Influential Figures

Scientists and Engineers Who Have Shaped Our World

Ada Lovelace

Alan Guth

Alan Turing

Albert Einstein

Anésia Pinheiro Machado

Archimedes of Syracuse

c.287 BC - c.212 BC

Ashoke Sen

Barbara McClintock

Bertha Parker Pallan

Betty Holberton

Caroline Herschel

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

Dorothy Hodgkin

Dr. Patricia Bath

Edith Kroupa

Elizabeth Blackburn

Erna Schneider Hoover

Florence B. Seibert

Fred Brooks

Geoffrey Hinton

George Boole

Gertrude Belle Elion

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Grace Hopper

Hedy Lamarr

Herman Hollerith

Hertha Ayrton

Irène Joliot-Curie

James Watson

Jane Cooke Wright

Jeanne Villepreux-Power

Jennifer Doudna

Jocelyn Bell Burnel

Katharine Burr Blodgett

Katherine Freese

Katherine Johnson

1918 � Present

Konrad Zuse

Konrad Zuse

Leonardo da Vinci

Lise Meitner

Mae Carol Jemison

Margaret Dorothy Foster

Margaret Reed Lewis

Margaret Sanger

Maria Goeppert Mayer

Marie Curie

Mary Anning

Mary Jacobi

Mary Sherman Morgan

Mária Telkes

Nikola Tesla

Rachel Carson

Robert Watson-Watt

Rosalind Franklin

Ruby Sakae Hirose

Sara Seager

Sau Lan Wu

Shinya Yamanaka

Sir Isaac Newton

Sir Timothy Berners-Lee

Stephanie Kwolek

Stephen Hawking

Thomas Edison

Tu Youyou

Valentina Tereshkova

1937 � Present

Vera Rubin

Virginia Apgar

William Ball

Yvonne C. Brill