Biographies
Life accounts of notable scientists and engineers
Biographies
Life accounts of notable scientists and engineers
Van Allen, James Alfred (1914–2006)
van de Graaff, Robert Jemison (1901–1967)
van der Waals, Johannes Diderik (1837–1923)
Van Tiegheim, Phillipe (1839–1914)
Van Vleck, John Hasbrouck (1899–1980)
van't Hoff, Jacobus Henricus (1852–1911)
Vandermonde, Alexandre-Théophile (1735–1796)
Vane, John Robert (1927–2004)
Vapnik, Vladimir
Varmus, Harold Elliot (1939– )
Vauclain, Samuel (Matthews) (1856–1940)
Vauquelin, Louis Nicolas (1763–1829)
Veblen, Oswald (1880–1960)
Veltman, Martinus (1931– )
Vening Meinesz, Felix Andries (1887–1966)
Venn, John (1834–1923)
Venter, J(ohn) Craig (1946– )
Verhoogen, John (1912–1993)
Vernadski, Vladimir Ivanovich (1863–1945)
Vernier, Pierre (1584–1638)
Vesalius, Andreas (1514–1564)
Viète, François (1540–1603)
Villemin, Jean-Antoine (1827–1892)
Vine, Frederick John (1939– )
Virchow, Rudolf Ludwig Carl (1821–1902)
Virtanen, Artturi Ilmari (1895–1973)
Vogel, Hermann Carl (1841–1907)
Vogt, Marthe Louise (1903–2003)
Vogt, William (1902–1968)
Volhard, Jacob (1834–1910)
Vollrath, Fritz (1948– )
Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio (1745–1827)
Volterra, Vito (1860–1940)
Volwiler, Ernest H (1893–1992)
von Baeyer, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf (von Baeyer, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf)
von Braun, Wernher Magnus Maximilian (1912–1977)
von Gesner, Konrad (von Gesner, Konrad)
Von Hagen, Victor Wolfgang (1908–1985)
von Klitzing, Klaus (1943– )
von Liebig, Justus (von Liebig, Justus)
Von Neumann, John (1903–1957)
von Stradonitz, Friedrich August Kekulé (von Stradonitz, Friedrich August Kekulé)
Voronoff, Serge (1866–1951)
Vorontsov-Vel'iaminov, Boris Aleksandrovich (1904–1994)
Vries, Hugo (Marie) de (1848–1935)
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