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- A. Elizabeth AdamsAmerican zoologist
- A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine SciencesThe A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences was established in 1980 by t
- Aage BohrDanish physicist (1922–2009)
- Aaron KlugBritish biophysicist and chemist (1926–2018)
- Aaron SwartzAmerican computer programmer and activist (1986–2013)
- Aba AndamGhanaian physicist
- Abbas ibn Firnas9th-century astronomer and physician
- Abd al-Rahman al-SufiPersian astronomer (903–986)
- Abdominal surgeryThe term abdominal surgery broadly covers surgical procedures that involve opening the abd
- Abdul Qadeer KhanPakistani nuclear physicist (1936–2021)
- Abdus SalamPakistani theoretical physicist (1926–1996)
- Abella14th-century physician of Salerno
- Aberdeen Proving GroundU.S. Army facility located adjacent to Aberdeen, Maryland
- Abigail MarshAmerican psychologist and researcher (born 1976)
- Abraham de MoivreFrench mathematician (1667–1754)
- Abraham Gottlob WernerGerman geologist (1749–1817)
- Abu Hanifa DinawariPersian Islamic polymath (died 895)
- Abu KamilEgyptian mathematician of Abbasid era (c. 850 – 930)
- Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Musa al-NawbakhtiAbū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b Mūsā an-Nawbakhtī (الحسن بن موسى النوبختي; born late 9th century a
- Academic staffEducational occupation
- Académie Nationale de MédecineSituated at 16 Rue Bonaparte in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the Académie nationale de
- Academy of Science of South AfricaThe Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) is the national science academy in South Af
- Ackermann–Teubner Memorial AwardThe Alfred Ackermann–Teubner Memorial Award for the Promotion of Mathematical Sciences rec
- ACM FellowACM Fellowship is an award and fellowship that recognises outstanding members of the Assoc
- ACM Software System AwardThe ACM Software System Award is an annual award that honors people or an organization "fo
- AcroporaAcropora is a genus of small polyp stony coral in the phylum Cnidaria. Some of its species
- ACS Central ScienceACS Central Science is a monthly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering che
- Acta MathematicaActa Mathematica is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal covering research in al
- Activation energy asymptoticsActivation energy asymptotics (AEA), also known as large activation energy asymptotics, is
- Actonian PrizeSeptennial award conferred by the Royal Institution
- Acyclic modelIn algebraic topology, a discipline within mathematics, the acyclic models theorem can be
- Ada YonathIsraeli chemist (1939–2026)
- Adah AlmutairiAmerican academic
- Adam RiessAmerican astrophysicist (born 1969)
- Adam SedgwickBritish geologist (1785–1873)
- Adams PrizeMathematics prize
- Adèle de DombasleFrench traveller and illustrator
- Adele Goldberg (computer scientist)American computer scientist
- Adele GoldstineAmerican computer programmer (1920–1964)
- Adele M. FieldeAmerican social activist, missionary, scientist, writer
- Adi BulsaraArdeshir "Adi" Ratan Bulsara (born 15 May 1951) is a scientist in the area nonlinear dynam
- Adi ShamirIsraeli cryptographer (born 1952)
- Adiabatic invariantA property of a physical system, such as the entropy of a gas, that stays approximately co
- Adolf von BaeyerGerman chemist (1835–1917)
- Adrian MathiasAdrian Richard David Mathias (born 12 February 1944) is a British mathematician working in
- Adriana HoffmannChilean botanist, environmentalist, and author (1940–2022)
- Adriana OcampoColombian planetary geologist (born 1955)
- Adrienne ClarkeAustralian botanist
- Adrienne MayorHistorian of folk science (born 1946)
- Aerial Experiment AssociationThe Aerial Experiment Association (AEA) was a Canadian-American aeronautical research grou
- Afërdita Veveçka PriftajAlbanian physicist
- Aga Khan Award for ArchitectureThe Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) is an architectural prize established by Aga Kh
- AglaoniceAncient Thessalian witch
- Agnes Claypole MoodyAmerican zoologist (1870–1954)
- Agnes Fay Morgan Research AwardAward for women in chemistry
- Agnes Mary ClerkeIrish astronomer and writer (1842–1907)
- Agnieszka FryckowskaNew Zealand meteorologist
- Ahmed ZewailEgyptian and American chemist (1946–2016)
- Ailsa A. WelchBritish academic scientist
- Ailsa LandBritish mathematician (1927–2021)
- Aimé BonplandFrench explorer and botanist (1773-1858)
- Aina ElviusSwedish astronomer (1917–2019)
- Aina MucenieceLatvian immunologist
- Aitken's delta-squared processIn numerical analysis, Aitken's delta-squared process or Aitken extrapolation is a series
- Ajit Iqbal SinghIndian mathematician
- Akiko Kobayashi (chemist)Japanese chemist
- Akira YoshinoJapanese chemist (born 1948)
- Al Jawhara bint Fahd Al SaudSaudi royal and academic
- Al-ʻIjliyyahSyrian scientist, mathematician, and astronomer
- Al-JahizArabic writer (776–869)
- Al-KarajiPersian mathematician and engineer (c. 953 – c. 1029)
- Al-Ma'munAbbasid Caliph from 813 to 833
- Alan Edward GuttmacherAlan Edward Guttmacher (born 1949) is an American physician who was the director of the Na
- Alan HodgkinEnglish physiologist and biophysicist
- Alan Howard WardAlan Howard Ward OBE (28 July 1925 - 2 December 2021) was a Physicist who influenced scien
- Alan KayAmerican computer scientist (born 1940)
- Alanna SchepartzAmerican biochemist
- Alanthus Grove, MissouriAlanthus Grove is an unincorporated community in northwest Gentry County, in the U.S. stat
- Albert Einstein AwardAward in theoretical physics (1951–1979)
- Albert Einstein MedalScience award
- Albert Einstein World Award of ScienceAnnual award
- Albert FertFrench physicist (born 1938)
- Albert GüntherGerman-born British zoologist (1830–1914)
- Albert HofmannSwiss chemist (1906–2008)
- Albert Szent-GyörgyiHungarian biochemist (1893–1986), Nobel Prize winner
- Alberta Jones SeatonAmerican zoologist
- Albertine Necker de SaussureAlbertine Adrienne Necker de Saussure (9 April 1766, in Geneva – 13 April 1841, in Mornex,
- Alberto Santos-DumontBrazilian aviation pioneer (1873–1932)
- Albrecht von Graefe (ophthalmologist)German ophthalmologist
- Albrecht von HallerSwiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet (1708–1777)
- Alec JeffreysBritish geneticist (born 1950)
- Alejandra BravoMaría Alejandra Bravo de la Parra (born 29 April 1961) is a Mexican biochemist who was lau
- Aleksandr LyapunovRussian mathematician (1857–1918)
- Aleksandr Popov (physicist)Russian physicist (1859–1906)
- Alenush TerianIranian astronomer and physicist (1921–2011)
- Aletta JacobsDutch physician and feminist (1854–1929)
- Alex GrossmannAlexander Grossmann (5 August 1930 – 12 February 2019) was a French-American physicist of
- Alexander GettlerAmerican forensic chemist
- Alexander polynomialIn mathematics, the Alexander polynomial is a knot invariant which assigns a polynomial wi
- Alexander ProkhorovAustralian-born Soviet physicist (1916–2002)
- Alexander S. WienerAmerican geneticist
- Alexander ShulginAmerican chemist and recreational drug explorer (1925–2014)
- Alexander WinchellAlexander Winchell (December 31, 1824, in North East, New York – February 19, 1891, in Ann
- Alexanderson AwardThe Alexanderson Award is given annually by the American Institute of Mathematics.
- Alexandra ElbakyanKazakh computer scientist and founder of Sci-Hub
- Alexandra NewtonUS-based Protein Kinase C expert
- Alexandra WordenAmerican microbiologist
- Alexandre BrongniartFrench scientist (1770 – 1847)
- Alexandre YersinSwiss-born French physician and microbiologist
- Alexei Abrikosov (physicist)Soviet–American theoretical physicist (1928–2017)
- Alexis CarrelFrench surgeon and biologist (1873–1944)
- Alfred KastlerGerman-born French physicist (1902–1984)
- Alfred StockAlfred Stock (July 16, 1876 – August 12, 1946) was a German inorganic chemist. He did pion
- Alfred SturtevantAlfred Henry Sturtevant (November 21, 1891 – April 5, 1970) was an American geneticist. St
- Alfred WernerSwiss chemist (1866–1919)
- Alfvén's theoremIn ideal magnetohydrodynamics, Alfvén's theorem, or the frozen-in flux theorem, states tha
- ALGOL 68-RALGOL 68-R was the first implementation of the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68.
- Alice AlldredgeAmerican oceanographer and marine biologist
- Alice BallBlack American chemist (1892–1916)
- Alice Catherine EvansAmerican microbiologist (1881–1975)
- Alice EverettBritish astronomer and engineer
- Alice GarnettBritish geographer
- Alice HamiltonAmerican physician and toxicologist (1869–1970)
- Alice Hamlin HinmanAmerican psychologist (1869–1934)
- Alice Johnson (zoologist)English zoologist
- Alice Lardé de VenturinoSalvadoran poet, scientist and composer (1895-1983)
- Alice Leslie WalkerAlice "Mopsie" Leslie Walker (June 26, 1885 – June 25, 1954) was an American archeologist
- Alice Middleton BoringAlice Middleton Boring (simplified Chinese: 博爱理; traditional Chinese: 博愛理; pinyin: bó àilǐ
- Alice RecoqueFrench computer scientist (1929–2021)
- Alice RivlinAmerican economist and budget official (1931–2019)
- Alice S. HuangAmerican biologist
- Alice S. RossiSociologist and feminist
- Alice SăvulescuRomanian botanist
- Alice StewartBritish epidemiologist (1906–2002)
- Alicia Boole StottIrish mathematician (1860–1940)
- Alicja IwańskaPolish sociologist (1918–1996)
- Alisa BokulichAmerican philosopher
- Alison BradingBritish scientist
- Alison MercerNew Zealand zoologist
- Alison Murray (scientist)American biochemist and Antarctic researcher
- Alison WoollardAlison Woollard (born 1968) is a British biologist. She is a lecturer in the Department of
- Allan LockheedAmerican aviation engineer and industrialist (1889–1969)
- Allan SandageAmerican astronomer (1926–2010)
- Allegheny County Medical ExaminerThe Office of Allegheny County Medical Examiner investigates cases of persons who die with
- Allison A. CampbellAmerican chemist
- Alma HowardCanadian-born English radiobiologist (1913–1984)
- Alonzo ChurchAmerican mathematician and computer scientist (1903–1995)
- Alter St.-Matthäus-KirchhofAlter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof (Alter Sankt-Matthäus-Kirchhof or Old St. Matthew's Churchyard
- Alternative spellings of womanFeminist alternative spellings of "women"
- Amanda FisherBritish cell biologist
- Ambroise ParéFrench barber surgeon (c. 1510–1590)
- American Conference of Governmental Industrial HygienistsThe American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) is a professional as
- American Ethnological SocietyThe American Ethnological Society (AES) is the oldest professional anthropological associa
- American Management SystemsAmerican Management Systems, Inc., was a high-technology and management consulting firm, f
- American Philosophical SocietyAmerican scholarly organization and learned society
- American Society for Cell BiologyThe American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) is a professional society that was founded in
- American Society for NutritionThe American Society for Nutrition (ASN) is an American society for professional researche
- AmericansPeople of the United States
- Aminah ZaweddeUgandan computer scientist (born c. 1978)
- Amy BargerAmerican astronomer (born 1971)
- Amy Jacot GuillarmodSouth African botanist
- Ana AchúcarroAstrophysicist and cosmologist
- Ana AslanRomanian biologist and physician of Armenian origin
- Ana Briones AlonsoSpanish medical researcher
- Ana María RagoneseArgentine botanist
- Analyse des Infiniment Petits pour l'Intelligence des Lignes CourbesAnalyse des Infiniment Petits pour l'Intelligence des Lignes Courbes (literal translation:
- Anania ShirakatsiPioneering 7th-century Armenian scientist
- Anant ParekhAnant B. Parekh is a British physiologist who is professor of Physiology at the University
- Ancel KeysAmerican physiologist (1904–2004)
- Anders CelsiusSwedish astronomer and physicist (1701–1744)
- Anders Jonas ÅngströmSwedish physicist (1814–1874)
- Andilly, Charente-MaritimeAndilly (French pronunciation: ) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in the N
- André CitroënFrench industrialist and Citroën car brand founder
- Andre GeimDutch-British physicist (born 1958)
- André WeilFrench mathematician (1906-1998)
- Andrea E. KirkwoodCanadian environmental microbiologist
- Andrea Goldsmith (engineer)American electrical engineer
- Andrea Goldsmith (writer)Andrea Goldsmith is an Australian writer and novelist, known for her 2002 novel The Prospe
- Andrea M. GhezAmerican astronomer (born 1965)
- Andreas Franz Wilhelm SchimperGerman botanist and phytogeographer (1856–1901)
- Andrée HoppilliardFrench aeronautical engineer (1909–1995)
- Andrei TupolevSoviet aerospace engineer (1888–1972)
- Andrew E. LangeAndrew E. Lange (July 23, 1957 – January 22, 2010) was an astrophysicist and Goldberger Pr
- Andrew Farley (author)Andrew Farley (born October 31, 1972) is an American Evangelical Christian, the author of
- Andrew HuxleyEnglish physiologist and biophysicist (1917–2012)
- Andrew NgAmerican artificial intelligence researcher
- Andrew WilesBritish mathematician who proved Fermat's Last Theorem
- Andrew YaoChinese computer scientist, physicist, and computational theorist
- Andrey MarkovRussian mathematician (1856–1922)
- Andrija MohorovičićCroatian seismologist and geophysicist
- Andrzej SchinzelAndrzej Bobola Maria Schinzel (5 April 1937 – 21 August 2021) was a Polish mathematician s
- Angela BryanSocial psychologist
- Angela DuckworthAmerican psychologist
- Angela McLean (biologist)British Professor of Mathematical Biology
- Angela RasmussenAmerican virologist and researcher
- Angela VincentBritish neurosurgeon
- Angelika AmonAustrian American academic molecular and cell biologist (1967–2020)
- Angelo Mariani (chemist)French chemist (1838–1914)
- Anita BorgAmerican computer scientist
- Anita HardingIrish-British neurologist
- Anita K. JonesAmerican computer scientist and former U.S. government official
- Anita SenguptaAmerican aerospace engineer
- AnklamAnklam (German pronunciation: ), formerly known as Tanglim and Wendenburg, is a town in th
- Ann Bishop (biologist)British biologist
- Ann E. WeberAmerican chemist
- Ann Fowler RhoadsAmerican botanist
- Ann McKeeAmerican neuropathologist
- Ann T. NelmsAfrican American nuclear physicist
- Ann TsukamotoAmerican stem cell researcher and inventor
- Anna BaetjerAmerican physiologist
- Anna BērzkalneLatvian teacher and folklorist
- Anna BlountAmerican physician (1872–1953)
- Anna CobleAmerican biophysicist
- Anna Johnson Pell WheelerAmerican mathematician
- Anna Johnston (doctor)Australian hematologist
- Anna KomneneByzantine historian (1083–1153)
- Anna MacleodScottish biochemist
- Anna Maria WalkerBritish botanist and scientific illustrator (1778-1852)
- Anna Russell (botanist)English botanist (1807–1876)
- Anna SchwartzAmerican economist (1915–2012)
- Anna Suk-Fong LokAmerican gastroenterologist
- Anna Wessels WilliamsAmerican bacteriologist
- Annamaria LusardiItalian economist
- Anne Atai OmorutoAnne Deborah Atai Omoruto (22 November 1956 to 5 May 2016) was a Ugandan family physician,
- Anne B. NewmanAmerican research scientist
- Anne Beloff-ChainEnglish biochemist (1921–1991)
- Anne BriscoeAmerican biochemist
- Anne DellAustralian biochemist
- Anne HultgrenAmerican chemist
- Anne McLarenBritish scientist
- Anne MillsBritish authority on health economics
- Anne Stine IngstadNorwegian archaeologist (1918–1997)
- Anne-Marie StaubFrench biochemist and chemist
- Annettee NakimuliUgandan obstetrician and gynecologist, medical consultant, researcher and academic
- Annie EasleyAmerican mathematician and rocket scientist
- Annie Jump CannonAmerican astronomer (1863–1941)
- Annie Jump Cannon Award in AstronomyAwarded by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) to a woman resident of North America
- Annie Marion MacLeanAmerican sociologist (1869–1934)
- Annie MassyIrish marine biologist
- Annie Morrill SmithAmerican botanist and bryologist
- Annie S. D. MaunderIrish astronomer (1868–1947)
- Annita TullerAnnita Tuller (also known under her married name Annita Levine, December 30, 1910 – August
- AnnMari JanssonSwedish academic focused on ecological economics
- Anousheh AnsariIranian-American engineer and space tourist (born 1966)
- Anthemius of TrallesByzantine architect and mathematician (c. 474 – 533–558)
- Anthony FauciAmerican immunologist (born 1940)
- Anthony L. KomaroffAnthony L. Komaroff (born June 7, 1941) is an American physician, clinical investigator, e
- Anthony LeggettBritish–American physicist (1938–2026)
- Antoinette PirieAntoinette Pirie (née Patey; 4 October 1905 – 11 October 1991) was a British biochemist, o
- Antoinette TordesillasApplied mathematician
- Anton PannekoekDutch astronomer and Marxist theorist (1873–1960)
- António Egas MonizPortuguese neurologist (1874–1955)
- Antony HewishBritish radio astronomer (1924–2021)
- Anya ReadingAustralian geophysicist
- April A. BenasichAmerican neuroscientist
- Arboretum KalmthoutThe Arboretum Kalmthout is a botanical garden in Kalmthout, Belgium. It was started as a t
- Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of AustriaArchduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria (1 April 1825 – 26 April 1864) was the only daug
- Archibald GeikieScottish geologist and writer
- Architecture of ArgentinaThe architecture of Argentina can be said to start at the beginning of the Spanish colonis
- Archytas4th-century BC Greek philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and statesman
- Arfa KarimPakistani computer prodigy (1995–2012)
- Arfa Software Technology ParkArfa Software Technology Park (previously known as Software Technology Park) is a skyscrap
- Argonauta argoArgonauta argo, also known as the greater argonaut, is a species of pelagic octopus belong
- Arianna W. RosenbluthAmerican physicist and computer scientist (1927-2020)
- Aristarchus of SamosGreek astronomer and mathematician (c. 310 – 230 BC)
- Armen TakhtajanSoviet-Armenian botanist (1910–2009)
- Armitt LibraryThe Armitt Museum, also known as the Armitt Museum and Library, is an independent museum a
- Arne TiseliusSwedish biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (1902–1971)
- Arno Allan PenziasAmerican physicist (1933–2024)
- Arnold SommerfeldGerman theoretical physicist (1868–1951)
- Arnold–Givental conjectureThe Arnold–Givental conjecture, named after Vladimir Arnold and Alexander Givental, is a s
- Arthur AshkinAmerican physicist (1922–2020)
- Arthur B. McDonaldCanadian astrophysicist
- Arthur ComptonAmerican physicist (1892–1962)
- Arthur EddingtonBritish astrophysicist (1882–1944)
- Arthur Leonard SchawlowAmerican physicist (1921–1999)
- Arthur MattuckArthur Paul Mattuck (June 11, 1930 – October 8, 2021) was an emeritus professor of mathema
- Arthur Moritz SchoenfliesGerman mathematician
- Artur AvilaBrazilian mathematician (born 1979)
- Ashawna HaileyAmerican computer scientist and philanthropist
- Ashley Gordon LowndesAshley Gordon Lowndes (9 October 1885 – 15 March 1956) was a British zoologist and science
- Ashvin VishwanathAshvin Vishwanath (born January 9, 1973) is an Indian-American theoretical physicist known
- Asiyat TutaevaSoviet combat medic
- Asset forfeitureAsset forfeiture or asset seizure is a form of confiscation of assets by the authorities.
- Association for Women in ScienceThe Association for Women in Science (AWIS) was founded in 1971 at the annual Federation o
- Association of Black AnthropologistsFounded in 1975, the Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA) is an American organizatio
- Association of Black CardiologistsThe Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC) is an organization founded to bring special a
- Astrid CleveSwedish botanist, geologist, chemist
- Astronomical clockClock displaying astronomical information
- Atiyah algebroidIn mathematics, the Atiyah algebroid, or Atiyah sequence, of a principal -bundle over a ma
- Atomic recoilIn nuclear physics, atomic recoil is the result of the interaction of an atom with an ener
- AtreyaAtreya or Atreyas (आत्रेय) Rishi, or Atreya Punarvasu, was a descendant of Atri, one of th
- AubonneAubonne (French pronunciation: ) is a municipality in the district of Morges in the canton
- Aubrey de GreyEnglish biogerontologist and author (born 1963)
- Aubrey ManningAubrey William George Manning, OBE, FRSE, FRSB, (24 April 1930 – 20 October 2018) was an E
- Audrey S. PennAmerican neurologist
- August Ferdinand MöbiusGerman mathematician and astronomer (1790–1868)
- August HorchGerman automobile engineer, founder of Audi
- August KekuléGerman organic chemist (1829–1896)
- August WeismannGerman evolutionary biologist (1834–1914)
- Augustin Pyramus de CandolleSwiss botanist (1778–1841)
- Augusto SampaioAugusto Cezar Alves Sampaio is a Brazilian computer scientist who works with formal method
- Augustus De MorganBritish mathematician and logician (1806–1871)
- AusthorpeAusthorpe is a civil parish and residential suburb of east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
- Austin Bradford HillEnglish epidemiologist and statistician (1897–1991)
- Australian Academy of ScienceThe Australian Academy of Science was founded in 1954 by a group of distinguished Australi
- Author citation (zoology)Person(s) who published a zoological name
- Automatic firearmFirearm that fires continuously while the trigger is depressed
- AvidinAvidin is a tetrameric biotin-binding protein produced in the oviducts of birds, reptiles
- Award pinAn award pin is a small object, usually made from metal or plastic, with a pin on the back
- Awards, lectures and medals of the Royal SocietyThe Royal Society presents numerous awards, lectures and medals to recognise scientific ac
- Aziz SancarTurkish biochemist and molecular biologist (born 1946)
- Azophi (crater)Azophi is a lunar impact crater that lies in the rugged south-central highlands of the Moo