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Famous Scientists

Notable scientists, their fields, nationalities, and eras.

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10 of 59 records · Select a column heading to sort.

ID Name Field Nationality Era
1 Aristotle Natural philosophy Greek Ancient Greece
2 Archimedes Mathematics Greek Ancient Greece
3 Hippocrates Medicine Greek Ancient Greece
4 Ptolemy Astronomy Greek Classical antiquity
5 Al-Khwarizmi Mathematics Persian 9th century
6 Ibn al-Haytham Physics Arab 11th century
7 Avicenna Medicine Persian 11th century
8 Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomy Polish 16th century
9 Leonardo da Vinci Anatomy Italian 15th and 16th century
10 Tycho Brahe Astronomy Danish 16th century

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Last checked against sources: October 15, 2026.

Last changed: July 19, 2026. This is when we last changed the data or its description. It doesn’t mean the data runs up to that date.

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