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Roll of Arms
of Contemporary Scientists

	Nicolas Andrault de Langeron (1899-1955) Russian-born Belgian engineer. Azure, three mullets Argent. Head of electrochemistry at Université de Liège. Father of Dimitri (1927-2015).
	Le Comte Olivier Costa de Beauregard (1911-2007) French physicist. D'azur à trois bandes d'or, au chef de France. Motto : Soli Fidelis.
	Prof. Jean de Siebenthal (1917-2006) Swiss mathematician (Lausanne University) Per fess: [1] Per pale Gules and Argent, a fess counterchanged. [2] Argent, a dragon Sable langued Gules [& armed Argent]. Ph.D., 1951, President Swiss Mathematical Society, 1964-65.
	Alwyn Van der Merwe (1927-) Physicist (Professor emeritus, Denver University) Gules, a fess Argent between 15 bezants (5 & 4 in chief, 3, 2 & 1 in point).
	[Roman] Count Yves-Edouard Glénisson (1929-2011) Belgian mathematician Quartered [1&4] Or three bees Gules and [2&3] Sable a fess counterembattled Argent [Kinschot]. Granted in 1902 by Leo XIII to his great-grandfather, Edouard-Antoine Glénisson (1837-1904).
	Dr. (h.c.) Jesco Freiherr von Puttkamer (1933-2012) NASA project manager Azure, a marine griffin Gules tailed Argent, armed and crowned Or.
	Prof. William M. Irvine (1936-) FRAS. Radio-astronomer (UMass, Amherst & FCRAO) Argent, 3 holly branches each consisting of as many leaves Vert banded Gules. On a chief Azure 3 seagulls volant Argent. A bordure counter-compony Azure and Argent.
	Prof. Klaus-Olaf von Klitzing (b. 1943; Nobel 1985) German physicist Or, three Hungarian bonnets Gules lined Argent.
	Viscount Pierre Deligne (1944-) Belgian mathematician (Fields Medal, 1978) Vert, three hens Proper in fess. Motto: La première va devant. Crest: A dodecahedron Or. Supporters: Two trees Vert, trunked Argent.
	Dr. John C. Brown (1947-) 10th Astronomer Royal for Scotland (since 1995) Bleu celeste, on a pale Or voided Sable, between two James Short telescopes on tripods Or combattant, 8 mullets Argent in the shape of the constellation Orion. On a chief Azure with a fillet in base Or, a saltire Argent and (in the center point) an open crown Or.
	Askold Georgievich Khovanskii (1947-) Russian mathematician (Toronto). [ Cadet of Golitsyn ] Quarterly [1&3] Gules, an eagle Argent. [3&4, Novgorod] Argent, a throne Gules framed Or under a flaming chandelier (3) of the Last, between two bears Sable holding upon it a sword and scepter in saltire. On a sea Azure, 4 fish naiant affronty Argent. [5] Crowned inescutcheon of Lithuania.
	Jean-Marie Achille De Brabandere (1947-) Belgian electrical engineer (R&D) Azure a baston wavy Or, between two modern bundles of ten thunderbolts of the same. On a bordure Or, eleven billets Sable. Motto: Min Zoeken, Min Streven (my quest, my efforts).
	Dr. Myron Wyn Evans (1950-2019) Welsh chemist [Author of ECE Theory (rebutted) ] Per fess dancetty Gules and Sable, a Lion Or holding a garb Argent banded Vert within a bordure engrailed Or. Motto: Poer y Llwch o'r Pair Llachar. [ International Register of Arms ]
	Prof. Michael R. Taaffe (c.1952-) Virginia Tech. Gules, a cross Argent fretty Azure.
	Baron Jean Bourgain (1954-2018) Belgian mathematician, ennobled in 2015. Azure, a plate hugging three unequal roundels of the Field, kissing pairwise.
	Dr. Gérard P. Michon (1956-) X1976. French engineer born in Gironde. Gules, a saltire gyronny of sixteen Or and Sable. CFH (Assumed 2013-05-03) De gueules, au sautoir gironné d'or et de sable de seize pièces. [ 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 ]
	Dr. Clemens Jochen Wilke (1960-) German chemist & European patent attorney Per pale Azure and Argent, on a roundel nebuly of ten undulations counterchanged a dianthus blossom (wild carnation) per pale Gules and Argent seeded Or. [ 2003 ]
	Dr. Bernardo Jose Perez-Ramirez (1960-) Chilean-born US biochemist Per pale Azure and Gules, overall above a castle with two towers an owl guardant displayed Or, charged on the breast with a pear Azure, all within a bordure compony of 22 pieces Or and Gules, each Gules section charged with a copihue flower Or. [ 2006-10-18 ACH XVI, 37, #2946]
	Frank De Winne (1961-) Belgian astronaut, viscount in 2002. De sable, à un globe d'azur bordé d'argent mouvant de l'angle sénestre de la pointe et accompagné au premier canton de huit étoiles d'argent rangées 4, 2, 1 & 1. A une capsule spatiale d'or brochant en bande sur le globe.
	Dr. Stephen G. Clackson (1961-) Scottish crystallographer. Gyronny of sixteen Or and Argent, a lozenge Azure. [ 1998 grant \| 2001 matriculation ]
	Dr. David A. Spencer (1963-) British/Italian geologist (London). Gules, a chevron Or between 3 ice-axes and hammers in saltire Argent and conjoined to a bordure Or. Mantling: Gules lined Or. [Granted Nov. 7, 2000.]
	Dr. Kirill Shtengel (1966-) Russian-born physicist (Ph.D. UCLA, 1999). Per fess; [1] Azure, a cock Or beneath an estoile and between two escallops, all Argent. [2] Gules, an anchor and a sword in saltire Argent. (UC Riverside)
	Dr. Bernhard Peter (1966-) German chemist and pharmacist (Koblenz). Argent, a cross mascly within a bordure Azure. Mantling: Azure doubled Argent. Crest: On a wreath of the colors, 2 keys in saltire Argent (teeth outwards in chief).
	Dr. Frank J. Reuther (1971-). Forensic medicine (Ulm, Germany). Quarterly; [1] Gules, a staff of Aesculapius and a balance conjoined Or. [2 & 3] Barry of 10 Sable and Or. [4] Gules, a sapphire on a ring Or. Crest: A falcon.
	Dr. Klaas Wiersema (1977-) Dutch astronomer (University of Amsterdam). Sable, a pelican in her piety Argent. [ 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 ]

Roll of Arms
of Historical Scientists (antechamber to the main roll)

	John Field (1522-1587) Proto-Copernican astronomer. (Elizabeth's astrologer). Sable, a chevron between three garbs Argent. Crest; A dexter arm Proper habited Gules fesswise, issuing out of clouds at sinister, holding an armillary sphere Or. (1558-09-04)
	Olivier de Serres (1539-1619) French agronomist. D'argent, à trois serres d'aigle de gueules, posées en fasce. [Canting arms]
	Antoine Fauvre (fl. 1576) Author of Arithmétique (Jean Borel, Paris, 1576) D'or, à la fasce échiquetée de deux traits d'argent et d'azur, accompagnée en chef de deux fasces ondées de gueules, et en pointe d'un sanglier de sable.
	Jan Marek Markù, Johannes Marcus Marci of Kronland (1595-1667) Czech. Per pale: Argent a crown Or. Azure, an eagle Argent langued Gules, his breast charged with a sun in his splendor. All surmounted by a rainbow of 5 arches, Vert, Gules, Or, Gules and Vert.
	Claude Perrault (1613-1688) Architect (Colonnade du Louvre) and naturalist D'or, à l'écusson d'azur, chargé d'un écusson d'argent. Claude Perrault is a brother of the famous reteller Charles Perrault (1628-1703).
	William Petty (1623-1687) British economist & statistician [knighted in 1661] Ermine, on a bend azure, a [magnetic] needle pointing to the Polar Star, Or (for Petty). Impaling: Sable, 3 walnut leaves between 2 bendlets Or (for his wife, Elizabeth Waller). Crest: A beehive Or, with bees about it. Motto: Ut Apes Geometria.
	Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie (1624-1688) Agronomist [knighted in 1687] D'argent, au chevron d'azur accompagné en chef de deux étoiles de même, et en pointe d'un arbre de sinople [ terrassé de même ].
	Richard Towneley (1629-1707) English mathematician and astronomer [ Hall ] Argent, a fess Sable, three mullets in chief of the second. Crest : On a perch Or, a [sparrow] hawk close Proper, beaked and belled Or. Motto : Tenez le vraye.
	Pierre Daniel Huet (1630-1721) Scholar and Bishop of Avranches, born in Caen Founded with André Graindorge (1616-1676) the Académie de physique de Caen (1662-1672). D'azur, à trois grelots d'or, contre-posés, surmontés de deux mouchetures d'hermine d'argent. Cimier : Chape d'évêque surmontant une couronne avec mitre dextre et crosse sénestre.
	Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708) French botanist D'azur, à la tour d'or entre deux lions combattants du même.
	James Bradley (1693-1762) Savilian Professor, Astronomer Royal Bradley (of Bradley [Castle] co. Lancaster, 1567). Sable a fess engrailed Argent. In chief, a mullet Or between two crosses pattée fitchée of the Second, the whole within a bordure engrailed Argent.
	Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) English scientist; grandfather of Charles Darwin. Motto: E Conchis Omnia (everything from shells).
	Friedrich II, Graf von Hahn (1742-1805) German astronomer Argent, a cock Gules armed Sable, dexter leg raised, two tail feathers of the Last. Motto: Primus sum, qui deum laudat.
	Déodat Guy Sylvain Tancrède Gratet de Dolomieu (1750-1801) French geologist D'azur, au griffon d'or. Motto: Tout à tout [ Gratet-Dolomieu, Dauphiné ]
	Louis François Elisabeth Ramond de Carbonnières (1755-1821) Geologist, botanist Ecartelé, aux 1 et 4, de gueules à la croix vidée, cléchée et pommetée d'or, qui est de Toulouse; aux 2 et 3, d'azur à la cloche d'argent bataillée de sable (Lagoursan).
	Jean-Nicolas Corvisart (1755-1821) Physician [Motto: Franc et droit ] Écartelé: au 1, d'or au coeur de gueules; au 2, de gueules à la palme d'argent; au 3, de gueules au lion d'argent; au 4, d'or au bâton d'Esculape (verge de sable et serpent de sinople).
	Antoine François Fourcroy (1755-1809) French chemist [Comte in 1808] D'azur, chargé d'un écu d'or surchargé d'un écu de sable, à la lampe d'or allumée de gueules et accompagnée en chef à sénestre d'une étoile d'or.
	Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (1757-1808) French physiologist D'argent, à la balance soutenue par une verge embrassée d'un serpent, le tout de sable. [ Franc-quartier de comte sénateur brochant au quart de l'écu. ]
	Count Vincenzo Dandolo (1758-1819) Italian chemist, agriculturist & politician. Ecartelé: au 1, des comtes sénateurs du Royaume ; au 2, d'azur à une brebis passante d'argent ; au 3, d'argent, à un creuset de fondeur de sable posé en fasce ; au 4, de sinople, à deux barres d'argent.
	Vicomte Charles Gilbert Morel de Vindé (1759-1842) French agronomist D'azur, à la fleur de lys d'or, accompagnée de trois glands du même, au chef d'argent, chargé d'une aigle au vol abaissé de sable. [Nescit Labi Virtus]
	Antoni Magier (1762-1837) Polish physicist and meteorologist. (Herb szilega) Gules, a crescent dominated by a long cross, all Or. Crest: A peacock's tail of seven feathers.
	d'Auxon, Dauxon, d'Auxonne, Dauxonne. French mathematician (from Besançon). [?] D'argent, à trois épis d'or, sur une terrasse de sinople; au chef d'or chargé d'un vol de sable, surmonté d'une étoile de gueules.
	André Jean François Marie Brochant de Villiers (1772-1840) French mineralogist D'or à l'olivier arraché de sinople, accosté aux pointes de 2 croissants de gueule, soutenu d'une rivière d'azur chargée d'un brochet contourné [?] d'argent.
	Christophe Joseph Alexandre Mathieu de Dombasle (1777-1843) Agronomist De gueules, à la fasce d'argent, chargée d'un lion léopardé et couronné de gueules, accompagnée de trois têtes de léopards d'or. [Roville-devant-Bayon]
	[Baron] Paul von Schilling = Pavel Schilling (c. 1780-1836) Baltic-German engineer & Russian diplomat. Or, on a fess Gules three helmets Argent.
	Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, Sr. (1783-1862) 1st Baronet (1834), FRS (1820) Azure, on a chevron between three mullets Argent, 3 civic wreaths Vert. (Debrett) [Physiologist (bone & joint). Sergeant-surgeon to William IV and Queen Victoria.]
	Purkinje, Jan Evangelista Purkyne (1789-1869) Czech physiologist. [Knighted by Emperor Franz Joseph in 1869] Per bend Gules and Argent, a bend Azure between two stars of six points counterchanged. [Thanks to François Velde.]
	Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871) Scottish geologist [Baronet in 1866] Or, a lion rampant Sable between two pine apples in chief Vert and an escallop in base Azure. (Murchison of Tarradale, 1788) [ Blazon courtesy of Stephen J F Plowman ] Formal portrait.
	Eugène Dumortier (1801-1876) French paleontologist. Azure, a bend undy Argent. [Dumortierite was described in 1881 by M.F. Gonnard and named after the late Dumortier. It's an aluminum borosilicate Al₇(BO)₃(SiO₄)₃O₃ found in Gneiss and used for spark-plug porcelain.]
	Count Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja (1803-1869) Italian mathematician
	Benoît Hippolyte, [comte] de Villeneuve-Flayosc (1803-1874) X1822 De gueules, fretté de six lances d'or entre-semées de douze écussons du même.
	Jean-Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810-1892) French naturalist D'or, à quatre hêtres arrachés de sinople. [Canting arms (Latin): quatro fagi ]
	August Emanuel [Ritter von] Reuss (1811-1873) Czech paleontologist [Suggested by Jiri Jaroslav on 2004-07-29, click shield for Czech page with arms]
	*Leopold Ritter* von Dittel (1815-1898)** Founder of urology. [ Vienna ] Azure, a fess undy Argent; in chief, a hand proper sleeved Argent holding a scalpel proper shafted Sable; in base, an Arnica Alpina on a terrace proper, with open blossom Or.
	Rudolf Clausius (1822-1888) German thermodynamicist. D'azur au chevron d'argent, accompagné de trois têtes de léopard d'or, enmuselées chacune d'un annelet de gueules. [ source ]
	Karel Frantisek Eduard knight Koristka (1825-1906) [Hypsometer, 1846] Czech professor. Former student of Christian Doppler (1803-1853) in Prague. Azure, a surveyor's tower standing on 3 hills, under 5 estoiles Or (3 & 2) in chief.
	Sir Charles Tilston Bright (1832-1888) British engineer (transatlantic cable, 1858). Parti per pale Azure and Gules, a bend Or between two mullets Argent. Motto : Clarior e tenebris. Crest : The Sun issuant from a mass of clouds Proper.
	Paul Morphy (1837-1884) Best chess player worldwide (1858-1862). Morphy, alias Murphy. Quarterly Argent and Gules; four lions rampant counterchanged. On a Fesse Sable over all, three garbs or. Crest: A lion rampant holding a garb. No Motto.
	Robert Daublebsky [Freiherr] von Sterneck (1839-1910) Austrian geophysicist. Gespalten von Rot und Blau; vorne ein Schräglinker silberner mit drei blauen Sternen belegter Balken. Hinten aus der Spaltungslinie wachsend ein silberner Adler.
	Sir William Bartlett Dalby (1840-1918) British otologist [Dalby Prize] Barry undy of 6 Sable and Or; on a pale Or between 2 eagles, a rod of Asclepius. Motto : Probitas Verus Honor (Integrity is True Honor). [Vanity Fair, 1888]
	Jacques Arsène d'Arsonval (1851-1940) French physiologist and physicist Tranché d'or et d'azur, à une étoile à 8 rais de l'un en l'autre chargée d'une croisette de gueules .
	Jean-Marie Joseph Nicolas Arthur de Plument de Bailhac (1856-1892) X1876 D'azur à trois aiglettes d'argent. Supports :* 2 griffons à la tête contournée*.
	Domingo de Orueta y Duarte (1862-1926) Spanish geologist Sobre campo de gules una faja de oro, con bordura de azur con ocho aspas de oro.
	Sir Charles Bright (1863-1937), FRS. Son of Sir Charles Tiltson Bright. Parti per pale Azure and Gules, a bend Or between two mullets Argent. Motto : Clarior e tenebris. Crest : The Sun issuant from a mass of clouds Proper.
	Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach (1870-1952) German paleontologist Gules, three fleur-de-lis conjoined pallwise Argent.
	Prince Henri Bernard de Diesbach-Torny (1880-1970) Professor of chemistry Ecartelé, aux 1 et 4 parti de gueules et d'argent, au croissant de l'un en l'autre; aux 2 et 3, de sable, à la bande vivrée d'or accostée de deux lions du même, lampassés de gueules. [Fribourg]
	Count Edward Charles Richard Taaffe of Dublin (1898-1967) Irish gemologist Gules, a cross Argent fretty Azure. [ Grandfather = Eduard Graf Taaffe. ] (Taaffe discovered taaffeite as a cut stone in 1945, with B.W. Anderson.)

Roll of Arms
of Celebrities Who Have Been Scientists

	Gerbert of Aurillac, Pope (999) Sylvester II (c.940-1003) Aquitanus Argent a fess purpure, three crosses touching in pale counterchanged. [ 1595 ] Attributed arms: Galleria dei Papi. 139th Pope, born in Belliac. French stamp.
	Guillaume Tirel, dit Taillevent (1310-1395) maistre queux du Roy de France. [Tinctures?] A la fasce chargée de trois marmites et bordée de six roses, 3 en chef, 2 & 1 en pointe.
	Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) German Renaissance artist and theorist. Gules, an open door upon a dreiberg Or.
	Michel de Nostredame, Nostradamus (1503-1566) French physician, chemist & seer Quarterly, [1&4] Gules, a wheel of eight spokes Argent, broken between each spoke [2&3] Or, an eagle's head [erased] Sable. Motto : Soli Deo [Gloria].
	Jean Taisnier (1508-1562) Belgian musician and astrologer [tinctures unknown] A l'ours muselé posé sur une terrasse et surmonté d'un chef trilobé.
	Michael Servetus, Miguel Servet (1511-1553) Spanish heretic and martyr. Per pale; [1] Vert, a tree eradicated Or between two crosses Gules. [2] Gules, two bezants in pale.
	Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) [Mediocria Firma = The solid middle way] Quarterly; [1 & 4] Gules, on a chief Argent two mullets Sable; [2 & 3] Barry of six Or and Azure, a bend Gules. [5] Overall, a small crescent Argent in heart.
	Théophraste Renaudot (1586-1653) Physician and pioneer of journalism (1631) D'azur, au lion d'or, au chef cousu de gueules, chargé de trois coqs d'argent. Motto: Superat Vigilentia Robur
	Sir James Ley (1618-1665) British naval officer & mathematician. Argent, a chevron between three seals' heads Sable. [Third Earl of Marlborough]
	Jean Racine (1639-1699) Major French tragedian. D'azur, à un cygne d'argent becqué et membré de sable.
	François Marie Arouet dit Voltaire (1694-1778) Major French writer. D'or à trois flammes de gueules. [ Paternal arms ] D'azur à trois flammes d'or. [ Personal: Arouet de Voltaire, Ile-de-France ]
	Paul d'Albert, cardinal de Luynes 1703-1788). Archbishop of Sens. Astronomer D'or, au lion de gueules, armé, lampassé et couronné d'azur. (d'Albert)
	Michel Ferdinand d'Albert d'Ailly (1714-1769) duc de Chaulnes. Physicist D'or, au lion de gueules, armé, lampassé et couronné d'azur. (d'Albert)
	François André Dunican Philidor (1726-1795) Musician. Chess master. Best player of his era (1745-1795) ahead of Sir Abraham Janssen (1720-1775?) and George Atwood (1745-1807). D'argent, à une lyre de sable, au chef d'azur chargé d'un soleil d'or. [Rietstap]
	François XII Alexandre Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (1747-1827) [ENSAM] Quarterly, Gules a bend Argent (Roye) & Or a lion Azure (Roucy). Overall: Barry of 10 Argent and Azure, a chevron écimé and 2 chevrons Gules (La Rochefoucauld).
	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Polymath. Major German writer. Azure, an estoile within a bordure Argent. [ Ennobled in 1782. No known motto.]
	Bernard Germain Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède (1756-1825) [First Grand Chancelier de la Légion d'Honneur ] D'or, à la croix [de Lorraine] de gueules, au chef de sable, à la bande d'argent brochant sur le tout, chargée de trois roses de gueules.
	John "Mad Jack" Fuller (1757-1834) Sponsor and mentor of Michael Faraday Argent, three bars and canton Gules. Motto: Carbone et Forcipibus (1690).
	Pierre Auguste Adet (1763-1834) Assistant of Lavoisier, physician, politician. Tiercé en pal : au I, d'azur à trois roses d'argent ordonnées 2 et 1 ; au II, de gueules à l'insigne des chevaliers légionnaires ; au III, d'argent à trois molettes de sable 2 et 1.
	James Smithson (1765-1829) endower of the Smithsonian Institution (US). French-born illegimate son of Hugh Percy (born Smithson, c.1714-1786) and Elizabeth Keate-Macie (1728-1800) whose fortune he inherited. Known as James Lewis Macie until 1800.
	Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821) Napoléon I [ Napoléon's Theorem ] Gules, two bends sinister between two mullets Or. After 1804 : D'azur, à l'aigle d'or, la tête contournée, au vol abaissé, empiétant un foudre du même.
	David Ricardo (1772-1823) British economist. De gueules, à la bande vairée d'argent et de sinople, accompagnée de trois gerbes d'or, 2 et 1; au chef d'hermine, chargé d'un roc d'échiquier de sable, accosté de deux besants d'or.
	Benjamin Delessert (1773-1847) French industrialist. Ecartelé : au 1, d'azur, à un lis en pal, arraché, tigé de sinople et feuillé d'argent ; au 2, du quartier des Barons de l'Empire ; au 3, d'or, à une forêt de sinople, sur laquelle broche une tour crénelée de trois pièces d'argent, ouverte et maçonnée de sable ; au 4, d'azur, à un croissant d'argent, surmonté de deux étoiles du méme.
	Gaspard Chabrol de Volvic (1773-1843; X1794) Premier major de l'X. Ecartelé: aux 1 et 4, d'azur à un chevron accompagné de trois molettes d'or; au 2 du quartier des barons préfets; au 3, d'azur à un pal d'or chargé d'un lion de gueules et accompagné de 6 besants d'or.
	Louis-Etienne Héricart-Ferrand, Vicomte de Thury (1776-1854) Geologist Ecartelé : 1 & 4, d'or, au volcan de sinople, mouvant de la pointe, chargé de 6 flammes d'argent (1, 2 et 3) et sommé de 3 masses de fumée d'azur, au chef de gueules, chargé de 3 étoiles d'argent (Héricart); 2 & 3, d'azur, à 3 épées posées en 3 pals d'argent, les 2 extrêmes renversées, à la fasce d'or, brochante sur-le-tout (Ferrand).
	Baron (1810) Jean-Siméon Champy (1778-1845; X1794) French Chemist Coupé : au I parti, d'azur au foudre ailé d'or, et des barons propriétaires ; au II, d'or à un palmier terrassé de sinople. [ nephew of Gaspard Monge ]
	Jean Samuel Ferdinand de Tascher de la Pagerie (1779-1858; X1799) D'argent à trois fasces d'azur, chargées chacune de trois flanchis du champ et surmontées de deux soleils de gueules. [ family of Josephine de Beauharnais ]
	Marie Constant Fidèle Henri Armand d'Hautpoul-Félines (1780-1853; X1799) D'or à deux fasces de gueules accompagnées de six coqs de sable becqués et barbés de gueules et posés 3,2,1. L'écu timbré d'une couronne de marquis. Supports: Deux lévriers.
	[Pierre] Anne Léonard Camille Basset de Châteaubourg (1781-1852; X1800) D'azur, à une fasce bretessée et contre-bretessée d'or.
	Alphonse Jules Jean-François Michon-Dumarais (1784-1870; X1802) D'azur, à la fasce d'or, accompagnée de trois besants d'argent. [ Elu au Corps législatif contre son cousin, Michon de Vougy, en 1852. Créé baron héréditaire en 1869. ]
	Sir Edward Ffrench Bromhead (1789-1855) 2nd Baronet. FRS (1817). Azure, on a bend Argent, between two leopards' faces Or, a mural crown Gules between two fleur-de-lis Sable. [Patron of George Green, 1793-1841]
	Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (1798-1857; X1814) French philosopher
	Ludwig von Köchel (1800-1877) Austrian botanist, mineralogist and musicologist. Azure, three squares Argent (1 and 2). [Köchel cataloged Mozart's works in 1862.]
	Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet (1828-1923; X1846) French statesman. D'or, à deux fasces de sable.
	Marie François Sadi Carnot (1837-1894; X1857) French President (1887-1894) Azure, 3 martlets and a mullet in chief Argent. [ Ingénieur des Ponts, nephew of the physicist. ]
	Prince Albert I of Monaco (1848-1922) Oceanographer Fusily Argent and Gules. [House of Grimaldi]
	Fulgence Marie Auguste Bienvenüe (1852-1936; X1870) French civil engineer D'azur au sautoir engrêlé d'argent cantonné de quatre fers-à-cheval de même. [arms of Le Bienvenu du Busc] Nicknamed "le Père Métro", designer of the Parisian subway.
	Jean Florentin Marie Félix Augustin Le Clerc de Pulligny (1859-1939; X1878) D'azur, à deux épées d'argent garnies d'or, mises en sautoir; au chef cousu de gueules, chargé d'un lion dit de St Marc d'or, tenant un livre ouvert au naturel. [1623-1939]
	Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930; Nobel 1922) Norwegian zoologist and statesman. Per pale; [1] Azure three roses Or. [2] Or, an eagle [or a griffin] Azure rising, with a stone in a lifted claw. [Cappelen's "Norwegian Family Arms"]
	Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970; Nobel 1950) [Dukes of Bedford] Argent, a lion rampant Gules armed and langued Azure, on a chief Sable three escallops of the first. [ genealogy \| misty roots ]
	Jacques Théodore Saconney (1874-1935; X1895) Pioneer of aerial photography. De sable, à trois étoiles (5) d'argent, au chef du même, chargé d'un lion naissant de gueules. (Rietstap for "Sacconay") 4-star French general.
	Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) Geologist, paleontologist, philosopher. D'or, au tilleul arraché de sinople sommé de flammes de gueules et terrassé du même, au chef d'azur chargé de trois étoiles du champ.
	Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) Austrian economist. Quarterly; [1&4] Argent [2] Azure, a caduceus Argent [3] Azure, the numerals I to X on an open bible Argent. On a bend Gules overall, a rose of Sharon between 2 stars of David Argent.
	Mgr. Alexandre Vachon, Jr. (1885-1953) Archbishop of Ottawa. Chemist. Coupé d'azur et de sinople, à la fasce crénelée d'argent, accompagnée, en chef, d'un chrisme d'or et, en pointe, d'une fleur de lys et d'une rose aussi d'or. Motto: Ad Jesum per Mariam.
	Showa Tenno (1901-1989) Emperor Hirohito of Japan (from 1926 to 1989) marine biologist. Kiku-mon = 16-petal imperial chrysanthemum emblem.
	Bruno Baron von Freytag-Löringhoff (1912-1996) German epistemologist Azure, three annulets Argent.
	Margaret Hilda Thatcher (née Roberts), Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven (1925-2013) Research chemist. British prime minister (1979-1990); "Maggie" or "The Iron Lady". Per chevron, Azure and Gules... etc. Motto: Cherish Freedom.
	Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926-; X1944) French president from 1974 to 1981. 1. De gueules, à une Foi d'argent (Cousin de la Tour-Fondue). 2. D'azur, à trois fleurs-de-lis d'or, au chef du même (d'Estaing). [ VGE Blog ]
	Poul Anderson (1926-2001) Science-fiction writer, founding member of the SCA. Azure, a saltire Argent, in chief a sun in glory. [SCA device; Sir Bela of Eastmarch]
	Emperor Akihito (1933-) 125th emperor of Japan (since 1989) marine biologist. Kiku-mon emblem of the imperial family (since 13th century, by law since 1869).
	Jorge Mario Bergoglio (1936-) Pope Francis (2013-) 266th catholic Pope. Chemist. Azure, on a sun in splendour Or, the IHS christogram with a cross paty fitch piercing the H Gules, above 3 nails fanwise points to centre Sable. Fesswise in base, a mullet of 8 points and a spikenard flower Or.
	Pr. John Donaldson (1941-) Mathematician. Father of Kronprinsesse Mary. Or, a two-headed eagle Gules armed Azure. Overall, a lymphad of 3 oars Sable with furled sail Argent (for McDonald). On a chief Azure, a lemniscus between two (Australian) seven-pointed Federation Stars Or. Motto: Ad Infinitum.

Roll of Arms
of Inventors, Engineers and Industrialists

	Johannes Gensfleisch Gutenberg (1400-1468) Gules, a beggar cloaked and hooded, holding a begging bowl dexter and a walking stick sinister, all Proper.
	Wilhelm Schickard (1592-1635) German. [Mechanical calculator, 1623] Gules, a lion Or holding in its forepaws an arrow Argent.
	Christopher Polhem (1661-1751) Swedish [né Polhammar, knighted in 1716]
	Nicolas Joseph Cugnot (1725-1804) [first automobile, in 1769]
	Claude François Gabriel Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans (1751-1832) Fascé de sable et d'or de six pièces, la première fasce chargée de trois croisettes tréflées d'argent. [Origin 1444, marquis 1707. In 1783: "Pyroscaphe" steamboat]
	George Stephenson (1781-1848) ["Blutcher" steam locomotive, 1814.]
	Karl Drais von Sauerbronn (1785-1851). German inventor [Velocipede, 1817]. D'or, à neuf carreaux de gueules, rangés en sautoir et posés dans la direction d'un sautoir. [Rietstap]
	Alois Negrelli von Moldelbe (1799-1858) Austrian engineer & railroad pioneer. Tierced in fess. [1] Argent, a hand Proper sleeved gules holding a royal crown Or. [2] Azure, two mullets Argent. [3] Or, a bar Gules.
	Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) German chemist & industrialist [Freiherr in 1845] Gules, on a bend Argent an oak branch with 7 leaves and 3 acorns Proper.
	John Deere (1804-1886) [1837 steel plow, US patent #46454] Vert, a stag in full course Or (canting trademark of the John Deere Company).
	Carl Leverkus (1804-1889) German pharmacist and industrialist.
	Henri Nestlé (1814-1890) [1867 baby formula] De gueules, à un oiseau d'argent, couché dans son nid au naturel. (Rietstap)
	Ernst Werner von Siemens (1816-1892) & Sir William Siemens (1823-1883) Azure, a carrot Proper leaved Argent, between 2 mullets of 6 points Or. [Arms of Hermann von Siemens (1885-1986) grandson of Werner von Siemens.]
	Cyrus W. Field (1819-1892) Undersea Communications Pioneer. Sable, a chevron Argent between three garbes Or. [ John Field (1522-1587) ]
	Friedrich Bayer (1825-1880) German industrialist.
	Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917) German industrialist.
	Carl Gustaf Patrik de Laval (1845-1913) [1890: de Laval nozzle] Azure, a fess Gules, between three mullets Or and a fleur-de-lis Argent.
	André Citroën (1878-1935) X1898. French engineer and industrialist. De gueules à deux chevrons effilés d'argent. [ Trademark ]
	Baltzar von Platen (1898-1984) [1922: Gas absorption refrigeration] Argent, two guenons' heads combattant, winged palewise, Sable langued Gules.

Roll of Arms
of Explorers, Cartographers & Geographers

	Marco Polo (c.1254-1324) [ Marko Pilich, Croatian, born in Korcula? ] D'or, à la bande d'azur, côtoyée de quatre coqs de sable, becqués, membrés, crêtés et barbés de gueules. [coq = chicken = pollo, in Italian]
	Giovanni Caboto, Jean / John Cabot (c.1450-1498) [Canada, 1497-06-24] D'azur, à trois chabots d'or [ = bullheads (Cottus gobio) ] posés en pals, 2 et 1.
	Bartholomeu Dias, Bartholomew Diaz (1450-1500) Cape of Good Hope (1488) Bendy, Or and Azure?
	Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) Spanish letters patent dated May 20, 1493 gave [modified] Castille in 1st quarter and Leon in 2nd. Islands in 3rd. Colombo arms [now in point] in the 4th quarter [not the five anchors of the admiral of Castille].
	Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) Americus Vespucius, explorer of South America. De gueules, à la bande d'azur, semée de mouches d'or, posées dans le sens de la bande. (Rietstap for "Vespucci")
	Vasco da Gama (1460-1524) 1st count da Vidigueira.(1519). Sailed to India. Quarterly of 15; Or plain and Gules two bars Argent. Overall, an inescutcheon of Portugal (Argent, 5 escutcheons in cross Azure each charged with 5 plates in cross).
	Juan Sebastiàn del Cano / Elcano (1476-1526) Motto: Primus circumdedisti me 1523: Per fess. [1] Gules, a castle Or. [2] Or, 2 cinnamon sticks in saltire between 3 nutmegs within an orle of 12 cloves, all Gules. Crest: The motto over a globe Proper.
	Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) Fernando de Magallanes, Spanish after 1517. [né Fernão de Magalhães, Portuguese until 1514] Argent, three fess checky Gules and Argent.
	Jean de Verrazane (1481-1528) né Giovanni da Verrazzano / Verrazano. Parti d'or et d'argent, à une étoile (8) de gueules, brochant sur le parti.
	Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) of Limoëlou manor, explorer of Canada. D'azur à trois pommes de pin d'or. [ Cartier de Couronneau ]
	Trapobana, Henry the Black, Enrique of Malacca (1493-1521) Panglima Awang Interpreter and servant indentured to Magellan, with whom he completed the first circumnavigation, as both returned from the east to Enrique's native Malay land.
	Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596) Motto: Auxilio Divino / Sic Parvis Magna. Sable, a fess wavy between two estoiles irradiated Argent. [ Granted by Elizabeth I.]
	Samuel Champlain (1567-1635) Explorer of Canada, founder of Québec (1608) D'azur à la fasce de sable chargée d'un léopard d'or et accompagnée de trois fleurs-de-lis de même.
	Henry Hudson, III (c.1570-c.1611) Navigator and explorer Argent, semee of fleurs-de-lis Gules, a cross engrailed Sable.
	René Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle (1643-1687) French explorer De sable, au lévrier d'argent surmonté d'une estoile d'or de 8 branches. [Former jesuit Robert de La Salle claimed Louisiana for the king of France in 1682.]
	Charles-Marie de la Condamine (1701-1774) French geographer D'azur, à trois glands d'or, tigés et feuillés de même. [ Branche "antonine" ]
	Captain James Cook, RN (1728-1779) [Posthumous: George III, Sept. 1785] Azure, a globe Argent centered on the Pacific Ocean, between two polar stars of six points Or, in pale. [See also: JCU \| Captain Cook's Museum]
	Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811) First French circumnavigator (1769). D'azur, à une ancre d'or et deux épées du même passées en sautoir, brochant sur l'ancre, et un globe terrestre d'argent, brochant sur le tout.
	Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse (1741-1788) De gueules, à un épervier d'argent, tenant dans ses serres un rameau d'olivier d'or. [Galaup de Lapeyrouse] (Not [?] Galaup de Chasteuil.)
	Baron Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) Prussian scientist and explorer. Or upon a base Vert, a tree of the same between 3 mullets (6) Argent, 1 and 2.
	Sir John Ross, RN (1777-1856) Polar explorer, uncle of James Clark Ross. Gules three estoiles in chevron between as many lions rampant argent [augmented?].
	Louis-Claude de Saulces [baron] de Freycinet (1779-1842) French explorer. D'or, à deux fasces de sable.
	Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) French antarctic explorer. Azure, three axes Or. [Supporters: Two penguins.]
	Colonel Sir George Everest (1790-1866) Surveyor-General of India,1830-1843. Per fess Azure and Sable, on a fess dented Argent between 3 quintefeuilles of the Same, 3 pelican's heads erased Sable. [ Science & Society Picture Library ]
	Sir James Clark Ross, RN (1800-1862)>. Gules three estoiles in chevron between as many lions rampant argent [augmented?].
	Adrien Paul Balny d'Avricourt (1849-1873) Motto: Ex Oriente Lux. D'or, au sautoir d'azur cantonné de quatre merlettes de gueules.
	Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930; Nobel 1922) Arctic explorer. Norwegian statesman. Per pale; [1] Azure three roses Or. [2] Or, an eagle [or a griffin] Azure rising, with a stone in a lifted claw. [Cappelen's "Norwegian Family Arms"]
	Sven Hedin (1865-1952) [Knighted in 1902] Swedish explorer of Asia. Argent, a globe Azure centered on Asia; on a chief Sable, three escallops of the first.
	Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936) French explorer of Antarctica. D'azur, à une épée d'argent, garnie d'or, posée en pal. [Son of neurologist Jean Martin Charcot (1825-1893), who taught Sigmund Freud.]
	Captain Robert Falcon Scott, RN (1868-1912) British explorer of Antarctica. Or, on a bend Azure a mullet between two crescents of the field.
	Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) Norwegian polar explorer (South Pole in 1911).
	General Umberto Nobile (1885-1978) Italian aviator and Arctic explorer.
	Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002) Norwegian explorer of Polynesia (Kon-Tiki).

Shortlist
Scientists whose armorial information we're seeking...
(See also entries with a white background in the main roll.)

	Leonardo Pisano "Bigollo" Fibonacci (1170-1250) [Bonacci family?] Per pale Gules and Azure, a lion rampant Argent?
	Roger Bacon (1214-1294) [Doctor Mirabilis \| Friar from Somerset] Gules, six roses Argent seeded Or.
	Johannes Campanus of Novara (1220-1296)
	Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) [youngest (8th) son of Landolfo of Aquino] Sable, a sun Or? [1471 painting by Benozzo Gozzoli, now in the Louvre, Paris]
	Meister Dietrich von Freiberg, O.P. (1250-1310) Thierry de Fribourg Theodoricus Teutonicus de Vriberg [ De iride et radialibus impressionibus ]
	Occam, William of Ockham (1288-1348) Guillaume d'Occam [ Dialogus ]
	Gersonides, Rabbi Levi ben Gerson (1288-1344) [ *law of sines ]
	Madhava of Sangamagramma (1350-1425)
	Petrus Apianus (1495-1552) Peter Apian (born Peter Bienewitz or Bennewitz) German mathematician, astronomer, cartographer and printer, from Leisnig (Saxony). Father of Philipp Apian, the cartographer of Bavaria.
	Juan de Rojas y Sarmiento (fl. 1550) Spanish mathematician & astronomer En campo de oro, cinco estrellas de azur de ocho rayos, puestas en sotuer. [Antequera, Málaga ?] Rojas invented the orthographic astrolabe before 1550.
	Matthias de L'Obel (1538-1616) Lobelius. Belgian botanist [ Lobelia ] [ Tinctures unknown ] Une jeune femme en tunique longue entre deux obels (populus alba = white poplar) touchant leur troncs; une estoile (6) dans le feuillage. Motto: Candore et Spe
	Thomas Digges (1546-1595) English astronomer (raised by John Dee after 1559).
	Thomas Harriot (1560-1621) English scholar, mathematician and astronomer. Stated the law of refraction (July 1601) before Snell (1621) and Descartes (1637). Argent, on a fess Azure three cinquefoils of the First.
	Santorio Santorio , Sanctorius (1561-1636) [metabolic balance, thermometer] Born March 29, 1561 in Justinopolis (on the Gulf of Trieste, now Koper, Slovenia).
	Gérard Desargues (1591-1661) French engineer & geometer Inventor of projective geometry (1639). De gueules à trois arcs d'or cordés de sable posés en fasces l'un sur l'autre.
	Francesco Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598-1647)
	Gilles Personne de Roberval (1602-1675) French mathematician [Commune de Roberval, Oise 60410] Henri de la Mothe-Houdancourt (1612-1684) lord of Roberval (1641-1684) allowed him to bear the Roberval name.
	Abbé Edme Mariotte (1620-1684) Abbot and prior of St. Martin de Beaumont-sur-Vingeanne [30 km NE of Dijon].
	Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) Azure, 3 ouroboros Argent. [Maternal arms] Youngest [sickly] child of Nicolas Malebranche (secretary to King Louis XIII) and Catherine, sister of Jean de Lauzon (1583-1666) 4th governor of Canada.
	Denis Papin, FRS (1647-1714) French inventor; a pauper after 1707. [ Galileo Project ]
	Abraham de Moivre (1667-1754) French-born British mathematician. A protestant refugee, born in Vitry-le-François.
	Jacopo Francesco Riccati (1676-1754) Italian mathematician [ equation ] Écartelé; aux 1 et 4, d'azur à une étoile (6) d'or enclose dans une couronne de feuillage surmontée d'une croisette d'or. Aux 2 et 3, coupé d'argent sur sinople à deux clefs d'or passées en sautoir, brochant sur le coupé. [Rietstap]
	Marquess Giovanni Poleni (1683-1776) Italian physicist
	Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736)
	Jean Philippe Loys de Chéseaux (1718-1751) Swiss astronomer and physicist
	Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande (1732-1807) French astronomer D'or, à deux lambels de trois pendants, le premier de gueules, le second de sable. [Mayenne] (see also: Maison du Raffort 01250 Ceyzériat, after 1758.)
	James Watt (1736-1819) [Motto: Ingenio et Labore. Clan: Insperata floruit.] The arms at left are likely, but still uncertain. See our discussion for details.
	Charles Augustin de Coulomb (1736-1806) D'azur, au chevron d'or, accompagné de trois colombes d'argent.
	Pierre Prévost (1751-1839) Swiss Scientist (Physicist, Economist, Philosopher).
	François Isaac de Rivaz (1752-1828) Swiss [Internal Combustion Engine, 1807] Coupé: au 1, d'azur, au lion naissant d'or, mouvant du coupé; au 2, de gueules, au chevron d'or, accompagné en pointe d'un croissant d'argent. (Rietstap)
	Jean-Baptiste Meusnier de la Place (1754-1793) Military engineer, geometer. Father?: Procureur du Roi au présidial de Tours. De gueules, semé de croissants d'or. (Ile-de-France, Rietstap) Thomas Meusnier de Spemfert, blessé à Rossbach (1757).
	Alexander John Gaspard Marcet (1770-1822) Swiss-born clinical chemist. From an old huguenot family, first granted arms by Emperor Charles V (1500-1558). [Modern descendants: Pasteur-Marcet family, of Geneva.]
	Baron Georg von Langsdorff (1774-1852) Grigori Ivanovitch Langsdorff
	André Marie Ampère (1775-1836)
	Louis Poinsot (1777-1859; X1794) French mathematician He was admitted to Polytechnique the year it was founded in spite of his utter ignorance of algebra, because he gave his "word of honor" that he would soon learn it!
	Pierre Louis Antoine Cordier (1777-1861) French mineralogist and botanist
	Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac (1778-1850) X 1797 [French]
	François Arago (1786-1853) X1803 [Cerny, Essonne]
	Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788-1867) X1807 French mathematician and engineer D'argent à trois losanges d'azur. [ Inventor of "cyclic points" ]
	Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874) FRS (1850) Baronet (1869). Scottish engineer Associate of George Stephenson.
	Michael Faraday (1791-1867) Faraday rejected a knighthood and refused to become president of the Royal Society.
	Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793-1864) Vasily Yakovlevich Struve 1) Argent, a fess Gules between three roses Or/Gules. [Prussia, Russia] 2) Per chevron Gules and Or, a chevron ployé Azure between 3 roses counterchanged.
	Franz Ernst Neumann (1798-1895) German mathematician Illegitimate son of the divorced countess Charlotte Friderike Wilhelmine von Mellin.
	Sir George Biddell Airy (1801-1892) British astronomer [ grave ] Paly Gules and Argent, a mullet Or in chief. Motto: Je le tiendrai.
	Carl Gustav Jacobi (1804-1851) German mathematician "Argent, a cross moline Gules" OR "Argent, a lion Sable" OR ... Unofficial motto: Invert, always invert.
	Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) [knighted in 1835] Irish mathematician of Scottish ancestry (clan Hamilton). Motto: "Through". Gules, [a mullet between] three cinquefoils Argent? [ surname \| Killyleagh \| 1891 ]
	Joseph Liouville (1809-1882; X1825) French mathematician D'argent, à quatre fasces de gueules, la première chargée de trois billettes d'argent. [ Beauce (Orléanais) ]
	Julius Robert von Mayer (1814-1878) [ennobled 1867-11-05, in Württemberg]
	Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (1821-1894) Russian mathematician.
	Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (1821-1902) Prussian biologist.
	Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir (1822-1900) [2-stroke Engine, 1860] Belgian.
	Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) German mathematician Argent, three ?? Gules.
	Sir Frederick Augustus Abel (1827-1902) FRS (1860) Baronet (1893) Invented cordite jointly with Sir James Dewar in 1889.
	Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) French physiologist, physicist and inventor [ Polygraph, 1876. Photographic gun, 1881 ] D'azur, à un mât de vaisseau d'or, avec ses cordages, accosté de deux raies du même. [ Canting arms: mat + raie ]
	Sir Andrew Noble (1831-1915) 1st Baronet. Scottish physicist, founder of ballistics. Collaborated with the chemist Frederick Abel (of Cordite fame).
	Nikolaus August Otto (1832-1891) [Gas engine, 1861. 4-stroke engine, 1876]
	Edmond Nicolas Laguerre (1834-1886; X1852) [Laguerre Polynomials, 1879] D'azur, à trois glands montants d'or.
	Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (1835-1917; Nobel 1905) Chemist.
	Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur von Auwers (1838-1915) German astronomer. [Bruce Medalist in 1899, ennobled in 1912, father of Karl von Auwers (1863-1939).]
	Emile Michel Hyacinthe Lemoine (1840-1912) X1860 [ Lemoine point, 1873 ]
	Carl Paul Gottfried von Linde (1842-1934) German engineer [ liquid air, 1895 ]
	John Henry Poynting (1852-1914) British physicist Argent, a bend Gules between six fleurs-de-lys Vert.
	Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916; Nobel 1904) FRS 1888, knighted in 1902. Arms differenced from : Argent, an eagle displayed Sable armed Gules. [Ramsay of Dalhousie] Crest: A unicorn's head couped Argent armed Or. Motto: Ora et Labora. [Clan Ramsay]
	Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853-1928; Nobel 1902) Dutch physicist. Per fess; [1] Azure a lamb Or, [2] Argent masoned Sable.
	Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) French mathematician and scientist.
	Walther Franz Anton von Dyck (1856-1934) German mathematician. [ennobled later in life]
	Joseph John "J.J." Thomson (1856-1940; Nobel 1906) [knighted in 1908]
	Léon Charles Thévenin (1857-1926) X1876 French electrical engineer D'or, à trois tourteaux de gueules. [ Navire Câblier Léon Thévenin ?]
	Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913) [Pressure-ignited engine, 1893]
	André Eugène Blondel (1863-1938; X1883) French physicist
	Félix Edouard Justin Emile Borel (1871-1956) French mathematician [Languedoc] D'azur, au chevron d'or, accompagné en chef de trois étoiles du même rangées en fasce, au chef d'argent. (?? Pierre Borel, c.1620-1671)
	Théophile de Donder (1872-1957) Belgian thermodynamicist [ He attended the famous Solvay conference of 1927.]
	Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1877-1946) British mathematician and physicist
	Sir Owen Willans Richardson (1879-1959; Nobel 1928) British physicist
	Robert Daniel Carmichael (1879-1967) American mathematician Argent, a fess tortilly Azure and Gules. [Carmichael of Carmichael]
	Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944) British astrophysicist [knighted in 1930]
	George Charles de Hevesy (1885-1966; Nobel 1943) Hungarian chemist Discovered hafnium (72) in 1923 and pionereed radioactive chemical tracers. Buried in Kerepesi Cemetery (Budapest).
	Frederick A. Lindemann (1886-1957) [1st Viscount Cherwell] British physicist He attended the first Solvay conferences and became Churchill's scientific advisor.
	Sir Ralph H. Fowler (1889-1944) FRS 1925, knighted in 1942. Math. physicist Azure, on a chevron Argent, between three lions passant guardant Or, three Maltese crosses Sable. [ Sapiens qui Vigilat ] He was at the 1927 Solvay conference.
	Sir James Chadwick (1891-1974; Nobel 1935) [knighted in 1945] Gules, an inescutcheon Argent between eight martlets of the same, in orle.
	Sir John Douglas Cockroft (1897-1967; Nobel 1951) British physicist, FRS
	Patrick M. S. Blackett (1897-1974; Nobel 1948) Baron Blackett of Chelsea Argent, on a chevron between three mullets sable, as many escallops of the field.
	Edward Lawry Norton (1898-1983) American electrical engineer Gules a fret Argent, overall a bend vairy Or and Gules.
	Georg von Békésy (1899-1972; Nobel 1961) Hungarian-born US biophysicist
	Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright (1900-1998) Mathematician, FRS 1947 (DBE 1969)
	Enrico Fermi (1901-1954; Nobel 1938) Italian physicist Troncato d'azzurro e d'oro al leone dell'uno all'altro; col capo di rosso all'aquila d'argento (Capo di concessione di Polonia).
	Louis Marie Edmond Leprince-Ringuet (1901-2000; X1920-N) French physicist Founded LLR in 1936. Discovered the K+ kaon, with Michel l'héritier, in 1943.
	Pascual Jordan (1902-1980) German quantum pioneer [field quantization] D'argent à trois fasces de gueules. Alcoy branch of the noble Jordá family [9th century]. His Spanish great-grandfather Pascual Jordá served the British crown and settled in Hanover.
	Georges de Rham (1903-1990) Swiss mathematician (De Rham's theorem, 1931)
	Bruno Rossi (1905-1993) Italian-American experimental physicist. Argent, a lion rampant Gules.
	Sir Nevill Francis Mott (1905-1996; Nobel 1977) FRS 1936, knighted in 1962.
	Gerard Peter Kuiper (1905-1973) Dutch-born American astronomer Taillé d'argent, à une étoile de gueules, sur azur à une étoile d'or, à la barre d'or, brochant sur le taillé. [Rietstap for "Kuipers" (Leeuwarden)]
	Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972; Nobel 1963) American physicist. She was born in the German town of Kattowitz, Upper Silesia (now Katowice, Poland).
	Lev Davidovich Landau (1908-1968; Nobel 1962) Soviet physicist Gules, two bends Argent.
	William George Penney (1909-1991) [Baron Penney of East Hendred, 1967] British physicist Bill/Billy Penney (British A-Bomb). His coat-of-arms was the first to include modern symbols (electrons). [ 1 ]
	David Gawen Champernowne (1912-2000) English mathematician & economist. Great-grandson of Arthur Harington/Champernowne (1729-1812) who was himself the grandson of Sir James Harrington, 6th Baronet. (d. 1782).
	Sir Fred Hoyle (1915-2001) English astronomer, FRS 1957, knighted in 1972. Argent, two lions rampant combattant Sable.
	Viscount Ilya Prigogine (1917-2003; Nobel 1977) Belgian [Russian-born]
	Bernard Paul Grégory (1919-1977; X1938) French physicist
	Sir Michael Francis Atiyah (1929-) Mathematician, FRS 1962, knighted in 1983.
	Jacques Tits (1930-) Belgian-born French mathematician (Abel prize, 2008).
	Sir Roger Penrose (1931-) British mathematician, FRS 1972, knighted in 1994.
	Sir Martin John Evans (1941-; Nobel 2007) Biologist, FRS 1993, knighted in 2004. Pioneer of stem cell research.
	Viscount Dirk Frimout (1941-) Belgian physicist and astronaut
	Sir Martin Rees (1942-) Baron Rees of Ludlow (2005). English cosmologist. Astronomer Royal since 1995. President of the Royal Society (2005-2010).
	Gerardus 't Hooft (1946-; Nobel 1999) Dutch physicist D'azur, à une tête d'homme de carnation, posée de profil, couronnée de lauriers de sinople. (Rietstap)
	Sir John MacLeod Ball (1948-) Mathematician, FRS 1989, knighted in 2006.
	Christopher Monckton (1952-) [ 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, 2006 ] Climatologist, politician, mathematically-oriented businessman [The Eternity Puzzle]

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