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John C. Frémont
United States Army general and explorer
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
Henry David Thoreau
American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman
Alexander Graham Bell
Scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Jay Gould
American railroad magnate and financier
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Physicist
Lester Frank Ward
American sociologist and paleontologist
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist and biologist
Grant Allen
Canadian science writer
John Hay
American statesman, diplomat, author and journalist
Antonio Meucci
An Italian inventor and an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi
Charles Grafton Page
American scientist
John Ernst Worrell Keely
American inventor
William Dean Howells
American author, critic, and playwright
Harvey Washington Wiley
American chemist
Asa Gray
Botanist
Matthew Fontaine Maury
United States Navy officer
Benjamin Franklin Mudge
Geologist, paleontologist, teacher, lawyer, chemist
Photius Fisk
Greek-American statesman, botanist, philanthropist, clergyman, abolitionist, and civil rights activist.
Eli Lilly
American pharmacist, Union Army officer, businessman, philanthropist
Cleveland Abbe
United States meteorologist and advocate of time zones
Oliver Otis Howard
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and Union Army general
Joseph Wharton
American industrialist
John Wingate Thornton
American genealogist
Fitz Henry Lane
Painter and printmaker
Francis Amasa Walker
Union Army general
Wilbur Olin Atwater
American agricultural chemist; developer of the respiration calorimeter.
Charles Johnson Maynard
American ornithologist
John Shaw Billings
American surgeon, statistician, United States Army officer, designer of New York Public library
Frederick Law Olmsted
American journalist, social critic, public administrator, and landscape designer
David Edward Hughes
Welsh-American scientist and musician
Eben Norton Horsford
American food scientist and chemist
William Henry Holmes
American academic, painter and illustrator
David Hunter Strother
American author and illustrator
Allan McLane Hamilton
American psychiatrist
William S. Clark
American chemist, botanist and college president
Louis Agassiz
Swiss naturalist