1

Neil deGrasse Tyson, 62

Astrophysicist

2

Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

Astronomer

3

Bob Pflugfelder, 52

Chemist

4

Grace Hopper (1906-1992)

Computer Scientist

5

Jonas Salk (1914-1995)

Virologist

6

Brian Greene, 57

Physicist

7

Richard Feynman (1918-1988)

Physicist

8

J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)

Physicist

9

Tom Banks, 71

Physicist

10

Eugenie Clark (1922-2015)

Zoologist

11

William Beebe (1877-1962)

Zoologist

12

Margaret D Lowman, 67

Conservationist

13

Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011)

Computer Scientist

14

Eric Jacobsen, 60

Chemist

15

Irwin Rose (1926-2015)

Biologist

16

Gertrude B. Elion (1918-1999)

Pharmacologist

17

Lewis Morgan (1818-1881)

Anthropologist

18

Lawrence Krauss, 66

Physicist

19

Roy J. Glauber (1925-2018)

Physicist

20

Robert Hofstadter (1915-1990)

Physicist

21

Steve Fuller, 61

Sociologist

22

Paul Berg, 94

Biologist

23

Richard Axel, 74

Biologist

24

Murray Gell-mann (1929-2019)

Physicist

25

John Howard Northrop (1891-1987)

Biologist

26

Andrea Ghez, 55

Astronomer

27

Asa Gray (1810-1888)

Botanist

28

Sheldon Lee Glashow, 88

Physicist

29

Irving Langmuir (1881-1957)

Chemist

30

Carl Woese (1928-2012)

Biologist

31

Gilad Lotan, 39

Computer Scientist

32

Ruth Benedict (1887-1948)

Anthropologist

33

Samuel Cohen (1921-2010)

Physicist

34

Charles Bachman (1924-2017)

Computer Scientist

35

William T. Kane (1932-2008)

Physicist

36

Burton Richter (1931-2018)

Physicist

37

Albert Tyler (1906-1968)

Biologist

38

Edwin Joseph Cohn (1892-1953)

Biologist

39

Jerome Karle (1918-2013)

Chemist

40

Bob Brier, 77

Archeologist

41

John Fenn (1917-2010)

Chemist

42

Julian Schwinger (1918-1994)

Physicist

43

Edwin D. Kilbourne (1920-2011)

Virologist

44

Robert Lefkowitz, 77

Pharmacologist

45

Charles Emerson Beecher (1856-1904)

Paleontologist

46

Lawrence B. Slobodkin (1928-2009)

Biologist

47

Ralph Randles Stewart (1890-1993)

Botanist

48

Robert Ledley (1926-2012)

Physiologist