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Tyson was born in Manhattan as the second of three children, into a Catholic family living in the Bronx. [4] [5] His African-American father, Cyril deGrasse Tyson (1927–2016), was a sociologist and human resource commissioner for New York City mayor John Lindsay, and the first director of Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited.
List of African educators, scientists and scholars; List of Argentine scientists; List of Armenian scientists and philosophers. List of African-American inventors and scientists; List of Arab scientists and scholars; List of Austrian scientists; List of Azerbaijani scientists and philosophers; List of Brazilian scientists; List of Bangladeshi ...
Subrata Roy (scientist) (born 1962), India, U.S. – Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle, Serpentine geometry plasma actuator, micro-scale actuators Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754–1785), France – Rozière balloon
Subrata Roy (scientist) – India, United States; Carlo Rubbia – Italy (born 1934) Nobel laureate; Vera Rubin – United States (1928–2016) Serge Rudaz – Canada, United States (born 1954) David Ruelle – Belgium, France (born 1935) Ernst August Friedrich Ruska – Germany (1906–1988) Nobel laureate; Ernest Rutherford – New Zealand, U ...
He preferred to be regarded as "a scientist first, popular science writer second, and, in all the ways that matter, a normal human being with the same desires, drives, dreams, and ambitions as the next person". [259] His wife Jane later noted: "Some people would call it determination, some obstinacy. I've called it both at one time or another."
Richard Phillips Feynman (/ ˈ f aɪ n m ə n /; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist.He is best known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and in particle physics, for which he proposed the parton model.
The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as scientists and mathematicians – known for reasons other than their longevity. For more lists, see lists of centenarians .
A later renowned scientist was Percy Lavon Julian, a research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine , and a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones, steroids , progesterone , and testosterone , from ...