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List of scientists
This is a '''list of''' noted '''scientists''' ordered by by nationality.

==Afghanistan==
*[[Ashraf Ghani]], President of Afghanistan (as of 2017); he is a scientist in the field of [[Anthropology]]
*[[Abdul Karim Mustaghni]], was Defense Minister of Afghanistan; died in 2004

==Albania==
*[[Ferid Murad]] - he has a [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]].
(contracted; show full){{main|List of biologists}}
{{see also|Category:German mathematicians}}
* [[Fritz Müller]], known for Müllerian [[mimicry]]; [[Evolutionary biology]]; died in 1897

==Great Britain==
{{main|List of biologists}}


===England===
* [[Charles Babbage]], credited with inventing the first [[mechanical computer]] (or [[analytical engine]]);<ref name="babb">{{cite web|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computing-history/|title=The Modern History of Computing (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)|last=Copeland|first=B. Jack|date=Dec 18, 2000|work=[[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]|accessdate=1 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | author= Newman, M.H.A. | title=‘General Principles of the Design of All-Purpose Computing Machines’ | year=1948 | publisher=Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, series A, 195 | pages=271–274 }}</ref> died in 1871
* [[Alan Turing]], he was important in the development of [[theoretical computer science]],<ref name="frs">{{Cite journal
| last1 = Newman | first1 = M. H. A.
| authorlink = Max Newman
| doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1955.0019
| title = Alan Mathison Turing. 1912–1954
| journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]]
| volume = 1
| pages = 253–263
| year = 1955
| jstor = 769256
}}</ref><ref name=AFP>{{cite news| title =Alan Turing&nbsp;– Time 100 People of the Century |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,990624,00.html |work=Time |quote=Providing a blueprint for the electronic digital computer. The fact remains that everyone who taps at a keyboard, opening a spreadsheet or a word-processing program, is working on an incarnation of a Turing machine. |first=Paul |last=Gray |date=29 March 1999}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Sipser|2006|p=137}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Beavers|2013|p=481}}</ref> and is known for the [[Turing machine]], which can be considered a model of a [[general purpose computer]]; died in 1954⏎
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==Greece==
* [[Eratosthenes]]
* [[Euclid]]
* [[Pythagoras]]

==Guatemala==
*[[Ricardo Bressani]], one of the 42 founding members of the Third World Academy of Sciences, later known as [[The World Academy of Sciences]];<ref>{{cite web|title=TWAS's 42 Founding Members|url=http://twas.org/twass-42-founding-members|publisher=The World Academy of Sciences|accessdate=3 June 2016}}</ref> Biochemistry, Nutrition; died in  2015<ref>{{cite web|title=El país pierde a dos genios|language=Spanish|(contracted; show full)
*[[List of scientists from Oceania]]

==References==
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