Scientist↕ | Field↕ | Country↕ | Era↕ | Key Discovery↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Albert Einstein | Physics | Germany/USA | 1879–1955 | General Relativity |
Marie Curie | Chemistry/Physics | Poland/France | 1867–1934 | Radioactivity |
Isaac Newton | Physics/Math | England | 1643–1727 | Laws of Motion |
Charles Darwin | Biology | England | 1809–1882 | Evolution by Natural Selection |
Nikola Tesla | Engineering | Serbia/USA | 1856–1943 | AC Electrical System |
Stephen Hawking | Physics | UK | 1942–2018 | Hawking Radiation |
Rosalind Franklin | Biophysics | UK | 1920–1958 | DNA X-ray diffraction |
Alan Turing | Computer Science | UK | 1912–1954 | Turing Machine & codebreaking |
Carl Sagan | Astronomy | USA | 1934–1996 | Cosmos & science communication |
Jane Goodall | Primatology | UK | 1934–present | Chimpanzee behavior |
Richard Feynman | Physics | USA | 1918–1988 | Quantum Electrodynamics |
Galileo Galilei | Astronomy | Italy | 1564–1642 | Heliocentrism evidence |
Niels Bohr | Physics | Denmark | 1885–1962 | Atomic model |
Ada Lovelace | Computing | UK | 1815–1852 | First algorithm |
Louis Pasteur | Microbiology | France | 1822–1895 | Pasteurization & vaccines |
Tu Youyou | Pharmacology | China | 1930–present | Artemisinin (malaria treatment) |
Erwin Schrödinger | Physics | Austria | 1887–1961 | Wave equation |
Neil deGrasse Tyson | Astrophysics | USA | 1958–present | Science communication |
Ramanujan | Mathematics | India | 1887–1920 | Infinite series & number theory |
Abdus Salam | Physics | Pakistan | 1926–1996 | Electroweak unification |
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