|
Paul
Sabatier |
(1864 - 1941) |
chemist |
Sabatier
process,
Sabatier principle of
catalysis (with
Grignard) |
|
Edward
Sabine
|
(1778 - 1883) |
astronomer |
Earth's magnetic field,
sunspots, uses of
seconds
pendulum |
|
Wallace Sabine
|
(1868 - 1919) |
architect |
inventor of
architectural acoustics |
|
Bert Sakmann |
(1942
- ) |
physiologist |
patch-clamp
technique (with
Neher) |
|
Abdus Salam |
(1926 - 1996) |
physicist |
electroweak
interactions (with Glashow,
Weinberg) |
|
Jonas
Salk
|
(1914 - 1995) |
virologist |
developed first
polio vaccine |
|
Bengt
Samuelsson |
(1934
- ) |
biochemist |
prostaglandins
(with Bergstrom,
Vane) |
|
Frederick Sanger
|
(1918 - ) |
biochemist |
insulin,
nucleic acid sequence (with
Berg,
Gilbert) |
|
Andrew Schally |
(1926 - ) |
biochemist |
neurohormones,
TRH,
GnRH (with
Guillemin) |
|
Arthur Schawlow |
(1921
- 1999) |
physicist |
laser
spectroscopy
(with
Bloembergen,
Siegbahn) |
|
Carl Scheele
|
(1742 - 1786) |
chemist |
discovered
oxygen (see also
Priestley);
Mo,
W, Ba,
Cl |
|
Robert Schrieffer |
(1931 - ) |
physicist |
BCS theory,
superconductivity
(with Bardeen,
Cooper) |
|
Richard Schrock |
(1945
- ) |
chemist |
olefin
metathesis (with
Chauvin,
Grubbs) |
|
Erwin Schrödinger
|
(1867 - 1961) |
theoretical physicist |
quantum mechanics,
Schrödinger equation |
|
Bernard Schutz |
(?) |
physicist |
gravitational waves |
|
Melvin
Schwartz |
(1932
- 2006) |
physicist |
neutrinos,
leptons,
muons (with Lederman, Steinberger) |
|
Julian
Schwinger |
(1918 - 1994) |
physicist |
quantum mechanics
(with
Feynman,
Tomonaga) |
|
Glenn
Seaborg |
(1912 - 1999) |
chemist |
transuranium
elements (with
McMillan) |
|
Thomas Seebeck
|
(1770 - 1831) |
physicist |
discovered
thermoelectric effect |
|
Emilio Segré |
(1905 - 1989) |
physicist |
antiprotons,
sub-atomic
particles,
antiparticle (with
Chamberlain) |
|
Nikolay
Semyonov |
(1896 - 1986) |
chemist |
chemical
reaction,
reaction mechanism (with
Hinshelwood) |
|
Aloys Senefelder
|
(1771 - 1834) |
actor |
inventor of
lithography (printing) |
|
Claude Shannon |
(1916
- 2001) |
mathematician |
information
theory |
|
Phillip Sharp |
(1944
- ) |
geneticist |
introns,
gene splicing (with Roberts) |
|
Karl Sharpless |
(1941
- ) |
chemist |
asymmetric
synthesis,
epoxidation,
dihydroxylation,
oxyamination |
|
Charles Sherrington
|
(1857 - 1952) |
neurophysiologist |
Sherrington's
Laws of neurophysiology
(with
Adrian) |
|
Osmau Shimomura |
(1928
- ) |
chemist |
green
fluorescent protein (with
Chalfie,
Tsien) |
|
Hideki Shirakawa |
(1936
- ) |
chemist |
conductive
polymers (with
Heeger, MacDiarmid) |
|
William
Shockley
|
(1910 - 1989) |
physicist |
inventor of
transistor (with Bardeen,
Brattain) |
|
Christopher
Sholes
|
(1819 - 1890) |
inventor |
practical
typewriter and
QWERTY keyboard |
|
Clifford Shull |
(1915
- 2001) |
physicist |
neutron
scattering,
condensed matter (with
Brockhouse) |
|
Kai Siegbahn |
(1918
- 2007) |
physicist |
X-
ray photoelectron spectroscopy, laser spectroscopy (with
Bloembergen,
Schawlow) |
|
Manne Siegbahn |
(1886 - 1978) |
physicist |
X-ray
spectroscopy,
Siegbahn notation |
|
Carl
Siemens
|
(1823 - 1883) |
engineer |
inventor of
open-hearth steel refinement process |
|
Igor
Sikorsky
|
(1889 - 1972) |
inventor |
inventor of
helicopter |
|
Jens Skou |
(1918
- ) |
biochemist |
Na/K-ATPase |
|
Richard Smalley |
(1943
- 2005) |
chemist |
fullerene
(with Curl, Kroto) |
|
George Smith |
(1930
- ) |
physicist |
CCD
sensor (with
Boyle) |
|
Hamilton Smith |
(1931 - ) |
microbiologist |
restriction
endonucleases (with
Arber,
Nathans) |
|
Michael
Smith |
(1932
- 2000) |
biochemist |
genetic
engineering,
site-directed mutagenesis |
|
Oliver Smithies |
(1925
- ) |
geneticist |
homologous
recombination,
gene targeting,
knockout mice (with
Capecchi,
Evans) |
|
George Smoot |
(1945
- ) |
astrophysicist |
CMB
radiation, black body,
anisotropy
(with
Mather) |
|
George Snell |
(1903 - 1996) |
immunologist |
major
histocompatibility complex (with
Benacerraf,
Dausset) |
|
Frederick Soddy
|
(1877 - 1956) |
physicist |
nuclear reactions and
isotopes (with
Rutherford) |
|
Hans Spemann |
(1869 - 1941) |
embryologist |
embryonic
induction |
|
Roger Sperry |
(1913
- 1994) |
neuropsychologist |
split-brain
studies |
|
Wendell
Stanley |
(1904 - 1971) |
biochemist |
protein
crystallization (with
Northrop, Sumner) |
|
Johannes Stark |
(1874 - 1957) |
physicist |
Stark
effect, Doppler
effect on alpha (canal)
rays |
|
Hermann
Staudinger |
(1881 - 1965) |
chemist |
polymer
chemistry, ketenes,
Staudinger
reaction |
|
William Stein |
(1911 - 1980) |
biochemist |
ribonuclease
(with Anfinsen, Moore) |
|
Jack Steinberger |
(1921
- ) |
physicist |
neutrinos,
leptons,
muons (with Lederman,
Schwartz) |
|
Thomas Steitz |
(1940
- ) |
biochemist |
ribosome
(with
Ramakrishnan,
Yonath) |
|
George Stephenson
|
(1781 - 1848) |
engineer |
father of
railways,
Rocket steam locomotive |
|
Otto Stern |
(1888 - 1969) |
physicist |
quantum
mechanics,
Stern-Gerlach experiment (with
Gerlach) |
|
Nettie Stevens
|
(1861 - 1912) |
geneticist |
chromosomal basis of
gender |
|
George
Stokes
|
(1819 - 1903) |
mathematician/physicist |
fluid dynamics (Stokes'
equation) and physics (Stokes' theorem) |
|
Horst Störmer |
(1949
- ) |
physicist |
fractional
quantum Hall effect (with
Laughlin,
Tsui) |
|
John
Strutt |
(1842 - 1919) |
physicist |
discovered
noble gases (argon
with Ramsay) |
|
John Sulston |
(1942
- ) |
biologist |
Caenorhabditis
elegans neural
development (with
Brenner, Horvitz) |
|
James Sumner |
(1887 - 1955) |
biochemist |
protein
crystallization (with
Northrop,
Stanley) |
|
Earl
Sutherland |
(1915 - 1974) |
biochemist |
hormone
action, second
messengers,
cyclic
AMP |
| Struan
Sutherland |
(1936 - 2002) |
epidemiologist |
snake
bite, antivenom |
| Akira
Suzuki |
(1930
- ) |
chemist |
Heck
reaction,
Pd-catalyzed coupling reactions (with
Heck,
Negishi) |
| Theodor
Svedberg |
(1884 - 1971) |
chemist |
ultracentrifugation,
colloids,
Svedberg unit |
| Richard Synge |
(1914 - 1994) |
biochemist |
partition
chromatography (with
Martin) |
| Albert
Szent-Györgyi |
(1893 - 1986) |
physiologist |
vitamin
C, citric acid
cycle |
| Jack
Szostak |
(1952 - ) |
biologist |
telomeres,
telomerase (with
Blackburn,
Greider) |