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Computer scientists

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Earth scientists

• Warren Allmon – American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist; Director of the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) and its Museum of the Earth, and Hunter R. Rawlings III Professor of Paleontology Emeritus at Cornell University. Paleontological Society fellow. Google Scholar profile: Cornell University Profile: PRI profile:

• Anton Brants [fr; nl] (1805–1862) (or Antoni Brants) – 19th century Dutch zoologist - article on French Wikipedia: fr:Anton Brants

• Matthew Carrano - American paleontologist at the Smithsonian Institution. ; ; ; ;

• Chaogejilatu – Environmental scientist from Inner Mongolia, based in Japan. Research focuses on climate change impacts on agriculture, land-use/land-cover monitoring, crop yield modeling, and applications of satellite remote sensing and GIS in agrometeorology. Publications include Scientific Reports (2025) , Journal of Agricultural Meteorology (2025) , and Global Asia Review (2023) . Independent coverage includes interviews in NETIB-NEWS (2023) and Independent Speech Forum (2024) .

• Harbans Lal Chhibber (1899–1955) – Pakistani geologist, founder of National Geographical Society of India, fellow of the, Geological Society of London and Royal Geographical Society of London among others. Biography: ; ; ;

• Ugo Dall'asta – curator of Lepidoptera at the Royal Museum for Central Africa. Namesake of Pterophorus dallastai, a species of moth. wikimedia

• Awa Bousso Dramé – Cabo Verdean and Senegalese ocean scientist and environmental researcher focusing on ocean sciences, geospatial AI applications, and environmental economics for climate resilience in West African and Atlantic island states; founder of the CoastGIS Research Institute (Senegal and Cabo Verde); member of the UN Ocean Decade Advisory Board and UNESCO STEM Working Group expert.) (Winners 2022 L'Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Sub-Saharan Africa Young Talents Awards, 2025 UNESCO Global Virtual Science Museum – Women in Science – Dr Awa Bousso Dramé, The Atlantic African Island Ocean Scientist,PMI Future 50 2024: Awa Bousso Dramé, AUC – Women in GMES Africa governing council, Google Scholar profile

• Isabelle Durance – Professor of Integrated Water Sciences at Cardiff University, Director of the Water Research Institute, and freshwater ecologist using a systems approach to address sustainable catchment management. , , , , ,

• Vittorio (Victor) A. Gensini – Meteorology professor at Northern Illinois University and tornado expert. Created a way to predict tornadoes weeks in advance. , , , ,

• Sarah Ivory – Ecologist and geologist at Pennsylvania State University.

• Claudia C. Johnson – Herman B Wells Endowed Professor of Geology at Indiana University, paleo-ecologist, reef scientist. ; ; ; ; ;

• Erle Kauffman (1933–2016) – American geologist and paleontologist who was a curator at the US National Museum and was on the faculties of George Washington University, University of Colorado Boulder, and Indiana University. Was a fellow of the Geological Society of America, the Paleontological Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Won several awards. ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

• Petros Koutrakis – a Greek environmental scientist, researcher, and head of the Exposure, Epidemiology, and Risk Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is known for his contribution to air pollution epidemiology and creation of personal ozone monitors, ambient particle concentrators, high-volume samplers, and continuous fine particle measurement techniques. Fracking

• Mathieu Lapôtre – Planetary geologist, Assistant Professor in Geological Sciences at Stanford University. Discovered a new type of ripples on Mars. Was part of the science team that operates NASA's Curiosity rover. Is interested in geological processes that shape the surfaces of planets and how they vary from planet to planet. He also has interests in the geology of the Earth before complex life evolved. He has published over 30 papers including in Science, Nature, Nature Geoscience, and Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. He received several awards including the American Geophysical Union's Luna Leopold Early Career Award and is a Kavli Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

• Robert Lillis – Planetary Space physicist and Geophysicist at UC Berkeley. Principal Investigator of the NASA ESCAPADE twin satellite mission to Mars, launching in September 2024. Associate Director of the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory. Published >125 articles, mostly on Mars, focusing on: crustal magnetism and the history/loss of Mars' magnetic field, giant impact, volcanoes, atmospheric escape & climate history, and space weather effects on Mars. Discoverer of new kind of aurora ("Mars Sinuous Aurora"). ;

• Julie Loisel – American ecosystem ecologist and geographer known for peatland research in the Arctic, Antarctic, southern Patagonia, and the tropics. Working group leader of C-PEAT, a collaborator on the United Nations' Global Peatland Assessment, former associate professor at Texas A&M University, and current associate professor at the University of Nevada, Reno . Lab website and Google Scholar. Received the 2021 Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal For Outstanding Young Quaternary Scientists Award.

• Glen MacDonald (Glen M. MacDonald) – paleoecologist and biogeographer (gscholar)

• Carl R. McFarland (Carl McFarland) – Geologist active in Washington state

• Christopher Maples – paleontologist, sedimentologist, and college administrator; Kansas Geological Survey geologist, paleontologist, and section chief (1987–1995), National Science Foundation program director (1995–1998), Indiana University geological sciences department chair (1998–2003), Desert Research Institute executive vice president for research (2003–2008), Oregon Institute of Technology president (2008–2016), Missouri University of Science and Technology interim chancellor (2017–2019), Pacific Northwest College of Art interim president (2019–2020), Geological Society of America Foundation president (2020), Western New Mexico University interim president (2025–2026). ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

• Edward L. Miles – expert on marine policy, one of the first African-American members of the NAS;

• Ralph Milliken – geologist and planetary scientist at Brown University who is currently working with the Mars Curiosity rover. A protege of Lisa Pratt at Indiana University and John Grotzinger at Caltech. ; ; ;

• Haydn Murray (1924–2015) – American clay mineralogist, foremost expert in the world on applied clay mineralogy. He was the recipient of the Hardinge Award in Industrial Minerals from the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME; 1976); Marilyn and Sturges W. Bailey Distinguished Member Award from the Clay Minerals Society (1980), which also selected him as its Pioneer in Clay Science Lecturer (2009); and University of Illinois Department of Geology Alumni Achievement Award (2004). In addition to his election to the NAE, he was recognized as a distinguished member of the Society for Mining, and Exploration (SME; 1975) and honorary member of the AIME (2014). He served as president of the Clay Minerals Society (1965–1966), SME (1988), American Institute of Professional Geologists (1991), and Association Internationale pour l’Étude des Argiles (1993–1997). He received an honorary doctor of science degree from the University of Buenos Aires (2000). He is listed on List of members of the National Academy of Engineering (Earth resources). ; ; ; ;

• Donna O'Meara – Volcano researcher and author, subject of multiple Nat Geo documentaries. (Amazon author page) (a Nat Geo article) (Scholastic author page) (interview with a newspaper)

• György Pantó [hu; eo; sr] – Hungarian geochemical scientist hu:Pantó György

• Naseem Rangwala – astrophysicist at NASA Ames Research Center in the Space Science and Astrobiology Division. She is also the NASA Project Scientist for SOFIA airborne observatory. ; ; ;

• Clive D. Rodgers – (Dr Clive Rodgers BA, PhD Cantab is an Atmospheric Physicist who won the symons gold medal, The Society’s awards for excellence in meteorology are held in high regard across the international community. With a BA in Maths and Physics, University of Cambridge. PhD, Cambridge. Reader in Physics at Oxford until 2001, now retired but still research active. Radiative transfer, molecular spectroscopy, the application of estimation theory to the inverse problem of radiative transfer, and the application of satellite data to stratospheric and mesospheric dynamics and chemistry. Has been Co-Investigator on several Oxford satellite instruments, and most recently on two instruments flying on NASA's Aura satellite of the Earth Observing System, the High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (Oxford and NCAR) and the Tropospheric Emission Sounder (JPL).) Editorial note: This one looks good; see Symons Gold Medal.

• Diana C. Roman – American geophysicist and volcanologist. Roman is currently H.O. Wood Chair of Seismology in the Earth and Planets Laboratory at the Carnegie Institution for Science. She is a 2008 recipient of the Walker Medal from the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of Earth's Interior (IAVCEI). She has published over 65 articles in peer-reviewed journals including Nature and Science. ; ; ;

• Gordon de Quetteville Robin (1921 - 2004) (Gordon de Q. Robin) – glaciologist; long-time director, Scott Polar Research Institute ; ;

• Pat Shipman – American palaeontologist and science writer. ; ; ;

• Phillip W. Signor – paleontologist, Co-proposer of the Signor–Lipps effect and former professor at UC Davis. Works by or about Phillip W. Signor in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

• Vivian Sun – planetary scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a mars explorer. ; ;

• Terry Tickhill Terrell – Environmental scientist and was one of the first women to reach the South Pole. ; ;

• Alexandra Turchyn – biogeochemist and research scientist at the University of Cambridge. She received her doctoral degree from Harvard University under the supervision of Daniel P. Schrag. ; ; ; ; ; ;

• Desmond Walling (Desmond E. Walling) (born 1945) – British hydrologist and fluvial geomorphologist faculty page gscholar; ;

• Donald U. Wise – structural geologist and planetary geologist; Professor Emeritus of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Career Contribution Award from the Geological Society of America in 2001. ; ; ; ; ;

• Aaron T. Wolf – hydrologist and expert on transboundary water conflict management; Heinz Award recipient in 2015 faculty page

• Mehdi Zare [fa] (fa:مهدی_زارع) – Iranian seismologist. ; ;

• Chuanlun Zhang – An American-trained Chinese Biogeochemist and Geomicrobiologist who had worked at many research facilities in both the United States (NASA, ORNL, UGA, Texas A&M) and China (Southern University of Science and Technology) and is an expert in Archaea. He has authored or co-authored nearly 300 high-impact papers. ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

• Vilen Andreyevich Zharikov [ru] (1926–2006) (ru:Жариков, Вилен Андреевич) – Russian geologist. ; ;

Environmental scientists

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Material scientists

• Moataz M. Attallah – Dean of the School of Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical, and Materials Engineering and Professor of Advanced Materials Processing at the Loughborough University. He is one of the pioneers of the field of metal 3D printing in the UK, with significant work on 3D printing of jet engine components, smart materials, nuclear materials, functional and biomedical materials. He was a Professor at the University of Birmingham. ; ; ;

• Kazuyuki Hirao – Professor of Material Chemistry at Material Chemistry. ; ; ; ;

• Peter Kazansky – Professor of Optoelectronics at the University of Southampton. Research includes the investigation of new optical materials and phenomena, including 5D optical data storage. ; ; ; ; ; ;

• Howard J. Stone – Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge. His work focuses on the development of novel metallic and intermetallic materials for high-temperature service, neutron and synchrotron X-ray scattering to understand metallurgical phenomena, and the computer-aided design of high-performance alloys. ;

Mathematicians

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Medical scientists

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Physicists

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Other scientists

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• Frank Henry Ludlam [fr] (1920 - 1977) – British meteorologist.

• John Warltire (1725-1810) – Lecturer in Natural Philosophy. Member of Lunar Society. Author of numerous books on Natural and Experimental philosophy. Subject of Painting - "Experiment on a bird in the air pump". Colleague of Erasmus Darwin and Benjamin Franklin. ; ; ;

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• Victor Yvart [fr] (3 March 1763 - 19 June 1831); French agronomist (see fr:Victor Yvart). The Last Words (Real and Traditional) of Distinguished Men and Women, Frederic Rowland Marvin, p. 188. *** NEEDS TO BE MOVED TO Wikipedia:Requested articles/Biography/By profession#Agriculture ***

• Chuck Bargeron - invasive species and information technology scientist, Director of Bugwood, EDDMapS, Wild Spotter and Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health at the University of Georgia. ; ; . *** NEEDS TO BE MOVED TO Wikipedia:Requested articles/Biography/Biologists#Biologists ***

• Umberto Quattrocchi [it; es; fr] – author of the bestselling CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, winner of the prestigious Hanbury Botanical Garden Award. His most recent multi-volume work, CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants, received strong praise as being "... an unparalleled starting place-a tool of first resort for any thoughtful researcher. Quattrocchi and CRC have delivered a dictionary like no other, a learned finger pointing in the right direction." *** NEEDS TO BE MOVED TO Wikipedia:Requested articles/Biography/Biologists#Biologists ***

• Emil Baur [de] (1873-1944) - electrochemist. A ETH Zurich professor who worked on fuel cell, photolysis, gold extraction from seawater etc. *** NEEDS TO BE MOVED TO Wikipedia:Requested articles/Natural sciences/Chemistry#Chemists ***

• Tom Gaunt, Professor of Health and Biomedical Informatics at University of Bristol. ; ; ; ; ; *** NEEDS TO BE MOVED TO Wikipedia:Requested articles/Medicine/People in medicine#Medical_scientists ***

• Claus-Michael Lehr [de] - Professor of Biopharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology, Saarland University, Germany. *** NEEDS TO BE MOVED TO Wikipedia:Requested articles/Medicine/People in medicine#Medical_scientists ***

• Xu Liu – neuroscientist *** NEEDS TO BE MOVED TO Wikipedia:Requested articles/Medicine/People in medicine#Medical_scientists ***

• Gavin Pereira (Epidemiologist. Dr Pereira is an epidemiologist at Curtin University, Australia. He leads an multi-national interdisciplinary team and is a leading authority on impacts of sub-optimal birth spacing. He has held two national research fellowships, national awards and was an expert witness in a recent Australian Federal Senate Committee hearing on stillbirth) ; ; . *** NEEDS TO BE MOVED TO Wikipedia:Requested articles/Medicine/People in medicine#Medical_scientists ***

• Krishnendu Roy, Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering at Vanderbilt University. ; ; Previous appointments in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas Austin (2002-2013) and in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University (2013-2023). While at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, he served as Director of the NSF Engineering Research Consortium (ERC) for Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT), the Marcus Center for Therapeutic Cell Characterization and Manufacturing (MC3M), and the Center for ImmunoEngineering. ; ; ; He has been honored by many local and national academic societies and institutions. Biomedical; ; Roy; His research expertise is in immunoengineering with focuses on biomaterial-based technologies for cell and gene therapies, organ-on-chip for disease modeling, and vaccine development. ; *** NEEDS TO BE MOVED TO Wikipedia:Requested articles/Medicine/People in medicine#Medical_scientists ***

• Mona Spiegel-Adolf [de] (1893–1983) – Temple University Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, published 31 papers between 1926 and 1962 on biochemistry and biomedical chemistry. *** NEEDS TO BE MOVED TO Wikipedia:Requested articles/Medicine/People in medicine#Medical_scientists ***

• Jose Roberto Trujillo  – PhD in neurology and molecular virology from Harvard. Founder and CEO of Trubios LLC, a US-based biotechnology services company focused on the Latin American region offering customized clinical research, commercialization, and venture capital solutions. Also, president and founder of The Medical Sciences Foundation on behalf of the Americas, a young non-profit organization created to promote medical sciences and general health education in Latin America and the Caribbean Basin. *** NEEDS TO BE MOVED TO Wikipedia:Requested articles/Medicine/People in medicine#Medical_scientists ***

• Floris Wuyts (PhD Physiology And Biophysics, Neuroscience Floris Wuyts is a well-respected authority on the effects that space has on the brain, He and his team conducted MRI-Scans on Astronauts to quantify changes in the brain. Floris is attributed for accurately quantifying changes in the brain's volume for the first time.) (, ) *** NEEDS TO BE MOVED TO Wikipedia:Requested articles/Medicine/People in medicine#Medical_scientists ***

• Genrikh Mavrikiyevich Ludvig [ru] (1893–1973) - philosopher , a scholar of ancient languages, and *** NEEDS TO BE MOVED TO Wikipedia:Requested articles/Biography/By profession#Philosophers ***

• Giulia Bassani (Space Ambassador, public speaker, science communicator, sci-fi novels writer, aspiring astronaut and aerospace engineering student at Polytechnic of Turin. Mainly known as Astro Giulia.) *** NEEDS TO BE MOVED TO Wikipedia:Requested articles/Biography/By profession#YouTubers ***