Scientists buried in California

• Richard Feynman1918-1988
  American theoretical physicist
  Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
• Robert Andrews Millikan1868-1953
  American physicist
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Maria Göppert Mayer1906-1972
  German-born American theoretical physicist
  El Camino Memorial Park, Del Mar, CA
• William Shockley1910-1989
  American physicist and inventor
  Alta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
• Otto Stern1888-1969
  German-American physicist
  Sunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
• Sally Ride1951-2012
  American astronaut and physicist
  Woodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, CA
• Carl David Anderson1905-1991
  American physicist
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Donald Arthur Glaser1926-2013
  American physicist and neurobiologist
  Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
• Thomas Hunt Morgan1866-1945
  American biologist and professor from Kentucky
  Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
• Glenn Theodore Seaborg1912-1999
  American chemist
  Sunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
• Owen Chamberlain1920-2006
  American physicist
  Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
• Robert Hofstadter1915-1990
  American physicist and Nobel laureate
  Home of Peace Cemetery, Santa Cruz, CA
• John McCarthy1927-2011
  American computer scientist and cognitive scientist
  Alta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
• Charles Francis Richter1900-1985
  American seismologist
  Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
• Max Delbrück1906-1981
  Biophysicist
  Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
• Edwin McMillan1907-1991
  American physicist
  Sunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
• Wendell Meredith Stanley1904-1971
  American biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)
  Sunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
• Robert H. Grubbs1942-2021
  Nobel prize winning American chemist
  Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
• Lee de Forest1873-1961
  American inventor
  San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Santa Clarita, CA
• George Pólya1887-1985
  Hungarian mathematician
  Alta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
• Theodore von Kármán1881-1963
  Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist
  Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
• George Bernard Dantzig1914-2005
  American mathematician
  Los Gatos Cemetery, San Jose, CA
• Hans Reichenbach1891-1953
  German, American philosopher
  Woodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, CA
• David Starr Jordan1851-1931
  American ichthyologist and educator
  Alta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
• William Morris Davis1850-1934
  American geographer
  Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
• Olga Taussky-Todd1906-1995
  Mathematician
  El Toro Memorial Park, Lake Forest, CA
• Seth Barnes Nicholson1891-1963
  American astronomer
  Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
• Eric Temple Bell1883-1960
  Scottish American mathematician and science fiction author
  Pajaro Valley Memorial Park, Interlaken, CA
• Serge Lang1927-2005
  French-American mathematician
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Stephen Timoshenko1878-1972
  Ukrainian & American engineer
  Alta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
• Claudia Alexander1959-2015
  American geophysicist and planetary scientist
  Oak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, CA
• Milton L. Humason1891-1972
  American astronomer
  Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
• Joseph Albert Walker1921-1966
  American test pilot
  Joshua Memorial Park, Lancaster, CA
• Martin Davis1928-2023
  American mathematician
  Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
• Max Factor1872-1938
  American businessman
  Hillside Memorial Park, Inglewood, CA
• Frank Elmore Ross1874-1960
  American astronomer and physicist
  Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
• Solomon W. Golomb1932-2016
  American mathematician
  Mount Sinai Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Jerry Buss1933-2013
  American businessman and real estate investor
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Howard P. Robertson1903-1961
  American mathematician and physicist
  Rose Hills Memorial Park - Cemetery, Whittier, CA
• Mary Sherman Morgan1921-2004
  American rocket fuel scientist
  Rose Hills Memorial Park - Cemetery, Whittier, CA
• Harriet Chalmers Adams1875-1937
  American explorer, writer and photographer
  Chapel of the Chimes Cemetery, Union City, CA
• Lawrence H. Aller1913-2003
  Astronomer
  Santa Barbara Cemetery, Montecito, CA
• John Bidwell1819-1900
  American politician
  Chico Cemetery, Chico, CA
• William Hammond Wright1871-1959
  American astronomer
  Oak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, CA
• Tosio Katō1917-1999
  Japanese mathematician
  Sunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
• Jaime Escalante1930-2010
  Educator from Bolivia
  Rose Hills Memorial Park - Cemetery, Whittier, CA
• Robert Burnham, Jr.1931-1993
  American astronomer
  Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, CA
• Robert F. Christy1916-2012
  Canadian-American theoretical physicist and astrophysicist
  Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
• Georg Steindorff1861-1951
  German Egyptologist
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Harry Bateman1882-1946
  Anglo-American mathematician
  Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
• Thomas O. Paine1921-1992
  American scientist
  Santa Barbara Cemetery, Montecito, CA
• Vernon Lyman Kellogg1867-1937
  American entomologist, evolutionary biologist, science administrator and author
  El Encinal Cemetery, Monterey, CA
• Alston Scott Householder1904-1993
  American mathematician
  Westwood Memorial Park, Santa Monica, CA
• Edison Pettit1889-1962
  American astronomer
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Thaddeus S. C. Lowe1832-1913
  American chemist and inventor
  Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
• Herbert Spencer Jennings1868-1947
  American biologist
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Joseph Rochefort1900-1976
  American cryptographer
  Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
• J. V. Uspensky1883-1947
  Russian mathematician
  Alta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
• Sara Plummer Lemmon1836-1923
  American botanist
  Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
• Galen Clark1814-1910
  Canadian-born American conservationist, writer and botanist
  Yosemite Pioneer Cemetery, Yosemite Valley, CA
• Charles Hitchcock Adams1868-1951
  American amateur astronomer
  Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
• George Harrison Shull1874-1954
  American botanist
  Santa Rosa Odd Fellows Cemetery, Santa Rosa, CA
• Herbert Kalmus1881-1963
  American cinema pioneer
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
• Charles Loewner1893-1968
  Czech-American mathematician
  Alta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
• George Davidson1825-1911
  British-American geodesist and astronomer
  Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
• Joseph LeConte1823-1901
  American geologist
  Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
• Lucien Le Cam1924-2000
  French statistician
  Sunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
• R. Duncan Luce1925-2012
  American mathematical psychologist
  El Toro Memorial Park, Lake Forest, CA
• Virginia Pereira Álvarez1888-1947
  Venezuelan medican
  Fernwood Cemetery, Tamalpais-Homestead Valley, CA
• Edwin Spanier1921-1996
  American mathematician
  Hillside Memorial Park, Inglewood, CA
• Sidney Dancoff1913-1951
  American physicist
  Mount Sinai Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Harvey Willson Harkness1821-1901
  U.S. mycologist
  Sacramento City Cemetery, Sacramento, CA
• Charles Atwood Kofoid1865-1947
  American zoologist
  Sunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
• John Gill Lemmon1832-1908
  American botanist (ca. 1832-1908)
  Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
• Henry Smith Pritchett1857-1939
  American astronomer
  Santa Barbara Cemetery, Montecito, CA
• Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich1917-2004
  American micropaleontologist
  Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, CA
• Eugene W. Hilgard1833-1916
  German-American geologist
  Saint Mary Cemetery, Piedmont, CA
• Joseph Bayma1816-1892
  Italian mathematician
  Santa Clara Catholic Cemetery, Santa Clara, CA
• Earle Raymond Hedrick1876-1943
  American mathematician
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Merton Davies1917-2001
  American astronomer
  Valley Oaks Memorial Park Cemetery, Westlake Village, CA
• Samuel Wesley Stratton1861-1931
  American academic
  Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
• Donald C. Peattie1898-1964
  Naturalist, author
  Santa Barbara Cemetery, Montecito, CA
• Rebecca Merritt Austin1832-1919
  American botanist and plant collector
  Chico Cemetery, Chico, CA
• Frederick Funston1865-1917
  United States Army general, Medal of Honor recipient and botanist
  San Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco, CA
• Jean White-Haney1877-1953
  Australian botanist
  Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
• Sidney Dean Townley1867-1946
  American astronomer, professor
  Alta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
• Edward Curtis Franklin1862-1937
  American chemist
  Alta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
• Robert Edwards Carter Stearns1827-1909
  American malacologist
  Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
• James Perrin Smith1864-1931
  American geologist and university teacher
  Alta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
• Abbot Kinney1850-1920
  American businessman
  Woodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, CA
• Hans Frederick Blichfeldt1873-1945
  Mathematician
  Alta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
• Robert Francis Hoover1913-1970
  American botanist
  Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
• James Chappell1891-1964
  American astronomer and photographer
  Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, CA
• Hans Hollmann1899-1960
  German physicist
  Glen Haven and Sholom Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Walter Henry Barkas1912-1969
  American physicist
  Perris Valley Cemetery, Perris, CA
• Byron Gay1886-1945
  American songwriter
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Gordon Leo McDonough1895-1968
  American politician
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
• Elsie May Zeile1885-1988
  American botanist
  Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
• James L. Buie1920-1988
  American scientist and inventor
  Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, CA
• Richard Arnold Epstein1927-2016
  American physicist
  Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, CA
• Ernest de Koven Leffingwell1875-1971
  American geologist and explorer
  El Carmelo Cemetery, Pacific Grove, CA
• Raymond Woodard Brink1890-1973
  Mathematician
  Cypress View Mausoleum, National City, CA
• Charles Noble1867-1962
  American mathematician
  Sunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
• Charles Howard Shinn1852-1924
  American conservationist and writer
  Ukiah Cemetery, Ukiah, CA
• Herschel Clifford Parker1867-1944
  American physicist and mountaineer
  Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
• Carl E. Grunsky1855-1931
  American geologist and civil engineer
  Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
• Stefan E. Warschawski1904-1989
  American mathematician
  El Camino Memorial Park, Del Mar, CA
• Joseph Gelders1891-1951
  American academic, antiracist, labor organizer, and civil rights activist
  Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno, CA
• Orestes Hawley St. John1841-1921
  American geologist, paleontologist and scientific illustrator
  Greenwood Cemetery, National City, CA
• Homer Dwight Chapman1898-2005
  American scientist, scholar, and author
  Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, CA
• Bob Dillinger1918-2009
  American baseball player
  Glen Haven and Sholom Memorial Park, Burbank, CA
• Enid Michael1883-1966
  American botanist and naturalist
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Anstruther Davidson1860-1932
  Scottish born American physician, botanist, entomologist and naturalist
  Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
• Annetta Mary Carter1907-1991
  American botanist and botanical collector
  Sierra Madre Pioneer Cemetery, Sierra Madre, CA
• John LeConte1818-1891
  American scientist
  Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
• Jheri Redding1907-1998
  American hairdresser
  Santa Barbara Cemetery, Montecito, CA
• Mary E. Pulsifer Ames1845-1902
  American botanist and meteorologist
  Oak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, CA
• Leonard Benedict Loeb1891-1978
  Swiss-born American physicist
  El Carmelo Cemetery, Pacific Grove, CA
• Katherine Davies Jones1860-1943
  American botanist
  Sunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
• George Reinhard Kleeberger1849-1929
  American botanist
  Sunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
• Henryk Minc1919-2013
  Polish mathematician
  Goleta Cemetery, Goleta, CA
• Ellwood Cooper1829-1918
  American horticulturist
  Goleta Cemetery, Goleta, CA
• Joseph Platt1915-2012
  American university professor
  Oak Park Cemetery, Claremont, CA
• Jean Walton1914-2006
  American academic administrator
  Oak Park Cemetery, Claremont, CA
• John F. Woodhull1857-1941
  American chemist and physicist
  Cypress View Mausoleum, National City, CA
• Kittie Fenley Parker1909-1994
  American botanist, botanical collector and taxonomist for the National Museum of Natural History and author of An Illustrated Guide to Arizona Weeds
  San Jacinto Valley Cemetery, Hemet, CA
• May Beenken1901-1988
  American mathematician
  Holy Cross Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
• Theodore B. Comstock1849-1915
  American geologist
  Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
• Irene Agnes McCulloch1885-1987
  American marine biologist
  Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, CA
• Jeanne C. Smith Carr1825-1903
  American correspondent, educator, landscape designer, botanist
  Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
• Nathaniel Lyon Gardner1864-1937
  American botanist
  Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
• Cora G. Burwell1883-1982
  American researcher
  Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, CA
• Joseph S. Dixon1884-1952
  American zoologist
  Oak Hill Memorial Park, San Jose, CA
• William Henry Chandler1878-1970
  American botanist
  Sunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
• Zara Afzal-Rafii1941-2022
  French botanist
  Sunset View Cemetery, Kensington, CA
• Sarah Paxon Moore Cooper1824-1908
  American botanist and botanical collector
  Goleta Cemetery, Goleta, CA
• Harry James Snook1886-1958
  American biologist and educator
  Park View Cemetery, French Camp, CA
• Mary Chilton Noyes
  First woman to earn a Ph.D. from Western Reserve University
  Oak Park Cemetery, Claremont, CA
• Frederick Horatio Billings1869-1964
  American botanist
  Chowchilla Cemetery, Chowchilla, CA
• Marion Eugene Ensminger1908-1998
  American animal scientist
  Clovis Cemetery, Clovis, CA
• Mary DeDecker1909-2000
  American botanist and conservationist
  Independence Cemetery, Lone Pine, CA
• Clinton Owen Bates1858-1953
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• D. C. Kalbfell1914-1987
  Early Radiation Laboratory staff at the University of California, Berkeley
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CA
• Oliver Parker Fritchle1874-1951
  American chemist, storage battery innovator, and entrepreneur
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Lakewood, CA
• Max Shiffman1914-2000
  American mathematician
  Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
• Beryl Olive Schreiber1911-1968
  Botanist
  Alta Mesa Cemetery, Los Altos, CA
• Louise Kellogg1879-1967
  American mammalogist, botanist and naturalist
  Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, CA
• Emmet Rixford1865-1938
  Canadian-American surgeon, botanist and conchologist
  Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, CA
• Eldred C. Nelson1917-2008
  American physicist
  Woodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, CA
• Wen-yuan Qian1936-2003
  Chinese-American historian
  Green Hills Memorial Park, Lomita, CA

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