Italian priest and scientist (1818–1878)
Angelo Secchi
Angelo Secchi was an Italian Catholic priest and astronomer from the Italian region of Emilia.
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French engineer and physicist (1785–1836)
Claude-Louis Navier
Claude-Louis Navier was a French civil engineer, affiliated with the French government, and a physicist who specialized in continuum mechanics.
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Swiss-Russian chemist and physician (1802–1850)
Germain Henri Hess
Germain Henri Hess was a Swiss-Russian chemist and medical doctor who formulated Hess' law, an early principle of thermochemistry.
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American chemist (1893–1978)
James Bryant Conant
James Bryant Conant was an American chemist, a president of Harvard University, and the first U.S.
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English physical chemist (1874–1936)
Martin Lowry
Thomas Martin Lowry was an English physical chemist who developed the Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory simultaneously with and independently of Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted and was a founder-member and president (1928–1930) of the Faraday Society.
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Polish-Swiss chemist (1897–1996)
Tadeusz Reichstein
Tadeusz Reichstein, also known as Tadeus Reichstein, was a Polish-Swiss chemist and a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (1950), which was awarded for his work on the isolation of cortisone.
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Russian polymath, engineer, scientist and architect (1853–1939)
Vladimir Shukhov
Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov was a Russian and Soviet engineer-polymath, scientist and architect renowned for his pioneering works on new methods of analysis for structural engineering that led to breakthroughs in industrial design of the world's first hyperboloid structures, diagrid shell structures, tensile structures, gridshell structures, oil reservoirs, pipelines, boilers, ships and barges.
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Nobel prize winning American chemical physicist (born 1953)
William E. Moerner
William Esco Moerner, also known as W.
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