Biographies
Life accounts of notable scientists and engineers
Biographies
Life accounts of notable scientists and engineers
Sabin, Albert Bruce (1906–1993)
Sabin, Florence Rena (1871–1953)
Sabine, Edward (1788–1883)
Sachs, (Barney) Bernard (1858–1944)
Sachs, Julius von (1832–1897)
Sacks, Oliver (Wolf) (1933–2015)
Sagan, Carl Edward (1934–1996)
Saha, Meghnad (1893–1956)
Saint-Claire Deville, Henri Etienne (1818–1881)
Sakharov, Andrei Dmitrievich (1921–1989)
Sakmann, Bert (1942– )
Salam, Abdus (1926–1996)
Salk, Jonas Edward (1914–1995)
Salpeter, Edwin Ernest (1924–2008)
Samuelsson, Bengt Ingemar (1934– )
Sancar, Aziz (1946– )
Sanctorius, Sanctorius (1561–1636)
Sandage, Allan Rex (1926–2010)
Sanger, Frederick (1918–2013)
Sarett, Lewis (Hastings) (1917–1999)
Sargent, Charles Sprague (1841–1927)
Sauerbruch, Ernst Ferdinand (1875–1951)
Saunders, Cicely Mary Strode (1918–2005)
Saussure, Horace Bénédict de (1740–1799)
Saussure, Nicholas Théodore de (1767–1845)
Sauvage, Jean Pierre (1944– )
Savery, Thomas (c. 1650–1715)
Sawamoto, Mitsuo
Saxton, Joseph (1799–1873)
Say, Thomas (1787–1834)
Scarpa, Antonio (1747–1832)
Schaefer, Vincent J(oseph) (1906–1993)
Schaller, George B(eals) (1933– )
Schally, Andrew V(ictor) (1926– )
Schaudinn, Fritz Richard (1871–1906)
Schawlow, Arthur Leonard (1921–1999)
Scheele, Karl Wilhelm (1742–1786)
Scheiner, Christoph (1573–1650)
Schekman, Randy Wayne (1948– )
Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio (1835–1910)
Schick, Bela (1877–1967)
Schickard, Wilhelm (1592–1635)
Schimper, Andreas Franz Wilhelm (1856–1901)
Schimper, Karl Friedrich (1803–1867)
Schimper, Wilhelm Philipp (1808–1880)
Schleiden, Matthias Jakob (1804–1881)
Schmidt, Bernhard Voldemar (1879–1935)
Schmidt, Brian P(aul) (1967– )
Schmidt, Maarten (1929– )
Schoenheimer, Rudolf (1898–1941)
Schonbein, Christian Friedrich (1799–1868)
Schramm, David (1945–1997)
Schrieffer, John Robert (1931–2019)
Schrock, Richard Royce (1945– )
Schrödinger, Erwin (1887–1961)
Schultze, Max Johann Sigismund (1825–1874)
Schwab, Charles M(ichael) (1862–1939)
Schwabe, Samuel Heinrich (1789–1875)
Schwann, Theodor (1810–1882)
Schwartz, Melvin (1932–2006)
Schwarzschild, Karl (1873–1916)
Schwarzschild, Martin (1912–1997)
Schwinger, Julian Seymour (1918–1994)
Scott, Charlotte Angas (1858–1931)
Scott, John Paul (1909–2000)
Scott, Peter Markham (1909–1989)
Seaborg, Glenn Theodore (1912–1999)
Secchi, Pietro Angelo (1818–1878)
Sedgwick, Adam (1785–1873)
Seeman, Nadrian C. (1945– )
Seeman, Nadrian C.
Segrè, Emilio Gino (1905–1989)
Seguin, Marc (1786–1875)
Seki Kowa (c.1642–1708)
Sellers, William (1824–1905)
Semenov, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1896–1986)
Semenza, Gregg (Leonard) (1956– )
Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp (1818–1865)
Semple, Ellen (Churchill) (1863–1932)
Senebier, Jean (1742–1809)
Sessler, Gerhard M.
Seyfert, Carl Keenan (1911–1960)
Shannon, Claude Elwood (1916–2001)
Shapley, Harlow (1885–1972)
Sharp, Phillip Allen (1944– )
Sharpey-Schafer, Edward Albert (1850–1935)
Sharpless, K Barry (1941– )
Shaw, (William) Napier (1854–1945)
Shechtman, Dan (1941– )
Shepard, Alan Bartlett (1923–1998)
Sherrington, Charles Scott (1857–1952)
Shimomura, Osamu (1928–2018)
Shirakawa, Hideki (1936– )
Shockley, William Bradford (1910–1989)
Shrady, George Frederick (1837–1907)
Shrapnel, Henry (1761–1842)
Shull, Clifford G (1915–2001)
Shumway, Norman (Edward) (1923–2006)
Sibthorp, John (1758–1796)
Sickels, Frederick Ellsworth (1819–1895)
Sidgwick, Nevil Vincent (1873–1952)
Siegbahn, Kai (1918–2007)
Siegbahn, Karl Manne Georg (1886–1978)
Siemens, Ernst Werner von (1816–1892)
Siemens, William (Karl Wilhelm) (1823–1883)
Sikorsky, Igor Ivan (1889–1972)
Silcox, Ferdinand Augustus (1882–1939)
Silliman, Benjamin, Jr (1816–1885)
Silliman, Benjamin, Sr (1779–1864)
Simon, Franz Eugen (1893–1956)
Simpson, (Cedric) Keith (1907–1985)
Simpson, George Clark (1878–1965)
Simpson, George Gaylord (1902–1984)
Simpson, James Young (1811–1870)
Simpson, Joanne Malkus (1923–2009)
Simpson, Thomas (1710–1761)
Sims, James Marion (1813–1883)
Simson, Robert (1678–1768)
Sinclair, Clive Marles (1940– )
Singer, Isaac Merrit (1811–1875)
Singer, S(eymour) J(onathan) (1924– )
Sinnott, Edmund W(are) (1888–1968)
Sitter, Willem de (1872–1934)
Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic) (1904–1990)
Skolem, Thoralf Albert (1887–1963)
Skou, Jens C(hristian) (1918– )
Slater, John C(larke) (1900–1976)
Slater, Samuel (1768–1835)
Slipher, Vesto Melvin (1875–1969)
Smale, Stephen (1930– )
Smalley, Richard E(rrett) (1943–2005)
Smeaton, John (1724–1792)
Smellie, William (obstetrician) (1697–1763)
Smith, Alexander (chemist) (1865–1922)
Smith, Edgar Fahs (1854–1928)
Smith, George E(lwood) (1930– )
Smith, George Pieczenik (1941– )
Smith, Hamilton Othanel (Smith, Hamilton Othanel)
Smith, Henry John Stephen (1826–1883)
Smith, J(oseph) Russell (1874–1966)
Smith, James Edward (1759–1828)
Smith, John Maynard (Smith, John Maynard)
Smith, Michael (1932–2000)
Smith, Nathan (1762–1829)
Smith, Stephen (1823–1922)
Smith, Theobald (1859–1934)
Smith, William (1769–1839)
Smithies, Oliver (1925–2017)
Smithson, James Louis Macie (1765–1829)
Smoot III, George Fitzgerald (1945– )
Smoot, George (1945– )
Smyth, Charles Piazzi (1819–1900)
Snel, Willebrord van Roijen (1581–1626)
Snell, George Davis (1903–1996)
Snell, Willebrord van Roijen (1580–1626)
Snelus, George James (1837–1906)
Snow, John (1813–1858)
Snyder, Hartland S(weet) (1913–1962)
Snyder, Solomon Halbert (1938– )
Soddy, Frederick (1877–1956)
Solander, Daniel Carl (1736–1782)
Solvay, Ernest (1838–1922)
Somerville, Mary Greig (1780–1872)
Sommerfeld, Arnold Johannes Wilhelm (1868–1951)
Sommerville, Duncan MacLaren Young (1879–1934)
Sonneborn, Tracy M(orton) (1905–1981)
Soon-Shiong, Patrick
Sorby, Henry Clifton (1826–1908)
Sørensen, Søren Peter Lauritz (1868–1939)
Sosigenes (lived 1st century BC)
South, James (1785–1867)
Spalding, D. Brian
Spallanzani, Lazzaro (1729–1799)
Spemann, Hans (1869–1941)
Sperry, Elmer Ambrose (1860–1930)
Sperry, Roger Wolcott (1913–1994)
Spitzer, Lyman (1914–1997)
Spock, Benjamin (McLane) (1903–1998)
Sprengel, Christian Konrad (1750–1816)
Spruce, Richard (1817–1893)
Squibb, Edward Robinson (1819–1900)
Stadtman, Earl R(eece) (1919–2008)
Stadtman, Thressa C(ampbell) (1920–2016)
Stahl, Franklin William (Stahl, Franklin William)
Stahl, Georg Ernst (1660–1734)
Stanley, Wendell Meredith (1904–1971)
Stapledon, George (1882–1960)
Stapp, John Paul (1910–1999)
Stark, Harold M(ead) (1939– )
Stark, Johannes (1874–1957)
Starling, Ernest Henry (1866–1927)
Starzl, Thomas (Earl) (1926–2017)
Stas, Jean Servais (1813–1891)
Staudinger, Hermann (1881–1965)
Stebbins, George Ledyard (1906–2000)
Stebbins, Joel (1878–1966)
Steele, Edward John (1948– )
Steenstrup, Johannes Iapetus Smith (1813–1897)
Stefan, Josef (1835–1893)
Stein, William Howard (1911–1980)
Steinberg, Malcolm S(aul) (1930–2012)
Steinberger, Jack (1921– )
Steiner, Jakob (1796–1863)
Steinman, Ralph M(arvin) (1943–2011)
Steinmetz, Charles Proteus (1865–1923)
Steitz, Thomas A(rthur) (1940– )
Steno, Nicolaus (1638–1686)
Stephenson, George (1781–1848)
Stephenson, Robert (1803–1859)
Steptoe, Patrick Christopher (1913–1988)
Stern, Otto (1888–1969)
Sternberg, George Miller (1838–1915)
Stevens, Nettie Maria (1861–1912)
Stevenson, Robert (1772–1850)
Stevenson, Thomas (1818–1887)
Stevinus, Simon (c. 1548–1620)
Stibitz, George Robert (1904–1995)
Stieltjes, Thomas Jan (1856–1894)
Stiles, Charles W(ardell) (1867–1941)
Still, Andrew Taylor (1828–1917)
Stine, Charles (Milton Altland) (1882–1954)
Stirling, James (1692–1770)
Stirling, Robert (1790–1878)
Stix, Thomas H(oward) (1924–2001)
Stock, Alfred (1876–1946)
Stoddart, James Fraser (1942– )
Stokes, Adrian (1887–1927)
Stokes, George Gabriel (1819–1903)
Stokes, William (1804–1878)
Stommel, Henry M(elson) (1920–1992)
Stoney, George Johnstone (1826–1911)
Stopes, Marie Charlotte Carmichael (1880–1958)
Störmer, Horst L(udwig) (1949– )
Strabo (c. 63 BC–c. AD 24)
Strasburger, Eduard Adolf (1844–1912)
Street, J(abez) C(urry) (1906–1989)
Strickland, Donna Theo (1959– )
Strömgren, Bengt Georg Daniel (1908–1987)
Struever, Stuart (McKee) (1931– )
Strutt, John William (Strutt, John William)
Struve, (Gustav Wilhelm) Ludwig (Ottovich) von (1858–1920)
Struve, (Karl) Hermann (Ottovich) von (1854–1920)
Struve, F(riedrich) G(eorg) W(ilhelm) von (1793–1864)
Struve, Otto von (1897–1963)
Struve, Otto Wilhelm von (1819–1905)
Stubbe, JoAnne
Sturgeon, William (1783–1850)
Sturm, Jacques Charles François (1803–1855)
Sturtevant, Alfred Henry (1891–1970)
Südhof, Thomas Christian (1955– )
Suess, Eduard (1831–1914)
Sufi, al- (903–986)
Sulston, John (1942–2018)
Sumner, James (Batcheller) (1887–1955)
Sunyaev, Rashid
Suomi, Verner Edward (1915–1995)
Suresh, Subra
Sutherland, Earl Wilbur, Jr. (1915–1974)
Sutherland, Gordon Brims Black McIvor (1907–1980)
Sutherland, Ivan Edward (1938– )
Sutton, Walter S(tanborough) (1877–1916)
Sutton-Pringle, John William (1912–1982)
Suzuki, Akira (1930– )
Svedberg, Theodor (1884–1971)
Swammerdam, Jan (1637–1680)
Swan, Joseph Wilson (1828–1914)
Swasey, Ambrose (1846–1937)
Swinburne, James (1858–1958)
Swineshead, Richard (lived c. 1340–1355)
Swings, Pol(idore) F. F. (1906–1983)
Sydenham, Thomas (1624–1689)
Sykes, Lynn Ray (1937– )
Sylow, Ludwig Mejdell (1832–1918)
Sylvester, James Joseph (1814–1897)
Syme, James (1799–1870)
Symington, William (1763–1831)
Synge, Richard Laurence Millington (1914–1994)
Szent-Györgyi, Albert von Nagyrapolt (1893–1986)
Szilard, Leo (1898–1964)
Szostak, Jack (1952– )
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