This list presents a selection of scientists chosen through the artistic angle of staging. The history of science is marked by great international diversity, and features a large number of personalities that it was not possible to show in their entirety.
Archimède 287 BC - 212 BC | Archimedes was an ancient Greek mathematician, physicist and inventor. He is famous for his contributions to geometry, notably the calculation of pi and the Archimedean principle.
Aristote 384 BC - 322 BC | Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher, scientist and polymath. His work laid the foundations of Western thought and scientific research for centuries to come.
Nicolas Copernic 1473 - 1543 | Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish Renaissance mathematician and astronomer. He discovered the heliocentric model of the solar system, according to which the Earth and the other planets revolve around the Sun.
Galilée 1564 - 1642 | Galileo was an Italian astronomer, physicist and mathematician. He contributed to the development of modern astronomy by using a telescope to make revolutionary observations.
Johannes Kepler 1571 - 1630 | Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer, mathematician and astrologer. He is famous for his laws of planetary motion.
Isaac Newton 1643 - 1727 | Isaac Newton was a British mathematician, physicist, philosopher, alchemist, astronomer and theologian. He formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
Charles Darwin 1809 - 1882 | Charles Darwin was a British naturalist and biologist. He is famous for his theory of evolution by natural selection.
Ada Lovelace 1815 - 1852 | Ada Lovelace is considered the first computer programmer. Her work laid the foundations of modern computing.
Louis Pasteur 1822 - 1895 | Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist, renowned for his work in the fields of microbiology and immunology.
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen 1845 - 1923 | Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German physicist. He discovered X-rays in 1895.
Max Planck 1858 - 1947 | Max Planck was a German physicist. He is considered one of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics.
Lucien Cuénot 1866 - 1951 | Lucien Cuénot was a biologist and geneticist from Nancy known for his work on the heredity of coat colors in mice.
Maria Skłodowska-Curie 1867 - 1934 | Maria Skłodowska-Curie was a Polish physicist and chemist. She conducted pioneering research into radioactivity.
Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955 | Albert Einstein was a German theoretical physicist, known for his theory of relativity, including the equation E=mc², demonstrating the relationship between energy and mass.
Emmy Noether 1882 - 1935 | Emmy Noether was a German mathematician. She is famous for her groundbreaking contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
Lise Meitner 1878 - 1968 | Lise Meitner was a Austrian-Swedish physicist. She and Otto Hahn discovered nuclear fission in 1938, laying the foundations for the development of nuclear energy and atomic weapons.
Grace Hopper 1906 - 1992 | Grace Hopper was a computer scientist and officer in the U.S. Navy. She made a significant contribution to the development of computer programming languages.
Alan Turing 1912 - 1954 | Alan Turing was a British mathematician, logician and computer scientist. He is best known for his role in breaking the German Enigma code during the Second World War.
Mary Kenneth Keller 1913 - 1985 | Mary Kenneth Keller was a computer scientist and one of the first women to earn a doctorate in computer science in the USA.
Katherine Johnson 1918 - 2020 | Katherine Johnson was an African-American mathematician. She played a crucial role in NASA's first space missions.
Rosalind Franklin 1920 - 1958 | Rosalind Franklin was a British chemist whose pioneering work on X-ray diffraction was instrumental in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.
Frances Allen 1932 - 2020 | Frances Allen was an American computer scientist. She was the first woman to win the Turing Award in 2006 for her contributions to compiler design and optimization.
Karen Spärck Jones 1935 - 2007 | Karen Spärck Jones was a leading British computer scientist known for her pioneering work in information retrieval and natural language processing.
Jane Goodall 1934 | Jane Goodall is a British primatologist and ethologist, famous for her research on chimpanzees in Tanzania.
Margaret Hamilton 1936 | Margaret Hamilton is an American computer engineer. She played an important role in the development of software for NASA's Apollo program.
Stephen Hawking 1942 - 2018 | Stephen Hawking was a British theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He is famous for his groundbreaking work on black holes and the nature of the universe.
Sophie Wilson 1957 | Sophie Wilson is a British computer scientist and engineer known for her fundamental contributions to computer architecture and microprocessor design.
Cordelia Schmid 1967 | Cordelia Schmid is a German computer scientist. Her work focuses on object recognition, image retrieval and visual recognition.
Friederike Otto 1982 | Friederike Otto is a German climatologist and professor. She is renowned for her work on climate attribution and extreme weather events.
