Biographies
Life accounts of notable scientists and engineers
Biographies
Life accounts of notable scientists and engineers
Cabot, Richard Clarke (1868–1939)
Cade, Thomas J(oseph) (1928– )
Caelius Aurelianus (lived late 4th century AD)
Cailletet, Louis Paul (1832–1913)
Cairns, Hugh John Forster (1922– )
Caius, John (1510–1573)
Cajori, Florian (1859–1930)
Calderón, Alberto P (1920–1998)
Calkins, Mary Whiton (1863–1930)
Callan, Nicholas (1799–1864)
Callendar, Hugh Longbourne (1863–1930)
Callipus (c. 370–c. 300 BC)
Calmette, (Léon Charles) Albert (1863–1933)
Calne, Roy Yorke (1930– )
Calvin, Melvin (1911–1997)
Cameron, Alastair Graham Walter (1925–2005)
Campbell, William Cecil (1930– )
Campbell, William Wallace (1862–1938)
Candolle, Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de (1806–1893)
Candolle, Augustin Pyrame de (1778–1841)
Cannizzaro, Stanislao (1826–1910)
Cannon, Annie Jump (1863–1941)
Cannon, Walter B(radford) (1871–1945)
Cantor, Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp (1845–1918)
Cantwell, Dennis Patrick (1939–1997)
Capecchi, Mario Renato (1937– )
Caplan, Arthur L (1950– )
Carathéodory, Constantin (1873–1950)
Cardano, Girolamo (1501–1576)
Cardozo, William Warrick (1905–1962)
Carlisle, Anthony (1768–1840)
Carlson, Chester Floyd (1906–1968)
Carlsson, Arvid (1923–2018)
Carnegie, Andrew (1835–1919)
Carnot, (Nicolas Léonard) Sadi (1796–1832)
Carothers, Wallace Hume (1896–1937)
Carr, Emma Perry (1880–1972)
Carrel, Alexis (1873–1944)
Carrington, Richard Christopher (1826–1875)
Carroll, Sean B.
Carson, Rachel Louise (1907–1964)
Cartwright, Edmund (1743–1828)
Carver, George Washington (c. 1860–1943)
Cassegrain (c. 1650–1700)
Cassini, Giovanni Domenico (Jean Dominique) (1625–1712)
Catesby, Mark (c. 1679–1749)
Cauchy, Augustin-Louis (1789–1857)
Cavalieri, Bonaventura (c. 1598–1647)
Cavendish, Henry (1731–1810)
Cavendish, Margaret (1623–1673)
Cayley, Arthur (1821–1895)
Cayley, George (1773–1857)
Cech, Thomas (1947– )
Celsius, Anders (1701–1744)
Cerf, Vinton (1943– )
Cerf, Vinton Gray
Cesalpino, Andrea (1519–1603)
Cesaro, Ernesto (1859–1906)
Chadwick, James (1891–1974)
Chain, Ernst Boris (1906–1979)
Chalfie, Martin (1947– )
Challis, James (1803–1882)
Chamberlain, Owen (1920–2006)
Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder (1843–1928)
Chance, Britton (1913–2010)
Chandler, Charles Frederick (1836–1925)
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (1910–1995)
Chang, M.-C. (Min-Chueh) (1909–1991)
Chappe, Claude (1763–1805)
Charcot, Jean-Martin (1825–1893)
Chardonnet, (Louis-Marie) Hilaire Bernigaud (1839–1924)
Chargaff, Erwin (1905–2002)
Charles, Jacques Alexandre César (1746–1823)
Charney, Jule Gregory (1917–1981)
Charnley, John (1911–1982)
Charpak, Georges (1924–2010)
Chase, Mary Agnes (1869–1963)
Châtelet, (Gabrielle) Emilie de Breteuil, Marquise du (1706–1749)
Chauvin, Yves (1930–2015)
Chebyshev, Pafnuty Lvovich (1821–1894)
Cherenkov, Pavel Alexeevich (1904–1990)
Cheselden, William (1688–1752)
Chevreul, Michel-Eugène (1786–1889)
Cheyne and Stokes, John Cheyne (1777–1836) and William Stokes (1804–1878)
Cheyne, John (1777–1836)
Cheyne, William Watson (1852–1932)
Chia Chiao Lin (1916–2013)
Chien, Shu
Child, Charles Manning (1869–1954)
Childe, V(ere) Gordon (1892–1957)
Chladni, Ernst Florens Friedrich (1756–1827)
Christoffel, Elwin Bruno (1829–1900)
Chu, Steven (1948– )
Church, Alonzo (1903–1995)
Church, George (1954– )
Church, George
Ciamician, Giacomo Luigi (1857–1922)
Ciechanover, Aaron (1947– )
Cierva, Juan de la (1895–1936)
Cirac, J. Ignacio
Clairaut, Alexis Claude (1713–1765)
Clapp, Cornelia Mary (1849–1934)
Clark, Alvan (1804–1887)
Clark, Eugenie (1922–2015)
Clark, Jim (computing) (1944– )
Clark, Josiah Latimer (1822–1898)
Clark, Wilfrid Edward Le Gros (1895–1971)
Clark, William Tierney (1783–1852)
Clarke, Cyril Astley (1907–2000)
Clarke, Edith (1883–1959)
Clarke, Edmund M.
Claude, Albert (1898–1983)
Claude, Georges (1870–1960)
Clausen, Jens (Christian) (1891–1969)
Clausius, Rudolf Julius Emanuel (1822–1888)
Clavius, Christoph (1537–1612)
Clements, Frederick Edward (1874–1945)
Clerk, Dugald (1854–1932)
Clerke, Agnes Mary (1842–1907)
Clermont-Ganneau, Charles Simon (1846–1923)
Cleve, Per Teodor (1840–1905)
Clifford, William Kingdon (1845–1879)
Cloos, Ernst (1898–1974)
Clowes, William (1544–1604)
Clusius (Clusius)
Coblentz, W(illiam) W(eber) (1873–1962)
Cockcroft, John Douglas (1897–1967)
Cocke, John (1925–2002)
Cockerell, Christopher Sydney (1910–1999)
Cockerill, William (1759–1832)
Cohen, Carolyn (1929–2017)
Cohen, Marvin L.
Cohen, Paul J (Joseph) (1934–2007)
Cohen, Stanley (1922–2017)
Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude (1933– )
Cohn, Edwin J (Joseph) (1892–1953)
Cohn, Ferdinand Julius (1828–1898)
Cohn, Mildred (1913–2009)
Cohnheim, Julius Friedrich (1839–1884)
Colden, Cadwallader (1688–1776)
Colladon, Jean Daniel (1802–1893)
Colles, Abraham (1773–1843)
Collins, Eileen Marie (1956– )
Collins, John (1625–1683)
Collins, Michael (1930– )
Colombo, Matteo Realdo (c. 1516–1559)
Colt, Samuel (1814–1862)
Colton, Frank Benjamin (1923–2003)
Commelin, John (1629–1692)
Commoner, Barry (1917–2012)
Compton, Arthur H(olly) (1892–1962)
Conant, James Bryant (1893–1978)
Condon, E(dward) U(hler) (1902–1974)
Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat (1743–1794)
Congreve, William (English inventor) (1772–1828)
Conolly, John (1794–1866)
Conrad, Pete (1930–1999)
Conway Morris, Simon (1951– )
Cook, James (1728–1779)
Cooke, Josiah Parsons, Jr (1827–1894)
Cooke, Morris (Llewellyn) (1872–1960)
Cooke, William Fothergill (1806–1879)
Cooley, Denton Arthur (1920–2016)
Coolidge, Julian Lowell (1873–1954)
Coolidge, William David (1873–1975)
Cooper, Astley Paston (1768–1841)
Cooper, Leon N. (1930– )
Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473–1543)
Corey, Elias James (1928– )
Cori (Cori)
Cori, Carl Ferdinand (1896–1984) and Gerty Theresa (born Radnitz) (1896–1957)
Coriolis, Gustave Gaspard de (1792–1843)
Corliss, George Henry (1817–1888)
Cormack, Allan MacLeod (1924–1998)
Cornell, C(arl) Allin (1938–2007)
Cornell, Eric A (1961– )
Cornforth, John Warcup (1917–2013)
Correns, Carl Franz Joseph Erich (1864–1933)
Cort, Henry (1740–1800)
Corvisart des Marest, Jean Nicolas (1755–1821)
Coster, Laurens Janszoon (c. 1370–1440)
Cotes, Roger (1682–1716)
Cotton, William (1786–1866)
Cottrell, Frederick Gardner (1877–1948)
Coues, Elliott (1842–1899)
Coulomb, Charles Augustin de (1736–1806)
Coulson, Charles Alfred (1910–1974)
Councilman, William T (Thomas) (1854–1933)
Courant, Ernest (David) (1920– )
Courant, Richard (1888–1972)
Cournand, André F(rédéric) (1895–1988)
Cousteau, Jacques-Yves (1910–1997)
Cowling, Thomas George (1906–1990)
Cowper, William (English surgeon) (1666–1709)
Cox, Allan V(erne) (1926–1987)
Craig, Harmon (1926–2003)
Cram, Donald James (1919–2001)
Cramer, Gabriel (1704–1752)
Crampton, Thomas Russell (1816–1888)
Crawford, Osbert Guy Stanhope (1886–1957)
Cray, Seymour Roger (1925–1996)
Creed, Frederick George (1871–1957)
Cressman, George (Parmley) (1919–2008)
Crick, Francis Harry Compton (1916–2004)
Crile, George Washington (1864–1943)
Croll, Oswald (c. 1560–1609)
Crompton, Rookes Evelyn Bell (1845–1940)
Crompton, Samuel (1753–1827)
Cronin, James Watson (Cronin, James Watson)
Cronquist, Arthur (John) (born Franklin Arthur Beers) (1919–1992)
Crookes, William (1832–1919)
Croslin, Michael (1933–1989)
Cross, Hardy (1885–1959)
Crutzen, Paul (1933– )
Cruveilhier, Jean (1791–1874)
Cugnot, Nicolas-Joseph (1725–1804)
Culpeper, Nicholas (1616–1654)
Cunningham, Alexander (1814–1893)
Cunningham, Allan (1791–1839)
Curie, Marie (1867–1934)
Curie, Marie (1867–1934), born Manya Sklodowska and Pierre (1859–1906)
Curie, Pierre (1859–1906)
Curl, Robert Floyd, Jr. (1933– )
Curtis, Heber Doust (1872–1942)
Curtiss, Glenn Hammond (1878–1930)
Cushing, Harvey Williams (1869–1939)
Cuvier, Georges (Léopold Chrêtien Frédéric Dagobert) (1769–1832)
Czermak, Johann Nepomuk (1828–1873)
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