Biographies
Life accounts of notable scientists and engineers
Biographies
Life accounts of notable scientists and engineers
Fabre, (Jean) Henri (Casimir) (1823–1915)
Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Hieronymus (1537–1619)
Fabricius, David (1564–1617)
Fabricus, Johann Christian (1745–1808)
Fabry, Charles (1867–1945)
Fahrenheit, Gabriel Daniel (1686–1736)
Fairbairn, William (1789–1874)
Fairchild, David Grandison (1869–1954)
Fairchild, Sherman Mills (1896–1971)
Fajans, Kasimir (1887–1975)
Fallopius, Gabriel (1523–1562)
Faltings, Gerd (1954– )
Fankhauser, Gerhard (1901–1981)
Faraday, Michael (1791–1867)
Farber, Sidney (1903–1973)
Farman, Henry (1874–1958)
Farmer, Moses Gerrish (1820–1893)
Farrer, William James (1845–1906)
Feller, William (1906–1970)
Fellers, Carl Raymond (1893–1960)
Fenn, John Bennett (1917–2010)
Ferguson, Harry George (1884–1960)
Ferguson, Margaret Clay (1863–1951)
Feringa, Bernard Lucas (1951– )
Fermat, Pierre de (1601–1675)
Fermi, Enrico (1901–1954)
Fernald, Merritt Lyndon (1873–1950)
Fernel, Jean François (1497–1558)
Ferranti, Sebastian Ziani de (1864–1930)
Ferrel, William (1817–1891)
Ferrier, David (1843–1928)
Ferris, George Washington Gale (1859–1896)
Fert, Albert (1938– )
Feshbach, Herman (1917–2000)
Fessenden, Reginald Aubrey (1866–1932)
Fewkes, J(esse) Walter (1850–1930)
Feyerabend, Paul K (1924–1994)
Feynman, Richard P(hillips) (1918–1988)
Fibiger, Johannes Andreas Grib (1867–1928)
Fibonacci, Leonardo (c. 1180–c. 1250)
Fick, Adolf Eugen (1829–1901)
Field, George Brooks (1929– )
Fink, Albert (1827–1897)
Finley, James (1762–1828)
Finsen, Niels Ryberg (1860–1904)
Fire, Andrew Zachary (1959– )
Fischer, Edmond (1920– )
Fischer, Emil Hermann (1852–1919)
Fischer, Ernst Otto (1918–2007)
Fischer, Hans (1881–1945)
Fischer, Hermann Otto Laurenz (1888–1960)
Fisher, Ronald Aylmer (1890–1962)
Fitch and Cronin, Val Logsdon Fitch (1923–2015) and James Watson Cronin (1931– ) (1931– )
Fitch, John (1743–1798)
Fitch, Val Logsdon (1923–2015)
Fittig, Rudolf (1835–1910)
Fitzgerald, George Francis (1851–1901)
Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis (1819–1896)
Flagg, Josiah Foster (1788–1853)
Flammarion, Camille (1842–1925)
Flamsteed, John (1646–1719)
Flavell, Richard Anthony (1945– )
Fleming, (John) Ambrose (1849–1945)
Fleming, Alexander (1881–1955)
Fleming, Williamina Paton Stevens (1857–1911)
Flemming, Walther (1843–1905)
Fletcher, Alice Cunningham (1838–1923)
Flexner, Simon (1863–1946)
Florey, Howard Walter (1898–1968)
Flory, Paul John (1910–1985)
Flourens, Pierre Jean Marie (1794–1867)
Fludd, Robert (1574–1637)
Folin, Otto (Knut Olof) (1867–1934)
Fontana, Niccolò (Fontana, Niccolò)
Forbes, Edward (1815–1854)
Forbes, Stephen Alfred (1844–1930)
Ford, Henry (1863–1947)
Ford, James Alfred (1911–1968)
Forssmann, Werner (1904–1979)
Forsyth, Andrew Russell (1858–1942)
Fortin, Jean Nicolas (1750–1831)
Fossey, Dian (1932–1985)
Foucault, (Jean Bernard) Léon (1819–1868)
Fourcroy, Antoine Francois, Comte de (1755–1809)
Fourier, (Jean Baptiste) Joseph (1768–1830)
Fourneyron, Benoit (1802–1867)
Fowler, John (1817–1898)
Fowler, William Alfred (1911–1995)
Fracastoro, Girolamo (c. 1478–1553)
Fraenkel, Abraham Adolf (1891–1965)
Fraenkel-Conrat, Heinz Ludwig (1910–1999)
Francis, James Bicheno (1815–1892)
Franck, James (1882–1964)
Frank, Charles (1911–1998)
Frank, Ilya Mikhailoivich (1908–1990)
Frank, Joachim (1940– )
Frank, Joachim
Frank, Johann Peter (1748–1821)
Frankland, Edward (1825–1899)
Franklin, Benjamin (1706–1790)
Franklin, Rosalind Elsie (1920–1958)
Frasch, Herman (1851–1914)
Fraunhofer, Joseph von (1787–1826)
Fredholm, Erik Ivar (1866–1927)
Freeman, Walter Jackson (1895–1972)
Frege, Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob (1848–1925)
Fresnel, Augustin Jean (1788–1827)
Freud, Anna (1895–1982)
Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939)
Freundlich, Erwin Finlay (1885–1964)
Freundlich, Herbert Max Finlay (1880–1941)
Friedel, Charles (1832–1899)
Friedman, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (1888–1925)
Friedman, Jerome I (1930– )
Friedman, Maurice (1903–1991)
Friedrichs, Kurt O (1901–1982)
Fries, Elias Magnus (1794–1878)
Friese-Greene, William (1855–1921)
Frisch, Karl von (1886–1982)
Frisch, Otto Robert (1904–1979)
Fritz, John (1822–1913)
Fritzshe, Hellmut (1927– )
Frobenius, (Ferdinand) Georg (1849–1917)
Fromm, Erich (1900–1980)
Froude, William (1810–1879)
Fruton, Joseph S(tewart) (1912–2007)
Fuchs, Immanuel Lazarus (1833–1902)
Fuchs, Leonhard (1501–1566)
Fujita, Tetsuya or Theodore (1920–1998)
Fukui, Kenichi (1918–1998)
Fuller, Solomon Carter (1872–1953)
Fulton, Robert (1765–1815)
Funk, Casimir (1884–1967)
Furchgott, Robert F(rancis) (1916–2009)
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