Greatest scientists, age.xlsx

	A	B	C	D	E
1	Name	Born	Greatest contribution	Year of contribution	Age at that time
2	Tim Berners-Lee	1955	World Wide Web	1989	34
3	Stephen Hawking	1942	Hawking radiation	1974	32
4	Peter Higgs	1929	Proposed the existence of the Higgs boson	1964	35
5	John Bardeen	1908	Co-inventor of the transistor; theory of superconductivity	1964	56
6	Richard Phillips Feynman	1918	Path integral formulation of quantum mechanics; Feynman diagram	1948	30
7	Barbara McClintock	1902	Discovery of genetic transposition ("jumping genes")	1946	44
8	Robert Oppenheimer	1904	Fission bomb	1945	41
9	Enrico Fermi	1901	Created the first nuclear reactor	1942	41
10	Alan Turing	1912	Turing machine (computability)	1936	24
11	Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov	1903	Contributions in the theory of probability and statistics	1933	30
12	John von Neumann	1903	Building the mathematical framework of quantum physics	1932	29
13	Edwin Hubble	1889	Hubble's law	1929	40
14	Alexander Fleming	1881	Discovery of penicilin	1928	47
15	Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac	1902	Dirac equation	1928	26
16	Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman	1888	Raman effect	1928	40
17	Werner Heisenberg	1901	The uncertainty principle	1927	26
18	Erwin Schrödinger	1887	The Schrödinger equation	1926	39
19	Louis de Broglie	1892	Wave-particle duality	1924	32
20	Amalie Emmy Noether	1882	Noether's theorem	1918	36
21	Niels Bohr	1885	Model of the atom	1913	28
22	Fritz Haber	1868	Haber process	1913	45
23	Alfred Wegener	1880	Continential drift hypothesis	1912	32
24	Thomas Hunt Morgan	1866	Work on the role of chromosomes in heredity	1911	45
25	Albert Einstein	1879	Special and general theory of relativity	1910	31
26	Srinivasa Ramanujan	1887	Infinite series, complex analysis	1910	23
27	Walther Hermann Nernst	1864	Third law of thermodynamics, Nernst equation	1909	45
28	David Hilbert	1862	Hilbert's axioms; Hilbert space	1909	47
29	Jules Henri Poincaré	1854	Poincaré conjecture	1904	50
30	William Ramsay	1852	Discovery of noble gases	1904	52
31	Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright	1871	Airplane	1903	32
32	Karl Landsteiner	1868	Discovery of blood types	1901	33
33	Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck	1858	Planck constant	1900	42
34	Paul Ehrlich	1854	Cure for syphilis; the side-chain theory of the immune response	1900	46
35	Ernest Rutherford	1871	Discovery of alpha and beta radiation; the concept of half-life	1899	28
36	Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie	1867	Discovery of polonium and radium	1898	31
37	Ivan Petrovich Pavlov	1849	Discovery of classical conditioning	1897	48
38	Antoine Henri Becquerel	1852	Discovery of spontaneous radioactivity	1896	44
39	Hendrik Antoon Lorentz	1853	Lorentz force law	1895	42
40	Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen	1845	Discovery of X-rays	1895	50
41	Hermann Emil Louis Fischer	1852	Fischer-Speier esterification; Fischer projection	1895	43
42	Rudolf Diesel	1858	Diesel engine	1893	35
43	Nikola Tesla	1856	Alternating current, electric motor	1887	31
44	Albert Michelson	1852	Measuring the speed of light; the Michelson-Morley experiment	1887	35
45	Heinrich Rudolf Hertz	1857	Discovery of electromagnetic waves	1886	29
46	Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch	1843	Discovery of the tuberculosis bacterium	1882	39
47	Thomas Alva Edison	1847	The incandescent light bulb; movie camera	1879	32
48	Alexander Graham Bell	1847	Telephone	1876	29
49	Karl Weierstrass	1815	Weierstrass function	1872	57
50	Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev	1834	Creating the periodic table of elements	1871	37
51	Alfred Nobel	1833	Dynamite	1867	34
52	Louis Pasteur	1822	Pasteurization	1865	43
53	Gregor Johann Mendel	1822	Principles of heredity	1863	41
54	James Clerk Maxwell	1831	Maxwell's equations	1861	30
55	Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann	1826	Riemann hypothesis	1859	33
56	Charles Darwin	1809	Evolution	1859	50
57	Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz	1821	Invention of ophthalmoscope	1851	30
58	Gustav Robert Kirchhoff	1824	Kirchhoff's circuit laws; Kirchhoff's law of thermochemistry	1851	27
59	William Thomson (Kelvin)	1824	Absolute zero	1848	24
60	Charles Goodyear	1800	Pliable, waterproof, moldable rubber	1844	44
61	Christian Doppler	1803	Doppler effect	1842	39
62	James Prescott Joule	1818	First law of thermodynamics; mechanical equivalent of heat	1841	23
63	Louis Daguerre	1787	Daguerreotype	1839	52
64	Samuel Finley Breese Morse	1791	Morse code	1837	46
65	William Rowan Hamilton	1805	Hamiltonian mechanics	1833	28
66	Michael Faraday	1791	Laws of electrolysis, discovery of diamagnetism	1832	41
67	Augustin-Louis Cauchy	1789	Calculus, complex analysis	1829	40
68	André-Marie Ampère	1775	Discovered fluorine; Ampère's force law	1827	52
69	Georg Simon Ohm	1789	Ohm's law	1827	38
70	Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier	1768	Fourier transform	1822	54
71	Hans Christian Ørsted	1777	Discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields	1820	43
72	Humphry Davy	1778	The Davy lamp	1815	37
73	Amedeo Avogadro	1776	Made a distinction between molecules and atoms	1811	35
74	Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss	1777	Method of least squares	1809	32
75	Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac	1778	Gay-Lussac's law	1808	30
76	John Dalton	1766	Daltonism; atomic theory	1803	37
77	Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet (Lamarck)	1744	Classification of invertebrates, a term which he coined	1801	57
78	Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta	1745	Discovery of methane; invention of the electric battery (voltaic pile)	1799	54
79	Edward Jenner	1749	Vaccination	1798	49
80	Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier	1743	The law of conservation of mass	1789	46
81	Charles-Augustin de Coulomb	1736	Coulomb's law	1785	49
82	Luigi Galvani	1737	Discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitched when struck by an electrical spark	1780	43
83	Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier	1743	Oxygen theory of combustion	1772	29
84	Pierre-Simon Laplace	1749	Laplace's equation	1772	23
85	Henry Cavendish	1731	Discovery of hydrogen; analysis of the chemical composition of air	1766	35
86	James Watt	1736	Improved the efficiency of the steam engine	1765	29
87	Johann Heinrich Lambert	1728	First proof that π is irrational	1761	33
88	Joseph-Louis Lagrange	1736	Lagrangian mechanics	1760	24
89	Carl Linnaeus	1707	Creation of binomial nomenclature	1753	46
90	Leonhard Euler	1707	Too many to count, let's say Euler's identity	1748	41
91	Isaac Newton	1643	Calculus, law of gravitation	1687	44
92	Robert Hooke	1635	Hooke's law	1676	41
93	Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek	1632	Discovery of microorganisms	1676	44
94	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	1646	Differential and integral calculus	1675	29
95	Robert Boyle	1627	Boyle's law	1662	35
96	Christiaan Huygens	1629	Invented the pendulum clock	1657	28
97	Blaise Pascal	1623	Pascal's law; Pascal's Triangle; invention of the barometer	1653	30
98	René Descartes	1596	Cartesian coordinate system	1637	41
99	Johannes Kepler	1571	Three laws of planetary motion	1619	48
100	Galileo Galilei	1564	First practical telescope	1609	45