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Famous Scientists: Charles Lyell
Learn about the works of Charles Lyell, a geologist who studied Earth's history.
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Famous Scientists: Charles Sherrington
Learn about Charles Sherrington, the Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the functions of neurons.
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Famous Scientists: Chen Ning Yang
Learn about the Nobel Prize winning physicist who works on statistical mechanics and particle physics.
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Famous Scientists: Christiane Nusslein Volhard
Find out about the German biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her research on the genetic control of embryonic development.
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Famous Scientists: Claude Bernard
Read about Claude Bernard, one of the first to suggest the use of blind experiments to ensure the objectivity of scientific observations.
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Famous Scientists: Claude Levi Strauss
Learn about the French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
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Famous Scientists: David Bohm
Learn about the life and work of quantum physicist, David Bohm, who was a leading expert in the fields of theoretical physics, neuropsychology, and philosophy.
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Famous Scientists: David Hilbert
Find out about one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries, David Hilbert.
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Famous Scientists: Dian Fossey
Find out about one of the foremost primatologists who undertook an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups over a period of 18 years in the mountain forests of Rwanda.
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Famous Scientists: Dmitri Mendeleev
Find out about the life and work of Dmitri Mendeleev, and learn how he discovered what is now known as the Periodic Table of Elements.
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Famous Scientists: E. O. Wilson
Find out about the environmental advocate known as both the father of sociobiology and the father of biodiversity, Edward O. Wilson.
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Famous Scientists: Edwin Hubble
Learn about Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer who is known for playing a vital role in the development of extragalactic astronomy.
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Famous Scientists: Emil Fischer
Find out about the German chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on sugar and purine synthesis.
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Famous Scientists: Emil Kraepelin
Learn about the life and work of the man who was the founder of modern scientific psychiatry, as well as of psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics.
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Famous Scientists: Emile Berliner
Meet the inventor of the phonograph record and the phonograph, Emile Berliner.
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Famous Scientists: Empedocles
Meet Empedocles, the Greek philosopher who is best known for being the originator of the cosmogenic theory of the four Classical elements.
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Famous Scientists: Enrico Fermi
Find out about Enrico Fermi, an Italian physicist known for his achievements in both theoretical and experimental physics.
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Famous Scientists: Ernest Lawrence
Learn about the life and work of Ernest Lawrence, inventor of cyclotron and founder of big science.
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Famous Scientists: Ernesto Illy
UNderstand more about the man behind the brand name, Illy, and consider what he did for coffee.
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Famous Scientists: Ernst Ising
Learn about the man who discovered and named the Ising Model, a mathematical model of ferromagnetism in statistical mechanics.
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Famous Scientists: Ernst Mach
Read about the life and work of this Austrian physicist and philosopher, known for his contributions to physics with the Mach number and the study of shock waves.
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Famous Scientists: Ernst Mayr
Read about the life and work Ernst Mayr, one of 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists.
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Famous Scientists: Ernst Werner Von Siemens
Find out how Werner von Siemens became the pioneer of the electro industry and brought about a great technological advancement with many of his important discoveries.
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Famous Scientists: Erwin Chargaff
Learn about the Austrian biochemist and author, Erwin Chargaff, best known for "Chargaff's Rules" which lead to the discovery of DNA's double helix structure.