Physicists
Johann Weyer
1 January 1515 - 24 February 1588
Dutch physician
James Van Allen
September 7, 1914 - August 9, 2006
American nuclear physicist
Louis Néel
22 November 1904 - 17 November 2000
Physicists
Chien-Shiung Wu
May 31, 1912 - February 16, 1997
American nuclear physicist
Virginia Apgar
June 7, 1909 - August 7, 1974
Physician who developed the Apgar score
Richard Lower (physician)
1631 - 17 January 1691
English physician who played an important part in the development of medical science
Niels Ryberg Finsen
December 15, 1860 - September 24, 1904
Physician and scientist of Icelandic descent, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1903
Igor Kurchatov
12 January 1903 - 7 February 1960
Russian nuclear physicist
Carl Zeiss
11 September 1816 - 3 December 1888
German optical physicist
Hideki Yukawa
23 January 1907 - 8 September 1981
Japanese theoretical physicist
Samuel Hahnemann
10 April 1755 - 2 July 1843
German physician, founder of homeopathic medicine
Ronald McNair
October 21, 1950 - January 28, 1986
Physicist, astronaut
Laurel Clark
March 10, 1961 - February 1, 2003
American physician & astronaut<br/>perished aboard STS-107
James Chadwick
20 October 1891 - 24 July 1974
English physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. He was the head of the British scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II.
Dennis Gabor
5 June 1900 - 8 February 1979
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography
Alan Lightman
November 28, 1948 -
Physicist, science writer, essayist, novelist
John C. Baez
June 12, 1961 -
American mathematical physicist
Arvo Ylppö
27 October 1887 - 27 January 1992
Finnish physician
Bill Frist
February 22, 1952 -
physician, businessman, and politician
Paracelsus
11 November or 17 December 1493 - 24 September 1541
physician, occultist
Ernst Ruska
25 December 1906 - 27 May 1988
German physicist
William Osler
1849 - 1919
pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author, cofounder of Johns Hopkins Hospital
Axel Munthe
October 31, 1857 - February 11, 1949
Swedish physician
Joseph Swan
31 October 1828 - 27 May 1914
British physicist and inventor
George H. Tichenor
April 12, 1837 - January 14, 1923
American physician and Confederate Army officer
Sally Ride
1951 - 2012
American Physicist and Astronaut