UNIXPLORIAN SCHOLARS' HALL OF FAME

#1 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

- Inducted: 2023 -

Although his literary work has attracted the most interest, Goethe was also keenly involved in natural science studies. He wrote several works on morphology and color theory. In the 1790s, Goethe undertook Galvanic experiments and studied anatomical issues together with Alexander von Humboldt.

#2 Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

- Inducted 2023 -

Carl Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalized binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy."

#3 Bernard Heuvelmans (1916 – 2001)

- Inducted 2023 -

Heuvelmans was a Belgian-French scientist, explorer, researcher, and writer probably best known, along with Scottish-American biologist Ivan T. Sanderson, as a founding figure in cryptozoology.

#4 Auguste Comte (1798 – 1857)

- Inducted 2023 -

Comte was a French philosopher, mathematician, and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term. Comte's ideas were also fundamental to the development of sociology; indeed, he invented the term and treated that discipline as the crowning achievement of the sciences.

#5 Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)

- Inducted 2023 -

Alexander von Humboldt was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography, while his advocacy of long-term systematic geophysical measurement pioneered modern geomagnetic and meteorological monitoring.

#6 Isaac Newton (1642 – 1726)

- Inducted: 2023 -

Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and the author described in his time as a natural philosopher. He was a crucial figure in the Scientific Revolution and the following Enlightenment. His pioneering book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), first published in 1687, consolidated many previous results and established classical mechanics.