Biographies
Life accounts of notable scientists and engineers
Biographies
Life accounts of notable scientists and engineers
Kahle, Brewster (1960– )
Kahn, Robert E.
Kajita, Takaaki (1959– )
Kamerlingh Onnes, Heike (1853–1926)
Kammerer, Paul (1880–1926)
Kandel, Eric Richard (1929– )
Kane, Charles L.
Kant, Immanuel (1724–1804)
Kao, Charles K(uen) (1933–2018)
Kapitza, Peter Leonidovich (1894–1984)
Kaplan, Viktor (1876–1934)
Kapteyn, Jacobus Cornelius (1851–1922)
Karcher, J(ohn) C(larence) (1894–1978)
Karle, Jerome (1918–2013)
Kármán, Theodore von (1881–1963)
Karplus, Martin (1930– )
Karrer, Paul (1889–1971)
Kastler, Alfred (1902–1984)
Katz, Bernard (1911–2003)
Kay, John (1704–c. 1780)
Keck, David D(aniels) (1903–1995)
Keeler, James Edward (1857–1900)
Keeton, William T(insley) (1933–1980)
Kekulé von Stradonitz, Friedrich August (1829–1896)
Kelly, Howard Atwood (1858–1943)
Kelly, William (1811–1888)
Kelvin, William Thomson (1824–1907)
Kendall, Edward Calvin (1886–1972)
Kendall, Henry Way (1926–1999)
Kendrew, John Cowdery (1917–1997)
Kennedy, Eugene P(atrick) (1919–2011)
Kenyon, Joseph (1885–1961)
Kepler, Johannes (1571–1630)
Kerr, John (1824–1907)
Kettering, Charles (Franklin) (1876–1958)
Ketterle, Wolfgang (1957– )
Kettlewell, Henry Bernard David (1907–1979)
Kety, Seymour Solomon (1915–2000)
Kevorkian, Jack (1928–2011)
Kharasch, Morris (Selig) (1895–1957)
Khorana, Har Gobind (1922–2011)
Khwārizmī, al-, Muhammad ibn-Mūsā (c. 780–c. 850)
Kidder, Alfred (Vincent) (1885–1963)
Kilby, Jack St Clair (1923–2005)
Kimura, Motoo (1924–1994)
Kinnear, Norman Boyd (1882–1957)
Kinsey, Alfred Charles (1894–1956)
Kipping, Frederick Stanley (1863–1949)
Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert (1824–1887)
Kirkwood, Daniel (1814–1895)
Kirschner, Marc Wallace (1945– )
Kitasato, Shibasaburō (1852–1931)
Klaproth, Martin Heinrich (1743–1817)
Klebs, Edwin (1834–1913)
Klein, (Christian) Felix (1849–1925)
Kleppner, Daniel (1932– )
Kleppner, Daniel
Klug, Aaron (1926– )
Knight, Thomas Andrew (1759–1838)
Knopf, Adolph (1882–1966)
Knopf, Eleanora Frances (1883–1974)
Knowles, William S (1917–2012)
Knuth, Donald E(rvin) (1938– )
Kobayashi, Makoto (1944– )
Kobilka, Brian Kent (1955– )
Koch, (Heinrich Hermann) Robert (1843–1910)
Kocher, Emil Theodor (1841–1917)
Köhler, Georges Jean Franz (1946–1995)
Kohn, Walter (1923–2016)
Kolbe, (Adolf Wilhelm) Hermann (1818–1884)
Kolff, Willem J(ohan) (1911–2009)
Koller, Carl (1857–1944)
Kolmogorov, Andrey Nikolayevich (1903–1987)
Kontsevich, Maxim (1964– )
Koop, called ‘Chick’ (1916–2013)
Korff, Serge A(lexander) (1906–1989)
Kornberg, Arthur (1918–2007)
Kornberg, Hans Leo (1928– )
Kornberg, Roger David (1947– )
Korolev, Sergei Pavlovich (1906–1966)
Koshiba, Masatoshi (1926– )
Kossel, Albrecht (1853–1927)
Kosterlitz, John Michael (1942– )
Kouwenhoven, William (Bennett) (1886–1975)
Kovalevskaya, Sofya Vasilyevna (1850–1891)
Kraepelin, Emil (1856–1926)
Kramer, Amihud (1913–1981)
Kramer, Paul J(ackson) (1903–1995)
Krebs, Edwin Gerhard (1918–2009)
Krebs, Hans Adolf (1900–1981)
Kremer, Gerhard (Kremer, Gerhard)
Krim, Mathilde (1926–2018)
Kroemer, Herbert (1928– )
Krogh, Schack August Steenberg (1874–1949)
Kronecker, Leopold (1823–1891)
Kroto, Harold Walter (1939– )
Kruesi, John (1843–1899)
Krupp, Alfred (1812–1887)
Kruskal, Martin David (1925–2006)
Kruth, Jean-Pierre
Kryder, Mark
Kuhn, Richard (1900–1967)
Kuhne, Wilhelme (1837–1900)
Kuiper, Gerard Peter (1905–1973)
Kummer, Ernst Eduard (1810–1893)
Kundt, August Adolph Eduard Eberhard (1839–1894)
Kurtz, Thomas (1928– )
Kurzweil, Raymond C (1948– )
Kusch, Polykarp (1911–1933)
Kyan, John Howard (1774–1850)
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