| A | B |
| Archer Martin | co-discoverer of paper chromatography |
| Drummond Hoyle Matthews | co-discoverer of magnetic anomalies across mid-ocean ridges |
| James Clark Maxwell | produced unified theory of electromagnetism and the kinetic theory of gases. |
| Gregor Mendel | discovered basic statistical laws of heredity |
| Antoine Laurent Lavoisier | Creator of the Chemical Revolution |
| Auguste Laurent | classifier of organic compounds |
| James Van Allen | Discovered the magnetosphere |
| Nikolai Ivanovitch Vavilov | A pioneer of cross breeding to improve crops |
| August Weismann | devised a theory of heredity |
| Peter Zeeman | discovered the splitting of spectral lines by magnetic fields |
| Heng Zhang | invented the earthquake seismograph |
| Thomas Young | Established the wave theory of light |
| James Gregory | Contributed to the discovery of calculus |
| Beno Gutenberg | Demonstrated that the Earth's outer core is liquid |
| Michael Faraday | discovered benzene, the laws of electrolysis and invented an electric motor, and transformer |
| Joseph Farman | found Antarctic ozone hole |
| Albert Einstein | theory of relativity |
| Enrico Fermi | built first atomic reactor |
| Norton David Zinder | discovered bacterial transduction |
| August von Wasserman | devised the Wasserman test for syphilis |