TWENTIETH CENTURY

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
1900 – 1910

• DAVID HILBERT
• MAX PLANCK
• ALFRED NOBEL
• IVAN PAVLOV
• ALBERT EINSTEIN
• ROBERT MILLIKAN
• SOREN PETER SORENSEN
• LEO BAEKELAND

1910 – 1920

• HEIKE KAMERLINGH-ONNES
• ERNEST RUTHERFORD
• WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG – WILLIAM LAWRENCE BRAGG
• NIELS BOHR
• HENRY GWYN JEFFREYS MOSELEY
• ALFRED WEGNER
• ROBERT GODDARD

1920 – 1930

• FRANCIS ASTON
• JOHANNES BRONSTED – THOMAS LOWRY
• FREDERICK BANTING
• LOUIS DE BROGLIE
• SATYENDRA NATH BOSE & ALBERT EINSTEIN
• WOLFGANG PAULI
• ERWIN SCHRODINGER
• WERNER HEISENBERG
• PAUL DIRAC
• ALEXANDER FLEMING
• EDWIN HUBBLE

1930 – 1940

• LINUS PAULING
• KURT GODEL
• SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR
• SIR JAMES CHADWICK
• THOMAS HUNT MORGAN
• DOROTHY CROWFOOT HODGKIN
• MARCUS OLIPHANT
• CHARLES RICHTER
• ALEKSANDER OPARIN
• ALAN TURING
• OTTO HAHN – LEIS MEITNER – FRITZ STRASSMANN
• HANS BETHE

1940 – 1950

• EDWIN McMILLAN – GLENN SEABORG
• ISAAC ASIMOV
• SIR FRANK WHITTLE
• ENRICO FERMI
• ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
• WILLARD LIBBY
• WILLIAM SHOCKLEY
• GEORGE GAMOW
• HERMAN BONDI – THOMAS GOLD – FRED HOYLE

1950 – 1960

• FRED LAWRENCE WHIPPLE
• EDWARD TELLER
• ROSALIND FRANKLIN
• FRANCIS CRICK (USA) – JAMES DEWEY WATSON (UK)
• TSUNG DAO LEE – CHEN NING YANG
• FRED HOYLE
• MELVIN CALVIN
• GERALD EDELMAN (USA) – RODNEY PORTER (UK)

1960 – 1970

• RICHARD FEYNMAN
• EDWARD LORENZ
• MURRAY GELL-MANN
• GORDON MOORE

1970 – 1980

• STEPHEN HAWKING
• ABDUS SALAM

1980 – 1990

• GERD BINNIG – HEINRICH ROHRER
• ROBERT CURL (USA) – HAROLD KROTO (UK) – RICHARD SMALLEY (USA)
• ALLAN WILSON
• TIM BERNERS-LEE

1990 – 2000

• ROBERT MATTHEWS
• IAN WILMUT

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