1. Ebenezer Kinnersley (1711)

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Scientist and inventor who focused on the investigation of electricity. He proved that heat could be produced by electricity, which was something that was not known in his time.

2. Benjamin Thompson (1753)

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Physicist who specialized in thermodynamics who invented thermal underwear and significantly improved the design of kilns used to produce quicklime. He also served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Loyalist forces...

3. Irving Langmuir (1881)

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American chemist and physicist who invented the gas-filled incandescent lamp and the hydrogen welding technique while working at General Electric. He received a Nobel Prize in 1932 for his research...

4. Kazimierz Fajans (1887)

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Pioneer in the science of radioactivity who found the half-lives of several elements and discovered several key laws of radioactivity. He is also know for his Displacement law and his...

5. Alfred Kinsey (1894)

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World-renowned sex researcher who founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University in 1947 and compiled statistical research on his subjects' intimate behavior. His books, Sexual Behavior in the...

6. Edwin McMillan (1907)

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An American physicist and Nobel laureate who was the first scientist to produce a transuranium element.

7. Martin Chalfie (1947)

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Chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008 for discovering and developing the green fluorescent protein, GFP. In his career he has written over 100 scientific papers.

8. Paul R. Ehrlich (1932)

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An American biologist and teacher, he is best known for his controversial book, The Population Bomb (1968), which posits that the earth's too- large human population is a threat to...

9. Bill Nye (1955)

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Television host and comedian who educated and entertained children with his show Bill Nye the Science Guy from 1993 to 1998.

10. Tim Samaras (1957)

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Best remembered for his appearances on the Discovery Channel weather series Storm Chasers, this engineer, meteorologist, and founder of TWISTEX (the Tactical Weather Instrumented Sampling in Tornadoes Experiment) was killed...

11. Anne Anastasi (1908)

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Anne Anastasi was an American psychologist best known for her pioneering development of psychometrics. Her seminal work Psychological Testing remains a classic text in which she drew attention to the...

12. Willard Libby (1908)

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Libby was an American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating a process which revolutionized archaeology. For his contributions to the team that developed...

13. Martin Kamen (1913)

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Martin David Kamen was a physicist inside the Manhattan project. Together with Sam Ruben he co-discovered the isotope carbon-14 on February 27 1940 at the University of California Radiation Laboratory...

14. Calvin Quate (1923)

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Calvin F. Quate was born on 7 December 1923 in Baker Nevada. He is one of the inventors of the atomic force microscope. He is a professor emeritus of Applied...

15. Frank Press (1924)

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Press is an American geophysicist. An advisor to four U. S. Presidents he later served two consecutive terms as President of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences. He is...

16. Gordon Pettengill (1926)

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Gordon H. Pettengill is an American radio astronomer and planetary physicist.

17. Emmanuel Rashba (1927)

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Emmanuel I. Rashba is a Ukrainian theoretical physicist known for his contributions to semiconductor physics and spintronics including the Rashba effect. Born in Kiev Ukraine he survived the Second World...

18. Jan Peter Toennies (1930)

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Professor Jan Peter Toennies is an American scientist and former director of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization. He was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania of German immigrant parents.

19. Mary Ruwart (1949)

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Mary J. Ruwart PhD is a research scientist and libertarian speaker writer and activist. She was a leading candidate for the 2008 Libertarian Party presidential nomination and is the author...

20. Howard Berg (Unknow)

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Howard Curtis Berg is the Herchel Smith Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University where he teaches biophysics and studies the motility of the...

21. Farid F. Abraham (1937)

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. Abraham is an American scientist. By pioneering new methods of using computer modeling in research Abraham has made seminal contributions to science in the fields of fracture mechanics membrane...

22. Irving Weissman (1939)

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Irving Lerner Irv Weissman M. D. is a Professor of Pathology and Developmental Biology at Stanford University where he is the Director of the Stanford Institute of Stem Cell...

23. Charles Kennel (1939)

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Charles F. Kennel is an American scientist and member of the United States National Academy of Sciences born in Cambridge Massachusetts. Kennel received a bachelor's degree in astronomy from Harvard...

24. Harold E. Varmus (1939)

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Harold Eliot Varmus is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist and the 14th and current Director of the National Cancer Institute a post he was appointed to by President Barack Obama....

25. Bertil Hille (1940)

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Bertil Hille is a professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington. He is particularly well known for his research and expertise on cell signalling...

26. Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe (1942)

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Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe is a Venezuelan-American hydrologist. He currently serves as the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University. Rodriguez-Iturbe was born in Venezuela and has taught at many...

27. Nadia Rosenthal (1953)

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Professor Nadia A. Rosenthal is a scientist who specializes in heart development related research. Rosenthal began her undergraduate degree at the University of Wales and then transferred to Harvard.

28. James Falk (1954)

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James Falk is a research scientist conceptual engineer technological artist inventor and U. S Patent consultant. His invention of the Groundstar style of Plasma globe was commercialized and marketed to...

29. William T. Powers (1820)

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T. Powers was an independent scientist who developed perceptual control theory. PCT posits and demonstrates that living things do not control their behavior but rather their behavioral outputs are the...

30. Dennis Weatherby (1959)

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Dennis W. Weatherby Ph. D was an inventor scientist university administrator and proponent of minority college students' success. Dr. Weatherby had a patent on lemon scented Cascade while working at...

31. Xiangzhong Yang (Unknow)

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Professor Xiangzhong Jerry Yang was a leading American biotechnology scientist and stem cell research advocate. In 1999 he was credited with creating the first cloned farm animal in the...

32. Sergey Polyakov (1951)

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Sergey Vladimirovich Polyakov is a Russian-American scientist performing research for USPolyResearch.

33. Richard D. James (scientist) (Unknow)

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Richard D. James is a renowned mechanician and materials scientist. He is currently the Russell J. Penrose Professor and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering and...

34. John Charles Priscu (1952)

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John C. Priscu is a Romanian-American scientist who is the current Professor of Ecology in the Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences at Montana State University. He is a...

35. Martin Gruebele (1964)

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Martin Gruebele is a German-born American biophysicist and computational biologist who is currently James R. Eiszner Professor of Chemistry Professor of Physics Professor of Biophysics and Computational Biology at the...

36. Dawn Prince-Hughes (1964)

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Dawn Prince-Hughes is an anthropologist primatologist and ethologist who received her M. A. and PhD in interdisciplinary anthropology from the Universität Herisau in Switzerland.

37. Warren S. Warren (1955)

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Sloan Warren is the James B. Duke Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Imaging at Duke University. He is also a Professor of Physics...

38. Bruce Jakosky (1955)

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Bruce Martin Jakosky has been involved with the Viking Solar Mesosphere Explorer Clementine Mars Observer Mars Global Surveyor Mars Odyssey Mars Science Laboratory and MAVEN spacecraft missions and is involved...

39. David Julius (1955)

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David J. Julius is an American physiologist. He is a professor at the University of California San Francisco and won the 2010 Shaw Prize in life science and medicine. A...

40. Otto Schmitt (1913)

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Otto Herbert Schmitt was an American inventor engineer and biophysicist known for his scientific contributions to biophysics and for establishing the field of biomedical engineering. Schmitt also coined the term...

41. Geoffrey A. Landis (1955)

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Geoffrey Alan Landis is an American scientist working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on planetary exploration interstellar propulsion solar power and photovoltaics.

42. Younan Xia (1965)

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Younan Xia is the Brock Family Chair and GRA Eminent Scholar in Nanomedicine in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering with joint appointment in School of Chemistry &...

43. Axel T. Brunger (1956)

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Axel T. Brunger is a German American biophysicist and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology and Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

44. Robert Krampf (1956)

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John Robert Krampf also known as The Happy Scientist is a science educator known for traveling the United States with his entertaining and informative science shows for the last 25...

45. John Leonard Riddell (1807)

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John Leonard Riddell was a science lecturer botanist geologist medical doctor chemist microscopist numismatist politician and science fiction author in the United States. He was born in Leyden Massachusetts the...

46. Subra Suresh (1956)

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Subra Suresh is the ninth and current president of Carnegie Mellon University. A distinguished engineer and scientist Suresh served as Director of the National Science Foundation from 2010 to 2013....

47. Christopher Burge (1968)

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Christopher Boyce Burge is the Whitehead Career Development Associate Professor of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

48. Howard A. Stone (1960)

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Howard Alvin Stone is the Donald R. Dixon '69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. His field of research is in fluid mechanics...

49. Steven M. Zeitels (1957)

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Steven Marc Zeitels in New York City is the Eugene B. Casey Professor of Laryngeal Surgery at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Laryngeal...

50. David Britz (1980)

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David Alexander Britz is an American scientist and engineer who is best known for his contributions to the field of materials science and nanotechnology. In 2004 Britz and his colleagues...