Neil deGrasse Tyson, 66
Astrophysicist
1
Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
Astronomer
2
Bob Pflugfelder, 56
Chemist
3
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)
Physicist
4
Grace Hopper (1906-1992)
Computer Scientist
5
Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
6
Jonas Salk (1914-1995)
Virologist
7
Margaret D Lowman, 71
Conservationist
8
Eugenie Clark (1922-2015)
Zoologist
9
Tom Banks, 75
10
Brian Greene, 62
11
Sheldon Lee Glashow, 92
12
Marvin Harris (1927-2001)
Anthropologist
13
Eric Jacobsen, 65
14
Michael Hart, 92
15
Ralph Randles Stewart (1890-1993)
Botanist
16
Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011)
17
Lewis Morgan (1818-1881)
18
Gertrude B. Elion (1918-1999)
Pharmacologist
19
Roy J. Glauber (1925-2018)
20
Andrea Ghez, 59
21
Lawrence Krauss, 70
22
Paul Berg (1926-2023)
Biologist
23
Irwin Rose (1926-2015)
24
Born in New York
Most Popular Scientists
Steve Fuller, 65
Sociologist
25
Murray Gell-mann (1929-2019)
26
John Fenn (1917-2010)
27
Gilad Lotan, 43
28
William Beebe (1877-1962)
29
Ruth Benedict (1887-1948)
30
Asa Gray (1810-1888)
31
Bob Brier, 81
Archeologist
32
William T. Kane (1932-2008)
33
Richard Axel, 78
34
Samuel Cohen (1921-2010)
35
John Howard Northrop (1891-1987)
36
Carl Woese (1928-2012)
37
Irving Langmuir (1881-1957)
38
Robert Lefkowitz, 81
39
Burton Richter (1931-2018)
40
Edwin Joseph Cohn (1892-1953)
41
Charles Bachman (1924-2017)
42
Albert Tyler (1906-1968)
43
Julian Schwinger (1918-1994)
44
Jerome Karle (1918-2013)
45
Richard Lewontin (1929-2021)
46
Steven Weinberg (1933-2021)
47
Edwin D. Kilbourne (1920-2011)
48
Scientists by State
Scientists by Age