Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was a English politician, philosopher, and essayist. He became Lord Chancellor in 1618, and the same year confessed to bribe-taking, was fined £40,000 (which...

Frits Zernike

Frits Zernicke (1888-1966) earlier microscopes allowed many specimens to be examined only after they had been transformed by heavy staining and other treatment. Short Biography...

Francois Rabelais

Francois Rabelais (1495-1553) was educated in the Renaissance humanist tradition and was the author of satirical allegories, La Vie inestimable de Gargantua/The Inestimable Life of...

Fritz Haber

Fritz Haber (1868-1934) was a German chemist whose conversion of atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia opened the way for the synthetic fertilizer industry. Short Biography: His study...

Fred Hoyle

Frederick Hoyle (born in 1915) was an English astronomer and writer. Short Biography: In 1948 he joined with Hermann Bondi and Thomas Gold in developing the steady-state theory...

Frederick Soddy

Frederick Soddy (1877-1956) pioneered research into the radioactive decay of atoms and coined the term "isotope" (isotopes are atoms of the same element but of different masses). He...

Fridtjof Nansen

Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) was a Norwegian explorer and scientist. Short Biography: In 1893, he sailed to the Arctic in the From, which was deliberately allowed to drift North...

Frederic Eugene Ives

Frederic Eugene Ives (1856-1937) developed the halftone process of printing photographs in 1878. Short Biography: The process uses a screen to break up light and dark areas into...

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784-1846) was a German astronomer and mathematician, the first person to find the approximate distance to a star by direct methods when he measured the parallax...

Fritz Lipmann

Fritz Lipmann (1899-1986) was an American biochemist. Short Biography: He investigated the means by which the cell acquires energy and highlighted the crucial role played by...

Frederick Winslow Taylor

Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) ideas, published in Principles of Scientific Management in 1911, were based on the breakdown of work to the simplest tasks, the separation of planning...

Francois Raoult

Francois Raoult (1830-1901) was a French chemist. Short Biography: In 1882, while working at the University of Grenoble, Raoult formulated one of the basic laws of chemistry...

Francis William Aston

Francis William Aston (1877-1945) was a English physicist, who developed the mass spectrometer, which separates isotopes (atoms of the same element but of different masses) by projecting...

Frederick Lindemann

Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (1886-1957) was a British physicist. Short Biography: He was director of the Physical Laboratory of the RAF at Farnborough...

Frederick Augustus Abel

Frederick Augustus Abel was born on July 17, 1827 in London, UK and died on September 6, 1902. As a chemist to the War Department, he introduced a method of making gun-cotton and...