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Researchers, physicians and mathematicians who worked out how the world and the body behave.
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Physician 29
Physicist 22
Biologist 17
Chemist 17
Public Health Leader 12
Astronomer 11
Author 11
Educator 10
Inventor 9
Mathematician 7
Activist 6
Earth Scientist 5
6 people
Linus Pauling 1901–1994Science & MathematicsChemist and peace activist who won two unshared Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Peace.
James Hansen b. 1941Science & MathematicsThe NASA climate scientist who told the Senate in 1988 that global warming had begun
Leo Szilard 1898–1964Science & MathematicsConceived the nuclear chain reaction, started the American bomb program, then petitioned against using it
Mary Lasker 1900–1994Medicine & Public HealthTurned advertising method into a lobbying machine and built federal funding for medical research.
Hans Bethe 1906–2005Science & MathematicsPhysicist who explained stellar energy production and led theoretical work at Los Alamos before becoming a prominent arms-control voice.
Alice Hamilton 1869–1970Medicine & Public HealthFounded American industrial toxicology and documented workplace lead and chemical poisoning.