- Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban was an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist, but is best known as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. Indeed, his dedication brought him into a rare historical group of scientists who were killed by their own experiments. His works established and popularized an inductive methodology for scientific inquiry, often called the "Baconian method" or simply, the scientific method. - Bill Bryson
William McGuire "Bill" Bryson, OBE, (born December 8,1951) is a best-selling American-born author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and on scientific subjects. He has lived for most of his adult life in England. - Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler (September 5, 1905, Budapest - March 3, 1983, London) was a Hungarian polymath who became a naturalized British subject. He wrote journalism, novels, social philosophy, and books on scientific subjects. In 1931, he joined the Communist Party of Germany, but left the party seven years later, after emigrating to the United Kingdom. By the late 1940s, he was one of the most recognized and outspoken British anti-communists, … - Simon Singh
Simon Lehna Singh (born 1964) is an Indian-British author of Punjabi background with a doctorate in physics from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who has specialized in writing about mathematical and scientific topics in an accessible manner. He is the youngest of three brothers, his eldest brother being Tom Singh the founder of the UK New Look chain of stores. His written works include "Fermat's Last Theorem" (in the United States, … - Alton Brown
Alton Brown is an American food personality, cinematographer, author, and actor. He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show "Good Eats", the miniseries "Feasting on Asphalt" and the main commentator on "Iron Chef America". Brown is also the author of several cooking how-to books and a regular contributor to "Bon Appétit" and "Men’s Journal" magazines. - Martin Seligman
Martin E.P. Seligman (Albany, New York, 12 August 1942) is an American psychologist and writer. He is well known for his work on the idea of "learned helplessness", and more recently, for his contributions to leadership in the field of Positive Psychology. According to Haggbloom et al's study of the most eminent psychologists of the 20th Century, Seligman was the 13th most frequently cited psychologist in introductory psychology textbooks throughout the century. - Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull (born March 1672 in Basildon, Berkshire; died 21 February 1741 in Shalbourne, Berkshire (now Wiltshire)) was an English agricultural pioneer during the Industrial Revolution and the Agricultural Revolution. Tull was born in Basildon, Berkshire to Dorothy Buckridge and Jethro Tull. He was educated at St John's College, Oxford and Gray's Inn. - Daniel J. Boorstin
Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 - February 28, 2004) was a prolific American historian, professor, attorney, and writer. He served as the U.S. Librarian of Congress from 1975 until 1987. Boorstin was born in Atlanta, Georgia and died in Washington, D.C. Boorstin was of Jewish descent. Boorstin graduated with highest honors from Harvard, studied at Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and earned his PhD. at Yale University. - Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) was already eminent as an English naturalist when he proposed and provided scientific evidence to show that all species of life have evolved over time from one or a few common ancestors through the process of natural selection. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and the general public in his lifetime, … - Carl Djerassi
Carl Djerassi, is a chemist, novelist, and playwright best known for his contribution to the development of the first oral contraceptive pill (OCP). He participated in the invention in 1951, together with Mexican Luis E. Miramontes and Hungarian George Rosenkranz, of the progestin norethindrone—which, unlike progesterone, remained effective when taken orally and was far stronger than the naturally occurring hormone. - Peter Kropotkin
Prince Peter (Pyotr) Alexeyevich Kropotkin (December 9, 1842-February 8, 1921) was one of Russia's foremost anarchists and one of the first advocates of anarchist communism: the model of society he advocated for most of his life was that of a communalist society free from central government. Because of his title of prince and his prominence as an anarchist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he was known by some as "the Anarchist Prince". - Robert Fludd
Robert Fludd, also known as Robertus de Fluctibus (1574, Bearsted, Kent - September 8 1637, London) was a prominent English Paracelsian physicist, astrologer, and mystic. He was not a member of the Rosicrucians, as often alleged, but he defended their thoughts in the Apologia Compendiaria of 1616. He was the son of Sir Thomas Fludd, a high-ranking governmental official (Queen Elizabeth I's treasurer for war in Europe). - Alex Kirby
Alex Kirby is a British journalist, specializing in environmental issues. He worked in various capacities at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for nearly 20 years. From 1987 to 1996, he was the environmental correspondent for BBC News, in radio and television. He left the BBC in 1998 to work as a freelance journalist. He also provides media skills training to companies, universities and NGOs. He is also currently the environmental correspondent for BBC News Online, … - Mario Bunge
Mario Augusto Bunge (born September 21, 1919, Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian philosopher and physicist mainly active in Canada. Bunge began his studies at Universidad Nacional de La Plata, graduating with a Ph.D. in physico-mathematical sciences in 1952. He was professor of theoretical physics and philosophy, 1956 - 1966, first at La Plata then at Universidad de Buenos Aires. Dissatisfied with the political climate of his country, he chose to emigrate. - Mike Hall
Michael Thomas Hall, known as Mike Hall, (born September 20, 1952) is a British politician, and the Labour Member of Parliament for Weaver Vale. Mike Hall was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire and was educated locally at St Mark's Roman Catholic Primary School and St Damian's Catholic Secondary Modern School, both in Ashton-under-Lyne. He went on to study at Padgate Training College, Warrington where he was awarded a Certificate in Education in 1977. - Jacques Benveniste
Jacques Benveniste was a French immunologist (March 12, 1935 - October 3, 2004). In 1979 he published in the French "Compte rendus de l'Académie des Sciences" a well-known paper where he contributes to the description of the structure of the "platelet activation factor" and its relationships with histamine. He was head of INSERM's Unit 200 directed at "Immunology, allergy and inflammation". - Thomas Dick
Thomas Dick (November 24, 1774 in Hilltown, Dundee - July 29, 1857), was a Scottish scientific teacher and writer known for his works on astronomy. Thomas was a religious man, he also wrote ethical and theological works. - Helen Longino
Helen E. Longino (born 13 July 1944) is an American philosopher of science who has argued influentially for the significance of values and social interactions to scientific inquiry. A former member of philosophy and women's studies faculties at Mills College, Rice University, and the University of Minnesota, Longino is currently a member of the philosophy department at Stanford University in California, USA. She earned her PhD from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, … - Gregorio Marañón
Gregorio Marañón y Posadillo was a Spanish physician, scientist, historian, writer and philosopher. He was born in Madrid on 19 May 1887, where he died on 27 March 1960. He married Dolores Moya in 1911, they had four children (Carmen, Belén, María Isabel and Gregorio). An austere, humanist and liberal man, he is considered one of the most brilliant Spanish intellectuals of the 20th century. He also stands out for his elegant literary style. - Duncan MacDougall
Dr. Duncan MacDougall was an early 20th century doctor in Haverhill, Massachusetts who sought to measure the weight purportedly lost by a human body when the soul departed the body upon death. In 1907, MacDougall weighed six patients while they were in the process of dying. He took his results (a varying amount of perceived weight loss in most of the six cases) to support his hypothesis that the soul had weight, and when the soul departed the body, so did the weight. - Al Hamdani
Mohammed al-Hassan al-Hamdani was one of the most important medieval scholars of Yemen. The biographic data of al-Hamdani is hardly well-known despite his extensive scientific work. He became particularly well known for his writings in geography "description of the Arab peninsula" and history "the diadem" (only partially retained). Beyond that, he wrote on philology, chemistry, and mining. He was also known as a poet. - Ruedi Aebersold
Dr. Aebersold completed his undergraduate studies in biology at the University of Basel, Switzerland in 1979 and received a Ph.D. in cell biology at the Biocenter of the University of Basel in 1984. Holding fellowships from the Swiss National Science Foundation and EMBO, he joined the California Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow (1984-86) and remained at Caltech as a senior research fellow (1986-88). - Laurent Schwartz
Laurent-Moïse Schwartz was a French mathematician. Among other teaching positions, he taught at École Polytechnique from 1959 to 1980. His considerable mathematical work, including the theory of distributions, won him the Fields Medal in 1950. Apart from his scientific work, he was a well-known outspoken intellectual. Leaning towards communism, he refused Stalin's totalitarianism. He campaigned against France's colonial war in Algeria. - Daniel Bernard Roumain
completed his doctoral work at the University of Michigan, where he also received his Masters in Music. An accomplished violinist, his works have been performed throughout Europe and the United States. In January 2001, Daniel's work for voice and violin, Epilogue, 1965 was pemiered at Weill Recital Hall as part of a concert entitled "I, Too, Sing America" which celebrated African American poetry. - Lady Eve Balfour
Lady Eve Balfour (Evelyn Barbara Balfour; 1899-1990) was a British farmer, educator, organic farming pioneer, and a founding figure in the organic movement. She was one of the first women to study agriculture at a UK university, graduating from the University of Reading. The daughter of the second Earl of Balfour, she began farming in 1920, in Haughley Green, Suffolk, England. In 1939, with her friend and neighbor Alice Debenham, she launched the Haughley Experiment, … - Otto Selz
Otto Selz, (14 February 1881-27 August 1943) was a German psychologist who formulated the first nonassociationist theory of thinking, in 1913. Selz used the method of introspection, but unlike his predecessors, his theory developed without the use of images and associations. Wilhelm Wundt used the method of introspection in the 1880s, but thought that higher-level mental processes could not be studied in the scientific laboratory. - Pierre Clastres
Pierre Clastres, (1934-1977), was a French anthropologist and ethnographer. He is best known for his fieldwork among the Guayaki in Paraguay and his theory on stateless societies. Some people regard him as giving scientific validity to certain anarchist perspectives. In his most famous work, "Society Against the State" (1974), Clastres indeed criticizes both the evolutionist notion that the state would be the ultimate destiny of all societies, … - Keith Tyson
Keith Tyson (born August 23 1969) is an English artist. Tyson was born in Ulverston in Cumbria and served his time as a Fitter and Turner at VSEL (Vickers shipbuilding and engineering ltd. now BAE systems) prior to studying art at the College of Art in Carlisle and the University of Brighton. His first solo show was in 1995. His works often bring scientific thought into art. He has used something called the "Artmachine" since 1991, … - Armand David
Father Armand David was a Lazarist missionary Catholic priest as well as a zoologist and a botanist. Born in Espelette near Bayonne, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques "département" of France, he entered the Congregation of the Mission in 1848, having already displayed great fondness for the natural sciences. Ordained in 1862, he was shortly afterwards sent to Beijing, where he began a collection of material for a museum of natural history, mainly zoological, … - Daniel B. Smith
Daniel B. Smith (July 14, 1792 - March, 1883) was an educator and pharmacist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Smith was educated at Burlington Friends School under John Griscom, where he acquired an interest in scientific studies. On graduating, he apprenticed to John Biddle in the apothecary business, and on completion he was admitted to partnership. In 1819 he opened a drug store in downtown Philadelphia, and in 1828 he entered into partnership with William Hodgson, … - Boris Ephrussi
Boris Ephrussi was a French geneticist of Russian origin. He was one of the many famous Jewish life scientists. He had published two papers in November 1966 which represented a key step in a decade of research in his laboratory. This research helped transform mammalian, and especially human, genetics. Boris started his scientific training as a Russian émigré in 1920. - Pierre-Joseph Redouté
Pierre-Joseph Redouté, was a French painter, best known for his paintings of the flowers at Malmaison. Redouté was born in present-day Belgium. He was the official court artist of Queen Marie Antoinette, and he continued painting through the French Revolution and Reign of Terror. - Anilkumar Nair
A never married bachelor graduate engineer with 31 years service in Indian Private sector industries at senior managment levels,now retired and operating as a Project Consultant with ISO Certification/Audit & Tutoring Where there is a will there is a way - Hamdani
Abu Muhammad Al-hasan Ibn Ahmad Al-hamdani, Arabic (أبو محمد الحسن بن احمد الهمداني), was an Arab geographer, poet, grammarian, historian, and astronomer. He was one of the best representatives of Islamic culture during the last effective years of the Abbasid caliphate. The biographic data of al-Hamdani is hardly well-known, despite his extensive scientific work. He was held in repute as a grammarian, wrote much poetry, … - Alexander Karelin
Alexandr Alexandrovich Karelin Ph.D, or simply Alexander Karelin, (Russian: Александр Александрович Карелин; born September 19, 1967 in Novosibirsk, Russian SFSR) was a dominant Greco-Roman wrestler for the Soviet Union and later, after its dissolution, for Russia. He won gold medals at the 1988, 1992, and 1996 Olympic Games. Nicknamed the "Russian Dan Gable," he went undefeated in international competition from 1987 until 2000, … - Jens Martin Knudsen
Jens Martin Knudsen (October 12, 1930 - February 17, 2005) was an internationally renowned Danish astrophysicist, particularly well known in his home country. Born in Haurum near Aarhus, he was author or co-author of more than 100 scientific articles, and a long time advisor to NASA. Originally educated as a school teacher, but in 1962 got his degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Copenhagen. - Etienne Vermeersch
Professor Etienne Vermeersch (Sint-Michiels- Brugge, 2 may 1934) is a renown Belgian (moral) philosopher, skeptic, opinion maker and debater. He's one of the founding fathers of the abortion and euthanasia law in Belgium. He's also former Vice-Rector of the Ghent University. Vermeersch became atheist after five years Society of Jesus (Jesuits). He broke with his belief when he was 25, like most of his collegues at the time. After he became a philosophical materialist. - Jonathan Zenneck
Jonathan Adolf Wilhelm Zenneck was a physicist and electrical engineer. Zenneck was born in Ruppertshofen, Württemberg. Zenneck contributed to researches in radio circuit performance and to the scientific and educational contributions to the literature of the pioneer radio art. Zenneck improved the Braun vacuum tube. Zenneck added deflector coils which allowed the direct reception of signals. - 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. - Reginald Victor Jones
Reginald Victor Jones, FRS, (29 September 1911 – 17 December 1997) was an English physicist and scientific military intelligence expert who played an invaluable role in the defence of Britain in World War II.
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