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PeterAtkins (1940–): English chemist, Professor of chemistry at Lincoln College, Oxford in England. [ 1 ]
Julius Axelrod (1912–2004): American Nobel Prize winning biochemist , noted for his work on the release and reuptake of catecholamine neurotransmitters and major contributions to the understanding of the pineal gland and how it is regulated during the sleep-wake cycle. [ 2 ]
Sir Edward Battersby Bailey FRS (1881–1965): British geologist , director of the British Geological Survey. [ 3 ]
Sir Patrick Bateson FRS (1938–): English biologist and science writer, Emeritus Professor of ethology at Cambridge University and president of the Zoological Society of London . [ 4 ]
William Bateson (1861–1926): British geneticist , a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge , where he eventually became Master. He was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity and biological inheritance , and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscovery. [ 5 ]
Patrick Blackett OM , CH , FRS (1897–1974): Nobel Prize winning experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers , cosmic rays , and paleomagnetism . [ 6 ]
Susan Blackmore (1951–): English psychologist and memeticist , best known for her book The Meme Machine . [ 7 ]
Sir Hermann Bondi KCB , FRS (1919–2005): Anglo-Austrian mathematician and cosmologist , best known for co-developing the steady-state theory of the universe and important contributions to the theory of general relativity . [ 8 ] [ 9 ]
Paul D. Boyer (1918–): American biochemist and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1997. [ 10 ]
Calvin Bridges (1889–1938): American geneticist , known especially for his work on fruit fly genetics. [ 11 ]
Sheldon Brown (1944–2008): Bicycle mechanic and technical authority on almost every aspect of bicycles. [ 12 ]
Ruth Mack Brunswick (1897–1946): American psychologist, a close confidant of and collaborator with Sigmund Freud. [ 13 ]
Sean M. Carroll (1966–): American cosmologist specializing in dark energy and general relativity . [ 14 ]
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995): Indian American astrophysicist known for his theoretical work on the structure and evolution of stars . He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983. [ 15 ]
William Kingdon Clifford FRS (1845–1879): English mathematician and philosopher, co-introducer of geometric algebra , the first to suggest that gravitation might be a manifestation of an underlying geometry, and coiner of the expression "mind-stuff". [ 16 ]
Frank Close OBE (1945–): British particle physicist, Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, known for his lectures and writings making science intelligible to a wider audience, for which he was awarded the Institute of Physics's Kelvin Medal and Prize. [ 17 ]
Jerry Coyne (1949–): American professor of biology, known for his books on evolution and commentary on the intelligent design debate. [ 18 ]
Francis Crick (1916–2004): English molecular biologist, physicist, and neuroscientist; noted for being one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 25 ]
Sir Howard Dalton FRS (1944–2008): British microbiologist , Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from March 2002 to September 2007. [ 26 ]
Richard Dawkins (1941–): British zoologist , biologist , creator of the concepts of the selfish gene and the meme ; outspoken atheist and popularizer of science, author of The God Delusion and founder of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science . [ 27 ]
Arnaud Denjoy (1884–1974): French mathematician, noted for his contributions to harmonic analysis and differential equations . [ 28 ]
Paul Dirac (1902–1984): British theoretical physicist , one of the founders of quantum mechanics , predicted the existence of antimatter , and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933. [ 29 ] [ 30 ]
Gary Drescher : Computer scientist in the field of artificial intelligence. Since receiving his Ph.D. in computer science from MIT, he has published books on both metaphysical naturalism and artificial intelligence. [ 31 ]
Thomas Edison : American inventor [ 32 ]
Albert Ellis (1913–2007): American psychologist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. [ 33 ].
Sandra Faber (1944–): American University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz , also working at the Lick Observatory , who headed the team that discovered ' The Great Attractor. [ 34 ]
Leon Festinger (1919–1989): American social psychologist famous for his Theory of Cognitive Dissonance [ 35 ].
Richard Feynman (1918–1988): American theoretical physicist , best known for his work in renormalizing Quantum electrodynamics (QED) and his path integral formulation of quantum mechanics . He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. [ 36 ] [ 37 ]
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939): Father of psychoanalysis. [ 38 ]
Erich Fromm (1900–1980): renowned Jewish - German - American social psychologist , psychoanalyst, and humanistic philosopher , associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory . [ 39 ]
Christer Fuglesang (1957–), Swedish astronaut and physicist . [ 40 ]
Vitaly Ginzburg (1916–2009): Russian theoretical physicist and astrophysicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003. He was also awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1994/95. [41]
Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002): American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science, one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. [ 42 ]
Susan Greenfield , Baroness Greenfield, CBE (1950–): British scientist, writer and broadcaster, specialising in the physiology of the brain, who has worked to research and bring attention to Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease . [ 43 ]
Jonathan Haidt (c.1964–): Associate professor of psychology at the University of Virginia , focusing on the psychological bases of morality across different cultures, and author of The Happiness Hypothesis . [ 44 ]
ET 'Teddy' Hall (1924–2001): English archaeological scientist, famous for exposing the Piltdown Man fraud and dating the Turin Shroud as a medieval fake. [ 45 ]
Sir James Hall (1761–1832): Scottish geologist and chemist, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and leading figure in the Scottish Enlightenment . [ 46 ]
Beverly Halstead (1933–1991): British paleontologist and populariser of science. [ 47 ]
GH Hardy (1877–1947): a prominent English mathematician , known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis . [ 48 ] [ 49 ]
Stephen Hawking : arguably the world's pre-eminent scientist advocates atheism in The Grand Design [ 50 ]
Peter Higgs (1929–): British theoretical physicist, recipient of the Dirac Medal and Prize, known for his prediction of the existence of a new particle, the Higgs boson , nicknamed the "God particle". [ 51 ]
Lancelot Hogben (1895–1975): English experimental zoologist and medical statistician, now best known for his popularising books on science, mathematics and language. [ 52 ]
Nicholas Humphrey (1943–): British psychologist, working on consciousness and belief in the supernatural from a Darwinian perspective, and primatological research into Machiavellian intelligence theory. [ 53 ]
Sir Julian Huxley FRS (1887–1975): English evolutionary biologist, a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis , Secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935–1942), the first Director of UNESCO , and a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund . [ 54 ]
Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–1958): French physicist and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1935. [ 55 ] [ 56 ]
Steve Jones (1944–): British geneticist, Professor of genetics and head of the biology department at University College London , and television presenter and a prize-winning author on biology, especially evolution; one of the best known contemporary popular writers on evolution. [ 57 ] [ 58 ]
Lawrence Krauss (1954-): Professor of physics at Arizona State University and popularizer of science. Lawrence Krauss (1954 -): Ο καθηγητής της Φυσικής στο Arizona State University και popularizer της επιστήμης. Krauss speaks regularly at atheist conferences, like Beyond Belief and Atheist Alliance International . [ 59 ]
Harold Kroto (1939–): 1996 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry . [ 60 ]
Alfred Kinsey (1894–1956): American biologist, sexologist and professor of entomology and zoology. [ 61 ]
Richard Leakey (1944–): Kenyan paleontologist, archaeologist and conservationist. [ 62 ]
Sir John Leslie (1766–1832): Scottish mathematician and physicist best remembered for his research into heat ; he was the first person to artificially produce ice, and gave the first modern account of capillary action . [ 63 ]
H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins FRS (1923–2004): English theoretical chemist and a cognitive scientist . [ 64 ]
Samarendra Maulik (1881–1950): Indian entomologist specialising in the Coleoptera , who worked at the British Museum (Natural History) and a Professor of Zoology at the University of Calcutta . [ 65 ]
John Maynard Smith (1920–2004): British evolutionary biologist and geneticist , instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution, and noted theorizer on the evolution of sex and signalling theory . [ 66 ]
Ernst Mayr (1904–2005): a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist , historian of science, and naturalist. He was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists . [ 67 ]
Sir Peter Medawar (1915–1987): Nobel Prize-winning British scientist best known for his work on how the immune system rejects or accepts tissue transplants . [ 68 ]
Jeff Medkeff (1968–2008): American astronomer, prominent science writer and educator, and designer of robotic telescopes. [ 69 ]
Jonathan Miller CBE (1934–): British physician , actor , theatre and opera director , and television presenter . Wrote and presented the 2004 television series, Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief , exploring the roots of his own atheism and investigating the history of atheism in the world. [ 70 ] [ 71 ]
Peter D. Mitchell (1920–1992): 1978- Nobel-laureate British biochemist. Atheist mother, and himself atheist from age 15. [ 72 ]
Jacques Monod (1910–1976): French biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 for discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis. [ 73 ]
Desmond Morris (1928–): English zoologist and ethologist , famous for describing human behaviour from a zoological perspective in his books The Naked Ape and The Human Zoo . [ 74 ] [ 75 ]
Fritz Müller (1821–1897): German biologist who emigrated to Brazil, where he studied the natural history of the Amazon rainforest and was an early advocate of evolutionary theory . [ 76 ]
Hermann Joseph Muller (1890–1967): American geneticist and educator, best known for his work on the physiological and genetic effects of radiation (X-ray mutagenesis). He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1946. [ 77 ]
PZ Myers (1957–): American biology professor at the University of Minnesota and a blogger via his blog , Pharyngula . [ 78 ]
Paul Nurse (1949–): 2001 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine . [ 79 ]
Linus Pauling (1901–1994): American chemist, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1954) and Peace (1962) [ 30 ] [ 80 ]
John Allen Paulos (1945–): Professor of mathematics at Temple University in Philadelphia and writer, author of Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up (2007) [ 81 ]
Ivan Pavlov (1849–1936): Nobel Prize winning Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician, widely known for first describing the phenomenon of classical conditioning . [ 82 ]
Francis Perrin (1901–1992): French physicist, co-establisher the possibility of nuclear chain reactions and nuclear energy production. [ 83 ]
Massimo Pigliucci (1964–): Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the Stony Brook University and is known as an outspoken critic of creationism and advocate of science education. [ 84 ]
Steven Pinker (1954–): Canadian-born American psychologist. [ 85 ]
Norman Pirie FRS (1954–): British biochemist and virologist co-discoverer in 1936 of viral crystallization, an important milestone in understanding DNA and RNA . [ 86 ]
Ronald Plasterk (1957–): Dutch prize-winning molecular geneticist and columnist, and Minister of Education, Culture and Science in the fourth Balkenende cabinet for the Labour Party . [ 87 ]
Derek J. de Solla Price (1922–1983): British-American historian of science. [ 88 ]
Frank P. Ramsey (1903–1930): British mathematician who also made significant contributions in philosophy and economics . [ 89 ]
Richard J. Roberts (1943–): British biochemist and molecular biologist . Richard J. Roberts (1943 -): Βρετανική βιοχημικό και μοριακό βιολόγο . He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1993 for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing. [ 90 ] [ 91 ] [ 92 ]
Steven Rose (1938–): Professor of Biology and Neurobiology at the Open University and University of London , and author of several popular science books. [ 93 ]
Marshall Rosenbluth (1927–2003) American physicist, nicknamed "the Pope of Plasma Physics". He created the Metropolis algorithm in statistical mechanics, derived the Rosenbluth formula in high-energy physics, and laid the foundations for instability theory in plasma physics. [ 94 ]
Oliver Sacks (1933–): United States-based British neurologist, who has written popular books about his patients, the most famous of which is Awakenings . [ 95 ]
Carl Sagan (1934–1996): American astronomer and astrochemist, a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural sciences, and pioneer of exobiology and promoter of the SETI . Although Sagan has been identified as an atheist according to some definitions, [ 96 ] [ 97 ] [ 98 ] he rejected the label, stating "An atheist has to know a lot more than I know." [ 96 ] He was an agnostic who, [ 99 ] while maintaining that the idea of a creator of the universe was difficult to disprove, [ 100 ] nevertheless disbelieved in God's existence, pending sufficient evidence. [ 101 ]
Robert Sapolsky (1957–): Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University . [ 102 ]
Marcus du Sautoy (1965–): mathematician and holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science. [ 103 ]
Amartya Kumar Sen (1933–): Nobel Laureate in Economics 1998. [ 104 ] [ 105 ] [ 106 ] [ 107 ]
Claude Shannon (1916–2001): American electrical engineer and mathematician, has been called "the father of information theory", and was the founder of practical digital circuit design theory. [ 108 ]
Edwin Shneidman (1918–2009): American suicidologist and thanatologist . [ 109 ]
Michael Smith (1932–2000): British-born Canadian biochemist and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1993. [ 110 ]
Richard Stallman (1953–): American software freedom activist , hacker , and software developer . [ 111 ]
Victor J. Stenger (1935–): American physicist, emeritus professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Hawaii and adjunct professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado . Author of the book God: The Failed Hypothesis . [ 112 ]
Jack Suchet (1908–2001): South African born obstetrician, gynaecologist and venereologist, who carried out research on the use of penicillin in the treatment of venereal disease with Sir Alexander Fleming . [ 113 ]
Eleazar Sukenik (1889–1953): Israeli archaeologist and professor of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, undertaking excavations in Jerusalem, and recognising the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls to Israel. [ 114 ]
Leonard Susskind (1940–): American theoretical physicist ; a founding father of superstring theory and professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University . [ 115 ]
Raymond Tallis (1946–): Leading British gerontologist , philosopher, poet, novelist and cultural critic. [ 116 ]
Frank J. Tipler (1947–): American mathematical physicist and professor at Tulane University . [ 117 ]
Gherman Titov (1935–2000): Soviet cosmonaut and the second human to orbit the Earth. [ 118 ]
Linus Torvalds (1969–): Finnish software engineer , creator of the Linux kernel . [ 119 ]
Alan Turing (1912–1954): English mathematician , logician , and cryptographer ; often considered to be the father of modern computer science . The Turing Award , often recognized as the " Nobel Prize of computing", is named after him. [ 120 ] [ 121 ]
Matthew Turner (dc1789): chemist, surgeon, teacher and radical theologian, author of the first published work of avowed atheism in Britain (1782). [ 122 ] [ 123 ]
W. Grey Walter (1910–1977): American neurophysiologist famous for his work on brain waves , and robotician . [ 124 ]
James D. Watson (1928–): 1962- Nobel-laureate co-discover of the structure of DNA . [ 125 ] [ 126 ]
Joseph Weber (1919–2000): American physicist, who gave the earliest public lecture on the principles behind the laser and the maser , and developed the first gravitational wave detectors ( Weber bars ). [ 127 ]
Steven Weinberg (1933–): American theoretical physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for the unification of electromagnetism and the weak force into the electroweak force . [ 128 ] [ 129 ] [ 130 ]
David Sloan Wilson (1949–): American evolutionary biologist , son of Sloan Wilson , proponent of multilevel selection theory and author of several popular books on evolution. [ 131 ]
Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS FRSL (1929–): developmental biologist , author , and broadcaster . [ 132 ]
Steve Wozniak (1950–): co-founder of Apple Computer and inventor of the Apple I and Apple II. [ 133 ]
Elizur Wright (1804–1885): American mathematician and abolitionist , sometimes described as the "father of life insurance" for his pioneering work on actuarial tables . [ 134 ]
Will Wright (1960–): American computer game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis . [ 135 ]
Victor Weisskopf (1908–2002): Austrian-American theoretical physicist , co-founder and board member of the Union of Concerned Scientists . [ 136 ]
