Neil deGrasse Tyson, 66
Astrophysicist
1
Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
Astronomer
2
Bob Pflugfelder, 57
Chemist
3
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)
Physicist
4
Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
5
Grace Hopper (1906-1992)
Computer Scientist
6
Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
Virologist
7
Tom Banks, 76
8
Eugenie Clark (1922-2015)
Zoologist
9
Marvin Harris (1927-2001)
Anthropologist
10
Cate Larsen
Geologist
11
Eric Jacobsen, 65
12
Paul Berg (1926-2023)
Biologist
13
Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011)
14
John Howard Northrop (1891-1987)
15
Brian Greene, 62
16
Lawrence Krauss, 71
17
Margaret D Lowman, 71
Conservationist
18
Bob Brier, 81
Archeologist
19
Robert Lefkowitz, 82
Pharmacologist
20
William T. Kane (1932-2008)
21
Lewis Morgan (1818-1881)
22
Sheldon Lee Glashow, 92
23
Irwin Rose (1926-2015)
24
Born in New York
Most Popular Scientists
William Beebe (1877-1962)
25
Gertrude B. Elion (1918-1999)
26
Andrea Ghez, 60
27
Samuel Cohen (1921-2010)
28
Steve Fuller, 65
Sociologist
29
Asa Gray (1810-1888)
Botanist
30
Richard Axel, 78
31
Burton Richter (1931-2018)
32
Murray Gell-mann (1929-2019)
33
Gilad Lotan, 43
34
Julian Schwinger (1918-1994)
35
Roy J. Glauber (1925-2018)
36
Ruth Benedict (1887-1948)
37
Robert Hofstadter (1915-1990)
38
Carl Woese (1928-2012)
39
Irving Langmuir (1881-1957)
40
Edwin Joseph Cohn (1892-1953)
41
Charles Bachman (1924-2017)
42
Albert Tyler (1906-1968)
43
John Fenn (1917-2010)
44
Michael Hart, 93
45
Ralph Randles Stewart (1890-1993)
46
Richard Lewontin (1929-2021)
47
Jerome Karle (1918-2013)
48
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