A Dictionary of Scientists - Articles

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With entries on scientists ranging from Archimedes to Stephan Jay Gould, A Dictionary of Scientists is an authoritative reference guide to the scientific luminaries of history. A Dictionary of Scientists contains over 1,300 entries covering all areas of science, from astronomy to mathematics.

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Zozimus of Panopolis

Zinn, Walter Henry

Zinkernagel, Rolf

Ziegler, Karl

Zernike, Frits

Zeno of Elea

Zeeman, Pieter

Yukawa, Hideki

Young, Thomas

Yang, Chen Ning

Yalow, Rosalyn Sussman

Wynne-Edwards, Vero Copner

Wyckoff, Ralph Walter Graystone

Wurtz, Charles Adolphe

Wu, Chien-Shiung

Wrinch, Dorothy

Wright, Wilbur

Wright, Sewall

Wright, Orville

Woodward, Robert Burns

Wolpert, Lewis

Wollaston, William Hyde

Wittig, Georg

Witten, Ed(ward)

Wislicenus, Johannes

Winkler, Clemens Alexander

Windaus, Adolf Otto Reinhold

Wilson, Robert Woodrow

Wilson, Kenneth G.

Wilson, John Tuzo

Wilson, Edward Osborne

Wilson, Edmund Beecher

Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees

Wilson, Allan Charles

Willstätter, Richard

Williamson, Alexander William

Williams, Robley Cook

Williams, Robert R.

Wilkinson, Sir Geoffrey

Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick

Wilkins, John

Wilkes, Maurice Vincent

Wiles, Andrew John

Wildt, Rupert

Wigner, Eugene Paul

Wigglesworth, Sir Vincent Brian

Wiesel, Torsten Nils

Wieschaus, Eric

Wiener, Norbert

Wien, Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz

Wieland, Heinrich Otto

Whittle, Sir Frank

Whittington, Harry Blackmore

Whitehead, Alfred North

Whiston, William

Whipple, George Hoyt

Whipple, Fred Lawrence

Wheeler, John Archibald

Wheatstone, Sir Charles

Weyl, Hermann

West, Harold Dadford

Werner, Alfred

Werner, Abraham Gottlob

Weller, Thomas Huckle

Weizsäcker, Baron Carl Friedrich von

Weismann, August Friedrich Leopold

Weinberg, Steven

Weil, André

Weierstrass, Karl Wilhelm Theodor

Wegener, Alfred Lothar

Weber, Wilhelm Eduard

Weber, Joseph

Weber, Ernst Heinrich

Watt, James

Watson-Watt, Sir Robert Alexander

Watson, Sir William

Watson, James Dewey

Wassermann, August von

Warming, (Johannes) Eugenius Bülow

Warburg, Otto Heinrich

Walton, Ernest Thomas Sinton

Wallis, John

Wallach, Otto

Wallace, Alfred Russel

Walker, John Ernest

Walden, Paul

Wald, George

Walcott, Charles Doolittle

Waksman, Selman Abraham

Wagner-Jauregg, Julius

Waals, Johannes Diderik van der

Waage, Peter

Wöhler, Friedrich

Vonnegut, Bernard

von Ohain, Hans Joachim Pabst

Von Neumann, John

von Laue, Max Theodor Felix