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Albert Einstein
1879 — 1955
Albert Einstein was the German-born theoretical physicist who rewrote the laws of the universe with his special and general theories of relativity, and whose famous equation E=mc² unlocked the terrify…
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Carl Jung
1875 — 1961
The founder of analytical psychology and explorer of the collective unconscious
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Alan Turing
1912 — 1954
Alan Turing was the British mathematician and logician who cracked the Enigma cipher, shortened World War II by years, and laid the theoretical foundations for the computer and artificial intelligence…
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Charles Darwin
1809 — 1882
Charles Darwin was a British naturalist who, after five years circumnavigating the globe aboard HMS Beagle, spent twenty more years assembling the evidence that would overturn humanity's understanding…
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Werner Heisenberg
1901 — 1976
Werner Heisenberg was the German theoretical physicist who, at twenty-five years old, invented matrix mechanics and shattered the classical picture of the atom — earning a Nobel Prize before he was th…
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Isaac Newton
1643 — 1727
Isaac Newton was the English mathematician and natural philosopher who gave the world the laws of motion, universal gravitation, and the calculus — remaking what it meant to know anything about the ph…
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Ada Lovelace
1815 — 1852
The mathematician who translated Babbage's Analytical Engine and, in her annotations, described what a machine could do that its inventor had not imagined — writing the first algorithm a century before the first computer.
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Percy Lavon Julian
1899 — 1975
Percy Lavon Julian was an African American chemist who pioneered the synthesis of medicinal compounds from soybeans, producing cortisone, progesterone, and physostigmine at industrial scale and transf…
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Lewis Howard Latimer
1848 — 1928
Lewis Howard Latimer was a self-taught draftsman, inventor, and engineer who refined the carbon filament that made Edison's incandescent bulb commercially viable, then personally supervised the instal…
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George Washington Carver
1864–1943
Born into slavery and orphaned as an infant, George Washington Carver became the most celebrated agricultural scientist in American history, transforming the economy of the post-Reconstruction South b…
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Katherine Johnson
1918–2020
Katherine Johnson was a mathematician at NACA and NASA whose orbital mechanics calculations were so trusted that John Glenn refused to launch until she personally verified the computer's numbers. Work…
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Benjamin Banneker
1731–1806
Benjamin Banneker was a free Black farmer, self-taught astronomer, mathematician, and almanac author from Maryland who corresponded with Thomas Jefferson to challenge the contradiction at the heart of…
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Charles R. Drew
1904–1950
Charles Richard Drew was an American surgeon and medical researcher who pioneered the science of blood banking, developing the methods for collecting, processing, and storing blood plasma that saved h…
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Claude Shannon
1916–2001
Claude Shannon invented the mathematical theory of communication in 1948, single-handedly founding the field of information theory and making the digital age possible. A Bell Labs polymath who built c…
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Patricia Bath
1942–2019
Patricia Bath was an ophthalmologist, inventor, and humanitarian who in 1988 became the first Black American woman to receive a medical patent — for the Laserphaco Probe, a device that revolutionized …
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René Descartes
1596 — 1650
He doubted everything until he found the one thing he couldn't: I think, therefore I am. He invented analytic geometry, raised the mind-body problem, and suppressed a whole book when Galileo was condemned. The problem he raised has not been solved.
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Charles Babbage
1791 — 1871
He designed a computer 150 years before one was built. Ada Lovelace understood his Analytical Engine better than he did in some ways. He never finished it. The computers you're reading this on trace to his designs.
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Marie Curie
1867 — 1934
Two Nobel Prizes. Two new elements. She coined the term radioactivity and proved it is an atomic property. She is dying from the radiation exposure that earned her those prizes. Her notebooks are kept in lead-lined boxes.
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Nikola Tesla
1856 — 1943
He powered the modern world with alternating current and died broke in a New York hotel room while his patents ran the world. He predicted the internet in 1900. He won the War of Currents. He has views about Edison.
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Galileo Galilei
1564 — 1642
He looked through the telescope and saw four moons orbiting Jupiter. Not everything orbits the Earth. The Inquisition put him under house arrest. Under house arrest, nearly blind, he wrote the foundational text of classical mechanics and had it smuggled to Amsterdam.
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