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A Abbe, Ernst
Abel, Niels Henrik
Abrikosov, Alexei Alexeevič
Abu Alì al-Hasan ibn al-Haitham
Ageno, Mario
Agre, Peter
Agricola, Georgius
Al-Battani
Al-Biruni
Albatenius
Alder, Kurt
Aldrin, Edwin Eugene Jr
Alferov, Zhores Ivanovich
Alfvén, Hannes Olof
Alhazen
Altman, Sidney
Alvarez, Luis Walter
Amaldi, Edoardo
Amaldi, Ugo
Ampère, André-Marie
Anassimandro
Anderson, Carl David
Anderson, Philip Warren
Anfinsen, Christian B.
Ångström, Anders Jonas
Apollonio Pergeo
Appert, Nicolas
Appleton, Edward Victor
Arago, Dominique-François-Jean
Archimede
Arduino, Giovanni
Argand, Jean-Robert
Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm August
Aristarco di Samo
Arkwright, Richard
Armstrong, Edwin Howard
Armstrong, Neil
Arrhenius, Svante August
Asimov, Isaac
Aston, Francis William
Auer von Welsbach, Carl
Avogadro, Amedeo
B Baade, Walter
Babbage, Charles
Bacone, Ruggero
Baeyer, Adolf von
Baird, John Logie
Balmer, Johann Jakob
Bardeen, John
Barkla, Charles Glover
Barnard, Edward Emerson
Barrow, Isaac
Barton, Derek
Basov, Nikolaj Gennadievič
Bayer, Johann
Beaufort, Francis
Becquerel, Antoine-Henri
Bednorz, J. Georg
Bell, Alexander Graham
Bell Burnell, Jocelyn
Bell, John Stewart
Benz, Carl Friedrich
Bergius, Friedrich
Bernardini, Carlo
Bernardini, Gilberto
Bernoulli, Daniel
Bernoulli, Jakob
Berthelot, Marcelin-Pierre-Eugène
Berthollet, Claude-Louis
Berzelius, Jöns Jakob
Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm
Bessemer, Henry
Bethe, Hans Albrecht
Binnig, Gerd Karl
Biot, Jean-Baptiste
Birdseye, Clarence
Biró, László
Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart
Blériot, Louis
Bloch, Felix
Bloembergen, Nicolaas
Bohr, Aage Niels
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Bok, Bart Jan
Boltzmann, Ludwig
Bolyai, János
Bolzano, Bernhard
Bombelli, Raffaele
Bondi, Hermann
Boole, George
Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso
Born, Max
Bosch, Carl
Boscovich, Ruggero
Bose, Satyendra Nath
Bothe, Walther Wilhelm
Bourbaki, Nicolas
Bourseul, Charles
Boyer, Paul Delos
Boyle, Robert
Bradley, James
Bragg, William Henry
Bragg, William Lawrence
Brahe, Tycho
Brahmagupta
Brandenberger, Jacques Edwin
Brattain, Walter Houser
Braun, Karl Ferdinand
Braun, Wernher von
Bridgman, Percy Williams
Briggs, Henry
Brockhouse, Bertram N.
Brown, Herbert C.
Browning, John Moses
Büchner, Eduard
Buckland, William
Buckminster Fuller, Richard
Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm
Bushnell, David
Butenandt, Adolf
Buys-Ballot, Christoph Hendrik Diederik
C Cabibbo, Nicola
Caccioppoli, Renato
Calvin, Melvin
Cannizzaro, Stanislao
Cannon, Annie Jump
Cantor, Georg
Cardano, Gerolamo
Carnot, Nicolas-Léonard Sadi
Carothers, Wallace Hume
Cartesio
Cartwright, Edmund
Cartwright, Mary Lucy
Cassini, Giovanni Domenico
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Cavalieri, Bonaventura
Cavendish, Henry
Cayley, Arthur
Ceccato, Silvio
Cech, Thomas
Celsius, Anders
Čerenkov, Pavel Alekseevič
Chadwick, James
Chamberlain, Owen
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
Chappe, Claude
Chardonnet, Louis Marie Hilaire Bernigaud de
Charles, Jacques-Alexandre-César
Charpak, George
Chasles, Michel
Chauvin, Yves
Chien-Shiung, Wu
Chou, Steven
Ciechanover, Aaron
Citroën, André
Clapeyron, Emile
Clausius, Rudolf Julius Emanuel
Cockcroft, John Douglas
Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude
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Colt, Samuel
Compton, Arthur Holly
Conversi, Marcello
Cooper, Leon Neil
Cooper Rubin, Vera
Copernico, Niccolò
Corbino, Orso Mario
Corey, Elias James
Coriolis, Gaspard
Cornell, Eric A.
Cornforth, John Warcup
Coronelli, Vincenzo
Coulomb, Charles-Augustin de
Cram, Donald J.
Cray, Seymour
Cronin, James Watson
Crookes, William
Crutzen, Paul J.
Curie, Marie e Pierre
Curl, Robert F. Jr
D D’Agostino, Oscar
D’Alembert, Jean-Baptiste Le Rond
D’Ascanio, Corradino
Daguerre, Louis-Jacques
Daimler, Gottlieb Wilhelm
Dal Ferro, Scipione
Dalén, Nils Gustaf
Dalton, John
Dana, James Dwight
Davis, Raymond Jr
Davisson, Clinton Joseph
Davy, Humphry
De Broglie, Louis-Victor
De Forest, Lee
Debye, Peter Joseph Wilhelm
Dedekind, Julius Wilhelm Richard
Dehmelt, Hans Georg
Deisenhofer, Johann
Della Porta, Giambattista
Dewar, James
Diels, Otto Paul Hermann
Diesel, Rudolf Christian Karl
Diofanto
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Dirichlet, Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune
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Doppler, Christian Johann
Du Pont, Pierre Samuel
Du Vigneaud, Vincent
Dunlop, John Boyd
Dyson, Freeman
E Eastman, George
Eckert, John Presper
Eddington, Arthur Stanley
Edison, Thomas Alva
Eiffel, Gustave-Alexandre
Eigen, Manfred
Einstein, Albert
Encke, Johann Franz
Enriques, Federigo
Ernst, Richard
Erone di Alessandria
Ertl, Gerhard
Esaki, Leo
Euclide
Eudosso di Cnido
Euler-Chelpin, Hans von
Euler, Leonhard
Eulero
F Faggin, Federico
Fahrenheit, Gabriel Daniel
Faraday, Michael
Farnsworth, Philo Taylor
Fenn, John B.
Fermat, Pierre de
Fermi, Enrico
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Fert, Albert
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Feynman, Richard Phillips
Fibonacci, Leonardo
Fischer, Emil Hermann
Fischer, Ernst Otto
Fischer, Hans
Fitch, Val Logsdon
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Flamsteed, John
Flory, Paul John
Fokker, Anthony Herman Gerard
Fontana, Niccolò
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Franklin, Benjamin
Fraunhofer, Joseph von
Frege, Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob
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Fridman, Aleksandr Aleksandrovič
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Frisch, Otto Robert
Fubini, Guido
Fukui Kenichi
Fulton, Robert
G Gabor, Dennis
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Gamow, George
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Gaumont, Léon
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Gay-Lussac, Joseph-Louis
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Geiger, Hans
Gell-Mann, Murray
Gennes, Pierre Gilles de
Gerlach, Walther
Giacconi, Riccardo
Giaever, Ivar
Giauque, William Francis
Gibbs, Josiah Willard
Gilbert, Walter
Gilbert, William
Ginzburg, Vitaly L.
Giorgi, Giovanni
Giovanni di Sacrobosco
Glaser, Donald Arthur
Glashow, Sheldon
Glauber, Johann Rudolph
Glauber, Roy Jay
Glenn, John Herschell
Glidden, Carlos
Goddard, Robert Hutchings
Gödel, Kurt
Goeppert-Mayer, Maria
Goldmark, Peter Carl
Goldschmidt, Victor Moritz
Goodyear, Charles
Graham, Thomas
Gramme, Zènobe-Théophile
Gray, Elisha
Grignard, Victor
Gross, David J.
Grothendieck, Alexandre
Grubbs, Robert H.
Grünberg, Peter Andreas
Guericke, Otto von
Guglielmini, Giovanni Battista
Guillaume, Charles-Edouard
Gutenberg, Johann
Guth, Alan Harvey
H Haber, Fritz
Hack, Margherita
Hahn, Otto
Hale, George Ellery
Hall, John L.
Halley, Edmund
Hamilton, William Rowan
Hänsch, Theodor Wolfgang
Harden, Arthur
Hardy, Godfrey Harold
Hargreaves, James
Harrison, John
Hassel, Odd
Hauptman, Herbert A.
Hauy, René-Just
Hawking, Stephen
Haworth, Walter N.
Heaviside, Oliver
Heisenberg, Werner
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von
Henlein, Peter
Henry, Joseph
Herschbach, Dudley R.
Herschel, Caroline Lucretia
Herschel, Friedrich Wilhelm
Herschel, John
Hershko, Avram
Hertz, Gustav Ludwig
Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf
Hertzsprung, Ejnar
Herzberg, Gerhard
Hess, Victor Franz
Hevelius, Johannes
Hevesy, György von
Hewish, Antony
Heyrovsky, Jaroslav
Hilbert, David
Hinshelwood, Cyril Norman
Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot
Hoe, Richard March
Hoff, Ted
Hoffmann, Roald
Hofmann, August Wilhelm von
Hofstadter, Robert
Hollerith, Herman
Hooke, Robert
Hopper, Grace
Hounsfield, Godfrey Newbold
Hoyle, Fred
Hubble, Edwin Powell
Huber, Robert
Hulse, Russell A.
Hund, Friedrich
Huygens, Christiaan
Hyatt, John Wesley
I Ipazia
Ipparco di Nicea
Issigonis, Alec
J Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jakob
Jacquard, Joseph-Marie
Jansky, Karl Guthe
Jensen, Johannes Hans
Jobs, Steven
Joliot-Curie, Irène e Jean-Frédéric
Josephson, Brian David
Joule, James Prescott
Julia, Gaston Maurice
K Kamerlingh Onnes, Heike
Kapitza, Pëtr Leonidovič
Karle, Jerome
Karrer, Paul
Kastler, Alfred
Kay, John
Kekule von Stradonitz, Friedrich August
Kelvin, William Thomson
Kendall, Henry Way
Kendrew, John Cowdery
Kepler, Johannes
Keplero, Giovanni
Ketterle, Wolfgang
Kilby, Jack S.
Kircher, Athanasius
Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert
Klaproth, Martin Heinrich
Klitzing, Klaus von
Klug, Aaron
Knowles, William S.
Kohn, Walter
Kolmogorov, Andrej
Kopernik, Nikolaj
Köppen, Wladimir
Kornberg, Roger
Koshiba Masatoshi
Kremer, Gerhard
Kroemer, Herbert
Kroto, Harold W.
Kuhn, Richard
Kusch, Polykarp
L L’Hopital, Guillaume-François-Antoine de Sainte-Mesme
Lacaille, Nicolas-Louis de
Lagrange, Giuseppe Luigi
Lamb, Willis Eugene
Land, Edwin
Landau, Lev Davidovič
Langevin, Paul
Langley, Samuel Pierpont
Langmuir, Irving
Laplace, Pierre-Simon de
Larmor, Joseph
Laue, Max Theodor von
Laughlin, Robert
Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando
Le Châtelier, Henri-Louis
Le Verrier, Urbain
Leavitt, Henrietta Swan
Lebesgue, Henri-Léon
Lederman, Leon Max
Lee, David
Lee, Tsung Dao
Lee, Yuan Tseh
Leggett, Anthony J.
Lehn, Jean-Marie
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Leloir, Luis Federico
Lemaître, Georges Edouard
Lenard, Philipp
Lenoir, Etienne
Leonardo da Vinci
Lesseps, Ferdinand-Marie
Lewis, Gilbert Newton
Libby, Willard Frank
Liebig, Justus von
Lilienthal, Otto
Lippmann, Gabriel Jonas
Lipscomb, William N. Jr
Listing, Johann Benedikt
Littlewood, John Edenson
Lobačevskij, Nikolaj Ivanovič
Lockyer, Joseph Norman
Loewi, Otto
Lomonosov, Michail Vasil’evič
Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon
Lovelock, James
Lowell, Percival
Lumière, Louis-Jean e Auguste
Lyell, Charles
M Mach, Ernst
MacKinnon, Roderick
Maiani, Luciano
Majorana, Ettore
Malebranche, Nicolas
Mandelbrot, Benoît B.
Manzetti, Innocenzo
Marconi, Guglielmo
Marcus, Rudolph Arthur
Marey, Etienne-Jules
Mariotte, Edme
Markov, Andrej Andreevič
Martin, Archer John P.
Mascheroni, Lorenzo
Mather, John C.
Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis
Maxwell, James Clerk
Maxwell, Robert Ian
Mayer, Julius Robert von
McMillan, Edwin Mattison
Meitner, Lise
Melloni, Macedonio
Mendeleev, Dmitrij Ivanovič
Mercalli, Giuseppe
Mercatore, Gerardo
Merrifield, Robert Bruce
Mersenne, Marin
Messier, Charles
Meucci, Antonio
Meyer, Julius Lothar
Michel, Hartmut
Michelson, Albert Abraham
Millikan, Robert Andrews
Minkowski, Hermann
Mitchell, Peter
Möbius, August Ferdinand
Moissan, Henri
Molina, Mario J.
Monge, Gaspard
Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel e Jacques-Etienne
Moore, Stanford
Morse, Samuel
Moseley, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys
Mössbauer, Rudolf Ludwig
Mott, Nevill Francis
Mottelson, Benjamin Roy
Müller, Johannes
Müller, Karl Alexander
Mulliken, Robert Sanderson
Mullis, Kary B.
Murdock, William
N Napier, John
Nash, John Forbes Jr
Nasmyth, James
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Nicola di Oresme
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Otto, Nikolaus August
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