Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan

male, deceased (1996)
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer and astrobiologist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural...
Karl Popper

Karl Popper

male, deceased (1994)
Sir Karl Raimund Popper, CH, FRS, FBA, (July 28, 1902 - September 17, 1994), was an Austrian-born British philosopher and a professor at the London...
Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

male, deceased (1626)
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban was an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist, but is best known as a philosophical advocate and...
Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

male, deceased (1662)
Blaise Pascal, (June 19 1623-August 19 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was...
Roger Bacon

Roger Bacon

male, deceased (1294)
Roger Bacon (c. 1214–1294), also known as Doctor Mirabilis, was one of the most famous Franciscan friars of his time. An English philosopher who pl...
Auguste Comte

Auguste Comte

male, deceased (1857)
Auguste Comte was a French thinker who coined the term "sociology." He is remembered for being the first to apply the scientific method to the...
Ibn Al-Haytham

Ibn Al-Haytham

male, deceased (1039)
"' (Arabic: أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 – 1039), was an Iraqi Muslim polymath who made sig...
Franz Boas

Franz Boas

male, deceased (1942)
Franz Boas (July 9, 1858 - December 21, 1942) was a German-born American pioneer of modern anthropology and is often called the "Father of American...

Norman Levitt

male
Norman Jay Levitt is a mathematician at Rutgers University. He received a PhD from Princeton University in 1967. He has been a prominent figure in...
William Stanley Jevons

William Stanley Jevons

male, deceased (1882)
William Stanley Jevons, English economist and logician, was born in Liverpool. He expounded in his book "The Theory of Political Economy" (1871)...