List of centenarians (scientists and mathematicians)

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
Charles Greeley Abbot	1872–1973	101	American astronomer and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
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
Rudolf Arnheim	1904–2007	102	German psychologist of visual perception
Ira Baldwin	1895–1999	103	American bacteriologist and educator
Preston Bassett	1892–1992	100	American inventor and aeronautics pioneer
Henry Beachell	1906–2006	100	American developer of "miracle rice"
Arnold Orville Beckman	1900–2004	104	American chemist and businessman who founded Beckman Instruments
Julia Bell	1879–1979	100	English human geneticist
Harry Benjamin	1885–1986	101	German sexologist
Leo Beranek	1914–	109	American acoustical scientist
Adam Bielański	1912–	111	Polish chemist
Sidney W. Bijou	1908–2009	100	American child psychologist
Per Vilhelm Brüel	1915–2015	100	Danish physicist and engineer
Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev	1859–1962	103	Ukrainian mathematician
Su Buqing	1902–2003	100	Chinese mathematician
Beatrice De Cardi	1914–	109	British archaeologist
Henri Cartan	1904–2008	104	French mathematician
Michel Eugène Chevreul	1786–1889	102	French chemist
Harriette Chick	1875–1977	102	British biologist
Sir Rickard Christophers	1873–1978	104	British protozoologist
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ	1914–	109	Turkish archaeologist
Thomas H. Clark	1893–1996	102	Canadian geologist
Sir William D. Coolidge	1873–1975	101	American engineer and developer of the Coolidge tube for production of x-rays
Morton W. Coutts	1904–2004	100	New Zealand inventor and developer of the continuous fermentation method
Ray Crist	1900–2005	105	American chemist
Nikolay Dollezhal	1899–2000	101	Russian mechanical engineer
William Gould Dow	1895–1999	104	American scientist and inventor who helped develop radar jamming
Marion Downs	1914–2014	100	American audiologist
Frank Ellis	1905–2006	100	British radiologist
Rica Erickson	1908–2009	101	Australian naturalist
Henri Fabre	1882–1984	101	French aviation pioneer and inventor of the seaplane
Raymond Firth	1901–2002	100	New Zealand anthropologist
James C. Floyd	1914–	109	Canadian aerospace engineer
Yves Fortier	1914–2014	100	Canadian geologist
R. M. Foster	1896–1998	101	American engineer
Henry Jacques Gaisman	1869–1974	104	American inventor, first to develop the safety razor
Mohammad Hassan Ganji	1912–2012	100	Iranian meteorologist
Augusto Gansser-Biaggi	1910–2012	101	Swiss geologist
Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch	1907–2007	100	German-American geneticist
Maurice Goldhaber	1911–2011	100	American nuclear physicist
Dieter Grau	1913–2014	101	German rocket scientist
Bill Haast	1910–2011	100	American director of the Miami Serpentarium
Viktor Hamburger	1900–2001	100	German professor and embryologist
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
Philip Hollom	1912–2014	102	British ornithologist
Shiu-Ying Hu	1910–2012	102	Chinese botanist
Friedrich Hund	1896–1997	101	German physicist
Ancel Keys	1904–2004	100	American biologist
Barys Kit	1910 –	114	Belarusian scientist
Nathaniel Kleitman	1895–1999	104	American father of sleep research and co-discoverer of REM sleep
Paul E. Klopsteg	1889–1991	101	American physicist
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
Edward J. Lofgren	1914–	110	American physicist
August Luebs	1889–1989	100	American mechanical engineer
Amaro Macedo	1914–2014	100	Brazilian botanist
Karl Maramorosch	1915–	109	Austrian-born American virologist
Ernst Mayr	1904–2005	100	German-American biologist
Rogers McVaugh	1909–2009	100	American botanist and educator
Wilhelm Meise	1901–2002	101	German ornithologist
William F. Milliken, Jr.	1911–2012	101	American aerospace engineer and racing driver
Russell L. Mixter	1906–2007	100	American biologist
Ralph S. Moore	1907–2009	102	American horticulturalist
Margaret Murray	1863–1963	100	British anthropologist
Nellie May Naylor	1885–1992	107	American chemistry professor
Sergey Nikolsky	1905–2012	107	Russian mathematician
Sterling Newberry	1915–	108	American microscopist
Georg Nöbeling	1907–2008	100	German mathematician
Kathleen Ollerenshaw	1912–2014	101	British mathematician and politician
Antoni Opolski	1913–2014	100	Polish physicist
Ruth Patrick	1907–2013	105	American limnologist
Luigi Poletti	1864–1967	103	Italian mathematician
Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina	1899–1999	100	Russian mathematician
G. Baley Price	1905–2006	101	American mathematician
Elsie Quarterman	1910–2014	103	American plant ecologist
Simon Ramo	1913–	110	American physicist
Malcolm Renfrew	1910–2013	103	American chemist
Robert Hallowell Richards	1844–1945	100	American metallurgist
Henry Nicholas Ridley	1855–1956	100	British biologist
Victor Blanchard Scheffer	1906–2011	104	American zoologist and author
Waldo Semon	1898–1999	100	American chemist
Bei Shizhang	1903–2009	106	Chinese biologist and educator
Robert Simpson	1912–2014	102	American meteorologist
Hobart Muir Smith	1912–2013	100	American herpetologist
Esther Somerfeld-Ziskind	1901–2002	101	American psychiatry researcher
Gerolf Steiner	1908–2009	101	German professor of zoology
Ralph Randles Stewart	1890–1993	103	American botanist
Dirk Jan Struik	1894–2000	106	Dutch mathematician
Ralph Tambs-Lyche	1890–1991	100	Norwegian mathematician
Wilmer W. Tanner	1909–2011	101	American zoologist
John Kenneth Terres	1905–2006	100	American naturalist and author
Dorothy Burr Thompson	1900–2001	100	American classical archaeologist and art historian
Georg von Tiesenhausen	1914–	109	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
Victor Vacquier	1907–2009	101	Russian-American geophysicist
Leopold Vietoris	1891–2002	110	Austrian mathematician
Visvesvaraya	1860–1962	101	Indian engineer
Marthe Vogt	1903–2003	100	German-English neuroscientist
Frederick Warner	1910–2010	100	British chemical engineer
Walter Francis Willcox	1861–1964	103	American statistician
Filippo Zappata	1894–1994	100	Italian aircraft designer and pioneer
Zhang Guangdou	1912–2013	101	Chinese engineer
Zheng Ji	1900–2010	110	Chinese nutritionist and biochemist