My favorite scientists

1. Brian Cox

Sunshine

Brian Cox was born on March 3, 1968 in Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Sunshine (2007), The Last Star and Absolutely Anything (2015). He has been married to Gia Milinovich since 2003. They have one child.

2. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Actor | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator.

Born and raised in New York City, Tyson became interested in astronomy at the age of nine after a visit to the Hayden Planetarium. After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science, where he was ...

3. Eske Willerslev

Self | Life and Other Problems

4. Robert Lustig

Self | Fat Fiction

5. Svante Pääbo

Writer | Conversations with History

Svante Erik Pääbo, is a Swedish geneticist specializing in the field of evolutionary genetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively on the Neanderthal genome. He is the founding director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...

6. Nina Jablonski

Writer | Why Do We Have Hair in Such Random Places?

Nina Jablonski is known for Why Do We Have Hair in Such Random Places? (2021), Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings (2017) and Planet of the Humans (2019).

7. Sarah Parcak

Self | Egypt: What Lies Beneath

8. Niobe Thompson

Director | The Nature of Things

Niobe Thompson is known for The Nature of Things (1960), Carbon - The Unauthorised Biography (2022) and The Time We Have Left (2021).

9. Jared Diamond

Self | Mars

Jared Diamond was born on September 10, 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is a writer, known for Mars (2016), Earth 2100 (2009) and Spaceship Earth (2016).

10. Spencer Wells

Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs

Spencer Wells was born on April 6, 1969 in Georgia, USA. He is known for Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs (2007), The Hadza: Last of the First (2014) and Nova (1974). He has been married to Pamela Caragol since 2005. He was previously married to Trendell Thompson.

11. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

Self | Journey of Man

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was born on January 25, 1922 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He died on August 31, 2018 in Belluno, Veneto, Italy.

12. Chris Stringer

Neanderthal

Chris Stringer is known for Neanderthal (2000), The Incredible Human Journey (2009) and Secrets of the Dead (2000).