Index to Scientist Biographies
Adler, Mortimer (1902-2001), psychology, history, philosophy
Babbage, Charles (1791-1871), mathematics, computer science
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626), philosophy of science
Bacon, Roger (1214-1294), medieval science
Bell, Charles (1774-1842), anatomy, medicine
Bergman, Jerry, author, professor
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691), chemistry, philosophy of science
Brewster, David (1781-1868), physics
Carver, George Washington (1864-1943), agricultural chemistry
Chain, Ernst Boris (1906 – 1979), biochemistry, physiology
Copernicus, Nicolas (1473 – 1543), celestial mechanics, mathematics
Damadian, Raymond (1936 – 2022), medicine, physics
—da Vinci: see Leonardo
Dewar, Douglas (1875-1957), ornithology
Euler, Leonhard (1707-1783), mathematics
Faraday, Michael (1791 – 1867), chemistry, physics
Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642), astronomy, mathematics
Grosseteste, Robert (1175-1253), natural philosophy, theology
Harvey, William (1578-1657), medicine, physiology
Henry, Joseph (1797-1878), physics, electromagnetics
Henslow, John Stevens (1796-1861), botany, geology
Herschel, John (1792-1871), astronomy, philosophy of science
Herschel, William (1738-1822), astronomy
Hugh of St. Victor (c. 1096-1141), medieval science
Huygens, Christian (1629-1695), physics, mathematics
Irwin, James (1930-1991), astronaut
Joule, James Prescott (1818-1889), physics, thermodynamics
Kelly, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943), surgery, gynecology
—Kelvin: see Thomson
Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630), celestial mechanics, astronomy, physics
Kirby, William (1759-1850), entomology
Lammerts, Walter (1904 – 1996), botany, horticulture
Leavitt, Henrietta (1868-1921), astronomy
Leeuwenhoek, Antony van (1632-1723), microbiology
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), art, architecture, physics, invention
Linnaeus, Carolus (1707-1778), taxonomy
Lister, Joseph (1827 – 1912), medicine, surgery, antisepsis
Lumsden, Richard (1938-1997), microscopy, biology
Maury, Matthew Fontaine (1806-1873), oceanography, geography
Maxwell, James Clerk (1831-1879), physics, electromagnetic theory
Mendel, Gregor (1822-1884), genetics
Mendeleev, Dmitri (1834-1907), chemistry
Moon, Irwin (1907-1986), science popularizer
Morley, Edward (1838-1923), physics
Morris, Henry M., Jr. (1918-2006), hydrology
Morse, Samuel F. B. (1791-1872), information science, telegraphy
Napier, John (1550-1617), mathematics
Newton, Isaac (1642-1727), physics, mathematics, astronomy
Nicholas of Oresme (1320-1382), mathematics, medieval science
—Ockham: see William of Ockham
—Oresme: see Nicholas of Oresme
Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662), physics, mathematics
Pasteur, Louis (1822-1895), chemistry, medicine
Philiponus, John (7th century), physics, philosophy
Ray, John (1627-1705), botany, zoology
Reed, Walter (1851 – 1902), parasitology, medicine
Richter, Henry (b. 1927), spacecraft pioneer
Riemann, Bernhard (1826-1866), mathematics
Simpson, James (1811-1870), anesthesia, surgery, obstetrics
Thomson, William, Lord Kelvin (1824 – 1907), physics, engineering
von Braun, Wernher (1912-1977), rocketry
Whewell, William (1794 – 1866), philosophy of science
Wilder-Smith, A. E. (1915 – 1995), organic chemistry, pharmacology
William of Ockham (1285-1347), philosophy, medieval science
Young, George (1777-1848), geology
Young, Thomas (1773 – 1829), physics, mathematics
Biographies authored by David F. Coppedge except where otherwise noted.
Names in red type indicate biographies illustrated with original artwork by J. Beverly Greene.