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  • Albert EinsteinTheory of relativity
  • Isaac NewtonLaws of motion / gravity
  • Charles DarwinTheory of evolution
  • Marie CurieRadioactivity / two Nobels
  • Galileo GalileiTelescope / astronomy
  • Nikola TeslaAC electricity
  • Louis PasteurGerm theory / vaccines
  • Stephen HawkingBlack holes / cosmology
  • Niels BohrAtomic structure
  • Max PlanckQuantum theory
  • Werner HeisenbergUncertainty principle
  • Erwin SchrodingerWave mechanics
  • Richard FeynmanQuantum electrodynamics
  • Michael FaradayElectromagnetic induction
  • James Clerk MaxwellElectromagnetic theory
  • Carl SaganCosmos / astronomy
  • Neil deGrasse TysonAstrophysics
  • Gregor MendelFather of genetics
  • Francis CrickDNA structure
  • James WatsonDNA structure
  • Rosalind FranklinDNA crystallography
  • Linus PaulingChemical bond / two Nobels
  • Alexander FlemingPenicillin
  • Jonas SalkPolio vaccine
  • Robert KochBacteriology pioneer
  • Edward JennerSmallpox vaccine
  • AristotleAncient natural philosophy
  • ArchimedesGreek mathematics / physics
  • PythagorasPythagorean theorem
  • HippocratesFather of medicine
  • Nicolaus CopernicusHeliocentric model
  • Johannes KeplerPlanetary motion laws
  • Antoine LavoisierFather of modern chemistry
  • Dmitri MendeleevPeriodic table
  • Carl LinnaeusModern taxonomy
  • Alexander von HumboldtBiogeography
  • Robert BoyleBoyle's law
  • Tycho BraheAstronomical observation
  • Ernest RutherfordNuclear physics
  • J.J. ThomsonDiscovered electron
  • Enrico FermiNuclear chain reaction
  • Robert OppenheimerManhattan Project
  • Lise MeitnerNuclear fission
  • Paul DiracQuantum mechanics
  • Wolfgang PauliExclusion principle
  • Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharStellar structure
  • Edwin HubbleExpanding universe
  • Georges LemaitreBig Bang theory
  • Roger PenroseMathematical physics
  • Kip ThorneGravitational waves
  • Frances ArnoldDirected evolution Nobel
  • Jennifer DoudnaCRISPR pioneer
  • Emmanuelle CharpentierCRISPR pioneer
  • Katalin KarikomRNA vaccines
  • Barbara McClintockGenetic transposition
  • Rachel CarsonSilent Spring / ecology
  • Jane GoodallPrimatology
  • E.O. WilsonSociobiology
  • Stephen Jay GouldEvolutionary biology
  • Richard DawkinsEvolutionary biology
  • Andrew WilesFermat's Last Theorem
  • Tim Berners-LeeWorld Wide Web inventor
  • Vint CerfInternet protocols
  • Claude ShannonInformation theory
  • John von NeumannComputer architecture
  • Alan TuringTheoretical computer science
  • Norman BorlaugGreen Revolution
  • Francis CollinsHuman Genome Project
  • Craig VenterGenome sequencing
  • Carolyn BertozziBioorthogonal chemistry
  • Donna StricklandChirped pulse amplification
  • Andrea GhezBlack hole research
  • Reinhard GenzelBlack hole research
  • Svante PaaboAncient DNA / Neanderthal
  • John HopfieldNeural networks Nobel 2024
  • Demis HassabisAlphaFold Nobel 2024
  • Anton van LeeuwenhoekMicrobiology pioneer
  • William HarveyBlood circulation
  • Joseph ListerAntiseptic surgery