Linus Pauling

Linus Pauling

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

Carl Jung

male, deceased (1961)
Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875, Kesswil – June 6, 1961, Küsnacht) was a Swiss psychiatrist, influential thinker, and founder of analytical psy...
Bill Nye

Bill Nye

male, 53 years old
William Sanford Nye (b. November 27, 1955), also known as "Bill Nye the Science Guy," is an American television program host, scientist, and...
Alexander von Humboldt

Alexander von Humboldt

male, deceased (1859)
(September 14, 1769, Berlin – May 6, 1859, Berlin) was a Prussian naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, ph...
Linval Thompson

Linval Thompson

male
Linval Thompson is a reggae and dub artist and producer born c.1959 in Kingston, Jamaica. Thompson was raised in Queens, New York and his recording...
Mary Baker Eddy

Mary Baker Eddy

female, deceased (1910)
Mary Baker Eddy founded the Church of Christ, Scientist in 1879 and was the author of its fundamental doctrinal textbook, "Science and Health with...
Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer

male, deceased (1903)
Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher and prominent classic-liberal political theorist. Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of...
Roger Penrose

Roger Penrose

male, 78 years old
Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the...
Alan Turing

Alan Turing

male, deceased (1954) (london)
This short on-line biography of Alan Turing is based on the entry I wrote for the British Dictionary of National Biography in 1995. The eight parts...
David Bohm

David Bohm

male, deceased (1992)
David Joseph Bohm (b. December 20 1917, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - d. October 27 1992, London) was an American-born quantum physicist, who made...