Albert Einstein male, deceased

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E...

Alfred Nobel male, deceased

Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major...

Niels Bohr male, deceased

Niels (Henrik David) Bohr was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for...

Orhan Pamuk male

Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born on June 7, 1952 in Istanbul) is a Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist. Pamuk is often regarded as a post-modern writer. As...

Amartya Sen male

Amartya Kumar Sen CH (Hon) ("Ômorto Kumar Shen") (born 3 November 1933), is an Indian economist, philosopher, and a winner of the Bank of Sweden P...

Linus Pauling male, deceased

Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 - August 19, 1994) was an American quantum chemist and biochemist. He was also acknowledged as a...

Rabindranath Tagore male, deceased (India)

(7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright,...

Günter Grass male

Günter Wilhelm Grass is a Nobel Prize-winning German author. He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). Since 1945, he has li...

Erwin Schrödinger male, deceased

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger was an Austrian - Irish physicist who achieved fame for his contributions to quantum mechanics, e...

Abdus Salam male, deceased

Abdus Salam (January 29, 1926 at Santokdas, Sahiwal in Punjab - November 21, 1996 in Oxford, England) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist who...