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UNIXPLORIAN SCHOLARS' HALL OF FAME

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Being inducted into the Unixplorian Scholars' Hall of Fame is the highest honor bestowed upon national and international scholars who have contributed to one or multiple fields of scholarly pursuits.

New Hall of Fame members are chosen by a board of experts from Academia Unixploria and notable members of the Citizen Scientists of Unixploria.

The first members were inducted in 2023. New inductees are presented each year on the 2nd of January.

Three criteria for being nominated into the U.S.H.O.F.

(1) Their contributions have left their mark on the history of science. These people dedicated much of their lives to research and publishing their findings in their areas of expertise.

(2) Their typical character trait is their willingness to share what they have learned with the scientific community making us all more knowledgeable.

(3) While most inductees into the Unixplorian Scholars' Hall of Fame have contributed significantly to science, this is not the only factor considering eligibility to be nominated.

HALL OF FAMERS

We all stand on the shoulders of giants!

#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 author. In his time, he was described 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.

#7 Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882)

- Inducted: 2024 -

Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a common ancestor is now generally accepted and considered a fundamental scientific concept.

#8 Howard Carter (1874 – 1939)

- Inducted: 2024 -

Carter was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings.

#9 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744 – 1829)

- Inducted: 2024 -

Lamarck was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biological evolution occurred and proceeded by natural laws.

#10 Ernst Haeckel (1834 – 1919)

- Inducted: 2024 -

Haeckel was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist, and artist. He discovered, described, and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including ecology, phylum, phylogeny, and Protista.

#11 Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay (1846 – 1888)

- Inducted: 2024 -

Miklouho-Maclay was a Russian explorer of Ukrainian origin. He worked as an ethnologist, anthropologist, and biologist who became famous as one of the earliest scientists to settle among and study the indigenous people of New Guinea "who had never seen a European." He traveled most of his life and conducted scientific research in the Middle East, Australia, New Guinea, Melanesia, and Polynesia.

#12 Gregor Mendel (1822 – 1884)

- Inducted: 2024 -

Mendel was a German-Czech biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar, and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno. Mendel gained posthumous recognition as the founder of the modern science of genetics. Though farmers had known for millennia that crossbreeding of animals and plants could favor certain desirable traits, Mendel's pea plant experiments established many of the rules of heredity, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance.