

American ornithologist (1866-1939)

John Kirk Townsend

U.S. ornithologist (1809-1851)

Alice Middleton Boring

American biologist, zoologist, and herpetologist (1883-1955)

American computer scientist (1941–2006)

Edgar Buckingham

American physicist (1867–1940)

Alexander Dallas Bache

American scientist (1806-1867)

George Henry Horn

U.S. entomologist (1840-1897)

American geologist and Philadelphia publisher (Carey & Lea)

American chemist

Albert Coombs Barnes

American chemist and art collector (Barnes collection) 1872-1951

economist, Sociobiology researcher (1940–2023)

George Wetherill

American physicist (1925–2006)

American physicist (1872–1935)

William Harris Ashmead

American entomologist (1855–1908)

American chemist (1781-1858)

American volcanologist (1871–1953)

American physicist (1919–1993)

Amos E. Joel, Jr.

American electrical engineer

American optician and inventor (1704-1749)

American mathematician (1882–1973)

Ray Smith Bassler

American geologist and paleontologist (1878–1961)

Katharine Blunt

American Chemist

American physicist (1913–1951)

Samuel Augustus Mitchell

American geographer and publisher

Ferdinand Heinrich Herman Strecker

U.S. entomologist (1836–1901)

John Alden Mason

American archaeological anthropologist and linguist (1885–1967)

American economist (1755-1824)

Federal Reserve System governor

Horatio Curtis Wood Jr.

American physician and naturalist (1841–1920)

Margaretta Hare Morris

American entomologist (1797-1867)

Sarah Lee Lippincott

Helen Abbott Michael

American chemist (1857-1904)