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University teacher Biographies
Every archived life recorded as university teacher, ordered by their place in the ledger.
Contemporary era
Katalin Kariko
b. January 17, 1955
Hungarian biochemist
Contemporary era
Jennifer Doudna
b. February 19, 1964
American biochemist
Modern era
Jane Goodall
April 3, 1934 – October 1, 2025
English primatologist and anthropologist (1934–2025)
Modern era
Grace Hopper
December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
Modern era
Sergei Korolev
December 30, 1906 – January 14, 1966
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
Contemporary era
Tim Berners-Lee
b. June 8, 1955
English computer scientist (born 1955)
Early Modern era
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831
German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)
Early Modern era
Arthur Schopenhauer
February 22, 1788 – September 21, 1860
German philosopher (1788-1860)
Modern era
J. R. R. Tolkien
January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
Modern era
C. S. Lewis
November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
Modern era
Toni Morrison
February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019
African American novelist, essayist, and academic (1931–2019)
Modern era
Wassily Kandinsky
December 4, 1866 – December 13, 1944
Avant-garde painter of Russian origin (1866-1944)
Modern era
Mark Rothko
September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970
American painter of Latvian-Jewish descent (1903–1970)
Modern era
Roy Lichtenstein
October 27, 1923 – September 15, 1997
American pop artist (1923–1997)
Contemporary era
Zaha Hadid
October 31, 1950 – March 31, 2016
Iraqi British architect, designer and painter (1950–2016)
Modern era
Jean Sibelius
December 8, 1865 – September 20, 1957
Finnish composer (1865–1957)
Contemporary era
Neil Armstrong
August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012
First human being to walk on the Moon
Contemporary era
Pervez Hoodbhoy
b. July 11, 1950
Pakistani nuclear physicist
Modern era
Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan
February 13, 1905 – June 13, 1990
Pakistani diplomat (1905-1990)
Modern era
Jibanananda Das
February 17, 1899 – October 22, 1954
Bengali Poet (1899-1954)
Contemporary era
Ghulam Ali (ghazal singer)
b. 1974
Historical figure
Modern era
Hakim Mohammed Said
January 20, 1920 – October 17, 1998
Pakistani medical researcher, scholar, philanthropist, and governor of Sindh Province (1920–1998)
Modern era
Annemarie Schimmel
April 7, 1922 – January 26, 2003
German scholar of Islam (1922-2003)
Modern era
Halide Edib Adivar
June 11, 1884 – January 9, 1964
Turkish social reformer and statesperson (1884–1964)
Medieval era
Marsilius of Padua
1275 – 1342
Italian philosopher (1275–1342)
Medieval era
Duns Scotus
1265 – November 8, 1308
Priest, friar, philosopher, theologian, college teacher
Medieval era
Meister Eckhart
1260 – January 28, 1328
German philosopher and theologian
Medieval era
Lorenzo Valla
1407 – August 1, 1457
Italian Renaissance humanist (c. 1407–1457)
Medieval era
Bartolus de Saxoferrato
1313 – July 21, 1357
Italian law professor (1313–1357)
Medieval era
Georg von Peurbach
May 30, 1423 – April 8, 1461
Austrian mathematician and astronomer (1423-1461)
Medieval era
Angelo Poliziano
July 14, 1454 – September 29, 1494
Italian classical scholar and poet (1454-1494)
Modern era
Josiah
February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903
American scientist (1839–1903)
Modern era
Taraknath Das
June 15, 1884 – December 22, 1958
Indian revolutionary (1884–1958)
Modern era
Asima Chatterjee
September 23, 1917 – November 22, 2006
Indian chemist (1917–2006)
Modern era
Janaki Ammal
November 4, 1897 – February 7, 1984
Indian botanist (1897-1984)
Modern era
Birbal Sahni
November 14, 1891 – April 10, 1949
Indian botanist (1891-1949)
Modern era
Prafulla Chandra Ray
August 2, 1861 – June 16, 1944
Bengali chemist, educationist, poet, historian, industrialist and philanthropist (1861–1944)
Modern era
Meghnad Saha
October 6, 1893 – February 16, 1956
Bengali astrophysicist (1893–1956)
Modern era
Jasimuddin
January 1, 1903 – March 13, 1976
Bangladeshi poet, writer, and lyricist (1903–1976)
Modern era
Benode Behari Mukherjee
February 7, 1904 – November 11, 1980
Indian artist (1904-1980)
Modern era
Anna Molka Ahmed
August 13, 1917 – April 20, 1994
Pakistani artist (1917-1994)
Modern era
Khalilullah Khalili
1907 – May 4, 1987
Persian language writer and poet (1907–1987)
Modern era
Isaiah
June 6, 1909 – November 5, 1997
Russo-British-Latvian Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas (1909–1997)
Medieval era
Jan Hus
1369 – July 6, 1415
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
Modern era
Pope Benedict XVI
April 16, 1927 – December 31, 2022
265 th pope of the Catholic Church (2005–2013)
Early Modern era
Daniel Bernoulli
February 8, 1700 – March 17, 1782
Swiss mathematician and physicist (1700-1782)
Early Modern era
Luigi Galvani
September 9, 1737 – December 4, 1798
Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher
Modern era
Niels Henrik Abel
August 5, 1802 – April 6, 1829
Norwegian mathematician (1802–1829)
Modern era
Georg Cantor
February 19, 1845 – January 6, 1918
German mathematician, inventor of set theory (1845–1918)
Modern era
Paul Erdos
March 26, 1913 – September 20, 1996
Hungarian mathematician (1913–1996)
Contemporary era
Andrew Wiles
b. April 11, 1953
English mathematician (1953–)
Modern era
John McCarthy
September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011
American computer scientist and cognitive scientist (1927-2011)
Modern era
Marvin Minsky
August 9, 1927 – January 24, 2016
American cognitive scientist (1927-2016)
Contemporary era
Geoffrey Hinton
b. December 6, 1947
British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist
Modern era
Albert A. Michelson
December 19, 1852 – May 9, 1931
American physicist (1852–1931)
Modern era
Robert Millikan
March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953
American physicist (1868–1953)
Modern era
Hans Bethe
July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005
German-American nuclear physicist
Modern era
Edward Teller
January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
Modern era
Leo Szilard
February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964
Hungarian-American Jewish physicist and inventor (1898–1964)
Modern era
Steven Weinberg
May 3, 1933 – July 23, 2021
American theoretical physicist (1933-2021)