Biographies
Life accounts of notable scientists and engineers
Biographies
Life accounts of notable scientists and engineers
Sabatier, Paul (1854–1941)
Sabin, Albert Bruce (1906–1993)
Sabin, Florence Rena (1871–1953)
Sabine, Edward (1788–1883)
Sachs, Nelly (1891–1970)
Sadat, (Muhammad) Anwar (1918–1981)
Sagan, Carl Edward (1934–1996)
Saha, Meghnad (1893–1956)
Sahlins, Marshall David (1930– )
Saint-Claire Deville, Henri Etienne (1818–1881)
Sakharov, Andrei Dmitrievich (1921–1989)
Sakmann, Bert (1942– )
Salam, Abdus (1926–1996)
Salk, Jonas Edward (1914–1995)
Sammicheli, Michele (1484–1559)
Samuelson, Paul Anthony (1915–2009)
Samuelsson, Bengt Ingemar (1934– )
Sancar, Aziz (1946– )
Sangallo, Antonio Giamberti da (c. 1483–1546)
Sanger, Frederick (1918–2013)
Sansovino, Jacopo (1486–1570)
Sant'Elia, Antonio (1888–1916)
Santos, Juan Manuel (1951– )
Saramago, José (1922–2010)
Sargent, Thomas J(ohn) (1943– )
Sarich, Vincent M (1934–2012)
Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905–1980)
Sasaki, Hideo (1919–2000)
Satō, Eisaku (1901–1975)
Satyarthi, Kailash (1954– )
Sauvage, Jean Pierre (1944– )
Savery, Thomas (c. 1650–1715)
Sawamoto, Mitsuo
Scamozzi, Vincenzo (1552–1616)
Scarpa, Carlo (1906–1978)
Schafer, Roy (1922– )
Schally, Andrew V(ictor) (1926– )
Scharoun, Hans Bernhard (1893–1972)
Schawlow, Arthur Leonard (1921–1999)
Scheele, Karl Wilhelm (1742–1786)
Schein, Edgar H(enry) (1928– )
Scheiner, Christoph (1573–1650)
Schekman, Randy Wayne (1948– )
Schelling, Thomas Crombie (1921–2016)
Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio (1835–1910)
Schindler, Rudolph (1887–1953)
Schinkel, Karl Friedrich (1781–1841)
Schleiden, Matthias Jakob (1804–1881)
Schmidt, Bernhard Voldemar (1879–1935)
Schmidt, Brian P(aul) (1967– )
Schneider, David Murray (1918–1995)
Schoenheimer, Rudolf (1898–1941)
Scholes, Myron S (1941– )
Schopf, J(ames) William (1941– )
Schramm, David (1945–1997)
Schrieffer, John Robert (1931– )
Schrock, Richard Royce (1945– )
Schrödinger, Erwin (1887–1961)
Schuchert, Charles (1858–1942)
Schultz, Adolph H(ans) (1891–1976)
Schultz, Theodore William (1902–1998)
Schuyler, Montgomery (1843–1914)
Schwabe, Samuel Heinrich (1789–1875)
Schwann, Theodor (1810–1882)
Schwartz, Melvin (1932–2006)
Schwarzschild, Karl (1873–1916)
Schwarzschild, Martin (1912–1997)
Schweitzer, Albert (1875–1965)
Schwinger, Julian Seymour (1918–1994)
Scott, (George) Gilbert (1811–1878)
Scott, Dukinfield Henry (1854–1934)
Scott, Giles Gilbert (1880–1960)
Scott, Peter Markham (1909–1989)
Scully, Vincent (Joseph, Jr) (1920–2017)
Seaborg, Glenn Theodore (1912–1999)
Searles, Harold F(rederic) (1918–2015)
Secchi, Pietro Angelo (1818–1878)
Sedgwick, Adam (1785–1873)
Seeman, Nadrian C. (1945– )
Seeman, Nadrian C.
Seferis, George (1900–1971)
Segal, Walter (1907–1985)
Segrè, Emilio Gino (1905–1989)
Seguin, Marc (1786–1875)
Seidler, Harry (1923–2006)
Seifert, Jaroslav (1901–1986)
Seki Kowa (c.1642–1708)
Selten, Reinhard (1930– )
Semenov, Nikolai Nikolaevich (1896–1986)
Semper, Gottfried (1803–1879)
Sen, Amartya Kumar (1933– )
Serlio, Sebastiano (1475–1554)
Sessler, Gerhard M.
Seward, Albert Charles (1863–1941)
Seyfert, Carl Keenan (1911–1960)
Shannon, Claude Elwood (1916–2001)
Shapiro, Harry L(ionel) (1902–1990)
Shapley, Harlow (1885–1972)
Shapley, Lloyd Stowell (1923–2016)
Sharp, Phillip Allen (1944– )
Sharpe, William Forsyth (1934– )
Sharpey-Schafer, Edward Albert (1850–1935)
Sharpless, K Barry (1941– )
Shaw, (Richard) Norman (1831–1912)
Shaw, (William) Napier (1854–1945)
Shaw, George Bernard (1856–1950)
Shechtman, Dan (1941– )
Sherrington, Charles Scott (1857–1952)
Shiller, Robert James (1946– )
Shimomura, Osamu (1928– )
Shipman, Ellen (1870–1950)
Shirakawa, Hideki (1936– )
Shockley, William Bradford (1910–1989)
Sholokhov, Mikhail Aleksandrovich (1905–1984)
Shrapnel, Henry (1761–1842)
Shull, Clifford G (1915–2001)
Sidgwick, Nevil Vincent (1873–1952)
Siegbahn, Kai (1918–2007)
Siegbahn, Karl Manne Georg (1886–1978)
Siemens, Ernst Werner von (1816–1892)
Sienkiewicz, Henryk Adam Alexander (1846–1916)
Sikorsky, Igor Ivan (1889–1972)
Sillanpää, Frans Eemil (1888–1964)
Silverman, Sydel (1933– )
Simon, Claude Eugène Henri (1913–2005)
Simon, Franz Eugen (1893–1956)
Simon, Herbert Alexander (1916–2001)
Simonds, Ossian Cole (1855–1926)
Simone del Pollaiuolo (1454–1509)
Simpson, George Clark (1878–1965)
Simpson, George Gaylord (1902–1984)
Simpson, James Young (1811–1870)
Simpson, Thomas (1710–1761)
Sims, Chris(topher) (1942– )
Sinan (1489–1588)
Singer, Isaac Bashevis (1904–1991)
Singer, Isaac Merrit (1811–1875)
Singer, June Kurlander (1918–2004)
Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic) (1904–1990)
Skolem, Thoralf Albert (1887–1963)
Skou, Jens C(hristian) (1918– )
Slipher, Vesto Melvin (1875–1969)
Sloan, Samuel (1815–1884)
Smalley, Richard E(rrett) (1943–2005)
Smeaton, John (1724–1792)
Smirke, Robert (1781–1867)
Smith, Cloethiel Woodard (1910–1993)
Smith, George E(lwood) (1930– )
Smith, Grafton Elliot (1871–1937)
Smith, Hamilton Othanel (Smith, Hamilton Othanel)
Smith, Michael (1932–2000)
Smith, Vernon L (1927– )
Smith, William (1769–1839)
Smithies, Oliver (1925–2017)
Smithson (Smithson)
Smoot III, George Fitzgerald (1945– )
Smoot, George (1945– )
Smythson, Robert (c. 1535–1614)
Snell, George Davis (1903–1996)
Snell, Willebrord van Roijen (1580–1626)
Snyder, Solomon Halbert (1938– )
Soane, John (1753–1837)
Soddy, Frederick (1877–1956)
Söderblom, Nathan (1866–1931)
Solecki, Ralph (Stefan) (1917– )
Solow, Robert Merton (1924– )
Solvay, Ernest (1838–1922)
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Isayevich (1918–2008)
Somerville, Mary Greig (1780–1872)
Sommerfeld, Arnold Johannes Wilhelm (1868–1951)
Sommerville, Duncan MacLaren Young (1879–1934)
Soon-Shiong, Patrick
Soper, Alexander (Coburn, III) (1904–1993)
Sorby, Henry Clifton (1826–1908)
Soufflot, Jacques Germain (1713–1780)
South, James (1785–1867)
Soyinka, Wole (1934– )
Spalding, D. Brian
Spallanzani, Lazzaro (1729–1799)
Spaulding, Albert C(lanton) (1914–1990)
Speer, Albert (1905–1981)
Speiser, Ephraim Avigdor (1902–1965)
Spemann, Hans (1869–1941)
Spence, Basil Urwin (1907–1976)
Spence, Janet Taylor (1923– )
Spence, Michael A(ndrew) (1943– )
Sperry, Elmer Ambrose (1860–1930)
Sperry, Roger Wolcott (1913–1994)
Spier, Leslie Ephraim (1893–1961)
Spiro, Melford Elliot (1920–2014)
Spitteler, Carl Friedrich Georg (1845–1924)
Spitzer, Lyman (1914–1997)
Spuhler, James N(orman) (1917–1992)
Squier, Ephraim George (1821–1888)
Stahl, Franklin William (Stahl, Franklin William)
Stahl, Georg Ernst (1660–1734)
Stanley, Wendell Meredith (1904–1971)
Stansfield Smith, Colin (1932–2013)
Stark, Johannes (1874–1957)
Starling, Ernest Henry (1866–1927)
Stas, Jean Servais (1813–1891)
Staudinger, Hermann (1881–1965)
Stebbins, Joel (1878–1966)
Steele, Edward John (1948– )
Steele, Fletcher (1885–1971)
Stefan, Josef (1835–1893)
Stein, William Howard (1911–1980)
Steinbeck, John Ernst (1902–1968)
Steinberger, Jack (1921– )
Steiner, Jakob (1796–1863)
Steinman, Ralph M(arvin) (1943–2011)
Steitz, Thomas A(rthur) (1940– )
Steno, Nicolaus (1638–1686)
Stephenson, George (1781–1848)
Stephenson, Robert (1803–1859)
Steptoe, Patrick Christopher (1913–1988)
Stern, Otto (1888–1969)
Stern, Robert (1939– )
Stevens, Nettie Maria (1861–1912)
Stevinus, Simon (c. 1548–1620)
Stewart, T(homas) Dale, Jr (1901–1997)
Stieltjes, Thomas Jan (1856–1894)
Stigler, George J(oseph) (1911–1991)
Stiglitz, Joseph E (1943– )
Stirling, James Frazer (architect) (1926–1992)
Stirling, Robert (1790–1878)
Stock, Alfred (1876–1946)
Stoddart, James Fraser (1942– )
Stokes, George Gabriel (1819–1903)
Stokes, William (1804–1878)
Stone, (John) Richard (Nicholas) (1913–1991)
Stone, Edward Durell (1902–1978)
Stopes, Marie Charlotte Carmichael (1880–1958)
Störmer, Horst L(udwig) (1949– )
Straus, William L(ouis), Jr (1900–1981)
Street, George Edmund (1824–1881)
Stresemann, Gustav (1878–1929)
Strickland, William (1788–1854)
Strömgren, Bengt Georg Daniel (1908–1987)
Strong, Ann (Louise) (1930– )
Strong, William D(uncan) (1899–1962)
Strutt, John William (Strutt, John William)
Struve, (Gustav Wilhelm) Ludwig (Ottovich) von (1858–1920)
Struve, (Karl) Hermann (Ottovich) von (1854–1920)
Struve, F(riedrich) G(eorg) W(ilhelm) von (1793–1864)
Struve, Otto von (1897–1963)
Struve, Otto Wilhelm von (1819–1905)
Stuart, James ‘Athenian’ (1713–1788)
Stubbe, JoAnne
Sturgeon, William (1783–1850)
Sturgis, John Hubbard (1834–1888)
Sturgis, Russell (1836–1909)
Sturtevant, Alfred Henry (1891–1970)
Südhof, Thomas Christian (1955– )
Suess, Eduard (1831–1914)
Sullivan, Harry Stack (1892–1949)
Sullivan, Louis Henry (1856–1924)
Sully-Prudhomme, (René François) Armand (1839–1907)
Sulston, John (1942– )
Sulston, John E (1942– )
Summerson, John Newenham (1904–1992)
Sumner, James (Batcheller) (1887–1955)
Sunyaev, Rashid
Suresh, Subra
Sutherland, Earl Wilbur, Jr. (1915–1974)
Sutherland, Gordon Brims Black McIvor (1907–1980)
Sutherland, Ivan Edward (1938– )
Suttner, Bertha F(elicie) S(ophie) von, Baroness (1843–1914)
Sutton-Pringle, John William (1912–1982)
Suzuki, Akira (1930– )
Svedberg, Theodor (1884–1971)
Swammerdam, Jan (1637–1680)
Swan, Joseph Wilson (1828–1914)
Swanton, John Reed (1873–1958)
Swinburne, James (1858–1958)
Swings, Pol(idore) F. F. (1906–1983)
Sylow, Ludwig Mejdell (1832–1918)
Sylvester, James Joseph (1814–1897)
Synge, Richard Laurence Millington (1914–1994)
Szasz, Thomas (1920–2012)
Szent-Györgyi, Albert von Nagyrapolt (1893–1986)
Szilard, Leo (1898–1964)
Szostak, Jack (1952– )
Szostak, Jack W(illiam) (1952– )
Szymborska, Wislawa (1923–2012)
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