List of centenarians (engineers, mathematicians and scientists)

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 astrophysicist and the fifth secretary of the Smithsonian Institution[1]
Fred Aftalion	1922–2022	100	French chemical engineer[2]
Saleh Ajeery	1920–2022	101	Kuwaiti astronomer[3]
Horace Alexander	1889–1989	100	British biologist and ornithologist[4]
Doris Twitchell Allen	1901–2002	100	American psychologist and founder of Children's International Summer Villages[5]
Franz Alt	1910–2011	100	Austrian mathematician[6]
Heinz Ansbacher	1904–2006	101	German-American psychologist[7]
Guacolda Antoine Lazzerini	1908–2015	107	Chilean mathematician and educator[8]
Rudolf Arnheim	1904–2007	102	German psychologist of visual perception[9]
Ira Baldwin	1895–1999	103	American bacteriologist and educator[10]
Basil Balme	1923–2023	100	Australian palynologist[11][12]
David Bannett	1921–2022	100	Israeli-American electrical engineer[13]
Paddy Bassett	1918–2019	101	New Zealand agricultural scientist[14]
Preston Bassett	1892–1992	100	American inventor and aeronautics pioneer[15]
Henry Beachell	1906–2006	100	American developer of "miracle rice"[16]
Wilfried de Beauclair	1912–2020	108	Swiss-born German engineer and computer scientist[17]
Arnold Orville Beckman	1900–2004	104	American chemist and businessman who founded Beckman Instruments[18]
Bei Shizhang	1903–2009	106	Chinese biologist and educator[19]
Julia Bell	1879–1979	100	British human geneticist[20]
Harry Benjamin	1885–1986	101	German sexologist[21]
Leo Beranek	1914–2016	102	American acoustical scientist[22]
Theodor Bergmann	1916–2017	101	German agronomist and author[23]
Bob Berry	1916–2018	102	New Zealand dendrologist[24]
Adam Bielański	1912–2016	103	Polish chemist[25]
Sidney W. Bijou	1908–2009	100	American child psychologist[26]
Heinz Billing	1914–2017	102	German physicist and computer scientist[27]
Marcel Boiteux	1922–2023	101	French economist[28]
William M. Boothby	1918–2021	102	American mathematician[29]
Winnett Boyd	1916–2017	100	Canadian engineer[30]
Per Vilhelm Brüel	1915–2015	100	Danish physicist and engineer[31]
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat	1923–2025	101	French mathematician and physicist [32]
Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev	1859–1962	103	Ukrainian mathematician[33]
Margaret Burbidge	1919–2020	100	British-American astrophysicist[34]
Colin Gasking Butler	1913–2016	102	British entomologist[35]
Cai Qirui	1914–2016	102	Chinese chemist[36]
Eugenio Calabi	1923–2023	100	Italian-American mathematician[37]
Pierre Camu	1923–2023	100	Canadian geographer and civil servant[38]
Beatrice de Cardi	1914–2016	102	British archaeologist[39]
Henri Cartan	1904–2008	104	French mathematician[40]
Hung-ta Chang	1914–2016	101	Chinese botanist and ecologist[41]
Chen Jingxiong	1921–2022	100	Chinese engineer[42]
Cheng Kaijia	1918–2018	100	Chinese nuclear physicist and engineer[43]
Georgy Chernov	1906–2009	102	Russian geologist[44]
Michel Eugène Chevreul	1786–1889	102	French chemist[45]
Dame Harriette Chick	1875–1977	102	British microbiologist, protein scientist and nutritionist[46]
Sir Rickard Christophers	1873–1978	104	British protozoologist[47]
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ	1914–2024	110	Turkish archaeologist[48]
Thomas H. Clark	1893–1996	102	Canadian geologist[49]
Seymour S. Cohen	1917–2018	101	American biochemist[50]
H. Basil S. Cooke	1915–2018	102	Canadian geologist and paleontologist[51]
William D. Coolidge	1873–1975	101	American engineer and developer of the Coolidge tube for production of x-rays[52]
Morton Coutts	1904–2004	100	New Zealand inventor and developer of the continuous fermentation method[53]
Ray Crist	1900–2005	105	American chemist[54]
Kathleen Curtis	1892−1994	102	New Zealand mycologist and first female Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand[55]
Max Day	1915–2017	101	Australian ecologist[56]
Sukh Dev	1923–2024	101	Indian organic chemist[57]
Theodor Otto Diener	1921–2023	102	Swiss-American plant pathologist, discoverer of viroids[58]
Nikolay Dollezhal	1899–2000	101	Russian mechanical engineer[59]
Sergio Donadoni	1914–2015	101	Italian archaeologist[60]
William Gould Dow	1895–1999	104	American scientist and inventor[61]
Marion Downs	1914–2014	100	American audiologist[62]
Alicia Dussán de Reichel	1920–2023	102	Colombian anthropologist[63]
Dan Eley	1914–2015	100	British chemist[64]
Frank Ellis	1905–2006	100	British radiologist[65]
Rica Erickson	1908–2009	101	Australian naturalist[66]
Leo Esaki	1925–	100	Japanese physicist[67]
Henri Fabre	1882–1984	101	French aviation pioneer and inventor[68]
D. J. Finney	1917–2018	101	British statistician[69]
Sir Raymond Firth	1901–2002	100	New Zealand anthropologist[70]
Edmond H. Fischer	1920–2021	101	American biochemist and recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine[71]
Ron Fitch	1910–2015	105	Australian railroad engineer and executive[72]
James C. Floyd	1914–	110	Canadian aerospace engineer[73]
Yves Oscar Fortier	1914–2014	100	Canadian geologist[74]
John S. Foster Jr.	1922–	102	American physicist[75]
Ronald Martin Foster	1896–1998	101	American engineer[76]
Henry Jacques Gaisman	1869–1974	104	American philanthropist and inventor[77]
Mohammad Hassan Ganji	1912–2012	100	Iranian meteorologist[78]
Augusto Gansser-Biaggi	1910–2012	101	Swiss geologist[79]
Theodore H. Geballe	1920–2021	101	American physicist[80]
Oliver Holmes Gish	1883–1987	103	American geophysicist[81]
Maria Glazovskaya	1912–2016	104	Russian soil scientist[82]
Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch	1907–2007	100	German-American geneticist[83]
Arthur Goddard	1921–2022	101	English-Australian engineer[84]
Maurice Goldhaber	1911–2011	100	American nuclear physicist[85]
David W. Goodall	1914–2018	104	Australian botanist and ecologist[86]
John B. Goodenough	1922–2023	100	German-American physicist and recipient of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry[87]
Richard M. Goody	1921–2023	102	British-American atmospheric physicist[88]
Dieter Grau	1913–2014	101	German rocket scientist[89]
Jean-Michel Guilcher	1914–2017	102	French ethnologist[90]
Richard K. Guy	1916–2020	103	British mathematician[91]
Bill Haast	1910–2011	100	American director of the Miami Serpentarium[92]
Viktor Hamburger	1900–2001	100	German professor and embryologist[93]
Alice Hamilton	1869–1970	101	American toxicologist[94]
Michael Heidelberger	1888–1991	103	American immunologist[95]
Rudolf Hell	1901–2002	100	German inventor[96]
Joel Henry Hildebrand	1881–1983	101	American chemist[97]
Polly Hill	1907–2007	100	American horticulturist[98]
Arthur R. von Hippel	1898–2003	105	German-American physicist and co-developer of radar[99]
Dorrit Hoffleit	1907–2007	100	American research astronomer[100]
Albert Hofmann	1906–2008	102	Swiss discoverer of LSD[101]
Bernard Holden	1908–2012	104	British railway engineer[102]
Philip Hollom	1912–2014	102	British ornithologist[103]
Hu Chengzhi	1917–2018	100	Chinese paleontologist and paleoanthropologist; discoverer of Keichousaurus[104]
Holly Hu	1910–2012	102	Chinese botanist[105]
Friedrich Hund	1896–1997	101	German physicist[106]
Harry Huskey	1916–2017	101	American computer designer[107]
Kees de Jager	1921–2021	100	Dutch astronomer[108]
Katherine Johnson	1918–2020	101	American mathematician, physicist and NASA employee[109]
Robert L. Kahn	1918–2019	100	American social psychologist[110]
Alex Karczmar	1917–2017	100	American neuroscientist[111]
Ke Jun	1917–2017	100	Chinese metallurgist[112]
Frances Oldham Kelsey	1914–2015	101	Canadian-American pharmacologist and physician[113]
Ancel Keys	1904–2004	100	American biologist[114]
Isaak Khalatnikov	1919–2021	101	Soviet and Russian physicist[115]
Barys Kit	1910–2018	107	Belarusian scientist[116]
Charles Kittel	1916–2019	102	American theoretical solid-state physicist.[117]
Nathaniel Kleitman	1895–1999	104	American sleep researcher[118]
Paul E. Klopsteg	1889–1991	101	American physicist[119]
Jacob Korevaar	1923–2025	101	Dutch mathematician[120]
Frank L. Lambert	1918–2018	100	American chemist[121]
Stanley Leavy	1915–2016	101	American psychoanalyst[122]
Shih-Ying Lee	1918–2018	100	American engineer, physicist and inventor[123]
Jerome F. Lederer	1902–2004	101	American engineer[124]
Inge Lehmann	1888–1993	104	Danish seismologist[125]
Emma Lehmer	1906–2007	100	Russian-American mathematician[126]
Rita Levi-Montalcini	1909–2012	103	Italian neurologist, recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and senator[127]
Paul A. Libby	1921–2021	100	American fluid dynamicist[128]
Edward J. Lofgren	1914–2016	102	American physicist[129]
James Lovelock	1919–2022	103	British chemist[130]
Lu Yuanjiu	1920–2023	103	Chinese physicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Engineering[131]
August Luebs	1889–1989	100	American mechanical engineer[132]
John Walter Guerrier Lund	1912–2015	102	British phycologist[133]
James Ross MacDonald	1923–2024	101	American physicist[134]
Amaro Macedo	1914–2014	100	Brazilian botanist[135]
Karl Maramorosch	1915–2016	101	Austrian-born American virologist[136]
Rudolph A. Marcus	1923–	101	Canadian-American chemist and recipient of the 1992 Prize in Chemistry[137]
Héctor Mayagoitia Domínguez	1923–2023	100	Mexican chemical bacteriologist and politician[138][139]
Harris Mayer	1921–2023	102	American physicist (Manhattan Project)[140]
Ernst Mayr	1904–2005	100	German-American biologist[141]
John J. McKetta	1915–2019	103	American chemical engineer[142]
Brockway McMillan	1915–2016	101	American government official and scientist; Director of the National Reconnaissance Office (1963–1965)[143]
Rogers McVaugh	1909–2009	100	American botanist and educator[144]
Wilhelm Meise	1901–2002	101	German ornithologist[145]
Foil A. Miller	1916–2016	100	American chemist[146]
William F. Milliken Jr.	1911–2012	101	American aerospace engineer and racing driver[147]
Brenda Milner	1918–	106	Canadian neuroscientist[148]
Beatrice Mintz	1921–2022	100	American embryologist[149]
Russell L. Mixter	1906–2007	100	American biologist[150]
Ralph S. Moore	1907–2009	102	American horticulturalist[151]
Walter Munk	1917–2019	101	American physical oceanographer[152]
Margaret Murray	1863–1963	100	British anthropologist[153]
Nellie May Naylor	1885–1992	107	American chemistry professor[154]
Sterling Newberry	1915–2017	101	American microscopist[155]
Sergey Nikolsky	1905–2012	107	Russian mathematician[156]
Georg Nöbeling	1907–2008	100	German mathematician[157]
Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw	1912–2014	101	British mathematician[158]
Antoni Opolski	1913–2014	100	Polish physicist[159]
Nicanor Parra	1914–2018	103	Chilean mathematician, physicist and poet[160]
Borys Paton	1918–2020	101	Ukrainian metallurgist, chairman of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 1962[161][162][163]
Ruth Patrick	1907–2013	105	American limnologist[164]
Ralph Pearson	1919–2022	103	American chemist (HSAB theory)[165]
Luboš Perek	1919–2020	101	Czech astronomer[166]
Luigi Poletti	1864–1967	103	Italian mathematician[167]
Pelageia Yakovlevna Polubarinova Kochina	1899–1999	100	Russian mathematician[168]
Martin Pope	1918–2022	103	American chemist and educator[169]
G. Baley Price	1905–2006	101	American mathematician[170]
Maria Matilde Principi	1915–2017	102	Italian entomologist[171]
Elsie Quarterman	1910–2014	103	American plant ecologist[172]
Simon Ramo	1913–2016	103	American physicist[173]
C. R. Rao	1920–2023	102	Indian-American statistician[174]
Karl Rawer	1913–2018	104	German physicist[175]
Ren Xinmin	1915–2017	101	Chinese rocket scientist[176]
Malcolm Renfrew	1910–2013	103	American chemist[177]
Robert Hallowell Richards	1844–1945	100	American metallurgist[178]
Henry Nicholas Ridley	1855–1956	100	British biologist[179]
George Rosenkranz	1916–2019	102	Hungarian-born Mexican steroid chemist[180]
Nancy Sandars	1914–2015	101	British archaeologist and prehistorian[181]
Tadashi Sasaki	1915–2018	102	Japanese engineer[182]
Victor Blanchard Scheffer	1906–2011	104	American zoologist and author[183]
Helmut Schlesinger	1924–2024	100	German economist[184]
Waldo Semon	1898–1999	100	American chemist[185]
Shen Panwen	1916–2017	100	Chinese chemist[186]
Shen Shanjiong	1917–2021	103	Chinese microbiologist and geneticist[187]
Shen Qihan	1922–2022	100	Chinese geologist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[188]
Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande	1917–2020	102	Indian mathematician[189]
David Shugar	1915–2015	100	Polish-Canadian physicist[190]
Louis Siminovitch	1920–2021	100	Canadian molecular biologist[191]
Robert Simpson	1912–2014	102	American meteorologist[192]
Hobart Muir Smith	1912–2013	100	American herpetologist[193]
Ralph Solecki	1917–2019	101	American archaeologist[194]
Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind	1901–2002	101	American psychiatry researcher[195]
Arnold Spielberg	1917–2020	103	American electrical engineer[196]
Jeremiah Stamler	1919–2022	102	American scientist[197]
Epaminondas Stassinopoulos	1921–2022	101	German-born American astrophysicist[198]
Gerolf Steiner	1908–2009	101	German professor of zoology[199]
Clarence F. Stephens	1917–2018	100	American mathematician[200]
Ralph Randles Stewart	1890–1993	103	American botanist[201]
Dirk Jan Struik	1894–2000	106	Dutch-born American mathematician[202]
Su Buqing (aka Su Bu-Chin)	1902–2003	101	Chinese mathematician, educator and poet[203]
F. William Sunderman	1898–2003	104	American physician and scientist[204]
Ralph Tambs Lyche	1890–1991	100	Norwegian mathematician[205]
Tang Youqi	1920–2022	102	Chinese physical chemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[206]
Wilmer W. Tanner	1909–2011	101	American zoologist[207]
Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley	1915–2017	102	British mathematician[208]
John Kenneth Terres	1905–2006	100	American naturalist and author[209]
Lise Thiry	1921–2024	102	Belgian scientist and politician[210]
Dorothy Burr Thompson	1900–2001	100	American classical archaeologist and art historian[211]
Peter Thonemann	1917–2018	100	Australian-born British physicist[212]
Georg von Tiesenhausen	1914–2018	104	German-American rocket scientist[89]
Germaine Tillion	1907–2008	100	French anthropologist[213]
Constance Tipper	1894–1995	101	British metallurgist and crystallographer[214]
László Tisza	1907–2009	101	Hungarian-American physicist[215]
Graham Turbott	1914–2014	100	New Zealand ornithologist and zoologist[216]
Victor Vacquier	1907–2009	101	Russian-American geophysicist[217]
Joan Henri van der Waals	1920–2022	102	Dutch physicist[218]
Ruth van Heyningen	1917–2019	102	British biochemist[219]
Gordon John Van Wylen	1920–2020	100	American physicist and textbook author[220]
Leopold Vietoris	1891–2002	110	Austrian mathematician[221]
Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya	1861–1962	100	Indian engineer[222][223]
Marthe Vogt	1903–2003	100	German-English neuroscientist[224]
Wang Xiji	1921–	103	Chinese aerospace engineer[225]
Sir Frederick Warner	1910–2010	100	British chemical engineer[226]
Floyd R. Watson	1872–1974	101	American physicist and acoustician[227]
Walter Francis Willcox	1861–1964	103	American statistician[228]
Evelyn M. Witkin	1921–2023	102	American geneticist[229]
Xu Xurong	1922–2022	100	Chinese physicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[230]
Yang Chen-Ning	1922–	102	Chinese theoretical physicist and recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics[231]
Filippo Zappata	1894–1994	100	Italian aircraft designer and pioneer[232]
Zhang Guangdou	1912–2013	101	Chinese engineer[233]
Zhang Tianfu	1910–2017	106	Chinese agronomist and tea expert[234]
Zhang Xingqian	1921–2022	100	Chinese metal physicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[235]
Zheng Ji	1900–2010	110	Chinese nutritionist and biochemist[236]
Zhuang Qiaosheng	1916–2022	105	Chinese plant geneticist[237]