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Contemporary Scientists : Nominations will normally be considered only for contemporary individuals holding a scientific doctorate from a qualified institution. However, other armigerous scientists who have published in reputable refereed scientific journals may qualify as well.
Historical Scientists : This antechamber to the main roll of arms regroups scientists known within their field and/or their own country whose international stature or scientific legacy has not yet been established to our satisfaction.
Celebrities : Scientists famous for non-scientific endeavors. Some qualify for the main roll and are also listed there (e.g., the mathematician Bertrand Russell obtained the Nobel prize for literature in 1950).
Inventors : Great inventions are not necessarily scientific breakthroughs.
Explorers & Cartographers : Navigators were once considered scientists.
Shortlist : Prominent scientists who may or may not have been armigerous.
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Roll of Arms
of Contemporary Scientists

	Prof. Bill Irvine (193?-) Radio-astronomer (UMass, Amherst) FRAS 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.
	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.
	Prof. Michael R. Taaffe (195?-) Virginia Tech. Gules, a cross Argent fretty Azure.
	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. [ HGW ]
	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. [ USHR ]
	Dr. Stephen G. Clackson (1961-) Scottish crystallographer. Gyronny of sixteen Or and Argent, a lozenge Azure. [ HSS \| read more ]
	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 in 2000.]
	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. 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. Kirill Shtengel (197?-) Russian-born physicist (Ph.D. UCLA, 2000). 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.
	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)

	Olivier de Serres (1539-1619) French agronomist. D'argent, à trois serres d'aigle de gueules, posées en fasce. [Canting arms]
	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.
	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 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.
	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 ]
	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).
	Marc-Antoine de Parseval des Chênes (1755-1836) French mathematician D'argent au pal de sable chargé de trois étoiles du champ.
	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 (1757-1844) 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. ]
	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]
	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.
	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]
	Augustin Pyrame de Candolle (1778-1841) Swiss botanist. Quarterly; Or and Azure. [Motto: Aide Dieu au bon chevalier. ] (Rietstap)
	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 (1803-1876) 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.]
	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.
	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 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 .
	Philibert Maurice d'Ocagne du Plessis (1862-1938) X1880 Mathematician D’argent, au chevron de sable, accompagné de trois étoiles de gueules. As a playwright, he was known as Pierre Delix ("de l'X" = de Polytechnique).
	Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach (1870-1952) German paleontologist Gules, three fleur-de-lis conjoined pallwise Argent.
	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 Philosophers and Celebrities Who Have Been Scientists

	Gerbert of Aurillac, Pope (999) Sylvester II (c.940-1003)
	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
	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) Azure, an estoile within a bordure Argent. [No known motto.]
	Bernard Germain Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède (1756-1825) Grand Chancelier de la Légion d'Honneur [first holder of the office] 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.
	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.
	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).
	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.
	Prince Albert I of Monaco (1848-1922) Oceanographer Fusily Argent and Gules. [House of Grimaldi]
	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 ]
	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.
	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-) Research chemist. British prime minister (1979-1990); "Maggie" or "The Iron Lady". Per chevron, Azure and Gules... etc. Motto: Cherish Freedom.
	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).
	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 (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 (1525-1587) ]
	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.
	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 mihi A castle, 2 cinnamon sticks in saltire, 3 nutmegs, 12 cloves? Crest: A globe. [He led the 18 survivors of Magellan's circumnavigation back to Spain]
	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.]
	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. [A former jesuit, Robert de La Salle claimed Louisiana for the king of France in1682.]
	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 [of 6 points] 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 ]
	Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) French antarctic explorer. Azure, three axes Or. [Supporters: Two penguins.]
	Sir James Clark Ross, RN (1800-1862) Polar explorer, nephew of John Ross. 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
of scientists whose armorial information we're seeking

	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)
	Matthias de L'Obel (1538-1616) Belgian physician and botanist [ Lobelia ] A white poplar leaf?
	Santorio Santorio , Sanctorius (1561-1636) [metabolic balance, thermometer] Born March 29, 1561 in Justinopolis (on the Gulf of Trieste, now Koper, Slovenia).
	Francesco Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598-1647)
	Gilles Personne de Roberval (1602-1675) French mathematician [ Commune de Roberval, Oise 60410 ]
	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 ]
	Académie des sciences (1666- ) [now within the Institut de France]
	Abraham de Moivre (1667-1754) French-born British mathematician. A protestant refugee, born in Vitry-le-François.
	Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736)
	Leonhard Euler (1707-1783)
	Jean-le-Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783) FRS 1748 [ genealogy \| mother ] [ Son of Louis Camus des Touches (1668-1726) and Mme Claudine de Tencin. ]
	Maria Gaëtana Agnesi (1718-1799) [of Milan] Azure, two swords in saltire Argent, hilts and pomels extending to the chief points Or.
	Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande (1732-1807) [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)
	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)
	John Dalton (1766-1844) [surname]
	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.]
	André Marie Ampère (1775-1836)
	Pierre Louis Antoine Cordier (1777-1861) French mineralogist and botanist
	Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851) "Oersted"
	Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac (1778-1850) X 1797 [French]
	François Arago (1786-1853) X 1803 [Cerny, Essonne]
	Carl Gustav Jacobi (1804-1851) German mathematician Argent, a cross moline Gules. [ 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 ]
	Julius Robert von Mayer (1814-1878) [ennobled in November of 1867]
	Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (1821-1894) Russian mathematician.
	Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir (1822-1900) [2-stroke Engine, 1860] Belgian.
	Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) French physiologist, physicist and inventor [ Polygraph, 1876. Photographic gun, 1881 ]
	Nikolaus August Otto (1832-1891) [Gas engine, 1861. 4-stroke engine, 1876]
	Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (1835-1917; Nobel 1905) Chemist.
	Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837-1923; Nobel 1910) Dutch physicist.
	Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) French mathematician and scientist.
	Joseph John "J.J." Thomson (1856-1940; Nobel 1906) [knighted in 1908]
	Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913) [Pressure-ignited engine, 1893]
	Willem de Sitter (1872-1934) Dutch Astronomer D'azur, à un faucon d'argent, la tête contournée, posé sur un cube de sable, la patte dextre levée. Casque couronné. Cimier: Les meubles de l'écu entre deux proboscides d'azur et d'argent.
	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]
	Sir James Chadwick (1891-1974; Nobel 1935) [knighted in 1945] Gules, an inescutcheon Argent between eight martlets of the same, in orle.
	Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright (1900-1998) Mathematician, FRS 1947 (DBE 1969)
	Robert Jemison Van de Graaff (1901-1967)
	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)]
	Sir Michael Francis Atiyah (1929-) Mathematician, FRS 1962, knighted in 1983.
	Sir Roger Penrose (1931-) British mathematician, FRS 1972, knighted in 1994.
	Gerardus 't_Hooft (1946-) Physicist [ Nobel 1999 ]
	Sir John MacLeod Ball (1948-) Mathematician, FRS 1989, knighted in 2006.
	Sir Andrew John Wiles (1953-) Mathematician, FRS 1989, knighted in 2000.

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th' inevitable hour:
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

"Elegy Written In a Country Churchyard"
(9th stanza) by Thomas Gray (1716-1771).
This was the favorite piece of poetry of
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931).

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