James D. Watson

James D. Watson

male, 81 years old
Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, dna, nucleic acid, molecular biology, National Medal of Science recipient, National Medal of Science…scientist
James Dewey Watson born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA...

Ian Wilson

male
the scripps research institute, professor, Spanish Flu, Scripps Research Institute, American, protein…scientist
Ian Wilson is a professor at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, United States. The team he led was reported by the 6...
Stephen Schneider

Stephen Schneider

male, 64 years old
Stanford University, climatologist, global warming, IPCC lead author, scientist, Stephen H. Schneider
Stephen H. Schneider (born c. 1945) is Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Change (and Professor by Courtesy in the Department of Civil...
Wolfgang Pauli

Wolfgang Pauli

male, deceased (1958)
Swiss, Austrian-American, exclusion principle, physicist, Jewish, naturalized citizen of the United States…scientist
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (April 25, 1900 - December 15, 1958) was an Austrian theoretical physicist noted for his work on the theory of spin, and in...
Vint Cerf

Vint Cerf

male
TCP/IP, Google employee, Internet pioneer, founding fathers of the Internet, Internet history, internet…computer scientist, scientist
Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is an American computer scientist who is commonly...
John Walsh

John Walsh

male, deceased (1795)
from Warfield, Astronomer Royal, bengal, British, scientist, berkshire
John Walsh (1 July 1726 - 9 March, 1795) was a British scientist and Secretary to the Governor of Bengal. John was son of Joseph Walsh, Governor of...
Jeffrey Sachs

Jeffrey Sachs

male, 55 years old
United Nations Secretary-General, Reith Lectures, UN Millennium Project, Columbia University, shock therapy, world's most influential…scientist
Mr. Sachs has advised governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia and Africa on economic reforms - and has worked...
Joseph Henry

Joseph Henry

male, deceased (1878)
electricity, electromagnetism, from Albany, New York, electrical engineering, scientist, induction
Joseph Henry (December 17 1797 - May 13 1878) was a Scottish-American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution....
Robert Duvall

Robert Duvall

male, 78 years old
military brat, American, actor, director, Libertarian, 2007 Emmy Award Winner…scientist
Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an Academy Award and four-time Golden Globe winning American film actor and director.
Randy Olson

Randy Olson

male
Harvard University, USC Cinema School, You Ruined My Career, Barnacles Tell No Lies, Telluride Film Festival, USC School of Cinematic Arts…scientist
Randy Olson lived a whole life as a marine biologist, but got so frustrated with boring documentary films about his profession that he quit being a...