Biographies
Life accounts of notable scientists and engineers
Biographies
Life accounts of notable scientists and engineers
L'Esperance, Elise (c. 1878–1959)
L'Hôpital, Guillaume Francois Antoine (1661–1704)
L'Obel, Matthias de (c. 1538–1616)
Labov, William
Labuza, Theodore P (1940– )
Lacaille, Nicolas Louis de (1713–1762)
Lack, David (1910–1973)
Laënnec, René Théophile Hyacinthe (1781–1826)
Lagrange, Joseph Louis (1736–1813)
Lahey, Frank Howard (1880–1953)
Laithwaite, Eric Roberts (1921–1997)
Lakatos, Imre (1922–1974)
Lake, Simon (1866–1945)
Lalande, Joseph Jérome le Français de (1732–1807)
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet (1744–1829)
Lamb, Horace (1849–1934)
Lamb, Willis Eugene (1913–2008)
Lambert, Johann Heinrich (1728–1777)
Lambert, Walter Davis (1879–1968)
Lamme, Benjamin (Garver) (1864–1924)
Lamont, Johann von (1805–1879)
Lanchester, Frederick William (1868–1946)
Lancisi, Giovanni Maria (1654–1720)
Landau, Lev Davidovich (1908–1968)
Landé, Alfred (1888–1976)
Landsberg, Helmut Erich (1906–1985)
Landsteiner, Karl (1868–1943)
Langer, Robert S.
Langerhans, Paul (1847–1888)
Langevin, Paul (1872–1946)
Langley, John Newport (1852–1925)
Langley, Samuel Pierpoint (1834–1906)
Langmuir, Irving (1881–1957)
Lanier, Jaron (1960– )
Lankester, Edwin Ray (1847–1929)
Lanston, Tolbert (1844–1913)
Laplace, Pierre Simon (1749–1827)
Laporte, Otto (1902–1971)
Lapworth, Arthur (1872–1941)
Lapworth, Charles (1842–1920)
Larmor, Joseph (1857–1942)
Latimer, Louis Howard (1848–1928)
Laue, Max Theodor Felix von (1879–1960)
Laughlin, Robert B (1950– )
Laurent, Auguste (1807–1853)
Lauritsen, Charles C(hristian) (1892–1968)
Lauterbur, Paul Christian (1929–2007)
Laval, Carl Gustaf Patrik de (1845–1913)
Laveran, (Charles Louis) Alphonse (1845–1922)
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent (1743–1794)
Lawes, John Bennet (1814–1900)
Lawless, Theodore Kenneth (1892–1971)
Lawrence, Ernest O(rlando) (1901–1958)
Lawson, Andrew C(owper) (1861–1952)
Le Bel, Joseph Achille (1847–1930)
Le Châtelier, Henri Louis (1850–1936)
Le Pichon, Xavier (1937– )
Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett (1903–1972)
Leakey, Mary Douglas (1913–1996)
Leakey, Richard Erskine Frere (1944– )
Lear, William (Powell), Sr (1902–1978)
Leavitt, Henrietta Swan (1868–1921)
Lebedev, Pyotr Nikolayevich (1866–1912)
Lebesgue, Henri Léon (1875–1941)
Leblanc, Nicolas (1742–1806)
Lebon, Phillipe (1767–1804)
Leclanché, Georges (1839–1882)
Lederberg, Joshua (Lederberg, Joshua)
Lederer, Jerome (1902–2004)
Lederman, Leon (1922– )
Ledley, Robert Steven (1926–2012)
Lee Tsung-Dao (1926– )
Lee, David M(orris) (1931– )
Lee, Tsung Dao (Lee, Tsung Dao)
Lee, Yuan Tseh (1936– )
Leeuwenhoek, Anton van (1632–1723)
Lefkowitz, Robert Joseph (1943– )
Lefschetz, Solomon (1884–1972)
Legendre, Adrien-Marie (1752–1833)
Leggett, Anthony (James) (1938– )
Lehmann, Karl (1894–1960)
Lehmann, Phyllis (1912–2005)
Lehmer, Derrick Henry (1905–1991)
Lehn, Jean-Marie (1939– )
Lehninger, Albert L(ester) (1917–1986)
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646–1716)
Leishman, William Boog (1865–1926)
Lejeune, Jérôme Jean Louis Marie (1926–1994)
Leloir, Luis Federico (1906–1987)
Lemaître, Georges Edouard (1894–1966)
Lenard, Philipp Eduard Anton von (1862–1947)
Lenoir, (Jean Joseph) Etienne (1822–1900)
Lenz, Heinrich Friedrich Emil (1804–1865)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)
Leopold, (Rand) Aldo (1887–1948)
Leriche, René (1879–1955)
Lesseps, Ferdinand Marie (1805–1894)
Letterman, Jonathan (1824–1872)
Leuckart, Karl Georg Friedrich Rudolf (1822–1898)
Leveille, Gilbert A (1934– )
Leverrier, Urbain Jean Joseph (1811–1877)
Levi-Civita, Tullio (1873–1941)
Levi-Montalcini, Rita (1909–2012)
Lévi-Strauss, Claude (1908–2009)
Levine, Philip (1900–1987)
Levitt, Michael (1947– )
Lewis, Edward B (1918–2004)
Lewis, George (William) (1882–1948)
Lewis, Gilbert Newton (1875–1946)
Lewis, Thomas (1881–1945)
Lewis, Warren K (1882–1975)
Lewontin, Richard C(harles) (1929– )
Ley, Willy (1906–1969)
Li, Choh Hao (1913–1987)
Libavius, Andreas (c. 1560–1616)
Libby, Willard Frank (1908–1980)
Libchaber, Albert (1934– )
Licklider, Joseph (Carl Robnett) (1915–1990)
Lie, (Marius) Sophus (1842–1899)
Lieber, Charles M. (1959– )
Liebig, Justus (1803–1873)
Lighthill, (Michael) James (1924–1998)
Lilienthal, Otto (1848–1896)
Lillehei, C(larence) Walton (1918–1999)
Lillie, Frank R(attray) (1870–1947)
Linacre, Thomas (c. 1460–1524)
Lind, James (1716–1794)
Lindahl, Tomas Robert (1943– )
Lindbergh, Charles A(ugustus) (1902–1974)
Lindblad, Bertil (1895–1965)
Lindemann, (Carl Louis) Ferdinand von (1852–1939)
Lindemann, Frederick Alexander (1886–1957)
Lindgren, Waldemar (1860–1939)
Lindley, John (1799–1865)
Lineberger, William C(arl) (1939– )
Link, Edwin (Albert) (1904–1981)
Linnaeus, Carolus (1707–1778)
Linnett, John Wilfred (1913–1975)
Liouville, Joseph (1809–1882)
Lipmann, Fritz Albert (1899–1986)
Lippard, Stephen J.
Lippershey, Hans (c. 1570–c. 1619)
Lippisch, Alexander (Martin) (1894–1976)
Lippmann, Gabriel (1845–1921)
Lipschitz, Rudolf Otto Sigismund (1832–1903)
Lipscomb, William Nunn (1919–2011)
Lissajous, Jules Antoine (1822–1880)
Lister, Joseph (1827–1912)
Liston, Robert (1794–1847)
Little, Arthur D(ehon) (1863–1935)
Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich (1792–1856)
Locke, Joseph (1805–1860)
Lockyer, (Joseph) Norman (1836–1920)
Lodge, Oliver Joseph (1851–1940)
Loeb, Jacques (1859–1924)
Loeb, Leonard B(enedict) (1891–1978)
Loeffler, Friedrich (1852–1915)
Loening, Grover (1888–1976)
Loewi, Otto (1873–1961)
London, Fritz (Wolfgang) (1900–1954)
Long, Crawford William (1815–1878)
Longuet-Higgins, Hugh Christopher (1923–2004)
Lonsdale, Kathleen (1903–1971)
Loomis, Elias (1811–1889)
Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon (1853–1928)
Lorenz, Edward N (1917–2008)
Lorenz, Konrad Zacharias (1903–1989)
Lorenz, Ludwig Valentin (1829–1891)
Lorius, Claude
Louis, Pierre Charles Alexandre (1787–1872)
Lovelace, (Augusta) Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace (1815–1852)
Lovell, (Alfred Charles) Bernard (1913–2012)
Lovelock, James Ephraim (1919– )
Lovins, Amory (Bloch) (1947– )
Low, Archibald Montgomery (1888–1956)
Lowe, Peter (c. 1550–1612)
Lowe, Thaddeus (Sobieski Coulincourt) (1832–1913)
Lowell, Percival (1855–1916)
Lower, Richard (1631–1691)
Lowey, Susan (1933– )
Lucas, Anthony Francis (1855–1921)
Ludwig, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm (1816–1895)
Lumière (Lumière)
Lummer, Otto Richard (1860–1925)
Lunardi, Vincenzo (1759–1806)
Luria, Salvador Edward (1912–1991)
Luzzi, Mondino de (c. 1270–1326)
Lwoff, André Michael (1902–1994)
Lyell, Charles (1797–1875)
Lyman, Theodore (1874–1954)
Lynden-Bell, Donald (1935– )
Lynen, Feodor (Felix Konrad) (1911–1979)
Lyon, Mary Frances (1925–2014)
Lyot, Bernard Ferdinand (1897–1952)
Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich (1898–1976)
Lyttleton, Raymond Arthur (1911–1995)
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