Engineers, Mathematicians And Scientists List Of Centenarians

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.

  Living
Name Lifespan Age Notability
Charles Greeley Abbot 1872–1973 101 American astronomer and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Fred Aftalion 1922–2022 100 French chemical engineer
Saleh Ajeery 1920–2022 101 Kuwaiti astronomer
Horace Alexander 1889–1989 100 British biologist and ornithologist
Doris Twitchell Allen 1901–2002 100 American psychologist and founder of Children's International Summer Villages
Franz Alt 1910–2011 100 Austrian mathematician
Heinz Ansbacher 1904–2006 101 German-American psychologist
Guacolda Antoine Lazzerini 1908–2015 107 Chilean mathematician and educator
Rudolf Arnheim 1904–2007 102 German psychologist of visual perception
Ira Baldwin 1895–1999 103 American bacteriologist and educator
David Bannett 1921–2022 100 Israeli-American electrical engineer
Paddy Bassett 1918–2019 101 New Zealand agricultural scientist
Preston Bassett 1892–1992 100 American inventor and aeronautics pioneer
Henry Beachell 1906–2006 100 American developer of "miracle rice"
Wilfried de Beauclair 1912–2020 108 Swiss-born German engineer and computer scientist
Arnold Orville Beckman 1900–2004 104 American chemist and businessman who founded Beckman Instruments
Bei Shizhang 1903–2009 106 Chinese biologist and educator
Julia Bell 1879–1979 100 English human geneticist
Harry Benjamin 1885–1986 101 German sexologist
Leo Beranek 1914–2016 102 American acoustical scientist
Theodor Bergmann 1916–2017 101 German agronomist and author
Bob Berry 1916–2018 102 New Zealand dendrologist
Adam Bielański 1912–2016 103 Polish chemist
Sidney W. Bijou 1908–2009 100 American child psychologist
Heinz Billing 1914–2017 102 German physicist and computer scientist
Marcel Boiteux 1922–2023 101 French economist
William M. Boothby 1918–2021 102 American mathematician
Winnett Boyd 1916–2017 100 Canadian engineer
Per Vilhelm Brüel 1915–2015 100 Danish physicist and engineer
Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev 1859–1962 103 Ukrainian mathematician
Margaret Burbidge 1919–2020 100 British-American astrophysicist
Colin Gasking Butler 1913–2016 102 British entomologist
Cai Qirui 1914–2016 102 Chinese chemist
Eugenio Calabi 1923–2023 100 Italian-American mathematician
Pierre Camu 1923–2023 100 Canadian geographer and civil servant
Beatrice De Cardi 1914–2016 102 British archaeologist
Henri Cartan 1904–2008 104 French mathematician
Hung-ta Chang 1914–2016 101 Chinese botanist and ecologist
Chen Jingxiong 1921–2022 100 Chinese engineer
Cheng Kaijia 1918–2018 100 Chinese nuclear physicist and engineer
Georgy Chernov 1906–2009 102 Russian geologist
Michel Eugène Chevreul 1786–1889 102 French chemist
Dame Harriette Chick 1875–1977 102 British microbiologist, protein scientist and nutritionist
Sir Rickard Christophers 1873–1978 104 British protozoologist
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ 1914– 109 Turkish archaeologist
Thomas H. Clark 1893–1996 102 Canadian geologist
Seymour S. Cohen 1917–2018 101 American biochemist
H. Basil S. Cooke 1915–2018 102 Canadian geologist and paleontologist
William D. Coolidge 1873–1975 101 American engineer and developer of the Coolidge tube for production of x-rays
Morton Coutts 1904–2004 100 New Zealand inventor and developer of the continuous fermentation method
Ray Crist 1900–2005 105 American chemist
Kathleen Curtis 1892−1994 102 New Zealand mycologist and first female Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Max Day 1915–2017 101 Australian ecologist
Theodor Otto Diener 1921–2023 102 Swiss-American plant pathologist, discoverer of viroids
Nikolay Dollezhal 1899–2000 101 Russian mechanical engineer
Sergio Donadoni 1914–2015 101 Italian archaeologist
William Gould Dow 1895–1999 104 American scientist and inventor
Marion Downs 1914–2014 100 American audiologist
Alicia Dussán de Reichel 1920–2023 102 Colombian anthropologist
Dan Eley 1914–2015 100 British chemist
Frank Ellis 1905–2006 100 British radiologist
Rica Erickson 1908–2009 101 Australian naturalist
Henri Fabre 1882–1984 101 French aviation pioneer and inventor
D.J. Finney 1917–2018 101 British statistician
Sir Raymond Firth 1901–2002 100 New Zealand anthropologist
Edmond H. Fischer 1920–2021 101 American biochemist and 1992 Nobel Laureate
Ron Fitch 1910–2015 105 Australian railroad engineer and executive
James C. Floyd 1914– 109 Canadian aerospace engineer
Yves Oscar Fortier 1914–2014 100 Canadian geologist
John S. Foster Jr. 1922– 101 American physicist
Ronald Martin Foster 1896–1998 101 American engineer
Henry Jacques Gaisman 1869–1974 104 American philanthropist and inventor
Mohammad Hassan Ganji 1912–2012 100 Iranian meteorologist
Augusto Gansser-Biaggi 1910–2012 101 Swiss geologist
Theodore H. Geballe 1920–2021 101 American physicist
Oliver Holmes Gish 1883–1987 103 American geophysicist
Maria Glazovskaya 1912–2016 104 Russian soil scientist
Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch 1907–2007 100 German-American geneticist
Arthur Goddard 1921–2022 101 English-Australian engineer
Maurice Goldhaber 1911–2011 100 American nuclear physicist
David W. Goodall 1914–2018 104 Australian botanist and ecologist
John B. Goodenough 1922–2023 100 German-American physicist and Nobel chemist
Richard M. Goody 1921–2023 102 British-American atmospheric physicist
Dieter Grau 1913–2014 101 German rocket scientist
Jean-Michel Guilcher 1914–2017 102 French ethnologist
Richard K. Guy 1916–2020 103 British mathematician
Bill Haast 1910–2011 100 American director of the Miami Serpentarium
Viktor Hamburger 1900–2001 100 German professor and embryologist
Alice Hamilton 1869–1970 101 American toxicologist
Michael Heidelberger 1888–1991 103 American immunologist
Rudolf Hell 1901–2002 100 German inventor
Joel Henry Hildebrand 1881–1983 101 American chemist
Polly Hill 1907–2007 100 American horticulturist
Arthur R. von Hippel 1898–2003 105 German-American physicist and co-developer of radar
Dorrit Hoffleit 1907–2007 100 American research astronomer
Albert Hofmann 1906–2008 102 Swiss discoverer of LSD
Bernard Holden 1908–2012 104 British railway engineer
Philip Hollom 1912–2014 102 British ornithologist
Hu Chengzhi 1917–2018 100 Chinese paleontologist and paleoanthropologist; discoverer of Keichousaurus
Holly Hu 1910–2012 102 Chinese botanist
Friedrich Hund 1896–1997 101 German physicist
Harry Huskey 1916–2017 101 American computer designer
Kees de Jager 1921–2021 100 Dutch astronomer
Katherine Johnson 1918–2020 101 American mathematician, physicist and NASA employee
Robert L. Kahn 1918–2019 100 American social psychologist
Alex Karczmar 1917–2017 100 American neuroscientist
Ke Jun 1917–2017 100 Chinese metallurgist
Frances Oldham Kelsey 1914–2015 101 Canadian-American pharmacologist and physician
Ancel Keys 1904–2004 100 American biologist
Isaak Khalatnikov 1919–2021 101 Soviet and Russian physicist
Barys Kit 1910–2018 107 Belarusian scientist
Charles Kittel 1916–2019 102 American theoretical solid-state physicist.
Nathaniel Kleitman 1895–1999 104 American sleep researcher
Paul E. Klopsteg 1889–1991 101 American physicist
Frank L. Lambert 1918–2018 100 American chemist
Stanley Leavy 1915–2016 101 American psychoanalyst
S. Y. Lee 1918–2018 100 American engineer, physicist and inventor
Jerome F. Lederer 1902–2004 101 American engineer
Inge Lehmann 1888–1993 104 Danish seismologist
Emma Lehmer 1906–2007 100 Russian-American mathematician
Rita Levi-Montalcini 1909–2012 103 Italian neurologist (Nobel laureate) and senator
Paul A. Libby 1921–2021 100 American fluid dynamicist
Edward J. Lofgren 1914–2016 102 American physicist
James Lovelock 1919–2022 103 British chemist
Lu Yuanjiu 1920–2023 103 Chinese physicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Engineering
August Luebs 1889–1989 100 American mechanical engineer
John Walter Guerrier Lund 1912–2015 102 British phycologist
James Ross MacDonald 1923–2024 101 American physicist
Amaro Macedo 1914–2014 100 Brazilian botanist
Karl Maramorosch 1915–2016 101 Austrian-born American virologist
Rudolph A. Marcus 1923– 100 Canadian-American chemist and recipient of the 1992 Prize in Chemistry
Harris Mayer 1921–2023 102 American physicist (Manhattan Project)
Ernst Mayr 1904–2005 100 German-American biologist
John J. McKetta 1915–2019 103 American chemical engineer
Brockway McMillan 1915–2016 101 American government official and scientist; Director of the National Reconnaissance Office (1963–1965)
Rogers McVaugh 1909–2009 100 American botanist and educator
Wilhelm Meise 1901–2002 101 German ornithologist
Foil A. Miller 1916–2016 100 American chemist
William F. Milliken Jr. 1911–2012 101 American aerospace engineer and racing driver
Brenda Milner 1918– 105 Canadian neuroscientist
Beatrice Mintz 1921–2022 100 American embryologist
Russell L. Mixter 1906–2007 100 American biologist
Ralph S. Moore 1907–2009 102 American horticulturalist
Walter Munk 1917–2019 101 American physical oceanographer
Margaret Murray 1863–1963 100 British anthropologist
Nellie May Naylor 1885–1992 107 American chemistry professor
Sterling Newberry 1915–2017 101 American microscopist
Sergey Nikolsky 1905–2012 107 Russian mathematician
Georg Nöbeling 1907–2008 100 German mathematician
Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw 1912–2014 101 British mathematician
Antoni Opolski 1913–2014 100 Polish physicist
Nicanor Parra 1914–2018 103 Chilean mathematician, physicist and poet
Borys Paton 1918–2020 101 Ukrainian metallurgist, chairman of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 1962
Ruth Patrick 1907–2013 105 American limnologist
Ralph Pearson 1919–2022 103 American chemist (HSAB theory)
Luboš Perek 1919–2020 101 Czech astronomer
Luigi Poletti 1864–1967 103 Italian mathematician
Pelageia Yakovlevna Polubarinova Kochina 1899–1999 100 Russian mathematician
Martin Pope 1918–2022 103 American chemist and educator
G. Baley Price 1905–2006 101 American mathematician
Maria Matilde Principi 1915–2017 102 Italian entomologist
Elsie Quarterman 1910–2014 103 American plant ecologist
Simon Ramo 1913–2016 103 American physicist
C. R. Rao 1920–2023 102 Indian-American statistician
Karl Rawer 1913–2018 104 German physicist
Ren Xinmin 1915–2017 101 Chinese rocket scientist
Malcolm Renfrew 1910–2013 103 American chemist
Robert Hallowell Richards 1844–1945 100 American metallurgist
Henry Nicholas Ridley 1855–1956 100 British biologist
George Rosenkranz 1916–2019 102 Hungarian-born Mexican steroid chemist
Nancy Sandars 1914–2015 101 British archaeologist and prehistorian
Tadashi Sasaki 1915–2018 102 Japanese engineer
Victor Blanchard Scheffer 1906–2011 104 American zoologist and author
Waldo Semon 1898–1999 100 American chemist
Shen Panwen 1916–2017 100 Chinese chemist
Shen Shanjiong 1917–2021 103 Chinese microbiologist and geneticist
Shen Qihan 1922–2022 100 Chinese geologist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande 1917–2020 102 Indian mathematician
David Shugar 1915–2015 100 Polish-Canadian physicist
Louis Siminovitch 1920–2021 100 Canadian molecular biologist
Robert Simpson 1912–2014 102 American meteorologist
Hobart Muir Smith 1912–2013 100 American herpetologist
Ralph Solecki 1917–2019 101 American archaeologist
Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind 1901–2002 101 American psychiatry researcher
Arnold Spielberg 1917–2020 103 American electrical engineer
Jeremiah Stamler 1919–2022 102 American scientist
Epaminondas Stassinopoulos 1921–2022 101 German-born American astrophysicist
Gerolf Steiner 1908–2009 101 German professor of zoology
Clarence F. Stephens 1917–2018 100 American mathematician
Ralph Randles Stewart 1890–1993 103 American botanist
Dirk Jan Struik 1894–2000 106 Dutch-born American mathematician
Su Buqing (aka Su Bu-Chin) 1902–2003 101 Chinese mathematician, educator and poet
F. William Sunderman 1898–2003 104 American physician and scientist
Ralph Tambs-Lyche 1890–1991 100 Norwegian mathematician
Tang Youqi 1920–2022 102 Chinese physical chemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wilmer W. Tanner 1909–2011 101 American zoologist
Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley 1915–2017 102 British mathematician
John Kenneth Terres 1905–2006 100 American naturalist and author
Lise Thiry 1921–2024 102 Belgian scientist and politician
Dorothy Burr Thompson 1900–2001 100 American classical archaeologist and art historian
Peter Thonemann 1917–2018 100 Australian-born British physicist
Georg von Tiesenhausen 1914–2018 104 German-American rocket scientist
Germaine Tillion 1907–2008 100 French anthropologist
Constance Tipper 1894–1995 101 British metallurgist and crystallographer
László Tisza 1907–2009 101 Hungarian-American physicist
Graham Turbott 1914–2014 100 New Zealand ornithologist and zoologist
Victor Vacquier 1907–2009 101 Russian-American geophysicist
Joan Henri van der Waals 1920–2022 102 Dutch physicist
Ruth van Heyningen 1917–2019 102 British biochemist
Gordon John Van Wylen 1920–2020 100 American physicist and textbook author
Leopold Vietoris 1891–2002 110 Austrian mathematician
Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya 1861–1962 100 Indian engineer
Marthe Vogt 1903–2003 100 German-English neuroscientist
Wang Xiji 1921– 102 Chinese aerospace engineer
Sir Frederick Warner 1910–2010 100 British chemical engineer
Floyd R. Watson 1872–1974 101 American physicist and acoustician
Walter Francis Willcox 1861–1964 103 American statistician
Evelyn M. Witkin 1921–2023 102 American geneticist
Xu Xurong 1922–2022 100 Chinese physicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yang Chen-Ning 1922– 101 Chinese theoretical physicist and recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics
Aliki "Alice" Yotopoulos-Marangopoulos 1916/1917–2018 101 Greek criminologist and women's rights activist, President of the International Alliance of Women (1989–1996)
Filippo Zappata 1894–1994 100 Italian aircraft designer and pioneer
Zhang Guangdou 1912–2013 101 Chinese engineer
Zhang Tianfu 1910–2017 106 Chinese agronomist and tea expert
Zhang Xingqian 1921–2022 100 Chinese metal physicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zheng Ji 1900–2010 110 Chinese nutritionist and biochemist
Zhuang Qiaosheng 1916–2022 105 Chinese plant geneticist

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