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List of centenarians (engineers, mathematicians and scientists)

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The following is a list of centenarians – specifically, people who became famous as scientists and mathematicians – known for reasons other than their longevity. For more lists, see lists of centenarians.

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Name Lifespan Age Reason for Notability
Charles Greeley Abbot1872–1973101American astrophysicist and the fifth secretary of the Smithsonian Institution[1]
Fred Aftalion1922–2022100French chemical engineer[2]
Shmuel Agmon1922–2025103Israeli mathematician[3]
Saleh Ajeery1920–2022101Kuwaiti astronomer[4]
Horace Alexander1889–1989100British biologist and ornithologist[5]
Doris Twitchell Allen1901–2002100American psychologist and founder of Children's International Summer Villages[6]
Franz Alt1910–2011100Austrian mathematician[7]
Heinz Ansbacher1904–2006101German-American psychologist[8]
Guacolda Antoine Lazzerini1908–2015107Chilean mathematician and educator[9]
Rudolf Arnheim1904–2007102German psychologist of visual perception[10]
David Attenborough 1926– 100 English broadcaster, natural historian, conservationist, writer, producer and narrator
Ira Baldwin1895–1999103American bacteriologist and educator[11]
Basil Balme1923–2023100Australian palynologist[12][13]
David Bannett1921–2022100Israeli-American electrical engineer[14]
Paddy Bassett1918–2019101New Zealand agricultural scientist[15]
Preston Bassett1892–1992100American inventor and aeronautics pioneer[16]
Henry Beachell1906–2006100American developer of "miracle rice"[17]
Wilfried de Beauclair1912–2020108Swiss-born German engineer and computer scientist[18]
Arnold Orville Beckman1900–2004104American chemist and businessman who founded Beckman Instruments[19]
Bei Shizhang1903–2009106Chinese biologist and educator[20]
Julia Bell1879–1979100British human geneticist[21]
Harry Benjamin1885–1986101German sexologist[22]
Leo Beranek1914–2016102American acoustical scientist[23]
Theodor Bergmann1916–2017101German agronomist and author[24]
Bob Berry1916–2018102New Zealand dendrologist[25]
Adam Bielański1912–2016103Polish chemist[26]
Sidney W. Bijou1908–2009100American child psychologist[27]
Heinz Billing1914–2017102German physicist and computer scientist[28]
Marcel Boiteux1922–2023101French economist[29]
William M. Boothby1918–2021102American mathematician[30]
Winnett Boyd1916–2017100Canadian engineer[31]
Per Vilhelm Brüel1915–2015100Danish physicist and engineer[32]
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat1923–2025101French mathematician and physicist [33]
Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev1859–1962103Ukrainian mathematician[34]
Margaret Burbidge1919–2020100British-American astrophysicist[35]
Colin Gasking Butler1913–2016102British entomologist[36]
Cai Qirui1914–2016102Chinese chemist[37]
Eugenio Calabi1923–2023100Italian-American mathematician[38]
Pierre Camu1923–2023100Canadian geographer and civil servant[39]
Beatrice de Cardi1914–2016102British archaeologist[40]
Henri Cartan1904–2008104French mathematician[41]
Hung-ta Chang1914–2016101Chinese botanist and ecologist[42]
Chen Jingxiong1921–2022100Chinese engineer[43]
Cheng Kaijia1918–2018100Chinese nuclear physicist and engineer[44]
Herman Chernoff1923–2026103American mathematician[45]
Georgy Chernov1906–2009102Russian geologist[46]
Michel Eugène Chevreul1786–1889102French chemist[47]
Dame Harriette Chick1875–1977102British microbiologist, protein scientist and nutritionist[48]
Sir Rickard Christophers1873–1978104British protozoologist[49]
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ1914–2024110Turkish archaeologist[50]
Thomas H. Clark1893–1996102Canadian geologist[51]
Seymour S. Cohen1917–2018101American biochemist[52]
H. Basil S. Cooke1915–2018102Canadian geologist and paleontologist[53]
William D. Coolidge1873–1975101American engineer and developer of the Coolidge tube for production of x-rays[54]
Morton Coutts1904–2004100New Zealand inventor and developer of the continuous fermentation method[55]
Ray Crist1900–2005105American chemist[56]
Kathleen Curtis1892−1994102New Zealand mycologist and first female Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand[57]
Max Day1915–2017101Australian ecologist[58]
Sukh Dev1923–2024101Indian organic chemist[59]
Theodor Otto Diener1921–2023102Swiss-American plant pathologist, discoverer of viroids[60]
Jacques Dixmier1924–102French mathematician[61]
Nikolay Dollezhal1899–2000101Russian mechanical engineer[62]
Sergio Donadoni1914–2015101Italian archaeologist[63]
William Gould Dow1895–1999104American scientist and inventor[64]
Marion Downs1914–2014100American audiologist[65]
Alicia Dussán de Reichel1920–2023102Colombian anthropologist[66]
Dan Eley1914–2015100British chemist[67]
Frank Ellis1905–2006100British radiologist[68]
Rica Erickson1908–2009101Australian naturalist[69]
Leo Esaki1925–101Japanese physicist and recipient of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics[70]
Henri Fabre1882–1984101French aviation pioneer and inventor[71]
D. J. Finney1917–2018101British statistician[72]
Sir Raymond Firth1901–2002100New Zealand anthropologist[73]
Edmond H. Fischer1920–2021101American biochemist and recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine[74]
Ron Fitch1910–2015105Australian railroad engineer and executive[75]
Yves Oscar Fortier1914–2014100Canadian geologist[76]
John S. Foster Jr.1922–2025102American physicist[77]
Ronald Martin Foster1896–1998101American engineer[78]
Henry Jacques Gaisman1869–1974104American philanthropist and inventor[79]
Mohammad Hassan Ganji1912–2012100Iranian meteorologist[80]
Augusto Gansser-Biaggi1910–2012101Swiss geologist[81]
Theodore H. Geballe1920–2021101American physicist[82]
Oliver Holmes Gish1883–1987103American geophysicist[83]
Maria Glazovskaya1912–2016104Russian soil scientist[84]
Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch1907–2007100German-American geneticist[85]
Arthur Goddard1921–2022101English-Australian engineer[86]
Maurice Goldhaber1911–2011100American nuclear physicist[87]
David W. Goodall1914–2018104Australian botanist and ecologist[88]
John B. Goodenough1922–2023100German-American physicist and recipient of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry[89]
Richard M. Goody1921–2023102British-American atmospheric physicist[90]
Dieter Grau1913–2014101German rocket scientist[91]
Vilmosné Gryllus 1924–2024 100 Hungarian chemist[92]
Jean-Michel Guilcher1914–2017102French ethnologist[93]
Richard K. Guy1916–2020103British mathematician[94]
Bill Haast1910–2011100American director of the Miami Serpentarium[95]
Viktor Hamburger1900–2001100German professor and embryologist[96]
Alice Hamilton1869–1970101American toxicologist[97]
Michael Heidelberger1888–1991103American immunologist[98]
Rudolf Hell1901–2002100German inventor[99]
Joel Henry Hildebrand1881–1983101American chemist[100]
Polly Hill1907–2007100American horticulturist[101]
Arthur R. von Hippel1898–2003105German-American physicist and co-developer of radar[102]
Dorrit Hoffleit1907–2007100American research astronomer[103]
Albert Hofmann1906–2008102Swiss discoverer of LSD[104]
Bernard Holden1908–2012104British railway engineer[105]
Philip Hollom1912–2014102British ornithologist[106]
Hu Chengzhi1917–2018100Chinese paleontologist and paleoanthropologist; discoverer of Keichousaurus[107]
Holly Hu1910–2012102Chinese botanist[108]
Friedrich Hund1896–1997101German physicist[109]
Harry Huskey1916–2017101American computer designer[110]
Kees de Jager1921–2021100Dutch astronomer[111]
Katherine Johnson1918–2020101American mathematician, physicist and NASA employee[112]
Robert L. Kahn1918–2019100American social psychologist[113]
Alex Karczmar1917–2017100American neuroscientist[114]
Ke Jun1917–2017100Chinese metallurgist[115]
Ora Kedem1924–2026101Israeli chemist[116]
Frances Oldham Kelsey1914–2015101Canadian-American pharmacologist and physician[117]
Ancel Keys1904–2004100American biologist[118]
Isaak Khalatnikov1919–2021101Soviet and Russian physicist[119]
Barys Kit1910–2018107Belarusian scientist[120]
Charles Kittel1916–2019102American theoretical solid-state physicist.[121]
Nathaniel Kleitman1895–1999104American sleep researcher[122]
Paul E. Klopsteg1889–1991101American physicist[123]
Jacob Korevaar1923–2025102Dutch mathematician[124]
Frank L. Lambert1918–2018100American chemist[125]
Stanley Leavy1915–2016101American psychoanalyst[126]
Shih-Ying Lee1918–2018100American engineer, physicist and inventor[127]
Jerome F. Lederer1902–2004101American engineer[128]
Inge Lehmann1888–1993104Danish seismologist[129]
Emma Lehmer1906–2007100Russian-American mathematician[130]
Rita Levi-Montalcini1909–2012103Italian neurologist, recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and senator[131]
Paul A. Libby1921–2021100American fluid dynamicist[132]
Edward J. Lofgren1914–2016102American physicist[133]
James Lovelock1919–2022103British chemist[134]
Lu Yuanjiu1920–2023103Chinese physicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Engineering[135]
August Luebs1889–1989100American mechanical engineer[136]
John Walter Guerrier Lund1912–2015102British phycologist[137]
James Ross MacDonald1923–2024101American physicist[138]
Amaro Macedo1914–2014100Brazilian botanist[139]
Karl Maramorosch1915–2016101Austrian-born American virologist[140]
Rudolph A. Marcus1923–2026102Canadian-American chemist and recipient of the 1992 Prize in Chemistry[141]
Héctor Mayagoitia Domínguez1923–2023100Mexican chemical bacteriologist and politician[142][143]
Harris Mayer1921–2023102American physicist (Manhattan Project)[144]
Ernst Mayr1904–2005100German-American biologist[145]
John J. McKetta1915–2019103American chemical engineer[146]
Brockway McMillan1915–2016101American government official and scientist; Director of the National Reconnaissance Office (1963–1965)[147]
Rogers McVaugh1909–2009100American botanist and educator[148]
Wilhelm Meise1901–2002101German ornithologist[149]
Foil A. Miller1916–2016100American chemist[150]
William F. Milliken Jr.1911–2012101American aerospace engineer and racing driver[151]
Victor Mills 1897–1997 100 American chemical engineer[152]
Brenda Milner1918–108Canadian neuroscientist[153]
Beatrice Mintz1921–2022100American embryologist[154]
Russell L. Mixter1906–2007100American biologist[155]
Ralph S. Moore1907–2009102American horticulturalist[156]
Walter Munk1917–2019101American physical oceanographer[157]
Margaret Murray1863–1963100British anthropologist[158]
Nellie May Naylor1885–1992107American chemistry professor[159]
Sterling Newberry1915–2017101American microscopist[160]
Sergey Nikolsky1905–2012107Russian mathematician[161]
Georg Nöbeling1907–2008100German mathematician[162]
Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw1912–2014101British mathematician[163]
Antoni Opolski1913–2014100Polish physicist[164]
Nicanor Parra1914–2018103Chilean mathematician, physicist and poet[165]
Borys Paton1918–2020101Ukrainian metallurgist, chairman of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 1962[166][167][168]
Ruth Patrick1907–2013105American limnologist[169]
Ralph Pearson1919–2022103American chemist (HSAB theory)[170]
Luboš Perek1919–2020101Czech astronomer[171]
Luigi Poletti1864–1967103Italian mathematician[172]
Pelageia Yakovlevna Polubarinova Kochina1899–1999100Russian mathematician[173]
Martin Pope1918–2022103American chemist and educator[174]
G. Baley Price1905–2006101American mathematician[175]
Maria Matilde Principi1915–2017102Italian entomologist[176]
Elsie Quarterman1910–2014103American plant ecologist[177]
Simon Ramo1913–2016103American physicist[178]
C. R. Rao1920–2023102Indian-American statistician[179]
Karl Rawer1913–2018104German physicist[180]
Ren Xinmin1915–2017101Chinese rocket scientist[181]
Malcolm Renfrew1910–2013103American chemist[182]
Robert Hallowell Richards1844–1945100American metallurgist[183]
Henry Nicholas Ridley1855–1956100British biologist[184]
George Rosenkranz1916–2019102Hungarian-born Mexican steroid chemist[185]
Nancy Sandars1914–2015101British archaeologist and prehistorian[186]
Tadashi Sasaki1915–2018102Japanese engineer[187]
Victor Blanchard Scheffer1906–2011104American zoologist and author[188]
Helmut Schlesinger1924–2024100German economist[189]
Waldo Semon1898–1999100American chemist[190]
Shen Panwen1916–2017100Chinese chemist[191]
Shen Shanjiong1917–2021103Chinese microbiologist and geneticist[192]
Shen Qihan1922–2022100Chinese geologist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[193]
Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande1917–2020102Indian mathematician[194]
David Shugar1915–2015100Polish-Canadian physicist[195]
Louis Siminovitch1920–2021100Canadian molecular biologist[196]
Robert Simpson1912–2014102American meteorologist[197]
Hobart Muir Smith1912–2013100American herpetologist[198]
Ralph Solecki1917–2019101American archaeologist[199]
Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind1901–2002101American psychiatry researcher[200]
Arnold Spielberg1917–2020103American electrical engineer[201]
Jeremiah Stamler1919–2022102American scientist[202]
Epaminondas Stassinopoulos1921–2022101German-born American astrophysicist[203]
Gerolf Steiner1908–2009101German professor of zoology[204]
Clarence F. Stephens1917–2018100American mathematician[205]
Ralph Randles Stewart1890–1993103American botanist[206]
Dirk Jan Struik1894–2000106Dutch-born American mathematician[207]
Su Buqing (aka Su Bu-Chin)1902–2003101Chinese mathematician, educator and poet[208]
F. William Sunderman1898–2003104American physician and scientist[209]
Igal Talmi1925–2026101Israeli physicist[210]
Ralph Tambs Lyche1890–1991100Norwegian mathematician[211]
Tang Youqi1920–2022102Chinese physical chemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[212]
Wilmer W. Tanner1909–2011101American zoologist[213]
Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley1915–2017102British mathematician[214]
John Kenneth Terres1905–2006100American naturalist and author[215]
Lise Thiry1921–2024102Belgian scientist and politician[216]
Dorothy Burr Thompson1900–2001100American classical archaeologist and art historian[217]
Peter Thonemann1917–2018100Australian-born British physicist[218]
Bryan Thwaites1923–102English mathematician[219]
Georg von Tiesenhausen1914–2018104German-American rocket scientist[91]
Germaine Tillion1907–2008100French anthropologist[220]
Constance Tipper1894–1995101British metallurgist and crystallographer[221]
László Tisza1907–2009101Hungarian-American physicist[222]
Graham Turbott1914–2014100New Zealand ornithologist and zoologist[223]
Victor Vacquier1907–2009101Russian-American geophysicist[224]
Joan Henri van der Waals1920–2022102Dutch physicist[225]
Ruth van Heyningen1917–2019102British biochemist[226]
Gordon John Van Wylen1920–2020100American physicist and textbook author[227]
Leopold Vietoris1891–2002110Austrian mathematician[228]
Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya1861–1962100Indian engineer[229][230]
Marthe Vogt1903–2003100German-English neuroscientist[231]
Wang Xiji1921–105Chinese aerospace engineer[232]
Sir Frederick Warner1910–2010100British chemical engineer[233]
Torsten Wiesel 1924– 102 Swedish neuroscientist and recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine[234]
Louis Witten1921–105American theoretical physicist[235]
Floyd R. Watson1872–1974101American physicist and acoustician[236]
Walter Francis Willcox1861–1964103American statistician[237]
Evelyn M. Witkin1921–2023102American geneticist[238]
Xu Xurong1922–2022100Chinese physicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[239]
Yang Chen-Ning1922–2025103Chinese theoretical physicist and recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics[240]
Filippo Zappata1894–1994100Italian aircraft designer and pioneer[241]
Zhang Guangdou1912–2013101Chinese engineer[242]
Zhang Tianfu1910–2017106Chinese agronomist and tea expert[243]
Zhang Xingqian1921–2022100Chinese metal physicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[244]
Zheng Ji1900–2010110Chinese nutritionist and biochemist[245]
Zhuang Qiaosheng1916–2022105Chinese plant geneticist[246]
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