Famous Scientists and Scientist Types

Rachel Carson

Founder of environmental science

G. W. Carver

Born into slavery, became a peanut farmer and developed an alternative to cotton farming through crop rotation, which reduced the impact on soil

Francis Crick and James Watson

Discovered DNA molecule

Marie Currie

Physicist who discovered radioactivity

Thomas Edison

Invented lightbulb, phonograph, and motion picture

Albert Einstein

Relativity

Henry Ford

Produced the Model T Ford, which was the first car to be mass produced

Jane Goodall

Studied chimpanzees in the wild for decades

Mae Jemison

First African American in space

Gregor Mendel

Father of genetics

Dimitri Medleeve

Creator of the periodic table

Antoine Lavoisier

Father of modern chemistry

Sir Isaac Newton

Identified the theory of gravity and the three laws of motion

Louis Pasteur

Discovered vaccines, pasteurization, and founded germ theory

Johannes Gutenberg

Printing press

Rosalind Franklin

Conducted x-ray crystallographic studies that were the foundation for Watson and Crick’s discovery of DNA

Ellen Ochoa

First Hispanic woman to become an astronaut

Botanist

Studies plants

Cytologist

Studies cells

Entomologist

Studies bugs/insects

Ecologist

Studies the relationships between living things and the environment

Chemist

Studies matter

Astronomer

Studies planets, stars, and galaxies

Geneticist

Studies heredity, genes, and DNA

Geologist

Studies the earth formations, materials, and forces that shape it

Marine biologist

Studies organisms that live in water

Microbiologist

Studies microscopic forms of life

Meteorologist

Studies weather and the atmosphere

Ornithologist

Studies birds

Paleontologist

Studies dinosaurs, fossils, and prehistoric life

Nuclear Physicist

Studies atoms and their interactions

Pathologist

Studies pathogens that cause disease

Seismologist

Studies earthquakes and movement in the earth

Zoologist

Studies animals