Scientist/researcher Famous Names Starting with Letter N

Was a German naturalist. He was a student of, and worked as an assistant to, André Marie Constant D

Was a German naturalist. He was a student of, and worked as an assistant to, André Marie Constant Duméril at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, France, cataloging and classifying species of reptile. In 1811 he published a book entitled Die Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen der Reptilien als Prodrom einer Naturgeschichte derselben, or The Orders, Families, and Types of Reptiles... in which he estabslished the order, squamata, and the families cheloniidae, colubridae, and the subfamily crotalinae, as well as several genera which are still in use by taxonomists today.

A Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum

A Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.

Is a British wildlife presenter, television producer, author, and ornithologist.Marven studied botan

Is a British wildlife presenter, television producer, author, and ornithologist.Marven studied botany at Bristol University until the age of 22 when he left to begin his career at the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol. Over the following years he worked firstly as a wildlife documentary researcher for such programmes as My Family and Other Animals then went on to produce such series as The Land of the Russian Bear.

Is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pas

Is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.

Was a statesman, philosopher, science writer and author of one of the first scientific dissertations

Was a statesman, philosopher, science writer and author of one of the first scientific dissertations regarding speleology.Rarely traveling outside the limits of town, he was occupied by trade, finances, and other official duties for the city-state. Elected duke of Ragusa seven times at the turn of the 17th century, he devoted his life to the prosperity of the city.

Was a Dutch ethologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine w

Was a Dutch ethologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns in animals.

Dutch ethologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Ka

Dutch ethologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns in animals.

Was a Russian explorer and naturalist. Severtzov wrote the Vertical and horizontal distribution of T

Was a Russian explorer and naturalist. Severtzov wrote the Vertical and horizontal distribution of Turkestan wildlife (1873), which included the first description of a number of animals. Among them was an argali (wild sheep) subspecies later named after h

Named a cosmonaut candidate in 1989, Budarin's first space mission was a long-term assignment aboard

Named a cosmonaut candidate in 1989, Budarin's first space mission was a long-term assignment aboard the space station Mir in 1995. Since then,

Was an ethnologist, anti-fascist and human rights activist. Nikolai Girenko was born in 1940 in Leni

Was an ethnologist, anti-fascist and human rights activist. Nikolai Girenko was born in 1940 in Leningrad. On graduating the Leningrad State University he worked for several years in Africa. Girenko received recognition in Russia for his ethnology and Afr

Was a Russian geographer and explorer of Central and Eastern Asia. Although he never reached his fin

Was a Russian geographer and explorer of Central and Eastern Asia. Although he never reached his final goal, Lhasa in Tibet, he significantly contributed to European knowledge on Central Asia and was the first known European to discover the only extant sp

Is a Russian and Soviet astrophysicist, and is the deputy director of the Russian Space Research Ins

Is a Russian and Soviet astrophysicist, and is the deputy director of the Russian Space Research Institute (sometimes translated as The Institute for Cosmic Research) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

Was a Russian scientist, founding father of modern aero- and hydrodynamics. Whereas contemporary sci

Was a Russian scientist, founding father of modern aero- and hydrodynamics. Whereas contemporary scientists scoffed at the idea of human flight, Zhukovsky was the first to undertake the study of airflow.

German inventor of the first internal-combustion engine to efficiently burn fuel directly in a pisto

German inventor of the first internal-combustion engine to efficiently burn fuel directly in a piston chamber.

Was an Austrian entomologist born in Vienna.He was the author of Insecta Musei Graecensis (1761), th

Was an Austrian entomologist born in Vienna.He was the author of Insecta Musei Graecensis (1761), the first purely entomological work to follow the binomial nomenclature of Carolus Linnaeus.

A Soviet physicist and educator. For his fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics that l

A Soviet physicist and educator. For his fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics that lead to the development of laser and maser, Basov shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Aleksandr Prokhorov and Charles Hard Townes.

A Soviet physicist and educator. For his fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics that l

A Soviet physicist and educator. For his fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics that lead to the development of laser and maser, Basov shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Aleksandr Prokhorov and Charles Hard Townes

A Russian/Soviet physicist and chemist. Semyonov was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in chemistry for h

A Russian/Soviet physicist and chemist. Semyonov was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on the mechanism of chemical transformation.

A top Indian scientist currently heading the Indian Council for Medical Research. He is a graduate o

A top Indian scientist currently heading the Indian Council for Medical Research. He is a graduate of R.G. Kar Medical College of the University of Calcutta and completed his training in pathology, parasitology and immunology for which he has been extensively decorated.

Is Co-Director of the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project in Foumban, Cameroon and Director of Cultur

Is Co-Director of the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project in Foumban, Cameroon and Director of Cultural Affairs and Archivist at the Bamum Palace. He is the founder (1978) of “Club Shümom” in Foumban, Director of the A-ka-u-ku and Shümom School Initiative,

Was a famous French caver and adventurer, and is one of the most recognisable names in caving worldw

Was a famous French caver and adventurer, and is one of the most recognisable names in caving worldwide. Following Édouard-Alfred Martel (the "father of modern speleology", although Casteret sometimes also enjoys this title), Casteret, along with Robert de Joly, became a leading figure of French speleology between the world wars and into the middle of the 20th century.

Is an American scientist and former NASA cosmonaut. He is the first American to ride to space on boa

Is an American scientist and former NASA cosmonaut. He is the first American to ride to space on board a Russian vehicle. He did this on March 14, 1995 in the Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft for the Russian Mir-18 mission.

American physicist. A physics professor at Harvard University since 1947, Ramsey also held several p

American physicist. A physics professor at Harvard University since 1947, Ramsey also held several posts with such government and international agencies as NATO and the United States