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.
Name | Lifespan | Age | Notability |
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1872–1973 | 101 | American astronomer and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution[1] | |
1922–2022 | 100 | French chemical engineer[2] | |
1920–2022 | 101 | Kuwaiti astronomer[3] | |
1889–1989 | 100 | British biologist and ornithologist[4] | |
1901–2002 | 100 | American psychologist and founder of Children's International Summer Villages[5] | |
Franz Alt | 1910–2011 | 100 | Austrian mathematician[6] |
1904–2006 | 101 | German-American psychologist[7] | |
1908–2015 | 107 | Chilean mathematician and educator[8] | |
1904–2007 | 102 | German psychologist of visual perception[9] | |
Ira Baldwin | 1895–1999 | 103 | American bacteriologist and educator[10] |
David Bannett | 1921–2022 | 100 | Israeli-American electrical engineer[11] |
1918–2019 | 101 | New Zealand agricultural scientist[12] | |
1892–1992 | 100 | American inventor and aeronautics pioneer[13] | |
1906–2006 | 100 | American developer of "miracle rice"[14] | |
1912–2020 | 108 | Swiss-born German engineer and computer scientist[15] | |
1900–2004 | 104 | American chemist and businessman who founded Beckman Instruments[16] | |
1903–2009 | 106 | Chinese biologist and educator[17] | |
1879–1979 | 100 | British human geneticist[18] | |
1885–1986 | 101 | German sexologist[19] | |
1914–2016 | 102 | American acoustical scientist[20] | |
1916–2017 | 101 | German agronomist and author[21] | |
1916–2018 | 102 | New Zealand dendrologist[22] | |
1912–2016 | 103 | Polish chemist[23] | |
1908–2009 | 100 | American child psychologist[24] | |
1914–2017 | 102 | German physicist and computer scientist[25] | |
1922–2023 | 101 | French economist[26] | |
1918–2021 | 102 | American mathematician | |
1916–2017 | 100 | Canadian engineer[27] | |
1915–2015 | 100 | Danish physicist and engineer[28] | |
1859–1962 | 103 | Ukrainian mathematician[29] | |
1919–2020 | 100 | British-American astrophysicist[30] | |
1913–2016 | 102 | British entomologist[31] | |
1914–2016 | 102 | Chinese chemist[32] | |
1923–2023 | 100 | Italian-American mathematician[33] | |
1923–2023 | 100 | Canadian geographer and civil servant[34] | |
1914–2016 | 102 | British archaeologist[35] | |
1904–2008 | 104 | French mathematician[36] | |
1914–2016 | 101 | Chinese botanist and ecologist[37] | |
1921–2022 | 100 | Chinese engineer[38] | |
1918–2018 | 100 | Chinese nuclear physicist and engineer[39] | |
1906–2009 | 102 | Russian geologist[40] | |
1786–1889 | 102 | French chemist[41] | |
1875–1977 | 102 | British microbiologist, protein scientist and nutritionist[42] | |
1873–1978 | 104 | British protozoologist[43] | |
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ | 1914– | Turkish archaeologist[44] | |
1893–1996 | 102 | Canadian geologist[45] | |
1917–2018 | 101 | American biochemist[46] | |
1915–2018 | 102 | Canadian geologist and paleontologist[47] | |
1873–1975 | 101 | American engineer and developer of the Coolidge tube for production of x-rays[48] | |
1904–2004 | 100 | New Zealand inventor and developer of the continuous fermentation method[49] | |
1900–2005 | 105 | American chemist[50] | |
1892−1994 | 102 | New Zealand mycologist and first female Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand[51] | |
1915–2017 | 101 | Australian ecologist[52] | |
Sukh Dev | 1923– | Indian organic chemist[53] | |
1921–2023 | 102 | Swiss-American plant pathologist, discoverer of viroids[54] | |
1899–2000 | 101 | Russian mechanical engineer[55] | |
1914–2015 | 101 | Italian archaeologist[56] | |
1895–1999 | 104 | American scientist and inventor[57] | |
1914–2014 | 100 | American audiologist[58] | |
1920–2023 | 102 | Colombian anthropologist[59] | |
1914–2015 | 100 | British chemist[60] | |
1905–2006 | 100 | British radiologist[61] | |
1908–2009 | 101 | Australian naturalist[62] | |
1882–1984 | 101 | French aviation pioneer and inventor[63] | |
1917–2018 | 101 | British statistician[64] | |
1901–2002 | 100 | New Zealand anthropologist[65] | |
Edmond H. Fischer | 1920–2021 | 101 | American biochemist and 1992 Nobel Laureate[66] |
1910–2015 | 105 | Australian railroad engineer and executive[67] | |
James C. Floyd | 1914–2020 or 2021 | 106 | Canadian aerospace engineer[68] |
1914–2014 | 100 | Canadian geologist[69] | |
John S. Foster Jr. | 1922– | American physicist[70] | |
1896–1998 | 101 | American engineer[71] | |
1869–1974 | 104 | American philanthropist and inventor[72] | |
1912–2012 | 100 | Iranian meteorologist[73] | |
Augusto Gansser-Biaggi | 1910–2012 | 101 | Swiss geologist[74] |
Theodore H. Geballe | 1920–2021 | 101 | American physicist[75] |
Oliver Holmes Gish | 1883–1987 | 103 | American geophysicist[76] |
1912–2016 | 104 | Russian soil scientist[77] | |
1907–2007 | 100 | German-American geneticist[78] | |
1921–2022 | 101 | English-Australian engineer[79] | |
1911–2011 | 100 | American nuclear physicist[80] | |
1914–2018 | 104 | Australian botanist and ecologist[81] | |
1922–2023 | 100 | German-American physicist and Nobel chemist[82] | |
1921–2023 | 102 | British-American atmospheric physicist[83] | |
1913–2014 | 101 | German rocket scientist[84] | |
1914–2017 | 102 | French ethnologist[85] | |
1916–2020 | 103 | British mathematician[86] | |
1910–2011 | 100 | American director of the Miami Serpentarium[87] | |
1900–2001 | 100 | German professor and embryologist[88] | |
1869–1970 | 101 | American toxicologist[89] | |
1888–1991 | 103 | American immunologist[90] | |
1901–2002 | 100 | German inventor[91] | |
1881–1983 | 101 | American chemist[92] | |
1907–2007 | 100 | American horticulturist[93] | |
1898–2003 | 105 | German-American physicist and co-developer of radar[94] | |
1907–2007 | 100 | American research astronomer[95] | |
1906–2008 | 102 | Swiss discoverer of LSD[96] | |
1908–2012 | 104 | British railway engineer[97] | |
1912–2014 | 102 | British ornithologist[98] | |
1917–2018 | 100 | Chinese paleontologist and paleoanthropologist; discoverer of Keichousaurus[99] | |
1910–2012 | 102 | Chinese botanist[100] | |
1896–1997 | 101 | German physicist[101] | |
1916–2017 | 101 | American computer designer[102] | |
1921–2021 | 100 | Dutch astronomer[103] | |
Katherine Johnson | 1918–2020 | 101 | American mathematician, physicist and NASA employee[104] |
1918–2019 | 100 | American social psychologist[105] | |
1917–2017 | 100 | American neuroscientist[106] | |
1917–2017 | 100 | Chinese metallurgist[107] | |
1914–2015 | 101 | Canadian-American pharmacologist and physician[108] | |
1904–2004 | 100 | American biologist[109] | |
1919–2021 | 101 | Soviet and Russian physicist[110] | |
1910–2018 | 107 | Belarusian scientist[111] | |
1916–2019 | 102 | American theoretical solid-state physicist.[112] | |
1895–1999 | 104 | American sleep researcher[113] | |
1889–1991 | 101 | American physicist[114] | |
1918–2018 | 100 | American chemist[115] | |
1915–2016 | 101 | American psychoanalyst[116] | |
1918–2018 | 100 | American engineer, physicist and inventor[117] | |
1902–2004 | 101 | American engineer[118] | |
1888–1993 | 104 | Danish seismologist[119] | |
1906–2007 | 100 | Russian-American mathematician[120] | |
1909–2012 | 103 | Italian neurologist (Nobel laureate) and senator[121] | |
1921–2021 | 100 | American fluid dynamicist[122] | |
1914–2016 | 102 | American physicist[123] | |
1919–2022 | 103 | British chemist[124] | |
1920–2023 | 103 | Chinese physicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Engineering[125] | |
1889–1989 | 100 | American mechanical engineer[126] | |
1912–2015 | 102 | British phycologist[127] | |
1923–2024 | 101 | American physicist[128] | |
1914–2014 | 100 | Brazilian botanist[129] | |
1915–2016 | 101 | Austrian-born American virologist[130] | |
Rudolph A. Marcus | 1923– | Canadian-American chemist and recipient of the 1992 Prize in Chemistry[131] | |
1921–2023 | 102 | American physicist (Manhattan Project)[132] | |
1904–2005 | 100 | German-American biologist[133] | |
1915–2019 | 103 | American chemical engineer[134] | |
1915–2016 | 101 | American government official and scientist; Director of the National Reconnaissance Office (1963–1965)[135] | |
1909–2009 | 100 | American botanist and educator[136] | |
1901–2002 | 101 | German ornithologist[137] | |
1916–2016 | 100 | American chemist[138] | |
1911–2012 | 101 | American aerospace engineer and racing driver[139] | |
Brenda Milner | 1918– | Canadian neuroscientist[140] | |
1921–2022 | 100 | American embryologist[141] | |
1906–2007 | 100 | American biologist[142] | |
1907–2009 | 102 | American horticulturalist[143] | |
1917–2019 | 101 | American physical oceanographer[144] | |
1863–1963 | 100 | British anthropologist[145] | |
1885–1992 | 107 | American chemistry professor[146] | |
1915–2017 | 101 | American microscopist[147] | |
1905–2012 | 107 | Russian mathematician[148] | |
1907–2008 | 100 | German mathematician[149] | |
1912–2014 | 101 | British mathematician[150] | |
1913–2014 | 100 | Polish physicist[151] | |
1914–2018 | 103 | Chilean mathematician, physicist and poet[152] | |
1918–2020 | 101 | Ukrainian metallurgist, chairman of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 1962[153] [154] [155] | |
1907–2013 | 105 | American limnologist[156] | |
1919–2022 | 103 | American chemist (HSAB theory)[157] | |
1919–2020 | 101 | Czech astronomer[158] | |
1864–1967 | 103 | Italian mathematician[159] | |
1899–1999 | 100 | Russian mathematician[160] | |
1918–2022 | 103 | American chemist and educator[161] | |
1905–2006 | 101 | American mathematician[162] | |
1915–2017 | 102 | Italian entomologist[163] | |
1910–2014 | 103 | American plant ecologist[164] | |
1913–2016 | 103 | American physicist[165] | |
1920–2023 | 102 | Indian-American statistician[166] | |
1913–2018 | 104 | German physicist[167] | |
1915–2017 | 101 | Chinese rocket scientist[168] | |
Malcolm Renfrew | 1910–2013 | 103 | American chemist[169] |
1844–1945 | 100 | American metallurgist[170] | |
1855–1956 | 100 | British biologist[171] | |
George Rosenkranz | 1916–2019 | 102 | Hungarian-born Mexican steroid chemist[172] |
1914–2015 | 101 | British archaeologist and prehistorian[173] | |
1915–2018 | 102 | Japanese engineer[174] | |
1906–2011 | 104 | American zoologist and author[175] | |
1898–1999 | 100 | American chemist[176] | |
1916–2017 | 100 | Chinese chemist[177] | |
1917–2021 | 103 | Chinese microbiologist and geneticist[178] | |
1922–2022 | 100 | Chinese geologist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[179] | |
1917–2020 | 102 | Indian mathematician[180] | |
1915–2015 | 100 | Polish-Canadian physicist[181] | |
1920–2021 | 100 | Canadian molecular biologist[182] | |
1912–2014 | 102 | American meteorologist[183] | |
1912–2013 | 100 | American herpetologist[184] | |
1917–2019 | 101 | American archaeologist[185] | |
1901–2002 | 101 | American psychiatry researcher[186] |