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Top 50 Scientists of All Time
From Newton to Einstein, discover the minds that unlocked the universe's secrets
Klaus Fuchs
Implosion physics for the first plutonium bomb, a 1946 hydrogen-bomb patent with John von Neumann, and the espionage that helped the Soviet Union build a near-copy of the American bomb.
Alan Nunn May
Being the first person convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, exposed by Igor Gouzenko's defection in Ottawa in September 1945 and sentenced to ten years' hard labour in 1946.
Jun Ye
The strontium optical lattice atomic clock; measuring gravitational redshift at the millimeter scale; 2026 Wolf Prize in Physics
Shankar Balasubramanian
Co-inventing Solexa/Illumina next-generation DNA sequencing; the 'Solexa Idea' of 26 August 1997; 2026 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
David Klenerman
Co-inventing Solexa/Illumina next-generation DNA sequencing; single-molecule detection; 2026 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Pascal Mayer
Conceiving clustered, massively parallel DNA sequencing (1997 patents); 2026 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Immanuel Bloch
Quantum simulation with ultracold atoms in optical lattices; the superfluid to Mott insulator transition; quantum gas microscopes; 2026 Wolf Prize in Physics
Zenaida Seva
Filipino astrologer
Chani Nicholas
Canadian astrologer (born 1975)
Louise McWhirter
Financial astrologer
Lancelot Coelson
English astrologer and medical practitioner
Nīlakaṇṭha
Indian astrologer
Joshua Childrey
English priest
Helene Koppejan
Dutch astrologer and entrepreneur
Margaret Hone
Reviving the Equal House system in her popular courses of instruction
Lois Rodden
American astrologer (1928-2003)
Francis Coxe
English astrologer and medical practitioner
William Andrews
English astrologer (1634–1712)
Tomás de Torres
Portuguese astrologer
Robert Thomas Cross
British astrologer
Robert Couteau
American astrologer, astrological writer, astrocartographer
Richard Edlin
English astrologer
Maurice Woodruff
English astrologer
Mangal Raj Joshi
Nepalese astrologer
Richard Harvey
English astrologer, theologian and controversialist
Michel Hayek
Lebanese astrologer
Jofrancus Offusius
German astrologer
Jim Lewis
Pioneering the technique of Astro*Carto*Graphy, aka astrocartography, which was based on ancient forms of locational astrology
David Kalonymus ben Jacob
Italian astrologer
Chandramauli Upadhyay
Indian astrologer
Arcandam
16th Century astrological pseudonym
Apollinarius
Astrologer (1st/2nd century AD)
Deborah Houlding
British astrologer
Mulugu Ramalingeswara Varaprasad Siddhanti
Narrating weekly horoscopes, astrology, and panchangam on various Telugu language TV channels in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, India
Selina Solomons
The campaign for Women's suffrage in California, which resulted in the passage of Proposition 4
Joseph Blagrave
English astrologer
Louise Huebner
American astrologer
Susan Levitt
Astrologer and tarot card reader
Marcia Moore
American astrologer and astrological writer
Don Neroman
French astrologer
Patric Walker
American writer of astrology columns
George Parker
English astrologer; (1654-1743)
Jean-Aimé de Chavigny
Astrologer and alchemist
Sumanadasa Abeygunawardena
Sri Lankan astrologer
Simon Turnbull
Australian astrologer (1950-2014)
Mantreswara
Indian astrologer
Cyril Fagan
His work in creating western sidereal astrology
Walter Berg
Astrologer
Olivia Barclay
English astrologer (1919–2001)
John Case
English astrologer
Why Scientists of All Time?
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