Maria Gaetana Agnesi is best known for writing the first book discussing integral and differential calculus.
1718-1799
Scottish mathematician, physician and satirist John Arbuthnot is known for his satirical writings, which include a political allegory, The History of John Bull.
1667-1735
Charles Babbage was known for his contributions to the first mechanical computers, which laid the groundwork for more complex future designs.
1791-1871
1114-1185
In 1949, mathematician Marjorie Lee Browne became one of the first two African-American women to earn a Ph.D. in her field.
1914-1979
Jacques Alexandre César Charles was a French scientist and inventor who, along with Nicholas Robert, was the first to take flight in a hydrogen balloon.
1746-1823
Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus identified the concept of a heliocentric solar system, in which the sun, rather than the earth, is the center of the solar system.
1473-1543
1895-1969
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian painter and a genius in many realms of science. He is best known for two paintings: the "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper."
1452-1519
1743-1794
1900-1993
Philosopher and mathematician René Descartes is regarded as the father of modern philosophy for defining a starting point for existence, “I think; therefore I am.”
1596-1650
Austrian physicist Christian Doppler first described the Doppler effect, in reference to the observed frequency of light and sound waves, in the paper "Concerning the Coloured Light of Double Stars."
1803-1853
1679-1754
1777-1855
Robert Hooke was an English philosopher, mathematician and architect who discovered the law of elasticity, now known as Hooke's law.
1635-1703
A gifted mathematician, Ada Lovelace is considered to have written instructions for the first computer program in the mid-1800s.
1815-1852
1924-2010
1946-
1863-1939
1790-1868
1928-
English physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton, most famous for his law of gravitation, was instrumental in the scientific revolution of the 17th century.
1643-1727
1882-1935
Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher, who laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities.
1623-1662
1872-1970
Famed mathematician Alan Turing proved in his 1936 paper, "On Computable Numbers," that a universal algorithmic method of determining truth in math cannot exist.
1912-1954
1834-1923
1861-1947