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George Gamow (1904-1968)
physicist, inventor, nuclear physicist, cosmologist, biochemist, astronomer, astrophysicist
- Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Saint Petersburg University, Odesa University
Simon Mawer (born 1948)
teacher, zoologist, biologist
- University of Oxford
Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828)
botanist, explorer, pteridologist, bryologist, zoologist, ornithologist, physician, lepidopterist, mycologist, philosopher, naturalist
- Uppsala University
Georg Forster (1754-1794)
explorer, anthropologist, ethnologist, pteridologist, librarian, translator, ornithologist, revolutionary, biologist, botanist, journalist, entomologist, mycologist, autobiographer, naturalist, art historian, geographer, traveler, scientific explorer
- Saint Peter's School
Roy Chapman Andrews (1884-1960)
explorer, paleontologist, zoologist
- Columbia University, Beloit College
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1812-1885)
marine biologist, forester, collector of fairy tales
Al-Jahiz (0775-0868)
philologist, poet, biologist, zoologist, historian
John Shaw Billings (1838-1913)
librarian, surgeon, statistician, botanist
- Miami University, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine