 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Who • What • Where • When
Who → Activists •
Actors •
Anarchists •
Architects •
Artists •
Astronauts •
Athletes •
Bankers •
Billionaires •
Chefs •
Chess players •
Christians •
Communists •
Composers •
Conquerors •
Conquistadors •
Crusaders •
Designers •
Dictators •
Directors •
Engineers •
Entrepreneurs •
Explorers •
Founders •
Freemasons •
Historians •
Humanists •
Inventors •
Jurists •
Mechanicians •
Merchants •
Muses •
Musicians •
Muslims •
Outlaws •
Painters •
Philanthropists •
Philosophers •
Photographers •
Pilots •
Pirates •
Polymaths •
Prodigies •
Reformers •
Revolutionaries •
Royalty •
Sailors •
Scientists •
Settlers •
Soldiers •
Statesmen •
Teachers •
Visionaries •
Warriors •
Writers •
Women •
Icons •
People
Scientists → Alchemists •
Anthropologists •
Archaeologists •
Astrologers •
Astronomers •
Biologists •
Botanists •
Cartographers •
Chemists •
Economists •
Geographers •
Geologists •
Mathematicians •
Biochemists •
Geochemists •
Hydrographer •
Meteorologist •
Microbiologist •
Naturalists •
Neurologist •
Opticien •
Philologist •
Physicians •
Physicists •
Psychologists •
Scholars •
Seismologists
|
|
| |
15 of 411 items
|
|
|
|
Next →
1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 ← Previous page
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Erik Peter Verlinde is a Dutch theoretical physicist and string theorist. He is the identical twin brother of physicist Herman Verlinde. The Verlinde formula, which is important in conformal field theory and topological field theory, is nam... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese physician and stem cell researcher. In 2006, he and his team generated Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells - from adult mouse fibroblasts. In 2007, he and his team were able to generate Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist and writer who has worked in Italy, the United States and, since 2000, in France. He works mainly in the field of quantum gravity and is a founder of loop quantum gravity theory. He has also... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, also known as "TimBL", is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989, and he implemented the fir... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Over the past twenty years, Smith has written more than fifty books, including specialist academic titles, short story collections, and a number of immensely popular children's books. In 1998, McCall Smith's detective novel, The No. 1 Ladie... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Alain Aspect is a French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement. In the early 1980s, while working on his PhD thesis from the lesser academic rank of lecturer, he performed the elusive "Bell test experiments" that... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Gerardus 't Hooft is a professor in theoretical physics at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with Martinus J. G. Veltman "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions". Aster... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
John Craig Venter is an American biologist and entrepreneur, most famous for his role in being one of the first to sequence the human genome and for his role in creating the first synthetic cell in 2010. Venter founded Celera Genomics, Th... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Charles Henry Bennett is a physicist, information theorist and IBM Fellow at IBM Research. Bennett's recent work at IBM has concentrated on a re-examination of the physical basis of information, applying quantum physics to the problems surr... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Stephen William Hawking is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge. His scientific works include a collaboration with Roger Pe... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi banker and economist. He is the developer and founder of the concept of microcredit, the extension of small loans to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Yunus is also t... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Lynn Margulis was an American biologist and University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She developed a theory of the origin of eukaryotic organelles, and contributed to the endosymbioti... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Dame Jane Morris Goodall, is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and family inter... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Steven Weinberg (is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Dian Fossey was an American zoologist, primatologist, and anthropologist who undertook an extensive study of gorilla groups over a period of 18 years. She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work th... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
2022 © Timeline Index |
|