Great Scientists

They weren't all household names, that's why I changed the heading above to "Great" instead of "Famous".  I started prefacing the descriptions with "Great" but realized they were ALL great, that's why they're here! My criteria for them being "great" is that I knew of their accomplishments, and to me WERE household names.  I began with physicists only but could not  in good concience not include non-physicists like Euler (mathematician) or Crick (biologist).   Further, though Thomas Edison was a physicist as well as inventor, I would have added him just for what he's best known for.  I had to include engineers and industrialists as well. Someday I hope to have more than just a one line description, because the accomplishments of some of these people would fill a page. 

Physicist pictures are copyright California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the American Institute of Physics.

I'm devoting valuable web space for these pictures because it's important that we remember the great scientists that took us out of the dark ages.

Click on underlined name for Picture