From biotechnology and digital media to sustainable energy and cloud computing, almost everything today is somehow affected and sometimes entirely reshaped by scientific and technological advances. Some of the top scientists and their field of influence are as follow: Alain Aspect - Quantum Theory Martin Karplus - Quantum Chemistry David Baltimore

English chemist John Newlands divided the then discovered 56 elements into 11 groups, based on characteristics. Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev created the framework that became the modern periodic table, leaving gaps for elements that were yet to be discovered. While arranging the elements according to their atomic weight, if he found that they d

Some of them are rightfully well-known, like Marie Curie, Ada Lovelace and Rosalind Franklin. But others, like fossil hunter Mary Anning and NASA pioneer Katherine Johnson, aren't such household names.