Harvard University faculty

President of the United States from 1825 to 1829

American politician and diplomat (1923–2023)

American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)

United States Senator from Vermont

American author (1922–2007)

American poet and educator (1807–1882)

Nigerian writer (born 1934)

James Dewey Watson was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he and Francis Crick co-authored an academic paper in Nature proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule, building on research by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling. In 1962, Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".

Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939–2013)

English mathematician and philosopher (1861–1947)

Iraqi British architect, designer and painter (1950–2016)

German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist (1898–1979)

American political scientist (1927–2008)

American physicist

American particle physicist and string theorist

Dutch-born American physicist

Italian particle physicist

Polish-American diplomat and political scientist (1928–2017)

Canadian-American economist and diplomat (1908–2006)

78th United States Secretary of the Treasury

American physicist (1912-1997)

American theoretical physicist (1918–1994)

American theoretical physicist (1925–2018)

Austrian political economist (1883–1950)

American theoretical physicist

American biologist, naturalist, and writer (1929–2021)

American chemist

Russian economist (1906-1999)

American physicist (1899–1980)

Russian linguist (1896–1982)

American physicist (1915–2011)

economist

American biologist and historian of science (1941–2002)

Swiss-American naturalist (1807–1873)

South African-American virologist and doctor (1899-1972)

American journalist, historian, academic, novelist (1838-1918)

German-American evolutionary biologist (1904-2005)

American physicist (1924-1998)

United States chemist (1868–1928)

Nobel Prize-winning American inorganic and organic chemist

British-born American astronomer

American sociologist (1902 – 1979)

American geneticist (1903-1989)

American economist (born 1954)

American poet (1911–1979)

American chemist

American scientist (1892–1987)

American economist and historian (1926–2013)

German composer (1895–1963)

American neuroscientist

Austrian-born American theoretical chemist (1930–2024)

American biologist, biochemist, physiologist and Nobel laureate (1906–1997)

Russian sociologist (1889-1968)

American developmental biologist

Taiwanese chemist

American biochemist (1911–1980)

American chemist

American astronomer (1885-1972)

British Nobel laureate in Chemistry

German chancellor (1885-1970)