This is a list of scientists who are known in their field as a pair. For a complete list of pairs see Lists of pairs. For pairs sorted by name see List of pairs sorted by name. This article is about the profession. ... This is a list of lists of pairs by category. ... The following is a list of famous pairs listed alphabetically. ...

• Geoffrey & Margaret Burbidge (colleagues; couple)
• Pierre & Marie Curie (colleagues; couple)
• James D. Watson and Francis Crick (Biology)
• G. H. Hardy and John Littlewood (Number theory)
• Kernighan & Ritchie (colleagues) Computer scientists
• Masters & Johnson (colleagues)
• Leonor Michaelis and Maud Menten (colleagues) Michaelis-Menten kinetics and enzyme kinetics
• Albert Abraham Michelson and Edward Morley (colleagues) Michelson-Morley experiment
• Irène Joliot-Curie & Frédéric Joliot (couple)

Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge (September 24, 1925 – ) is a British-American physics professor in the University of California. ... Margaret Burbidge (nee Eleanor Margaret Peachey) (born August 12, 1919) is a British astrophysicist, noted for original research and holding many administrative posts, including director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. ... Pierre Curie Pièrre Curie (May 15, 1859 – April 19, 1906) was a pioneer in the study of crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. ... Marie Curie, one of the few people to win two Nobel Prizes in different fields, was one of the most significant researchers of radiation and its effects as a pioneer of radiology. ... James Watson James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule. ... Photomontage of Francis Crick lecturing Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM FRS (June 8, 1916 – July 28, 2004) was a British physicist, molecular biologist and neuroscientist, most noted for being one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule. ... Main articles: Life All organisms (viruses not included) consist of cells, which in turn, are based on a common carbon-based biochemistry. ... G. H. Hardy Professor Godfrey Harold Hardy FRS (February 7, 1877 – December 1, 1947) was a prominent British mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. ... See: John Edensor Littlewood (1885 - 1977), British mathematician John Littlewood (chess player) (born 1931), British chess player This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Traditionally, number theory is that branch of pure mathematics concerned with the properties of integers. ... Brian W. Kernighan (pronounced Ker-ni-han; the g is silent; born 1942) is a computer scientist who worked at the Bell Labs and contributed to the design of the pioneering AWK and AMPL programming languages. ... Ken Thompson (left) with Dennis Ritchie (right) Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941- ) is a computer scientist notable for his influence on ALTRAN, B, BCPL, C, Multics, and UNIX. Born in Bronxville, New York, Ritchie graduated from Harvard with degrees in physics and applied mathematics. ... Time magazine, May 25, 1970 Gynecologist William Howell Masters (December 27, 1915 – February 16, 2001) and psychologist Virginia Eshelman Johnson (born February 11, 1925) pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual disorders and dysfunctions from 1957 until the 1990s. ... Michaelis-Menten kinetics describe the rate of enzyme mediated reactions for many enzymes. ... Figure 1: Diagram of a catalytic reaction, showing the energy needed at each stage of the reaction. ... Albert Abraham Michelson. ... Edward Morley (1887). ... The Michelson-Morley experiment, one of the most important and famous experiments in the history of physics, was performed in 1887 at what is now Case Western Reserve University, and is considered to be the first strong evidence against the theory of a luminiferous aether. ... Irène Joliot-Curie Irène Joliot-Curie née Curie (September 12, 1897 – March 17, 1956) was a French scientist, the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie. ... Frédéric Joliot-Curie Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie né Joliot (March 19, 1900 – August 14, 1958) was a French physicist and Nobel laureate. ...

See also

• List of scientists
• List of pairs
• List of science topics
• Lists of people