User:Kingsif/List of academics and scientists depicted in The American Library (2018)
People notable for academia or science whose names are depicted on books of, and lives are profiled as part of, Yinka Shonibare's The American Library installation art.[1] The artwork features 3,200 people who are immigrants, or descendants of recent immigrants, to the United States, or migrants of the Great Migration, and who have significantly contributed to American culture. Many of these people have overcome discrimination, and/or have worked with a focus on the topic of immigration. Some have anti-immigration views.
| Name | Image | Country of birth | Country/ies of origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kuzhikalail M. Abraham | 
|
India | |
| Alexei Abrikosov | 
|
present-day Russia | |
| Nwando Achebe | Nigeria | ||
| James S. Ackerman | United States | Germany | |
| James Truslow Adams | United States | Venezuela | |
| Ilesanmi Adesida | Nigeria | ||
| Louis Agassiz[a] | 
|
Switzerland | |
| Fay Ajzenberg-Selove | 
|
Germany | |
| Claude Ake | 
|
Nigeria | |
| George Akerlof | 
|
United States | Sweden Germany |
| Emmanuel K. Akyeampong | Ghana | ||
| Réka Albert | Romania | ||
| Franz Alexander | 
|
Hungary | |
| Omar H. Ali | India Peru | ||
| Gabriel Almond | United States | Russia Ukraine | |
| Svetlana Alpers | United States | Germany | |
| Sidney Altman | 
|
Canada | |
| Luis F. Álvarez | Spain | ||
| Luis Walter Alvarez | 
|
United States | Spain |
| Walter C. Alvarez | 
|
United States | Spain |
| Balamurali Ambati | 
|
India | |
| Benedict Anderson | China | United Kingdom Ireland | |
| John Lawrence Angel | _(4405614807)_(cropped).jpg)
|
United Kingdom | |
| Nina Ansary | Iran | ||
| Kimberly Anyadike | .JPG)
|
United States | Nigeria |
| Kwame Anthony Appiah | 
|
United Kingdom | Ghana United Kingdom |
| Herbert Aptheker | United States | Russia | |
| Ana Lucia Araujo | 
|
Brazil | |
| Henryk Arctowski | 
|
Poland | Poland |
| Hannah Arendt | .jpg)
|
present-day Germany | |
| Zora Arkus-Duntov | 
|
Belgium | |
| Rudolf Arnheim | Germany | ||
| Donald Aronow | United States | Russia | |
| Marc Aronson | 
|
United States | present-day Ukraine present-day Czech Republic |
| Kenneth Arrow | 
|
United States | Romania |
| Solomon Asch | Poland | ||
| Dora Askowith | present-day Lithuania | ||
| John Vincent Atanasoff | 
|
United States | Bulgaria |
| Rick Atkinson | .jpg)
|
present-day Germany | |
| John James Audubon | 
|
present-day Haiti | |
| Julius Axelrod | 
|
United States | Poland |
| Ralph H. Baer | 
|
Germany | |
| Albert Baez | Mexico | ||
| Bernard Bailyn | United States | Russia | |
| Lotte Bailyn | Austria | present-day Czech Republic | |
| John Wallace Baird | Canada | ||
| Béla H. Bánáthy | 
|
Hungary | |
| Augustin Banyaga | Rwanda | ||
| Albert-László Barabási | 
|
Romania | |
| Kahar Barat | China | ||
| Harry Elmer Barnes | United States | ||
| Hans Baron | Germany | ||
| Salo Wittmayer Baron | 
|
present-day Poland | |
| H. Arnold Barton | United States | Sweden | |
| Paul Bartsch | 
|
Germany | |
| Jacques Barzun | 
|
France | |
| Iraj Bashiri | 
|
Iran | |
| Hanna Batatu | present-day Israel | ||
| Gregory Bateson | 
|
United Kingdom | |
| Zoltán Lajos Bay | _Hungarian_physicist.jpg)
|
Hungary | |
| Gary Becker | 
|
United States | Canada |
| Sven Beckert | 
|
Germany | |
| Antal K. Bejczy | Hungary | ||
| Alexander Graham Bell | 
|
United Kingdom | |
| Leopold Bellak | Austria | ||
| Arie Belldegrun | Israel | ||
| Doron Ben-Atar | Israel | ||
| Yosef Ben-Jochannan | 
|
Ethiopia | |
| Baruj Benacerraf | 
|
Venezuela | |
| Ruth Benesch | 
|
France | |
| Bernard Berenson | 
|
Lithuania | |
| Ben Bernanke | 
|
United States | Ukraine |
| Irving Bernstein | United States | Lithuania | |
| Thomas Elod Berty | Hungary | ||
| Hans Bethe | 
|
Germany | |
| Jagdish Bhagwati | 
|
British India | |
| Ajay Bhatt | 
|
India | |
| Margarete Bieber | present-day Poland | ||
| Bela L. Biro | Hungary | ||
| David Blackbourn | 
|
United Kingdom | |
| Elizabeth Blackburn | 
|
Australia | |
| Emily Blackwell | 
|
United Kingdom | |
| Felix Bloch | 
|
Switzerland | |
| Konrad Bloch | 
|
Poland | |
| Nicolaas Bloembergen | 
|
Netherlands | |
| Baruch Samuel Blumberg | .jpg)
|
United States | Russia |
| Franz Boas | 
|
Germany | |
| Daniel J. Boorstin | 
|
United States | Russia |
| Max Boot | 
|
Russia | |
| Gabor Boritt | Hungary | ||
| George J. Borjas | Cuba | ||
| Norman Borlaug | .jpg)
|
United States | Norway |
| Randolph L. Braham | 
|
Romania | |
| Abraham Brill | 
|
present-day Ukraine | |
| Yvonne Brill | 
|
Canada | |
| Egon Brunswik | Hungary | ||
| Charlotte Bühler | _1927_%C2%A9_Georg_Fayer_(1891%E2%80%931950)_OeNB_10450832.jpg)
|
Germany | |
| Karl Bühler | _1927_%C2%A9_Georg_Fayer_(1891%E2%80%931950)_OeNB_12993104.jpg)
|
Germany | |
| Margaret Burbidge | United Kingdom |
Notes[edit]
- ^ Listed as Jean Agassiz
References[edit]
- ^ "The American Library: Names". The American Library. Retrieved 2021-08-21.