List of centenarians (scientists and mathematicians)

The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as scientists and mathematicians – known for reasons other than their longevity

Longevity

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Name	Lifespan	Age	Notability
Charles Greeley Abbot Charles Greeley Abbot Charles Greeley Abbot was an American astrophysicist, astronomer and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was born in Wilton, New Hampshire.-Life:...	1872–1973	101	American astronomer Astronomer An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using... and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...
Horace Alexander Horace Alexander Horace Gundry Alexander was an English Quaker teacher and writer, pacifist and ornithologist. He was the youngest of four sons of Joseph Gundry Alexander...	1889–1989	100	British biologist
Doris Twitchell Allen	1901–2002	100	American psychologist Psychologist Psychologist is a professional or academic title used by individuals who are either:* Clinical professionals who work with patients in a variety of therapeutic contexts .* Scientists conducting psychological research or teaching psychology in a college... and founder of Children's International Summer Villages
Franz Alt Franz Alt Franz Leopold Alt was an Austrian-born American mathematician who made major contributions to computer science in its early days...	1910–2011	100	Austrian mathematician Mathematician A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
Heinz Ansbacher Heinz Ansbacher Heinz Ludwig Ansbacher was a German-American psychologist specializing in the theories of Alfred Adler.-Biography:...	1904–2006	101	German-American psychologist
Rudolf Arnheim	1904–2007	102	German psychologist of visual perception Visual perception Visual perception is the ability to interpret information and surroundings from the effects of visible light reaching the eye. The resulting perception is also known as eyesight, sight, or vision...
Ira Baldwin Ira Baldwin Ira L. Baldwin was the founder and director emeritus of the Wisconsin Academy Foundation. He began teaching bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he had done his doctoral work, in 1927, and a few years later moved into what became a long career in administration...	1895–1999	104	American bacteriologist Microbiology Microbiology is the study of microorganisms, which are defined as any microscopic organism that comprises either a single cell , cell clusters or no cell at all . This includes eukaryotes, such as fungi and protists, and prokaryotes... and educator
Preston Bassett Preston Bassett Preston Rogers Bassett was an inventor, engineer, and pioneer in instruments for aviation.-Biography:Preston Rogers Bassett was born in Buffalo, New York, son of urban planner Edward Murray Bassett and Annie Preston Bassett. Geologist Isabel Bassett Wasson was his sister. He received an A.B...	1892–1993	100	American inventor and aeronautics pioneer
Henry Beachell Henry Beachell Dr. Henry M. Beachell was an American plant breeder. His research led to the development of hybrid rice cultivars that saved millions of people around the world from starvation....	1906–2006	100	American developer of "miracle rice"
Arnold Orville Beckman Arnold Orville Beckman Arnold Orville Beckman was an American chemist who founded Beckman Instruments based on his 1934 invention of the pH meter, a device for measuring acidity. He also funded the first transistor company, thus giving rise to Silicon Valley.-Early life:Beckman was born in Cullom, Illinois, the son of...	1900–2004	104	American chemist and businessman who founded Beckman Instruments
Julia Bell Julia Bell Julia Bell was a pioneering English human geneticist. She attended Girton College in Cambridge and took the Mathematical Tripos exam in 1901. But because women could not officially receive degrees from Oxford or Cambridge, she was awarded a master's degree at Trinity College, Dublin for her work...	1879–1979	100	English human geneticist Geneticist A geneticist is a biologist who studies genetics, the science of genes, heredity, and variation of organisms. A geneticist can be employed as a researcher or lecturer. Some geneticists perform experiments and analyze data to interpret the inheritance of skills. A geneticist is also a Consultant or...
Harry Benjamin Harry Benjamin Harry Benjamin was a German endocrinologist, widely known for his clinical work with transsexualism. He was raised in an observant Ashkenazy Jewish home.- Early life and career :...	1885–1986	101	German sexologist Sexology Sexology is the scientific study of human sexuality, including human sexual interests, behavior, and function. The term does not generally refer to the non-scientific study of sex, such as political analysis or social criticism....
Sidney W. Bijou Sidney W. Bijou Sidney William Bijou was an American developmental psychologist who developed an approach of treating childhood disorders using behavioral therapy, in which positive actions were rewarded and negative behaviors were largely ignored, rather than punished.-Early life and education:Bijou was born in...	1908–2009	100	American child psychologist
Boris Yakovych Bukreyev Boris Yakovych Bukreyev Boris Yakovych Bukreyev was a Russian and Soviet mathematician who worked in the areas of complex functions and differential equations....	1859–1962	103	Ukrainian mathematician
Su Buqing Su Buqing Su Buqing was a Chinese mathematician and educator.He was born in Pingyang in Zhejiang Province in 1902. He graduated from Tohoku Imperial University in Japan in 1927 and received his Ph.D. from the University in 1931...	1902–2003	100	Chinese mathematician
Henri Cartan Henri Cartan Henri Paul Cartan was a French mathematician with substantial contributions in algebraic topology. He was the son of the French mathematician Élie Cartan.-Life:...	1904–2008	104	French mathematician
Michel Eugène Chevreul Michel Eugène Chevreul Michel Eugène Chevreul was a French chemist whose work with fatty acids led to early applications in the fields of art and science. He is credited with the discovery of margaric acid and designing an early form of soap made from animal fats and salt...	1786–1889	102	French chemist Chemist A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...
Harriette Chick Harriette Chick Dame Harriette Chick, DBE was a notable British protein scientist and nutritionist. Educated at Notting Hill & Ealing High School, She served as secretary of the League of Nations health section committee on the physiological bases of nutrition from 1934 to 1937...	1875–1977	102	British biologist
Sir Samuel Rickard Christophers Samuel Rickard Christophers Sir Rickard Christophers was a British protozoologist and medical entomologist specialising in mosquitoes....	1873–1978	104	British protozoologist
Thomas H. Clark T. H. Clark Thomas Henry Clark, Ph.D., FRSC was a Canadian geologist who is considered to have been one of the nation's top scientists of the 20th century. He was a professor who authored over 100 scientific publications. After his death, a mineral was named in his honour.Clark was born in London, England...	1893–1996	102	Canadian geologist Geologist A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes and history that has shaped it. Geologists usually engage in studying geology. Geologists, studying more of an applied science than a theoretical one, must approach Geology using...
Sir William D. Coolidge	1873–1975	101	American engineer and developer of the Coolidge tube for production of x-ray X-ray X-radiation is a form of electromagnetic radiation. X-rays have a wavelength in the range of 0.01 to 10 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 petahertz to 30 exahertz and energies in the range 120 eV to 120 keV. They are shorter in wavelength than UV rays and longer than gamma... s
Morton W. Coutts Morton W. Coutts Morton William Coutts was a New Zealand born inventor who revolutionised the science of brewing beer. He is best known for the continuous fermentation method.-History:...	1904–2004	100	New Zealand inventor and developer of the continuous fermentation Fermentation (food) Fermentation in food processing typically is the conversion of carbohydrates to alcohols and carbon dioxide or organic acids using yeasts, bacteria, or a combination thereof, under anaerobic conditions. Fermentation in simple terms is the chemical conversion of sugars into ethanol... method
Ray Crist Ray Crist Ray Crist was an American chemist. According to a feature that appeared in the Chemistry, Crist was born on a farm near Grantham, Pennsylvania...	1900–2005	105	American chemist
Nikolay Dollezhal Nikolay Dollezhal Nikolay Antonovich Dollezhal was a Soviet mechanical engineer, a key figure in Soviet atomic bomb project and chief designer of nuclear reactors from the first plutonium production reactor to the RBMK....	1899–2000	101	Russian mechanical engineer
William Gould Dow William Gould Dow William Gould Dow was an American scientist, educator and inventor. He was a pioneer in a variety of fields, including electrical engineering, space research, computer engineering, and nuclear engineering...	1895–1999	104	American scientist and inventor who helped develop radar Radar Radar is an object-detection system which uses radio waves to determine the range, altitude, direction, or speed of objects. It can be used to detect aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, weather formations, and terrain. The radar dish or antenna transmits pulses of radio... jamming
Frank Ellis Frank Ellis (radiologist) Frank Ellis was a world leader in the treatment of cancer by radiation therapy. He was born in Sheffield, England and was educated at King Edward VII School and the University of Sheffield. He subsequently worked as a radiation oncologist at Weston Park Hospital, Sheffield...	1905–2006	100	British radiologist Radiology Radiology is a medical specialty that employs the use of imaging to both diagnose and treat disease visualized within the human body. Radiologists use an array of imaging technologies to diagnose or treat diseases...
Rica Erickson Rica Erickson Frederica Lucy "Rica" Erickson AM, née Sandilands, was an Australian naturalist, botanical artist, historian, author and teacher. Without any formal scientific training, she wrote extensively on botany and birds, as well as genealogy and general history...	1908–2009	101	Australian naturalist
Henri Fabre Henri Fabre Henri Fabre was a French aviator and the inventor of Le Canard, the first seaplane in history.Henri Fabre was born into a prominent family of shipowners in the city of Marseilles. He was educated in the Jesuit College of Marseilles, where he undertook advanced studies in sciences. He then studied...	1882–1984	101	French aviation pioneer and inventor of the seaplane Seaplane A seaplane is a fixed-wing aircraft capable of taking off and landing on water. Seaplanes that can also take off and land on airfields are a subclass called amphibian aircraft...
Raymond Firth Raymond Firth Sir Raymond William Firth, CNZM, FBA, was an ethnologist from New Zealand. As a result of Firth's ethnographic work, actual behaviour of societies is separated from the idealized rules of behaviour within the particular society...	1901–2002	100	New Zealand anthropologist
R. M. Foster R. M. Foster Ronald Martin Foster , was a Bell Labs mathematician whose work was of significance regarding electronic filters for use on telephone lines...	1896–1998	101	American engineer
Henry Jacques Gaisman Henry Jacques Gaisman Henry Jacques Gaisman was a philanthropist and inventor of a type of safety razor, the autographic camera, and over one thousand other patents which benefited common items such as swivel chairs, men's belts, and carburetors.-History:His father, Jacques Gaisman , was an immigrant originally from...	1869–1974	104	American inventor, first to develop the safety razor Safety razor A safety razor is a razor that protects the skin from all but the very edge of the blade. These razors reduce the possibility of serious injury, which makes them more forgiving than a straight razor.-Cartridges introduced:...
Augusto Gansser-Biaggi Augusto Gansser-Biaggi Augusto Gansser-Biaggi is a Swiss geologist who specialised in the geology of the Himalayas. He was born in Milan.-Career:His geological researches were global in scope:* East Greenland , a 4 month expedition under Lauge Koch....	1910 –		Swiss geologist
Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch was a German-born U.S. geneticist and co-founder of developmental genetics.- Life and scientific career :...	1907–2007	100	German-American geneticist
Maurice Goldhaber Maurice Goldhaber Maurice Goldhaber was an Austrian-born American physicist, who in 1957 established that neutrinos have negative helicity.-Early Life and Childhood:...	1911–2011		American nuclear physicist
Bill Haast Bill Haast William E. "Bill" Haast was the director of the Miami Serpentarium Laboratories, a facility near Punta Gorda, Florida, which produces snake venom for medical and research use. Haast extracted venom from venomous snakes from the time he was a boy...	1910–2011	100	American director of the Miami Serpentarium Serpentarium A serpentarium is a reptile zoo or reptile park specializing in snakes. Many serpentariums milk snakes for venom for medical and scientific research.-History:The Miami Serpentarium opened in 1948 and closed in 1984.-Notable serpentariums:...
Viktor Hamburger Viktor Hamburger Viktor Hamburger was a German professor and embryologist. Hamburger lectured, among others, Nobel Prize-winning neurologist Rita Levi-Montalcini , who identified nerve growth factor along with Hamburger when they collaborated...	1900–2001	100	German professor and embryologist Embryology Embryology is a science which is about the development of an embryo from the fertilization of the ovum to the fetus stage...
Michael Heidelberger Michael Heidelberger Michael Heidelberger was an American immunologist who is regarded as the father of modern immunology. He and Oswald Avery showed that the polysaccharides of pneumococcus are antigens, enabling him to show that antibodies are proteins...	1888–1991	103	American immunologist Immunology Immunology is a broad branch of biomedical science that covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms. It deals with the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and diseases; malfunctions of the immune system in immunological disorders ; the...
Rudolf Hell Rudolf Hell Rudolf Hell was a German inventor. He was born in Eggmühl, Germany.From 1919 to 1923 he studied electrical engineering in Munich....	1901–2002	100	German inventor
Joel Henry Hildebrand Joel Henry Hildebrand Joel Henry Hildebrand was an American educator and a pioneer chemist. He was a major figure in chemistry research specializing in liquids and nonelectrolyte solutions.-Education and professorship:...	1881–1983	101	American chemist
Polly Hill Polly Hill (horticulturist) Mary Louise Butcher "Polly" Hill was an American horticulturist best known for testing how well plants could survive in cold climates. She founded the Polly Hill Arboretum on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts....	1907–2007	100	American horticulturist Horticulture Horticulture is the industry and science of plant cultivation including the process of preparing soil for the planting of seeds, tubers, or cuttings. Horticulturists work and conduct research in the disciplines of plant propagation and cultivation, crop production, plant breeding and genetic...
Arthur R. von Hippel Arthur R. von Hippel Arthur Robert von Hippel was a German American materials scientist and physicist. Von Hippel was a pioneer in the study of dielectrics, ferromagnetic and ferroelectric materials, and semiconductors and was a codeveloper of radar during World War II.-Early life:Von Hippel was born in Rostock,...	1898–2003	105	German-American physicist and co-developer of the radar
Dorrit Hoffleit Dorrit Hoffleit Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit was an American senior research astronomer at Yale University.Hoffleit was born in Florence, Alabama and earned her Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College in 1938. Starting as a research assistant at the Harvard College Observatory in 1929, she was hired as an astronomer...	1907–2007	100	American research astronomer
Albert Hofmann Albert Hofmann Albert Hofmann was a Swiss scientist known best for being the first person to synthesize, ingest and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide . He authored more than 100 scientific articles and a number of books, including LSD: My Problem Child...	1906–2008	102	Swiss discoverer of LSD
Friedrich Hund Friedrich Hund Friedrich Hermann Hund was a German physicist from Karlsruhe known for his work on atoms and molecules.Hund worked at the Universities of Rostock, Leipzig, Jena, Frankfurt am Main, and Göttingen....	1896–1997	101	German physicist
Ancel Keys Ancel Keys Ancel Benjamin Keys was an American scientist who studied the influence of diet on health. In particular, he hypothesized that different kinds of dietary fat had different effects on health....	1904–2004	100	American biologist
Barys Kit Barys Kit Barys Kit is a Belarusian mathematician, physicist, chemist and philosopher.-Biography:...	1910 –		Belarus Belarus Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,... ian scientist
Nathaniel Kleitman Nathaniel Kleitman Nathaniel Kleitman was Professor Emeritus in Physiology at the University of Chicago. Author of the seminal 1939 book Sleep and Wakefulness, he is recognized as the father of American sleep research...	1895–1999	104	American father of sleep research and co-discoverer of REM sleep
Paul E. Klopsteg Paul E. Klopsteg Paul Ernest Klopsteg was an American physicist. The asteroid 3520 Klopsteg was named after him and the yearly Klopsteg Memorial Award was founded in his memory....	1889–1991	101	American physicist Physicist A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
Jerome F. Lederer Jerome F. Lederer Jerome F. Lederer was an American aviation-safety pioneer, known as "Mr. Aviation Safety."He was born in New York City. He received a BSC in mechanical engineering with aeronautical options in 1924 and an M.E. in 1925 from New York University. In 1926, he was hired by the United States Postal...	1902–2004	101	American engineer
Inge Lehmann Inge Lehmann Inge Lehmann FRS , was a Danish seismologist who, in 1936, argued that the Earth's core is not one single molten sphere, but that an inner core exists which has physical properties that are different from those of the outer core.-Life:Inge Lehmann was born and grew up in Østerbro, a part of...	1888–1993	104	Danish Denmark Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark... seismologist Seismology Seismology is the scientific study of earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or through other planet-like bodies. The field also includes studies of earthquake effects, such as tsunamis as well as diverse seismic sources such as volcanic, tectonic, oceanic,...
Emma Lehmer Emma Lehmer Emma Markovna Lehmer was a mathematician known for her work on reciprocity laws in algebraic number theory...	1906–2007	100	Russian-American mathematician
Rita Levi-Montalcini Rita Levi-Montalcini Rita Levi-Montalcini , Knight Grand Cross is an Italian neurologist who, together with colleague Stanley Cohen, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of nerve growth factor...	1909 –		Italian neurologist Neurology Neurology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders of the nervous system. Specifically, it deals with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of disease involving the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous systems, including their coverings, blood vessels, and all effector tissue,... (Nobel laureate Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will... ) and senator
August Luebs August Luebs August A. Luebs was an American mechanical engineer and an expert on air conditioning and heating. He pioneered the science of air conditioning in the early part of the twentieth century.- Biography :...	1889–1989	100	American mechanical engineer
Ernst Mayr Ernst Mayr Ernst Walter Mayr was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, historian of science, and naturalist...	1904–2005	100	German-American biologist
Rogers McVaugh Rogers McVaugh Rogers McVaugh was a research professor of botany and the UNC Herbarium's curator of Mexican plants. He was also Adjunct Research Scientist of the Hunt Institute in Carnegie Mellon University and a Professor Emeritus of botany in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.-Biography:Born in New York...	1909–2009	100	American botanist Botany Botany, plant science, or plant biology is a branch of biology that involves the scientific study of plant life. Traditionally, botany also included the study of fungi, algae and viruses... and educator
Wilhelm Meise Wilhelm Meise Wilhelm Meise was a German ornithologist. He studied at the University of Berlin from 1924-1928, where he did his Ph.D. dissertation on the distribution of the Carrion Crow and the Hooded Crow, and hybridization between them under the supervision of Professor Erwin Stresemann, ....	1901–2002	101	German ornithologist
William F. Milliken, Jr. William F. Milliken, Jr. William F. Milliken, Jr. is a former aerospace engineer, automotive engineer and racecar driver. He was born in Old Town, Maine....	1911 –		American aerospace engineer and racing driver
Russell L. Mixter Russell L. Mixter Russell L. Mixter was an American scientist, noted for leading the American Scientific Affiliation away from anti-evolutionism, and for his advocacy of progressive creationism.- Academic career :...	1906–2007	100	American biologist
Ralph S. Moore Ralph S. Moore Ralph S. Moore was born to Orlando Moore in Visalia, California. In 1937 he opened Moore's Miniature Roses in California and from then until his death bred over five hundred new miniature rose breeds including the award winning "Ann Moore", after his wife, Ann...	1907–2009	102	American horticulturalist
Margaret Murray Margaret Murray Margaret Alice Murray was a prominent British Egyptologist and anthropologist. Primarily known for her work in Egyptology, which was "the core of her academic career," she is also known for her propagation of the Witch-cult hypothesis, the theory that the witch trials in the Early Modern period of...	1863–1963	100	British anthropologist
Sergey Nikolsky	1905 –		Russian mathematician
Georg Nöbeling Georg Nöbeling Georg August Nöbeling was a German mathematician.Born and raised in Lüdenscheid, Nöbeling studied mathematics and physics in Göttingen and Vienna where he was a student of Karl Menger and received his PhD in 1931 on a generalization of the embedding theorem, which for one special case can be...	1907–2008	100	German mathematician
Ruth Patrick Ruth Patrick Dr. Ruth Myrtle Patrick is a botanist and limnologist specializing in diatoms and freshwater ecology, who developed ways to measure the health of freshwater ecosystems and established a number of research facilities. She attended the Sunset Hill School in Kansas City, Missouri, graduating in 1925....	1907 –		American limnologist Limnology Limnology , also called freshwater science, is the study of inland waters. It is often regarded as a division of ecology or environmental science. It covers the biological, chemical, physical, geological, and other attributes of all inland waters...
Luigi Poletti	1864–1967	103	Italian mathematician
Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina Pelageya Yakovlevna Polubarinova-Kochina was a Soviet woman mathematician and scientist, working in applied mathematics, best known for her work on the application of Fuchsian differential equations to hydrodynamics....	1899–1999	100	Russian mathematician
Malcolm Renfrew Malcolm Renfrew Malcolm MacKenzie Renfrew is an American polymer chemist, inventor, and professor emeritus at the University of Idaho in the Moscow, Idaho. Renfrew Hall, the university's chemistry building, was named for him in 1985....	1910 –		American chemist
Robert Hallowell Richards Robert Hallowell Richards Robert Hallowell Richards was an American mining engineer, metallurgist, and educator, born at Gardiner, Maine...	1844–1945	100	American metallurgist Metallurgy Metallurgy is a domain of materials science that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their intermetallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are called alloys. It is also the technology of metals: the way in which science is applied to their practical use...
Henry Nicholas Ridley Henry Nicholas Ridley Henry Nicholas Ridley CMG , MA , FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. was an English botanist and geologist.Born at West Harling Hall, Norfolk, England...	1855–1956	100	British biologist
Victor Blanchard Scheffer Victor Blanchard Scheffer Victor Blanchard Scheffer was an American mammologist and the author of eleven books relating to naturalism...	1906–2011	104	American zoologist Zoology Zoology \|zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct... and author
Waldo Semon Waldo Semon Waldo Lonsbury Semon was a renowned American inventor born in Demopolis, Alabama.Semon put his name into the history books for inventing vinyl, the world's second most used plastic. He found the formula for vinyl by mixing a few synthetic polymers, and the result was a substance that was elastic,...	1898–1999	100	American chemist
Bei Shizhang Bei Shizhang Bei Shizhang was a Chinese biologist and educator. He was an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences....	1903–2009	106	Chinese biologist and educator
Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind was an American neurologist and psychiatrist.She conducted pioneering research into the use of insulin, lithium, and electroconvulsive therapy in the treatment of psychiatric disorders....	1901–2002	101	American psychiatry Psychiatry Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities... researcher
Gerolf Steiner Gerolf Steiner Gerolf Steiner was a German zoologist.He was born on March 23, 1908 in Strasbourg, and occupied the chair of zoology at the University of Karlsruhe from 1962 to 1973. He is famous worldwide for a little book on the anatomy and habits of the Rhinogradentia, a fictitious order of mammals whose nose...	1908–2009	101	German professor of zoology
Ralph Randles Stewart Ralph Randles Stewart Dr. Prof. Ralph Randles Stewart usually referred to as R. R. Stewart, was an American botanist who spent his career teaching and studying plants in Pakistan.- Education :...	1890–1993	103	American botanist
Dirk Jan Struik Dirk Jan Struik Dirk Jan Struik was a Dutch mathematician and Marxian theoretician who spent most of his life in the United States.- Life :...	1894–2000	106	Dutch mathematician
Ralph Tambs-Lyche Ralph Tambs-Lyche Ralph Tambs-Lyche was a Norwegian mathematician.He was born in Macon, Georgia as a son of Norwegian father Hans Tambs Lyche and American mother Mary Rebecca Godden . He moved to Norway at the age of two...	1890–1991	100	Norwegian mathematician
Wilmer W. Tanner	1909–2011	101	American zoologist
John Kenneth Terres John Kenneth Terres John Kenneth Terres , was an American naturalist and author. He is best known for his popular works on North American birds. He authored more than fifty works, usually writing as John K. Terres....	1905–2006	100	American naturalist and author
Dorothy Burr Thompson Dorothy Burr Thompson Dorothy Burr Thompson was a classical archaeologist and art historian at Bryn Mawr College and a leading authority on Hellenistic terracotta figurines.-Biography:...	1900–2001	100	American classical archaeologist Classical archaeology Classical archaeology is the archaeological investigation of the great Mediterranean civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Nineteenth century archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann were drawn to study the societies they had read about in Latin and Greek texts... and art historian
Germaine Tillion Germaine Tillion Germaine Tillion born in Allègre in Haute-Loire on May 30, 1907 – April 18, 2008) was a French anthropologist, best known for her work in Algeria in the 1950s on behalf of the French government.- Anthropology of the Chaoui :...	1907–2008	100	French anthropologist
Constance Tipper Constance Tipper Constance Fligg Elam Tipper was a British metallurgist and crystallographer.Constance Tipper specialized in the investigation of metal strength and its effect on engineering problems. During the Second World War, she investigated the causes of brittle fracture in Liberty Ships...	1894–1995	101	British metallurgist and crystallographer Crystallography Crystallography is the experimental science of the arrangement of atoms in solids. The word "crystallography" derives from the Greek words crystallon = cold drop / frozen drop, with its meaning extending to all solids with some degree of transparency, and grapho = write.Before the development of...
László Tisza László Tisza László Tisza was Professor of Physics Emeritus at MIT. He was a colleague of famed physicists Edward Teller, Lev Landau and Fritz London, and initiated the two-fluid theory of liquid helium.-United States:...	1907–2009	101	Hungarian-American physicist
Victor Vacquier Victor Vacquier Victor Vacquier, Sr. was a professor of geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.Vacquier was born in St. Petersburg, Russia...	1907–2009	101	Russian-American geophysicist Geophysics Geophysics is the physics of the Earth and its environment in space; also the study of the Earth using quantitative physical methods. The term geophysics sometimes refers only to the geological applications: Earth's shape; its gravitational and magnetic fields; its internal structure and...
Leopold Vietoris Leopold Vietoris Leopold Vietoris was an Austrian mathematician and a World War I veteran who gained additional fame by becoming a supercentenarian...	1891–2002	110	Austrian mathematician
Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya	1860–1962	101	Indian engineer
Marthe Vogt Marthe Vogt Marthe Louise Vogt was a German scientist who was referred to as one of the leading neuroscientists of the twentieth century...	1903–2003	100	German-English neuroscientist Neuroscientist A neuroscientist is an individual who studies the scientific field of neuroscience or any of its related sub-fields...
Frederick Warner Frederick Warner (engineer) Sir Frederick Edward Warner FRS, FREng was a British chemical engineer. He was knighted in 1968, FRS 1976, Leverhulme Medal 1978, Buchanan Medal 1982. He was a founding Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering....	1910–2010	100	British chemical engineer Chemical engineer In the field of engineering, a chemical engineer is the profession in which one works principally in the chemical industry to convert basic raw materials into a variety of products, and deals with the design and operation of plants and equipment to perform such work...
Walter Francis Willcox Walter Francis Willcox Walter Francis Willcox, Ph.D., LL.D. was an American statistician. He was born in Reading, Massachusetts to William Henry Willcox and Anne Holmes Goodenow. He was graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1880; Amherst College in 1884 with an A.B. and in 1888 received and A.M. degree from...	1861–1964	103	American statistician Statistician A statistician is someone who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. The core of that work is to measure, interpret, and describe the world and human activity patterns within it...
Filippo Zappata Filippo Zappata Filippo Zappata was an Italian engineer and aircraft designer.Zappata was born in Ancona. He worked for Gabardini, Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico , Blériot, Breda, and Agusta, In the 1930s he designed a series of successful multi-engined hydroplanes such as the CANT Z.501 flying boat, CANT Z.506...	1894–1994	100	Italian aircraft designer and pioneer
Zheng Ji	1900–2010	110	Chinese nutritionist Nutritionist A nutritionist is a person who advises on matters of food and nutrition impacts on health. Different professional terms are used in different countries, employment settings and contexts — some examples include: nutrition scientist, public health nutritionist, dietitian-nutritionist, clinical... and biochemist Biochemist Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. Typical biochemists study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms. The prefix of "bio" in "biochemist" can be understood as a fusion of "biological chemist."-Role:...

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