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.

Name Lifespan Age Reason for NotabilityCharles Greeley Abbot 1872–1973 101 American astrophysicist and the fifth secretary of the Smithsonian InstitutionFred Aftalion 1922–2022 100 French chemical engineerShmuel Agmon 1922–2025 103 Israeli mathematician Saleh Ajeery 1920–2022 101 Kuwaiti astronomerHorace Alexander 1889–1989 100 British biologist and ornithologistDoris Twitchell Allen 1901–2002 100 American psychologist and founder of Children's International Summer VillagesFranz Alt 1910–2011 100 Austrian mathematicianHeinz Ansbacher 1904–2006 101 German-American psychologistGuacolda Antoine Lazzerini 1908–2015 107 Chilean mathematician and educatorBio: Guacolda Antoine Lazzerini, usach.cl. Accessed 11 December 2023. (in Spanish)Rudolf Arnheim 1904–2007 102 German psychologist of visual perceptionDavid Attenborough1926–English broadcaster, natural historian, conservationist, writer, producer and narratorIra Baldwin 1895–1999 103 American bacteriologist and educatorBasil Balme 1923–2023 100 Australian palynologistDavid Bannett 1921–2022 100 Israeli-American electrical engineerPaddy Bassett 1918–2019 101 New Zealand agricultural scientistObituary: Paddy Bassett, massey.ac.nz. Accessed 2 April 2024.Preston Bassett 1892–1992 100 American inventor and aeronautics pioneerHenry Beachell 1906–2006 100 American developer of "miracle rice"Wilfried de Beauclair 1912–2020 108 Swiss-born German engineer and computer scientistArnold Orville Beckman 1900–2004 104 American chemist and businessman who founded Beckman InstrumentsBei Shizhang 1903–2009 106 Chinese biologist and educatorJulia Bell 1879–1979 100 British human geneticist"Bell, Julia (1879–1979)", Greta Jones, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004 and January 2008 (online edition), accessed 10 May 2008Harry Benjamin 1885–1986 101 German sexologistLeo Beranek 1914–2016 102 American acoustical scientistTheodor Bergmann 1916–2017 101 German agronomist and authorBob Berry 1916–2018 102 New Zealand dendrologistAdam Bielański 1912–2016 103 Polish chemistSidney W. Bijou 1908–2009 100 American child psychologistHeinz Billing 1914–2017 102 German physicist and computer scientist Marcel Boiteux 1922–2023 101 French economistDécès de l'ancien président d'EDF Marcel Boiteux à 101 ans, boursorama.com . Accessed 12 November 2023.William M. Boothby 1918–2021 102 American mathematicianWinnett Boyd 1916–2017 100 Canadian engineerPer Vilhelm Brüel 1915–2015 100 Danish physicist and engineerYvonne Choquet-Bruhat 1923–2025 101 French mathematician and physicist Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev 1859–1962 103 Ukrainian mathematicianV P Belousova, V A Dobrovol'skii, I G Il'in and A S Smogorzevskii, Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev : On the hundredth anniversary of his birth, Uspekhi Mat. Nauk 14 5(89) (1959), pp. 181–195 Margaret Burbidge 1919–2020 100 British-American astrophysicistColin Gasking Butler 1913–2016 102 British entomologistCai Qirui 1914–2016 102 Chinese chemistEugenio Calabi 1923–2023 100 Italian-American mathematician Pierre Camu 1923–2023 100 Canadian geographer and civil servantPierre Camu obituary, lenecrologue.com . Accessed 12 November 2023.Beatrice de Cardi 1914–2016 102 British archaeologistHenri Cartan 1904–2008 104 French mathematicianHung-ta Chang 1914–2016 101 Chinese botanist and ecologistChen Jingxiong 1921–2022 100 Chinese engineerCheng Kaijia 1918–2018 100 Chinese nuclear physicist and engineerHerman Chernoff 1923–2026 103 American mathematicianGeorgy Chernov 1906–2009 102 Russian geologistMichel Eugène Chevreul 1786–1889 102 French chemist"Michel-Eugène Chevreul", Charles McKenna, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, Robert Appleton Company, New York, 1908, accessed 10 May 2008Dame Harriette Chick 1875–1977 102 British microbiologist, protein scientist and nutritionistSir Rickard Christophers 1873–1978 104 British protozoologistObituary* Sir Rickard Christophers: A Tribute, M.W. Service, Mosquito Systematics, Vol. 11 (l), 1979, pp. 55–58 Muazzez İlmiye Çığ 1914–2024 110 Turkish archaeologistThomas H. Clark 1893–1996 102 Canadian geologistSeymour S. Cohen 1917–2018 101 American biochemistDr. Seymour S. Cohen obituary, legacy.com. Accessed November 12, 2023.H. Basil S. Cooke 1915–2018 102 Canadian geologist and paleontologistWilliam D. Coolidge 1873–1975 101 American engineer and developer of the Coolidge tube for production of x-raysMorton Coutts 1904–2004 100 New Zealand inventor and developer of the continuous fermentation methodRay Crist 1900–2005 105 American chemistKathleen Curtis 1892−1994 102 New Zealand mycologist and first female Fellow of the Royal Society of New ZealandMax Day 1915–2017 101 Australian ecologistSukh Dev 1923–2024 101 Indian organic chemistTheodor Otto Diener 1921–2023 102 Swiss-American plant pathologist, discoverer of viroidsTheodor Diener, scientist who discovered the tiny viroid, dies at 102, washingtonpost.com. Accessed November 12, 2023.Jacques Dixmier 1924– French mathematicianNikolay Dollezhal 1899–2000 101 Russian mechanical engineerSergio Donadoni 1914–2015 101 Italian archaeologistWilliam Gould Dow 1895–1999 104 American scientist and inventorMarion Downs 1914–2014 100 American audiologist Alicia Dussán de Reichel 1920–2023 102 Colombian anthropologistEl ICANH lamenta el fallecimiento de Alicia Dussán de Reichel-Dolmatoff, precursora de la antropología en Colombia Dan Eley 1914–2015 100 British chemistFrank Ellis 1905–2006 100 British radiologistRica Erickson 1908–2009 101 Australian naturalistLeo Esaki 1925– Japanese physicist and recipient of the 1973 Nobel Prize in PhysicsHenri Fabre 1882–1984 101 French aviation pioneer and inventorD. J. Finney 1917–2018 101 British statisticianSir Raymond Firth 1901–2002 100 New Zealand anthropologistEdmond H. Fischer 1920–2021 101 American biochemist and recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineRon Fitch 1910–2015 105 Australian railroad engineer and executiveYves Oscar Fortier 1914–2014 100 Canadian geologistJohn S. Foster Jr. 1922–2025 102 American physicistRonald Martin Foster 1896–1998 101 American engineerHenry Jacques Gaisman 1869–1974 104 American philanthropist and inventorMohammad Hassan Ganji 1912–2012 100 Iranian meteorologistAugusto Gansser-Biaggi 1910–2012 101 Swiss geologistTheodore H. Geballe 1920–2021 101 American physicistOliver Holmes Gish 1883–1987 103 American geophysicistMaria Glazovskaya 1912–2016 104 Russian soil scientistSalome Gluecksohn-Waelsch 1907–2007 100 German-American geneticistArthur Goddard 1921–2022 101 English-Australian engineerMaurice Goldhaber 1911–2011 100 American nuclear physicistDavid W. Goodall 1914–2018 104 Australian botanist and ecologistJohn B. Goodenough 1922–2023 100 German-American physicist and recipient of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Richard M. Goody 1921–2023 102 British-American atmospheric physicistRichard Mead Goody obituary, peacefulalternatives.com. Accessed November 12, 2023.Dieter Grau 1913–2014 101 German rocket scientistVilmosné Gryllus1924–2024100Hungarian chemistJean-Michel Guilcher 1914–2017 102 French ethnologistRichard K. Guy 1916–2020 103 British mathematicianBill Haast 1910–2011 100 American director of the Miami SerpentariumViktor Hamburger 1900–2001 100 German professor and embryologistAlice Hamilton 1869–1970 101 American toxicologistMichael Heidelberger 1888–1991 103 American immunologistRudolf Hell 1901–2002 100 German inventorJoel Henry Hildebrand 1881–1983 101 American chemistPolly Hill 1907–2007 100 American horticulturist"Polly Hill Is Dead at 100; Tested Hardiness of Plants", Dennis Hevesi, The New York Times, 20 April 2007Arthur R. von Hippel 1898–2003 105 German-American physicist and co-developer of radarDorrit Hoffleit 1907–2007 100 American research astronomerAlbert Hofmann 1906–2008 102 Swiss discoverer of LSDBernard Holden 1908–2012 104 British railway engineerPhilip Hollom 1912–2014 102 British ornithologistHu Chengzhi 1917–2018 100 Chinese paleontologist and paleoanthropologist; discoverer of KeichousaurusHolly Hu 1910–2012 102 Chinese botanistFriedrich Hund 1896–1997 101 German physicistFriedrich Hund, Encyclopædia Britannica (online edition), 2008, accessed 10 May 2008Harry Huskey 1916–2017 101 American computer designerKees de Jager 1921–2021 100 Dutch astronomerKatherine Johnson 1918–2020 101 American mathematician, physicist and NASA employeeKatherine Johnson Dies at 101; Mathematician Broke Barriers at NASARobert L. Kahn 1918–2019 100 American social psychologistU-M Social Psychologist, Research Scientist and ISR Founding Member Bob Kahn dies at 100Alex Karczmar 1917–2017 100 American neuroscientistKe Jun 1917–2017 100 Chinese metallurgist Ora Kedem 1924–2026 101 Israeli chemist Prof. Ora Kedem distinguished Emeritus 100'th Birthday celebration Frances Oldham Kelsey 1914–2015 101 Canadian-American pharmacologist and physician Ancel Keys 1904–2004 100 American biologistIsaak Khalatnikov 1919–2021 101 Soviet and Russian physicistProminent Physicist Khalatnikov, Involved In Building 1st Soviet Nuclear Weapon, DiesBarys Kit 1910–2018 107 Belarusian scientistCharles Kittel 1916–2019 102 American theoretical solid-state physicist.Remembering Charles KittelNathaniel Kleitman 1895–1999 104 American sleep researcherPaul E. Klopsteg 1889–1991 101 American physicistJacob Korevaar 1923–2025 102 Dutch mathematicianFrank L. Lambert 1918–2018 100 American chemistA Centenarian of ChemistryStanley Leavy 1915–2016 101 American psychoanalystShih-Ying Lee 1918–2018 100 American engineer, physicist and inventorJerome F. Lederer 1902–2004 101 American engineerInge Lehmann 1888–1993 104 Danish seismologistEmma Lehmer 1906–2007 100 Russian-American mathematicianRita Levi-Montalcini 1909–2012 103 Italian neurologist, recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and senatorPaul A. Libby 1921–2021 100 American fluid dynamicistEdward J. Lofgren 1914–2016 102 American physicistJames Lovelock 1919–2022 103 British chemistJames Lovelock at 100 says asteroids pose key threat to humanity Creator of Gaia theory recalls how it nearly had another name and says the age of AI is nigh, The Guardian, 26 July 2019, accessed 20 March 2020Lu Yuanjiu 1920–2023 103 Chinese physicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and EngineeringAugust Luebs 1889–1989 100 American mechanical engineerJohn Walter Guerrier Lund 1912–2015 102 British phycologistJames Ross MacDonald 1923–2024 101 American physicistGeneral information about James Ross Macdonald, jrossmacdonald.com. Accessed April 2, 2024.Amaro Macedo 1914–2014 100 Brazilian botanistKarl Maramorosch 1915–2016 101 Austrian-born American virologistRudolph A. Marcus 1923–2026 102 Canadian-American chemist and recipient of the 1992 Prize in ChemistryHéctor Mayagoitia Domínguez 1923–2023 100 Mexican chemical bacteriologist and politicianLuto en la Academia: muere Héctor Mayagoitia Domínguez, exgobernador de Durango y exdirector del IPN Harris Mayer 1921–2023 102 American physicist (Manhattan Project)Obituary: Harris Louis Mayer Feb. 15, 1921 – Sept. 17, 2023Ernst Mayr 1904–2005 100 German-American biologistJohn J. McKetta 1915–2019 103 American chemical engineerBeloved Longhorn and Chemical Engineering Legend John J. McKetta Jr. Dies at 103Brockway 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 educatorWilhelm Meise 1901–2002 101 German ornithologistFoil A. Miller 1916–2016 100 American chemistWilliam F. Milliken Jr. 1911–2012 101 American aerospace engineer and racing driverVictor Mills 1897–1997100American chemical engineerBrenda Milner 1918– Canadian neuroscientistBeatrice Mintz 1921–2022 100 American embryologistRussell L. Mixter 1906–2007 100 Am