• Agassiz, Louis • Agnesi, Maria Gaetana • Agricola, Georgius • Alhazen (Alhasan Ibn Haitham) • Ampère, André-Marie • Anaxagoras • Anderson, Carl David • Anning, Mary • Apollonius of Perga • Appleton, Edward Victor • Arber, Werner • Archimedes • Aristotle • Arrhenius, Svante August • Audubon, John James • Avery, Oswald Theodore • Avogadro, Amedeo • Babbage, Charles • Baer, Karl Ernst von • Balmer, Johann Jakob • Baltimore, David • Barnard, Edward Emerson • Barré-Sinoussi, Françoise • Bates, Henry Walter • Bateson, William • Bayliss, William Maddock • Beadle, George Wells • Becquerel, Antoine Henri • Berg, Paul • Bernard, Claude • Bernoulli, Daniel • Berzelius, Jons Jacob • Bethe, Hans Albrecht • Biot, Jean-Baptiste • Bishop, J. 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B. S. • Hale, George Ellery • Halley, Edmond • Hardy, G. H. • Harvey, William • Hawking, Stephen • Heisenberg, Werner • Helmont, Jan Baptista van • Hero of Alexandria • Herophilus • Herschel, William • Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf • Hess, Germain Henri • Hess, Harry Hammond • Hess, Victor Francis • Hevelius, Elisabeth • Higgs, Peter • Hipparchus • Hippocrates • Hoffmann, Roald • Hofstadter, Robert • Hooke, Robert • Hopper, Grace Murray • Horton, Robert E. • Hoyle, Fred • Hubble, Edwin Powell • Huggins, Margaret Lindsay • Humboldt, Alexander von • Hutton, James • Ingenhousz, Jan • Jackson, Shirley Ann • Jansky, Karl Guthe • Jensen, J. Hans D. • Joliot-Curie, Frédéric and Irene • Joule, James Prescott • Kaku, Michio • Kanamori, Hiroo • Kelvin, Lord • Kepler, Johannes • al-Khwrizm • Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert • Klein, Felix • Kleinrock, Leornard • Koch, Robert • Krebs, Hans Adolf • Kuiper, Gerard Peter • Lagrange, Joseph-Louis • Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste • Landau, Lev Davidovich • Landsteiner, Karl • Lankester, Edwin Ray • Laplace, Pierre-Simon • Laue, Max von • Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent • Le Chatelier, Henri Louis • Leakey, Louis S.B. • Leakey, Mary • Leavitt, Henrietta Swan • Lederberg, Joshua • Lederman, Leon M. • Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van • Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm • Lemaître, Georges • Leonardo da Vinci • Leonardo of Pisa, (Fibonacci) • Levi-Montalcini, Rita • Lewis, Edward B. • Lewis, Gilbert N. • Liebig, Justus von • Linnaeus, Carolus • Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilyevich • Lorentz, Hendrik A. • Lorenz, Konrad • Lovelace, Ada • Luu, Jane X. • Lyell, Charles • Mach, Ernst • Macleod, John J. 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Sherwood • Russell, Henry Norris • Rutherford, Ernest • Rydberg, Johannes Robert • Sabin, Florence R. • Sagan, Carl • Salam, Abdus • Sanger, Frederick • Schleiden, Matthias Jakob • Schmidt, Maarten • Schrödinger, Erwin • Schwann, Theodor • Schwarzschild, Karl • Shannon, Claude • Shoemaker, Carolyn • Shoemaker, Eugene M. • Snell, George D. • Soddy, Frederick • Somerville, Mary • Spallanzani, Lazzaro • Spemann, Hans • Stark, Johannes • Starling, Ernest Henry • Steno, Nicolaus • SubbaRow, Yellapragada • Sumner, James B. • Sutherland, Ivan • Szostak, Jack W. • Tao, Terence • Tatum, Edward • Temin, Howard Martin • Theophrastus • Thomson, J. J. • Ting, Samuel C. C. • Tombaugh, Clyde W. • Turing, Alan • Urey, Harold C. • Van Allen, James • Varmus, Harold E. • Venter, J. 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