George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
Botanist
1
Neil deGrasse Tyson, 66
Astrophysicist
2
Brielle Milla, 13
Chemist
3
Temple Grandin, 77
Biologist
4
Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
Astronomer
5
Bob Pflugfelder, 56
6
Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)
7
Rick Wilson, 61
Political Scientist
8
Alice Ball (1892-1916)
9
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)
Physicist
10
Annie Easley (1933-2011)
Computer Scientist
11
Scott Withers, 52
Meteorologist
12
Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
13
Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
Virologist
14
James Watson, 96
15
Shirley Ann Jackson, 78
16
Jim Cantore, 61
17
Tim Samaras (1957-2013)
18
Grace Hopper (1906-1992)
19
Eugenie Clark (1922-2015)
Zoologist
20
Percy Lavon Julian (1899-1975)
21
Adam Krueger, 44
22
Cheryl Scott, 40
23
Adam Joseph, 37
24
Born in United States
Most Popular Scientists
Sylvia Earle, 89
Oceanographer
25
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., 83
26
Taylor Wilson, 30
27
Sue Hendrickson, 75
Paleontologist
28
Edwin Hall (1855-1938)
29
Margaret D Lowman, 71
Conservationist
30
Spencer Silver (1941-2021)
31
Edwin Hubble (1889-1953)
32
Jack Horner, 78
33
James Van Allen (1914-2006)
34
Dian Fossey (1932-1985)
35
Michio Kaku, 78
36
Clyde Tombaugh (1906-1997)
37
Tom Skilling, 73
38
Barnum Brown (1873-1963)
39
Sean Carroll, 58
40
Jim Gray (1944-2007)
41
John Bartram (1699-1777)
42
Robert Nason Beck (1928-2008)
Pharmacologist
43
Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011)
44
David A. Johnston (1949-1980)
Geologist
45
Donald Johanson, 81
46
John Fenn (1917-2010)
47
Margaret Mead (1901-1978)
Anthropologist
48
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