Science
Scientists, doctors and engineers whose discoveries changed what we know. 24 people are remembered here. Light a candle, read their story, and add a memory of your own.
Jane Goodall1934 – 2025 · Primatologist and conservationistWhat you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
264 candles · 12 tributes
Rudolph A. Marcus1923 – 2026 · Theoretical chemistNobel chemist who explained how electrons jump between molecules.
239 candles · 24 tributes
David Baltimore1938 – 2025 · Molecular biologistNobel virologist who proved RNA can make DNA and remade biology.
236 candles · 12 tributes
Isaac Newton1643 – 1727 · Mathematician and physicistIf I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
203 candles · 11 tributes
Rosalind Franklin1920 – 1958 · Chemist and X-ray crystallographerScience and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.
196 candles · 11 tributes
Stephen Hawking1942 – 2018 · Theoretical physicistHowever difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
184 candles · 11 tributes
Nikola Tesla1856 – 1943 · Inventor and electrical engineerThe present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
154 candles · 15 tributes
Albert Einstein1879 – 1955 · Theoretical physicistImagination is more important than knowledge.
145 candles · 13 tributes
Marie Curie1867 – 1934 · Physicist and chemistNothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
129 candles · 13 tributes
Alan Turing1912 – 1954 · Mathematician and computer scientistSometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.
115 candles · 15 tributes
Charles Darwin1809 – 1882 · NaturalistThere is grandeur in this view of life.
114 candles · 11 tributes
Yoshikazu Hasegawa1930 – 2026 · Vertebrate paleontologistHe showed Japan its first plesiosaur and spent a life reading fossil bones.
95 candles · 7 tributes
Mary Tsingou1928 – 2026 · PhysicistCoded the experiment that launched nonlinear science; later given her name in FPUT.
95 candles · 5 tributes
Gunther von Hagens1945 – 2026 · AnatomistInventor of plastination who put human anatomy before millions through Body Worlds.
72 candles · 9 tributes
Rachel Naomi Remen, MD1938 – 2026 · Physician (pediatrician / pediatric endocrinology background)Physician-patient who taught medicine to listen: curing is not the same as healing.
68 candles · 5 tributes
Richard E. Stearns1936 – 2026 · Computer scientistCo-founder of computational complexity who made hardness a science.
67 candles · 9 tributes
David Silverstein1944 – 2026 · CardiologistChicago-born cardiologist who built heart care in Kenya and stood by Moi for four decades.
64 candles · 9 tributes
Don Wilhelms1930 – 2026 · USGS planetary and lunar geologistLunar mapper who taught Apollo crews to read the Moon.
63 candles · 8 tributes
Krishna AchutaRao† 2026 · Climate scientistClimate attribution scientist who linked ocean warming and India's extremes to human influence.
61 candles · 7 tributes
Toyohiro Akiyama1942 – 2026 · Television journalist (TBS)First Japanese in space. Journalist on Mir. Farmer after the flight.
0 candles · 0 tributes
Hideki Shirakawa1936 – 2026 · Chemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of TsukubaThe chemist who made plastic conduct electricity and opened a new era of materials.
0 candles · 0 tributes