Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan

IQ 175

His 'three principles' theory of generalized chemical properties, one of which, sulphur representative of combustion, wa

Abu Rayhan al-Biruni

An Iranian scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age.

Adolphe Quetelet

IQ 175

Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist.

Adrien Marie Legendre

IQ 175

A French mathematician who made numerous contributions to mathematics.

Al-Battani

A Syrian Arab astronomer, and mathematician.

Al-Kindi

A Muslim philosopher, mathematician, physician, and musician who is hailed as the "father of Arab philosophy".

Ibn al-Haytham

IQ 175

A Muslim Arab mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age who is referred to as the father of mod

Anaximander

IQ 180

A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher

Archimedes

IQ 190

A Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.

Aristarchus of Samos

IQ 175

An ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known heliocentric model that placed the Sun at th

Avicenna

IQ 180

A Medieval Persian polymath, physician and philosopher

Carl Sagan

IQ 130

American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science educator

Caroline Herschel

Being the first woman to receive a salary as a scientist and to hold a government position in England.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

A British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist who proposed in her 1925 doctoral thesis that stars were composed

Christiaan Huygens

IQ 190

A Dutch physicist, mathematician, astronomer and inventor, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest scientists of a

Chris Hirata

IQ 225

An American cosmologist and astrophysicist.

Christopher Wren

IQ 165

An acclaimed English architect, as well as an anatomist, astronomer, geometer, and mathematician-physicist.

Ptolemy

IQ 175

2nd-century Greco-Egyptian writer & astronomer who wrote several scientific treatises, three of which were of importance

Democritus

IQ 185

An Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the univ

Edmond Halley

IQ 175

An English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist whos observations helped to determine t

Edward Witten

An American mathematical and theoretical physicist who was awarded a Fields Medal for the proof of the positive energy t

Edwin Hubble

IQ 170

A genius American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observa

Elon Musk

IQ 155

One in a lifetime entrepreneur, business giant, scientist & engineer. The man behind Tesla, Space-X and more.

Eratosthenes

IQ 175

A Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. He was the chief librarian at the Library of Al

Eudoxus of Cnidus

IQ 170

An ancient Greek astronomer, mathematician, scholar, and student of Archytas and Plato. Some fragments of his work are p

Frank Drake

IQ 140

An American astronomer and astrophysicist who was part of Project Ozma.

Franz Mesmer

A doctor who theorised the existence of a natural energy transference occurring between all animated and inanimate objec

Fred Hoyle

An English astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis

William Herschel

IQ 165

A German-born British astronomer and composer who discovered the planet Uranus.

Galileo Galilei

IQ 180

An Italian astronomer whose works deeply contributed to the field. He is regarded as the father of observational astrono

Eugene Merle Shoemaker

An American geologist whose ashes were carried to the Moon with the Lunar Prospector mission.

Georges Lemaître

A Belgian Catholic priest, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain.

Gerolamo Cardano

IQ 175

An Italian polymath was one of the key figures in the foundation of probability and the earliest introducer of the binom

Hans Lipperhey

IQ 150

A German-Dutch spectacle-maker commonly associated with the invention of the telescope.

Henrietta Swan Leavitt

An American astronomers who discover the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variables

Hipparchus

IQ 175

A Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician who is considered the founder of trigonometry and discovery of precess

Isaac Newton

IQ 190

An English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author

Jean Sylvain Bailly

IQ 180

French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader of the early part of the French Revolution.

Johannes Kepler

IQ 180

A German astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer who was a key figure in the 17th-century scientific revolution, best

Regiomontanus

IQ 170

A mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer of the German Renaissance whose works were instrumental in the development o

John Herschel

An English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, an experimental photographer who invented the bluepri

John Napier

IQ 170

A Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer best known as the discoverer of logarithms

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

IQ 190

Italian-French mathematician and astronomer

Leonhard Euler

IQ 190

A Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the study of graph theory an

Mary Somerville

IQ 180

A Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath who played a crucial role in the women's rights movement in the United Kingdo

Milutin Milanković

A Serbian mathematician, astronomer, climatologist, geophysicist, civil engineer and popularizer of science.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

An American astrophysicist, planetary scientist, author, and science communicator.

Nicholas of Cusa

IQ 180

A German philosopher, theologian, jurist, mathematician and astronomer. One of the first German proponents of Renaissanc

Nicolaus Copernicus

IQ 173

A Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the univers

Omar Khayyam

IQ 160

A Persian polymath, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet best known for the Rubaiyat.

Percival Lowell

An American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars.

Pierre Gassendi

IQ 190

A French philosopher, Catholic priest, astronomer, and mathematician.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

IQ 195

A French scholar and polymath whose work was important to the development of engineering, mathematics, statistics, physi

Posidonius

IQ 170

A Greek politician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, historian, mathematician, and teacher.

Roger Joseph Boscovich

IQ 185

A physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest from the Republic of

Thales of Miletus

IQ 180

A Greek mathematician, astronomer and pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus.

Thomas Harriot

An English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer and translator to whom the theory of refraction is attributed

Thomas Digges

An English mathematician and astronomer who was the first to expound the Copernican system in English but discarded the

Tycho Brahe

IQ 165

A Danish astronomer, known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical observations.

Vergilius of Salzburg

IQ 160

An Irish churchman and early astronomer.

William Ellery Channing

IQ 160

The foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States and one of Unitarianism's leading theologians.

François Arago

French mathematician, physicist & astronomer,

Heraclides Ponticus

A Greek philosopher and astronomer remembered for proposing that the Earth rotates on its axis.

Tanishq Abraham

An American child prodigy and genius, who graduated college at the age of 14.

Brahmagupta

An Indian mathematician and astronomer.