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University teacher Biographies
Every archived life recorded as university teacher, ordered by their place in the ledger.
Modern era
Kenneth O. Hall
b. April 24, 1941
Governor-General of Jamaica
Modern era
Edward Seaga
May 28, 1930 – May 28, 2019
5th Prime Minister of Jamaica (1930–2019)
Contemporary era
Vjosa Osmani
b. May 17, 1982
President of the Republic of Kosovo since 2021
Contemporary era
Isa Mustafa
b. May 15, 1951
Kosovo Albanian politician (born 1951)
Modern era
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
b. December 1, 1937
6th President of Latvia
Contemporary era
Hassan Diab
b. June 1, 1959
Lebanese engineer, academic and minister of higher education
Contemporary era
Dalia Grybauskaitė
b. March 1, 1956
President of Lithuania fom 2009 to 2019 (born 1956)
Modern era
Algirdas Brazauskas
September 22, 1932 – June 26, 2010
Lithuanian politician (1932–2010)
Contemporary era
Rimantas Šadžius
b. October 8, 1960
Lithuanian politician
Contemporary era
Ingrida Šimonytė
b. November 15, 1974
Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania
Modern era
Guido de Marco
July 22, 1931 – August 12, 2010
Maltese politician (1931-2010)
Modern era
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici
July 17, 1933 – November 5, 2022
Maltese politician (born 1933)
Modern era
José López Portillo
June 16, 1920 – February 17, 2004
58th President of Mexico
Contemporary era
Dorin Recean
b. March 17, 1974
Moldovan academic and politician
Contemporary era
Michel Roger
b. March 9, 1949
French civil servant
Contemporary era
Igor Lukšić
b. June 14, 1976
Politician from Montenegro
Modern era
Woodrow Wilson
December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924
28th President of the United States (1913–1921)
Modern era
Joe Biden
b. November 20, 1942
46th President of the United States (2021–2025)
Modern era
Louis Pasteur
December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895
Chemist whose germ theory and vaccines saved uncounted lives
Modern era
Marie Curie
November 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934
Physicist and chemist, first person to win Nobel Prizes in two sciences
Modern era
Alan Turing
June 23, 1912 – June 7, 1954
Mathematician who founded computer science and broke Enigma
Modern era
Georges Lemaitre
July 17, 1894 – June 20, 1966
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
Early Modern era
Leonhard Euler
April 15, 1707 – September 18, 1783
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
Modern era
Bernhard Riemann
September 17, 1826 – July 20, 1866
German mathematician (1826–1866)
Modern era
David Hilbert
January 23, 1862 – February 14, 1943
German mathematician (1862–1943)
Modern era
Kurt Godel
April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
Modern era
Emmy Noether
March 23, 1882 – April 14, 1935
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
Modern era
Heinrich Hertz
February 22, 1857 – January 1, 1894
German physicist (1857–1894)
Modern era
Ludwig Boltzmann
February 20, 1844 – September 5, 1906
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
Modern era
Lord Kelvin
June 26, 1824 – December 17, 1907
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
Early Modern era
Georg Ohm
March 16, 1789 – July 6, 1854
German physicist and mathematician
Modern era
Henri Becquerel
December 15, 1852 – August 25, 1908
French physicist (1852–1908)
Modern era
Pierre Curie
May 15, 1859 – April 19, 1906
French physicist (1859–1906)
Modern era
J. J. Thomson
December 18, 1856 – August 30, 1940
British physicist (1856-1940)
Modern era
Niels Bohr
October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
Modern era
Max Planck
April 23, 1858 – October 4, 1947
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
Modern era
Werner Heisenberg
December 5, 1901 – February 1, 1976
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
Modern era
Wolfgang Pauli
April 25, 1900 – December 15, 1958
Physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
Modern era
Enrico Fermi
September 29, 1901 – November 28, 1954
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
Modern era
Lise Meitner
1878 – October 27, 1968
Austrian-Swedish physicist
Modern era
James Chadwick
October 20, 1891 – July 24, 1974
English physicist (1891-1974), who discovered the neutron in 1932
Modern era
Chien-Shiung Wu
May 31, 1912 – February 16, 1997
Chinese-American physicist (1912–1997) (death at 85 years)
Modern era
Satyendra Nath Bose
January 1, 1894 – February 4, 1974
Indian Bengali physicist and polymath (1894–1974)
Modern era
C. V. Raman
November 7, 1888 – November 21, 1970
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
Modern era
Abdus Salam
January 29, 1926 – November 21, 1996
Theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient
Modern era
Peter Higgs
May 29, 1929 – April 8, 2024
British physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1929–2024)
Modern era
Roger Penrose
b. August 8, 1931
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
Modern era
Annie Jump Cannon
December 11, 1863 – April 13, 1941
American astronomer (1863-1941)
Early Modern era
Amedeo Avogadro
August 9, 1776 – July 9, 1856
Italian scientist
Modern era
Dmitri Mendeleev
January 27, 1834 – January 20, 1907
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
Modern era
Fritz Haber
December 9, 1868 – January 29, 1934
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
Modern era
Linus Pauling
February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994
American scientist (1901–1994)
Modern era
George Washington Carver
January 1, 1864 – January 5, 1943
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
Early Modern era
Anders Celsius
November 27, 1701 – April 25, 1744
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
Early Modern era
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
August 1, 1744 – December 18, 1829
French naturalist (1744-1829)
Early Modern era
Andreas Vesalius
December 31, 1514 – October 16, 1564
Flemish anatomist, physician and author (1514–1564)
Modern era
Ignaz Semmelweis
July 1, 1818 – August 13, 1865
Hungarian physician, early pioneer of antiseptic procedures (1818–1865)
Modern era
Joseph Lister
April 5, 1827 – February 10, 1912
British surgeon and antiseptic pioneer (1827–1912)
Modern era
Virginia Apgar
June 7, 1909 – August 7, 1974
American obstetrical anesthesiologist (1909-1974)
Modern era
Barbara McClintock
June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992
American scientist and cytogeneticist