George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
Botanist
1
Neil deGrasse Tyson, 65
Astrophysicist
2
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)
Physicist
3
Temple Grandin, 76
Biologist
4
Brielle Milla, 12
Chemist
5
Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
Astronomer
6
James Watson, 96
7
Grace Hopper (1906-1992)
Computer Scientist
8
Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)
9
Bob Pflugfelder, 55
10
Alice Ball (1892-1916)
11
Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
Virologist
12
Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
13
Adam Krueger, 43
Meteorologist
14
Amy Mainzer, 50
15
Jim Cantore, 60
16
Tim Samaras (1957-2013)
17
Edwin Hubble (1889-1953)
18
Sylvia Earle, 88
Oceanographer
19
Rick Wilson, 60
Political Scientist
20
Shirley Ann Jackson, 77
21
Cyrus McCormick (1809-1884)
22
Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)
23
Dian Fossey (1932-1985)
Zoologist
24
Scott Withers, 51
25
Margaret Mead (1901-1978)
Anthropologist
26
Ocean Ramsey, 36
Conservationist
27
Norman Borlaug (1914-2009)
28
Annie Easley (1933-2011)
29
Stephanie Abrams, 45
30
Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., 83
31
Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011)
32
Tom Banks, 75
33
Cheryl Scott, 39
34
Tom Skilling, 72
35
Christopher Gillette, 36
36
Edgar Allen (1892-1943)
Anatomist
37
Brian Greene, 61
38
Edwin Hall (1855-1938)
39
Clyde Tombaugh (1906-1997)
40
Jack Horner, 77
Paleontologist
41
Percy Lavon Julian (1899-1975)
42
Phil Plait, 59
43
William Higinbotham (1910-1994)
44
Jack Oliver (1923-2011)
Geologist
45
Spencer Silver (1941-2021)
46
Henry Eyring (1901-1981)
47
Eugenie Clark (1922-2015)
48
Born in United States
Most Popular Scientists