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Wolfgang Pauli
physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
Konrad Lorenz
Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 (1903–1989)
Viktor Frankl
Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905–1997)
Robert Bárány
Austri-Hungarian otologist and Nobel Prize laureate
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
Austrian chemist (1865-1929)
Karl von Frisch
German-Austrian ethologist (1886-1982)
Richard Kuhn
Austrian-German biochemist (1900-1967)
Max Perutz
Austrian-born British molecular biologist (1914-2002)
Walter Kohn
American physicist (1923–2016)
Martin Karplus
Austrian-born American theoretical chemist (1930–2024)
Paul Ehrenfest
Austrian and Dutch theoretical physicist (1880–1933)
Eduard Suess
Austrian geologist (1831-1914)
Otto Robert Frisch
Austrian-born British nuclear physicist
Victor Weisskopf
Austrian American theoretical physicist (1908–2002)
Fritjof Capra
American physicist (1939-)
Hans Selye
Austro-Hungarian Canadian endocrinologist
Leopold Fitzinger
Austrian zoologist (1802-1884)
Carl Auer von Welsbach
Austrian scientist and inventor (1858-1929)
Thomas Gold
Austrian astrophysicist (1920-2004)
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Austrian biologist and philosopher (1901–1972)
Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti
Austrian naturalist (1735-1805)
Marian Smoluchowski
Polish physicist (1872–1917)
Hilda Geiringer
Austrian mathematician (1893–1973)
Philipp Frank
Austrian academic (*1884 – †1966)
Victor Babeș
Romanian physician (1854–1926)
Marietta Blau
Austrian nuclear physicist (1894–1970)
Franz Steindachner
Austrian zoologist (1834–1919)
Hans Hass
Austrian biologist and underwater diving pioneer (1919–2013)
Sulamith Goldhaber
Austrian-American high-energy physicist, molecular spectroscopist (1923-1965)
Maurice Loewy
French astronomer (1833–1907)
Heinz von Foerster
Austrian-American scientist and cybernetician (1911-2002)
Angelika Amon
Austrian American molecular and cell biologist and academic
Walther Penck
German geographer (1888-1923)
Richard Wettstein
Austrian botanist (1863-1931)
Walter Munk
American oceanographer (1917–2019)
Francis Adam of Waldstein-Wartenberg
Austrian botanist (1759-1823)
Friedrich Hasenöhrl
Austrian physicist (1874–1915)
Herbert W. Franke
Austrian scientist and writer (1927–2022)
Karl H. Pribram
Austrian neuroscientist (1919–2015)
Paul Kammerer
Austrian scientist (1880-1926)
Marie Jahoda
British Austrian-born psychologist
Carl Eduard Hellmayr
Austrian ornithologist (1878-1944)
Cajetan von Felder
Austrian politician and scientist (1814-1894)
Wolfgang Rindler
Austrian physicist (1924–2019)
Wilhelm Karl von Haidinger
Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (1795–1871)
Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus
Austrian entomologist
Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt
Austrian ethologist (1928–2018)
Heinrich von Handel-Mazzetti
Austrian botanist (1882-1940)
Ingeborg Hochmair
Austrian electrical engineer
Otto Fenichel
Austrian-American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and scientist
Constantin von Ettingshausen
Austrian scientist (1826-1897)
Emile Zuckerkandl
molecular biologist (1922-2013)
Friedrich Adolf Paneth
Austrian-born British chemist
Raoul Heinrich Francé
Austro-Hungarian scientist (1874-1943)
Bruno Touschek
Austrian physicist (1921–1978)
Hertha Wambacher
Austrian physicist (1903-1950)
Gustav Mayr
Austrian entomologist (1830–1908)
Franz Werner
Austrian zoologist and explorer (1867-1939)
Felix Ehrenhaft
Austrian physicist (1879–1952)
Karl Fritsch
Austrian botanist (1864-1934)