Biographies
Life accounts of notable scientists and engineers
Biographies
Life accounts of notable scientists and engineers
Wagner-Jauregg, Julius (1857–1940)
Waite, Edgar Ravenswood (1866–1928)
Waksman, Selman Abraham (1888–1973)
Wald, George (1906–1997)
Waldeyer-Hartz, Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von (1836–1921)
Walker, John E(rnest) (1941– )
Walker, William H (1869–1934)
Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823–1913)
Wallace, Douglas C.
Wallach, Otto (1847–1931)
Wallis, Barnes Neville (1887–1979)
Wallis, John (1616–1703)
Walsh, Christopher T.
Walton, Ernest Thomas Sinton (1903–1995)
Wang, An (1920–1990)
Wankel, Felix (1902–1988)
Wannier, Gregory H(ugh) (1911–1983)
Warburg, Otto Heinrich (1883–1970)
Warming, Johannes Eugenius Bülow (1841–1924)
Warren, (John) Robin (1937– )
Warren, John Collins (grandfather) (1778–1856)
Warshel, Arieh (1940– )
Warwick, Kevin (1954– )
Wassermann, August Paul von (1866–1925)
Waterhouse, Benjamin (1754–1846)
Waterston, John James (1811–1883)
Watson, James Dewey (1928– )
Watson-Watt, Robert Alexander (1892–1973)
Watt, James (1736–1819)
Wattleton, Faye (1943– )
Weatherall, David John (1933–2018)
Weaver, Warren (1894–1978)
Weber, Ernst Heinrich (1795–1878)
Weber, Heinrich (1842–1913)
Weber, Wilhelm Eduard (1804–1891)
Wedderburn, Joseph Henry Maclagan (1882–1948)
Wedgwood, Josiah (1730–1795)
Wegener, Alfred Lothar (1880–1930)
Weick, Fred (1899–1993)
Weierstrass, Karl Theodor Wilhelm (1815–1897)
Weil, André (1906–1998)
Weinberg, Steven (1933– )
Weismann, August Friedrich Leopold (1834–1914)
Weiss, Paul A(lfred) (1898–1989)
Weiss, Rainer (1932– )
Weisskopf, Victor F(rederick) (1908–2002)
Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich von (1912–2007)
Welch, William Henry (1850–1934)
Weller, Thomas Huckle (1915–2008)
Wells, Horace (1815–1848)
Welsbach, Carl Auer, Baron von Welsbach (1858–1929)
Wenner-Gren, Axel Leonard (1881–1961)
Went, Frits W(armolt) (1903–1990)
Werner, Abraham Gottlob (1749–1817)
Werner, Alfred (1866–1919)
Wessel, Caspar (1745–1818)
West, James E.
Westinghouse, George (1846–1914)
Weyl, Hermann (1885–1955)
Wharton, Thomas (1614–1673)
Wheatstone, Charles (1802–1875)
Wheeler, Anna Pell (1883–1966)
Wheeler, William Morton (1865–1937)
Whewell, William (1794–1866)
Whipple, Fred Lawrence (1906–2004)
Whipple, George Hoyt (1878–1976)
Whipple, Squire (1804–1888)
Whistler, George (Washington) (1800–1849)
Whitcomb, Richard (Travis) (1921–2009)
White, Canvass (1790–1834)
White, Gilbert (1720–1793)
White, Gilbert Fowler (1911–2006)
White, Paul Dudley (1886–1973)
Whitehead, Alfred North (1861–1947)
Whitehead, John Henry Constantine (1904–1960)
Whitehead, Robert (1823–1905)
Whitesides, George McClelland (1939– )
Whitman, C(harles) O(tis) (1842–1910)
Whitmore, Frank Clifford (1887–1947)
Whitney, Eli (1765–1825)
Whitney, Hassler (1907–1989)
Whitney, Willis Rodney (1868–1958)
Whittaker, Edmund Taylor (1873–1956)
Whittaker, Robert H(arding) (1920–1980)
Whittingham, (Michael) Stanley (1941– )
Whittle, Frank (1907–1996)
Whitworth, Joseph (1803–1887)
Wieland, Heinrich Otto (1877–1957)
Wieman, Carl E (1951– )
Wien, Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz (1864–1928)
Wiener, Norbert (1894–1964)
Wieschaus, Eric F (1947– )
Wiesel, Torsten N (1924– )
Wigglesworth, Vincent Brian (1899–1994)
Wigner, Eugene P(aul) (1902–1995)
Wilcox, Stephen (1830–1893)
Wilczek, Frank (Anthony) (1951– )
Wiles, Andrew (1953– )
Wiles, Andrew John (1953– )
Wilkes, Maurice (Vincent) (1913–2010)
Wilkins, Maurice Hugh Frederick (1916–2004)
Wilkinson, Geoffrey (1921–1996)
Wilks, Samuel Stanley (1906–1964)
Williams, Anna (Wessels) (1863–1954)
Williams, Daniel Hale (1858–1931)
Williams, Frederic Calland (1911–1977)
Williams, Robert (Runnels), Jr (1886–1965)
Williamson, Alexander William (1824–1904)
Willis, Thomas (1621–1673)
Willstätter, Richard (1872–1942)
Wilson, Alexander (1766–1813)
Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees (1869–1959)
Wilson, Edmund Beecher (1856–1939)
Wilson, Edward Osborne (1929– )
Wilson, John Tuzo (1908–1993)
Wilson, Kenneth G(eddes) (1936–2013)
Wilson, Robert R(athbun) (1914–2000)
Wilson, Robert Woodrow (1936– )
Windaus, Adolf Otto Reinhold (1876–1959)
Wineland, David J.
Wineland, David Jeffrey (1944– )
Winnacker, Ernst-Ludwig (1941– )
Winslow, Jakob Benignus (1669–1760)
Winsor, Frederic Albert (1763–1830)
Winter, Gregory Paul (1951– )
Wirth, Niklaus (1934– )
Withering, William (1741–1799)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann (1889–1951)
Wittig, Georg (1897–1987)
Wöhler, Friedrich (1800–1882)
Wolf, Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius (1863–1932)
Wolf, Rudolph (1816–1893)
Wolff, Heinz Siegfried (1928–2017)
Wolff, Kaspar Friedrich (1733–1794)
Wollaston, William Hyde (1766–1828)
Wood, Harland G(off) (1907–1991)
Wood, Robert W(illiams) (1868–1955)
Woodger, Joseph Henry (1894–1981)
Woods, Granville T (1856–1910)
Woodward, Robert Burns (1917–1979)
Woolley, Richard van der Riet (1906–1986)
Worsaae, Jens Jacob Asmussen (1821–1885)
Worthington, Henry (Rossiter) (1817–1880)
Wozniak, Stephen Gary (1950– )
Wright (Wright)
Wright, Almroth Edward (1861–1947)
Wright, Benjamin (1770–1842)
Wright, Louis Tompkins (1891–1952)
Wright, Sewall (1889–1988)
Wright, Thomas (1711–1786)
Wu Chien-Shiung (1912–1997)
Wurtz, Charles Adolphe (1817–1884)
Wüthrich, Kurt (1938– )
Wyman, Jeffries (1814–1874)
Wynne-Edwards, Vero Copner (1906–1997)
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