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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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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