n. 25B6; noun RESEARCHER, technologist; Brit. informal boffin. See lists here and at doctor , science .
Scientists
See also economist , engineer , inventor , Nobel prize winner, psychologist , zoologist . Hopkins, Frederick (English biochemist)
Abbe, Ernst (German physicist) Hoyle, Fred (English astrophysicist)
Agricola, Georgius (Georg Bauer; German physician/mineralogist) Huxley, Andrew (English physiologist)
Alfvén, Hannes (Swedish theoretical physicist) Huxley, Julian (English biologist)
Alvarez, Luis (American physicist) Huxley, T. H. (English biologist)
Ampère, André-Marie (French physicist/mathematician) Huygens, Christiaan (Dutch physicist/mathematician)
Anderson, Carl (American physicist) Ingenhousz, Jan (Dutch scientist)
Ångström, Anders (Swedish physicist) Ipatieff, Vladimir (American chemist, b. in Russia)
Appleton, Edward (English physicist) Jabir ibn Hayyan (Arab chemist)
Arrhenius, Svante (Swedish chemist) Jacob, François (French biochemist)
Ashton, Francis (English physicist) Jeans, James (English physicist)
Auer von Welsbach, Carl (Austrian chemist) Joliot-Curie, Irène (French nuclear physicist)
Avery, Oswald (Canadian bacteriologist) Joliot-Curie, Jean-Frédéric (French nuclear physicist)
Avogadro, Amedeo (Italian physicist/chemist) Jones, Steve (English geneticist)
Baer, Karl Ernest von (German biologist) Joule, James Prescott (English physicist)
Baeyer, Johann von (German chemist) Kamerlingh Onnes, Heike (Dutch physicist)
Banting, Frederick (Canadian physiologist) Kekulé, Friedrich (German chemist)
Bateson, William (English geneticist) Kelvin, William (British physicist)
Beckmann, Ernst (German chemist) Kendall, Edward (American biochemist)
Becquerel, Antoine-Henri (French physicist) Kirchhoff, Gustav (German physicist)
Behring, Emil von (German bacteriologist) Klaproth, Martin (German chemist)
Bergius, Friedrich (German chemist) Koch, Robert (German bacteriologist)
Bernard, Claude (French physiologist) Krebs, Hans (British biochemist, b. in Germany)
Berthollet, Claude (French chemist) Kurchatov, Igor (Russian physicist)
Berzelius, Jöns Jakob (Swedish chemist) Landau, Lev (Soviet theoretical physicst)
Best, Charles (American-born Canadian physiologist) Langmuir, Irving (American chemist/physicist)
Bichat, Marie (French pathologist) Lavoisier, Antoine (French chemist)
Bjerknes, Vilhelm (Norwegian meteorologist/geophysicist) Lawrence, Ernest (American physicist)
Black, Joseph (Scottish chemist) Liebig, Justus von (German chemist)
Blackett, Patrick M. S. (English physicist) Lodge, Oliver (English physicist)
Blumenbach, Johann (German physiologist) Loewi, Otto (American pharmacologist/physiologist, b. in Germany)
Bohr, Niels (Danish physicist) Lonsdale, Kathleen (Irish physicist)
Boltzmann, Ludwig (Austrian physicist) Lorentz, Hendrik (Dutch theoretical physicist)
Bondi, Hermann (British cosmologist/physicist, b. in Vienna) Lovelock, James (English scientist)
Bordet, Jules (Belgian bacteriologist/immunologist) Lysenko, Trofim (Soviet biologist/geneticist)
Born, Max (German theoretical physicist) Mach, Ernst (Austrian physicist)
Bosch, Carl (German chemist) Macleod, John (Scottish physiologist)
Bose, Satyendra Nath (Indian physicist) McClintock, Barbara (American geneticist)
Bovet, Daniel (Swiss pharmacologist) Maxwell, James Clerk (Scottish physicist)
Boyle, Robert (Irish physicist/chemist) Medawar, Peter (English immunologist)
Bragg, William Henry (English physicist) Meitner, Lise (Swedish physicist, b. in Austria)
Braun, Karl (German physicist) Mendeleev, Dmitri (Russian chemist)
Bridgman, P. W. (American physicist) Meyerhof, Otto (American biochemist, b. in Germany)
Buchan, Alexander (Scottish meteorologist) Michelson, A. A. (American physicist)
Buchner, Eduard (German chemist) Millikan, Robert (American physicist)
Bunsen, Robert (German chemist) Moissan, Ferdinand (French chemist)
Calvin, Melvin (American biochemist) Monod, Jacques Lucien (French biochemist)
Cannizzaro, Stanislao (Italian chemist) Morley, Edward Williams (American physicist)
Carnot, Sadi (French scientist) Mosander, Carl (Swedish chemist)
Cavendish, Henry (English physicist/chemist) Moseley, Harry (English physicist)
Chadwick, James (English physicist) Müller, Paul Hermann (Swiss chemist)
Chain, Ernst (British biochemist, b. in Germany) Needham, Dorothy (English biochemist)
Chamberlain, Owen (American physicist) Nernst, Hermann Walther (German chemist)
Cherenkov, Pavel (Soviet physicist) Newton, Isaac (English physicist/mathematician)
Clausius, Rudolf (German physicist) Nobel, Alfred Bernhard (Swedish chemist)
Cockcroft, John (English physicist) Oersted, Hans Christian (Danish physicist)
Compton, Arthur (American physicist) Ohm, Georg (German physicist)
Coulomb, Charles-Augustin de (French physicist) Oppenheimer, J. Robert (American physicist)
Crick, Francis (English biophysicist) Ostwald, Wilhelm (German chemist)
Crookes, William (English physicist/chemist) Pasteur, Louis (French chemist/bacteriologist)
Culpeper, Nicholas (English herbalist) Pauli, Wolfgang (American physicist, b. in Austria)
Curie, Marie (French physicist, b. in Poland) Pauling, Linus (American chemist)
Curie, Pierre (French physicist) Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich (Russian physiologist)
Dale, Henry (English physiologist) Pelletier, Pierre-Joseph (French chemist)
Dalton, John (English chemist) Perkin, William Henry (English chemist)
Dana, James (American geologist/mineralogist) Perrin, Jean Baptiste (French chemist)
Davisson, Clinton J. (American physicist) Pirie, Norman (Scottish biochemist)
Davy, Humphry (English chemist) Planck, Max (German physicist)
Dawkins, Richard (English biologist) Porter, George (English chemist)
de Broglie, Louis-Victor, Prince (French physicist) Porter, Keith Roberts (Canadian/American biologist)
Debye, Peter (American physicist, b. in the Netherlands) Proust, Joseph Louis (French chemist)
de Duve, Christian (British biochemist, b. in Belgium) Prout, William (English chemist)
de Vries, Hugo (Dutch plant physiologist/geneticist) Purcell, Edward (American physicist)
Dewar, James (Scottish chemist/physicist) Raman, Chandrasekhara (Indian physicist)
Diels, Otto (German chemist) Ramsay, William (Scottish chemist)
Dirac, Paul (English theoretical physicist) Rayleigh, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron (English physicist)
Doppler, Christian (Austrian physicist) Röntgen, Wilhelm (German physicist)
Eccles, John (Australian physiologist) Rutherford, Ernest (New Zealand physicist)
Ehrlich, Paul (German medical scientist) Sabatier, Paul (French chemist)
Einstein, Albert (American physicist, b. in Germany) Saha, Meghnad (Indian theoretical physicist)
Einthoven, Willem (Dutch physiologist) Sakharov, Andrei (Russian nuclear physicist)
Erlanger, Joseph (American physiologist) Salam, Abdus (Pakistani theoretical physicist)
Esaki, Leo (Japanese physicist) Sanger, Frederick (English biochemist)
Euler, Ulf von (Swedish physiologist) Scheele, Carl Wilhelm (Swedish chemist)
Faraday, Michael (English chemist/physicist) Schrödinger, Erwin (Austrian theoretical physicist)
Fermi, Enrico (American physicist) Schwann, Theodor (German physiologist)
Feynman, Richard (American physicist) Seaborg, Glenn (American nuclear chemist)
Fischer, Emil (German chemist) Segrè, Emilio (American physicist, b. in Italy)
Fitzgerald, George (Irish physicist) Sherrington, Charles (English physiologist)
Fleming, Alexander (Scottish bacteriologist) Shockley, William (American physicist)
Florey, Howard (Australian pathologist) Soddy, Frederick (English physicist)
Foucault, Jean (French physicist) Spallanzani, Lazzaro (Italian physiologist/biologist)
Franklin, Rosalind (English crystallographer) Starling, Ernest (English physiologist)
Fraunhofer, Joseph von (German physicist) Swan, Joseph (English physicist/chemist)
Fresnel, Augustin (French physicist) Szent-Györgyi, Albert von (American biochemist, b. in Hungary)
Frisch, Otto (British physicist, b. in Austria) Szilard, Leo (American physicist, b. in Hungary)
Funk, Casimir (American biochemist, b. in Poland) Teller, Edward (American physicist, b. in Hungary)
Galileo Galilei (Italian physicist) Thomson, Joseph (English atomic physicist)
Gamow, George (American physicist, b. in Russia) Torricelli, Evangelista (Italian physicist/mathematician)
Gasser, Herbert (American physiologist) Townes, Charles (American physicist)
Gay-Lussac, Joseph (French chemist/physicist) Tyndall, John (Irish physicist)
Geber (14th century; Spanish alchemist) Urey, Harold C. (American chemist)
Geiger, Hans (German physicist) Van Allen, James (American physicist)
Gell-Mann, Murray (American physicist) Virchow, Rudolf (German physician/pathologist)
Gibbs, J. Willard (American chemist) Volta, Alessandro (Italian physicist)
Gilbert, William (English physician/physicist) Walton, E. T. S. (Irish physicist)
Glashow, Sheldon Lee (American theoretical physicist) Warburg, Otto Heinrich (German biochemist)
Goldschmidt, Viktor Moritz (Norwegian chemist, b. in Switzerland) Watson, James (American geneticist/biologist)
Grimaldi, Francesco (Italian physicist) Watson-Watt, Robert (Scottish physicist)
Guericke, Otto von (German physicist) Wegener, Alfred (German meteorologist)
Haber, Fritz (German chemist) Weinberg, Steven (American theoretical physicist)
Haeckel, Ernst (German biologist) Weismann, August (German biologist)
Hahn, Otto (German chemist) Welsbach: see Auer
Haldane, J. B. S. (Scottish biologist) Werner, Alfred (Swiss chemist, b. in France)
Haller, Albrecht von (Swiss anatomist and physiologist) Wheeler, John (American theoretical physicist)
Hawking, Stephen (English theoretical physicist) Wigner, Eugene (American physicist)
Haworth, Norman (English chemist) Wilkins, Maurice (British biochemist, b. in New Zealand)
Heaviside, Oliver (English physicist) Wilson, John (Canadian geophysicist)
Heisenberg, Werner (German physicist) Windaus, Adolf (German chemist)
Helmholtz, Hermann von (German physiologist/physicist) Wöhler, Friedrich (German chemist)
Hertz, Heinrich (German physicist) Wollaston, William Hyde (English chemist/physicist)
Hess, Victor (American physicist, b. in Austria) Woodward, R. B. (American chemist)
Hevesy, George de (Swedish radiochemist, b. in Hungary) Yukawa, Hideki (Japanese physicist)
Hodgkin, Alan (English physiologist) Zeeman, Pieter (Dutch physicist)
Hodgkin, Dorothy (British biochemist, b. in Egypt) Zsigmondy, Richard (German chemist, b. in Austria)
Hoff, Jacobus van't (Dutch chemist) Zworykin, Vladimir (American physicist, b. in Russia)
Hooke, Robert (English physicist)