Gives information about the lives and accomplishments of ten famous scientists. Includes a list of other important scientists and their inventions.

Learn about Ahmed Zewail, the father of femtochemistry, and the first Arab scientist to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field.

Learn about the Filipino scientist, Benjamin Cabrera, who specialized in parasitology.

An article reviewing the life and discoveries of Niccolo Leoniceno who was a scientist, Italian humanist, and physician.

Meet the Ukranian scientist known for his experimental research in improved crop yields called vernalization. However, he rejected Mendelian genetics in favor of pseudoscientific ideas.

Learn about the life and work of Willard Libby, the scientist who helped in the development of radiocarbon dating which led to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960.

Find out about Ernst Haeckel, a scientist known for his work with ecology, zoology, and the study of phylogeny.

Learn about surgeon Alfred Blalock, who developed the operation that ushered in the modern era of cardiac surgery.

Find out about mathematician Brahmagupta, who was the first to give rules to compute with zero.

Find out about one of the foremost primatologists who undertook an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups over a period of 18 years in the mountain forests of Rwanda.

UNderstand more about the man behind the brand name, Illy, and consider what he did for coffee.

Learn about the Austrian biochemist and author, Erwin Chargaff, best known for "Chargaff's Rules" which lead to the discovery of DNA's double helix structure.

This article summarizes the work and life of Henry Cavendish.

Learn about the life of the man Ibn Rushd in this article. Learn how he tried to merge "Aristotelian philosophy with Islamic thought".

This article gives you the full biography of J. Hans D. Jensen.

Learn about the accomplishments of Jane Goodall in studying the behavior of chimpanzees in this article.

This article contains the full biography of meteorologist, geologist, and physicist Jean Andre Deluc.

This article describes the life and discoveries of Jonas Salk.

Learn about the life and scientific discoveries of Keisuke Ito.

This article gives a full biography of Kip S. Thorne.

Learn about the life and discoveries of Lee De Forest in this article.

This article discusses the life and scientific discoveries of Leo Szillard.

This article describes the life and discoveries of Leon Foucault.

This article describes the life and accomplishments of a NASA's astronaut, Mae Carol Jemison.