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Physicist who reshaped our picture of space, time, and light.

Chemist who fermented acetone for the war — and became Israel’s first president.

Physicist who led Los Alamos and then argued for a grown-up nuclear policy.

Salk Institute (Founder)

Physicist who imagined the nuclear chain reaction — and then tried to govern it.

Physicist who explained nuclear fission and refused to build a bomb.

Physical chemist whose X-ray images made the double helix visible.

Aaron Ciechanover

Aaron Klug (11 August 1926 – 20 November 2018) was a Lithuanian-born British biophysicist and chemist renowned for pioneering crystallographic electron…

Sanitary engineer who helped make municipal water chlorination standard.

Israeli cryptographer (born 1952)

German biochemist (1903–1995)

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (1835–1917) was a German organic chemist whose groundbreaking research advanced synthetic dye production and the…

Alan J.

Alexander David Sobel (born 1975) is a British Labour and Co-operative politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds Central and…

Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, and industrialist who amassed a fortune through the…

Salvadoran-American physicist (1933–2015)

Allegra Goodman is an American novelist and short-story writer renowned for her incisive explorations of Jewish family life, faith, ambition, and the…

Italian-American engineer and businessman

Sir Andrew John Wiles (born 11 April 1953) is a British mathematician renowned for his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, a problem that had eluded…

Anwar Sadat

Arieh Warshel

Arkady Yuryevich Volozh (born 11 February 1964) is a Kazakhstan-born Israeli technology entrepreneur and computer scientist, renowned for co-founding Yandex…

Arno Allan Penzias (April 26, 1933 – January 22, 2024) was a German-born American physicist renowned for co-discovering the cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

American physicist (1922–2020)

Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007) was an American biochemist renowned for his pioneering work on DNA synthesis, particularly the discovery…

Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, 1921 – April 28, 1999) was an American physicist renowned for co-inventing the laser and pioneering laser spectroscopy.

Avi Wigderson is an Israeli-American mathematician and computer scientist renowned for his pioneering work in theoretical computer science, particularly in…

Baruj Benacerraf (October 29, 1920 – August 2, 2011) was a Venezuelan-American immunologist renowned for his pioneering work in immunogenetics, particularly…

Ben Roy Mottelson (July 9, 1926 – May 13, 2022) was an American-born Danish nuclear physicist who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics with Aage Bohr and…

Benoît Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was a Polish-born French-American mathematician renowned as the founder of fractal geometry, a…

Bruce Alan Beutler (born December 29, 1957) is an American geneticist and immunologist best known for his discoveries elucidating the mechanisms of innate…

American scientist and science communicator (1934–1996)

American actress (1921–2019)

César Milstein (1927–2002) was an Argentine biochemist and immunologist best known for co-developing the hybridoma technique to produce monoclonal antibodies,…

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (born 1 April 1933) is a French physicist of Algerian origin specializing in atomic physics and quantum optics, best known for his…