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University teacher Biographies
Every archived life recorded as university teacher, ordered by their place in the ledger.
Modern era
John Archibald Wheeler
July 9, 1911 – April 13, 2008
American physicist (1911-2008)
Modern era
John Bardeen
May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991
American physicist and engineer (1908–1991)
Modern era
Jack Kilby
November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005
American electrical engineer (1923–2005)
Modern era
Kip Thorne
b. June 1, 1940
American physicist (born 1940)
Contemporary era
Andrea Ghez
b. June 16, 1965
American astronomer
Modern era
Frank Drake
May 28, 1930 – September 2, 2022
American astronomer and astrophysicist (1930–2022)
Modern era
Clyde Tombaugh
February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997
American astronomer (1906–1997)
Early Modern era
Jons Jacob Berzelius
August 20, 1779 – August 7, 1848
Swedish chemist (1779–1848)
Modern era
Friedrich Wohler
July 31, 1800 – September 23, 1882
German chemist (1800-1882)
Modern era
August Kekule
September 7, 1829 – July 13, 1896
German organic chemist (1829–1896)
Modern era
Svante Arrhenius
February 19, 1859 – October 2, 1927
Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist (1859–1927)
Modern era
Robert Bunsen
March 30, 1811 – August 16, 1899
German chemist (1811-1899)
Modern era
Otto Hahn
March 8, 1879 – July 28, 1968
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
Modern era
Glenn Seaborg
April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999
American chemist (1912–1999)
Modern era
Mario Molina
March 19, 1943 – October 7, 2020
Mexican chemical engineer (1943–2020)
Modern era
Har Gobind Khorana
January 9, 1922 – November 9, 2011
Indian-American molecular biologist (1922-2011)
Modern era
Jagadish Chandra Bose
November 30, 1858 – November 23, 1937
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
Modern era
Tu Youyou
b. December 30, 1930
Chinese medical scientist
Modern era
Qian Xuesen
December 11, 1911 – October 31, 2009
Chinese rocket scientist (1911-2009)
Modern era
Hideki Yukawa
January 23, 1907 – September 8, 1981
Japanese theoretical physicist (1907-1981)
Modern era
Paul Ehrlich
March 14, 1854 – August 20, 1915
Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)
Modern era
Albert Sabin
August 26, 1906 – March 3, 1993
Jewish-Polish-American physician and epidemiologist who developed oral polio vaccines (1906-1993)
Modern era
Frederick Sanger
August 13, 1918 – November 19, 2013
British biochemist (1918–2013)
Modern era
Norman Borlaug
March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009
American biologist (1914–2009)
Modern era
Lynn Margulis
March 5, 1938 – November 22, 2011
American evolutionary biologist (1938–2011)
Modern era
Konrad Lorenz
November 7, 1903 – February 27, 1989
Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 (1903–1989)
Modern era
James Lovelock
July 26, 1919 – July 26, 2022
English scientist (1919–2022)
Modern era
William James
January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910
Researcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-2506-1198
Modern era
Abraham Maslow
April 1, 1909 – June 8, 1970
American psychologist (1908–1970)
Modern era
Natsume Soseki
February 9, 1867 – December 9, 1916
Japanese novelist
Modern era
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
January 5, 1938 – May 28, 2025
Kenyan writer (1938–2025)
Modern era
Jacques Derrida
July 15, 1930 – October 8, 2004
French philosopher (1930–2004)
Modern era
Karl Popper
July 28, 1902 – September 17, 1994
Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society (1902-1994)
Modern era
John Rawls
February 21, 1921 – November 24, 2002
American philosopher, philosophy teacher
Modern era
Noam Chomsky
b. December 7, 1928
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
Modern era
Grant Wood
February 13, 1891 – February 12, 1942
American painter (1891–1942)
Modern era
Paul Klee
December 18, 1879 – June 29, 1940
German-Swiss artist (1879–1940)
Modern era
Oscar Niemeyer
December 15, 1907 – December 5, 2012
Brazilian architect (1907–2012)
Modern era
Gabriel Faure
May 12, 1845 – November 4, 1924
French composer, organist, pianist and teacher (1845–1924)
Modern era
Alexander Scriabin
January 6, 1872 – April 27, 1915
Russian composer and pianist (1872–1915)
Modern era
Carl Orff
July 10, 1895 – March 29, 1982
German composer (1895–1982)
Modern era
John Cage
September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992
American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)