- Michael Jackson
Michael A. Jackson is a satellite project manager who ran as a Republican in the 2003 California recall, primarily getting votes due to sharing his name with that of pop singer Michael Jackson. Jackson garnered 746 votes, placing him 91st out of 135 candidates. - Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer and astrobiologist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). He is world-famous for writing popular science books and for co-writing and presenting the award-winning 1980 television series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage", … - Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget (August 9, 1896 - September 16, 1980) was a Swiss philosopher, natural scientist and developmental psychologist, well known for his work studying children and his theory of cognitive development. According to Ernst von Glasersfeld, Jean Piaget is also "the great pioneer of the constructivist theory of knowing" - August Beer
August Beer, German mathematician, chemist, physicist. Beer was born in Trier, where he studied mathematics and natural sciences. He worked for Julius Plücker in Bonn afterwards, where he made Ph.D. in 1848 and professor in 1850. In 1854, he published his book "Einleitung in die höhere Optik". His findings, together with those of Johann Heinrich Lambert, make up the Beer-Lambert law. - David Brewster
Sir David Brewster,FRS, (11 December 1781 - 10 February 1868) was a Scottish scientist, inventor and writer. He was born at Jedburgh, where his father, a teacher of high reputation, was rector of the grammar school. At the age of twelve, he was sent to the University of Edinburgh, being intended for the clergy. However, he had already shown a strong inclination for natural science, and this had been fostered by his intimacy with a "self-taught philosopher, … - William Cullen
William Cullen was a Scottish doctor and chemist. Cullen was born at Hamilton, Lanarkshire. He received his early education at the grammar school of Hamilton, and he appears to have subsequently attended some classes at the University of Glasgow. He began his medical career as apprentice to John Paisley, a Glasgow surgeon, and after completing his apprenticeship he became surgeon to a merchant vessel trading between London and the West Indies. - Warren Weaver
Warren Weaver was an American scientist, mathematician, and science administrator. Weaver graduated in 1919 at the University of Wisconsin with degrees in civil engineering and mathematics. He became an assistant professor of mathematics at Throop College (soon to be re-named the California Institute of Technology) before returning to teach mathematics at Wisconsin (1920–32). He was director of the Division of Natural Sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation (1932–55), … - Ross Anderson
Ross J. Anderson is a researcher, writer, and industry consultant in security engineering. He is a professor in security engineering at Cambridge University where he leads the computer security group. In cryptography, he, together with Eli Biham, designed the BEAR, LION and Tiger cryptographic primitives, the block cipher Serpent (with Biham and Lars Knudsen), and the stream cipher Pike. He has also discovered weaknesses in many algorithms (FISH) and security systems. - Robert Carr
Leonard Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley, PC (born November 11, 1916) is a British Conservative politician. Robert Carr was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he read Natural sciences, graduating in 1938. He was elected Member of Parliament for Mitcham in 1950 and served there until 1974 when the seat was merged and he moved to Carshalton. - Walter Baldwin Spencer
Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer KCMG (23 June 1860 - 14 July 1929) was a British-Australian biologist and anthropologist. Baldwin was born at Stretford, Lancashire. His father, Reuben Spencer, who had come from Derbyshire in his youth, obtained a position with Rylands and Sons, cotton manufacturers, and rose to be chairman of its board of directors when Rylands became a company. Baldwin was educated at Old Trafford) school, and on leaving entered the Manchester School of Art. - Boris Hessen
Boris Mikhailovich Hessen, also Gessen (born August 16, 1893 in Elisavetgrad, died December 20, 1936 in Moscow) was a Russian physicist, philosopher and historian of science. He is most famous for his paper on Newton's "Principia" which became foundational in historiography of science. Boris Hessen was born to a Jewish family in Elisavetgrad, Russia (now Kirovohrad, Ukraine). - Janez Strnad
Janez Strnad (born March 4, 1934) is a Slovene physicist and populariser of natural science. Strnad was born in Ljubljana, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Slovenia). <br>"Janez Strnad" He taught for many years from 1961 at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty for natural science and technology on the Department of physics introductory courses and topics from physics. His surname Strnad in English means "a yellowhammer", it also is a type of bird, like a swallow. - Vera Rubin
Vera (Cooper) Rubin (born 23 July 1928) is an astronomer who has done pioneering work on galaxy rotation rates. Her discovery of what is known as "flat rotation curves" is the most direct and robust evidence of dark matter. After she earned an A.B. from Vassar College (1948) she tried to enroll at Princeton but never received their graduate catalog as women there were not allowed in the graduate astronomy program until 1975. - George James Allman
George James Allman FRS (1812-November 24, 1898), M.D., Emeritus Professor of Natural History in Edinburgh, an eminent naturalist. Allman was born in Cork, Ireland, and received his early education at the Royal Academical Institution, Belfast. For some time he studied for the Irish bar, but ultimately gave up law in favour of natural science. In 1843 he graduated in medicine at Dublin, and in the following year was appointed professor of botany in that university, … - Henrik Steffens
Henrik Steffens (May 2 1773-February 13 1845), was a Norwegian-born philosopher, scientist, and poet. He was born at Stavanger, Norway. At the age of fourteen he went with his parents to Copenhagen, where he studied theology and natural science. In 1796 he lectured at the University of Kiel, and a year later went to the University of Jena to study the natural philosophy of Friedrich Schelling. - Charles Hedley
Charles Hedley was a naturalist, active in Australia. - Ralph Tate
Ralph Tate was a British botanist and geologist. Tate was born at Alnwick in Northumberland, son of Thomas Turner Tate (1807-1888), a teacher of mathematics and science, and his wife Frances, née Hunter. Tate was also nephew of George Tate (1805-1871), naturalist and archaeologist, an active member of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club. He was educated at the Cheltenham Training College and at the Royal School of Mines, … - Ebenezer Emmons
Ebenezer Emmons (1799-1863), American geologist, was born at Middlefield, Massachusetts, on the 16th of May 1799, son of Ebenezer and Mary (Mack) Emmons. He studied medicine at Albany, and after taking his degree practised for some years in Berkshire county. His interest in geology was kindled in early life, and in 1824 he had assisted Prof Chester Dewey (1784-1867) in preparing a geological map of Berkshire county, … - Henry Clifton Sorby
Henry Clifton Sorby (May 10, 1826 - March 9, 1908), English microscopist and geologist, was born at Woodbourne near Sheffield in Yorkshire. He attended Sheffield Collegiate School. He early developed an interest in natural science, and one of his first papers related to the excavation of valleys in Yorkshire. He subsequently dealt with the physical geography of former geological periods, with the wave-structure in certain stratified rocks, and the origin of slaty cleavage. - William Henry Brewer
William Henry Brewer (September 14, 1828 -- November 2, 1910) was an American botanist. He worked on the first California Geological Survey and was the first Chair of Agriculture at Yale University's Sheffield Scientific School. William H. Brewer was born in Poughkeepsie, New York and grew up on a farm in Enfield, New York. In 1848 Brewer attended Yale and began studying soil chemistry under Professors Benjamin Silliman and John Pitkin Norton. - Ludwig Reichenbach
Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (January 8, 1793 - March 17, 1879) was a German botanist and ornithologist. He was the son of Johann Friedrich Jakob Reichenbach, the author in 1818 of the first Greek-German dictionary. He was the father of Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, equally a botanist and an eminent orchid specialist. Reichenbach was born in Leipzig. From 1810 he studied medicine and natural science at the University of Leipzig. He became an instructor in 1818. - Parker Cleaveland
Parker Cleaveland (1780-1858) was an American geologist and mineralogist, born in Rowley, Massachusetts. He was identified with the early progress of the natural sciences. He graduated from Harvard in 1799, was tutor in mathematics there from 1803 to 1805, was chosen professor of mathematics and natural philosophy and lecturer on chemistry and mineralogy in Bowdoin College - a position which he retained until his death, … - Erich von Drygalski
Erich von Drygalski or Erich Dagobert von Drygalski was a German geographer, geophysicist and polar scientist, born in Königsberg, East Prussia. Between 1882 and 1887, Drygalski studied in Königsberg, Bonn, Berlin and Leipzig mathematics and natural science. He graduated with a doctorate thesis about ice shields in Nordic areas. Between 1888 and 1891, he was an assistant on the geodetic institute and central office of international geodetics in Berlin. - Hubert Languet
Hubert Languet (Vitteaux (21 miles west of Dijon) 1518-Antwerp September 30 1581) was a French diplomat and reformer. He entered the University of Poitiers in order to study law but he was interested also in theology, history, and science and political science. He visited the universities of Padua and Bologna, and traveled in Italy and Spain. He was greatly influenced by Melanchthon's "Loci theologici," which put an end to his doubts. - Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira
Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira (1756 - 1815) was a Brazilian natural scientist and explorer; he was born in Bahia, Brazil in 1756. He was attended the University of Coimbra in Portugal where he afterwards taught subjects in natural history until 1778. In that year he began work at the Museo da Ajuda in Lisbon. In 1783, empowered by the Portugese government, Ferreira began a scientific expedition which lasted for nine years into the interior of Brazil. - Jakob Aall
Jakob Aall was a Norwegian historian and statesman. He was born in Porsgrund, Norway and while studying divinity at Copenhagen he became interested in the pursuit of natural science. In 1797 he set out to make the tour of the scientific schools of Leipzig, Kiel, and Göttingen. In Germany he became acquainted with the great geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner. In 1799, having spent the winter at the celebrated academy of mines in Freiberg, … - George Albert Wells
George Albert Wells (born 1926) is an Emeritus Professor of German at Birkbeck, University of London, but he is more widely known as an advocate of the theory that Jesus is a mythical rather than a historical figure. George Albert (usually "G.A.") Wells is a former Chairman of the Rationalist Press Association. He is married and lives in St. Albans, near London. He studied at the University of London and Bern, and holds degrees in German, philosophy, and natural science. - Rudolf Baumbach
Rudolf Baumbach (28 September 1840 - 21 September 1905) was a German poet. Born in Kranichfeld in Thuringia, Germany, the son of a local medical practitioner, he received his early schooling at the gymnasium of Meiningen, to which place his father had moved. After studying natural science at Leipzig as member of the German Student Corps "Thuringia" and in various other universities, he engaged in private tuition, both independently and in families, … - Alison Wheeler
Alison Wheeler (born April 13, 1956) is a British political activist. An organiser of the London Lesbian and Gay Pride march and festival from 1983 to 1991, Wheeler was a founder member of the London chapter of the Lesbian Avengers and of the London Lesbian and Gay Centre in the 1980s. She was chief engineer of the RSL radio station "Brazen Radio" in 1994 which was the UK's first women-only broadcast radio station. Outside her work in gay and women's politics, … - Clarence E. MacArtney
Clarence Edward Noble Macartney (September 1879 - 1957) was a prominent conservative Presbyterian pastor and author. With J. Gresham Machen, he was one of the main leaders of the conservatives during the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Macartney was born in Northwood, Ohio in September 1879. His father, John L. McCartney was the pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Northwood and professor of Natural Science at Geneva College. - Girolamo Maggi
Girolamo Maggi (abt. 1523-March 27, 1572), or Hieronymus Magius was an Italian scholar, jurist, poet, military engineer, urban planner, philologist, archaeologist, mathematician, and naturalist who studied at Bologna under Francis Robortello. He authored several works, including a collection of poems on the Flemish wars, ("Cinque primi canti della guerra di Fiandra", 1551), … - George Lincoln Goodale
George Lincoln Goodale (August 3, 1839-April 12, 1923) was an American botanist, born at Saco, Maine. He graduated at Amherst College in 1860 and at Harvard Medical School in 1863, after which he practiced at Portland, Me., until 1867; became professor of natural science and applied chemistry at Bowdoin; and at Harvard was appointed instructor in botany and University lecturer on vegetable physiology (1872), assistant professor of the latter subject (1873), … - Carrie Derick
Carrie Matilda Derick (January 14, 1862 - November 10, 1941) was a Canadian botanist and the first female professor in a Canadian University. Born in Clarenceville, Quebec on January 14th, she was educated at the Clarenceville Academy and received her teacher training at the McGill Normal School. She was a school teacher in Clarenceville and Montreal. In 1890, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University, … - Albrecht von Gräfe
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Albrecht von Graefe, was a pioneering German oculist. Von Gräfe was born in Berlin, the son of Karl Ferdinand von Gräfe. At an early age he showed a preference for mathematics, but this was gradually superseded by an interest in natural science, which led him ultimately to the study of medicine. After studying at Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Paris, London, Dublin and Edinburgh, and having devoted special attention to ophthalmology, … - Hossein Gol-E-Golab
Hossein Gol-e-Golab also given as "Hosayn Golgolab", (1897 - 1985) was a polymath Iranian scholar and musician who wrote the nationalist anthem Ey Iran. Gol-e-Golab was born in Tehran, and studied at the Elmiya School and Darolfonoon. He learned to play both the setar and tar as a boy. He taught at Dar al-Forum and later enrolled at the law school there, earning degrees in law and political science in 1922. - Joseph Deniker
Joseph Deniker (March 6, 1852, Astrakhan - March 18, 1918, Paris) was a French naturalist and anthropologist, known primarily for his attempts to develop highly-detailed maps of race in Europe. Deniker was born in 1852 to French parents in Astrakhan, Russia. He first studied at the university and technical institute of St. Petersburg, where he adopted engineering as a profession, and in this capacity travelled extensively in the petroleum districts of the Caucasus, … - Rickard Falkvinge
Rickard "Rick" Falkvinge, alias Rick Falconwing (a direct translation of his name), is a Swedish IT entrepreneur, known as the leader and founder of the Swedish Pirate Party. Falkvinge graduated from Göteborgs Högre Samskola, where he studied natural science, in 1991. During his studies he was active in the Moderate Youth League, the youth wing of the Swedish Moderate Party. He started his first company in 1988, at the age of 16. - C. D. Deshmukh
Sir Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh (14 January 1896 - 2 October 1982) or C. D. Deshmukh was the third Governor but first Indian Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 11 August 1943 to 30 June 1949. He later became the Finance Minister of independent India. He was married to freedom fighter and activist, Durgabai Deshmukh. He was educated at and at Jesus College, Cambridge where curiously he graduated in the field of Natural Sciences. - Neil Gerrard
Neil Francis Gerrard (born July 3, 1942) British politician He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Walthamstow. Born in Farnworth, Lancashire and educated at the Manchester Grammar School and Wadham College, Oxford where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in natural science in 1964. He later studied at the Chelsea College where he received a master's degree in education in 1973. - George Washington Baines
George Washington Baines, Sr. (December 29, 1809 -- December 28, 1882), a maternal great-grandfather of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson (1963-1969), was a Baptist clergyman in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas who served briefly as natural science professor and president of Baylor University (then "Baylor College") at its first location in Independence in Washington County, Texas.
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