Notable burials · Science and work
Scientists buried in Connecticut
Wikidata records 91 scientists as buried in 28 of the cemeteries we list in Connecticut. Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven holds the most, with 40. Connecticut has the 6th highest count of any state, out of 1,905 nationally.
People recorded as scientists, including chemists, physicists, mathematicians, biologists and astronomers.
91
scientists
28
cemeteries
5%
of notable burials in Connecticut
1910s
the decade with the most deaths (9)
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In order of death
Scientists buried in Connecticut
- Nathan Daboll1750-1818American mathematicianTurner Cemetery, Groton, CT
- Jared Mansfield1759-1830American surveyor and mathematicianGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Horace Wells1815-1848American dentist and anaesthesia pioneerCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- Denison Olmsted1791-1859U.S. physicist and astronomerGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Charles Goodyear1800-1860American inventorGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Eli Ives1779-1861American physician and botanistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Benjamin Silliman Sr.1779-1864Early American chemist and science educatorGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Jeremiah Day1773-1867Congregational minister and President of Yale CollegeGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Chauncey Jerome1793-1868British clockmakerGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- William Wallace Denslow1826-1868Druggist and botanistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Samuel St. John1813-1876American physician and chemistLakeview Cemetery, New Canaan, CT
- James Watson Robbins1801-1879American physician and botanistNorfolk Center Cemetery, Winchester Center, CT
- Frank Howe Bradley1838-1879American geologistEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Alexander Catlin Twining1801-1884American scientist and inventorGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Benjamin Silliman Jr.1816-1885Professor of chemistry, Yale UniversityGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Elias Loomis1811-1889American science writerGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Chester Lyman1814-1890American educator, clergyman, astronomer, and surveyorGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Thomas Sterry Hunt1826-1892United States geologist and chemist; first chemist and later mineralogist, Geological Survey of CanadaYantic Cemetery, Norwich, CT
- James Dwight Dana1813-1895American mineralogist, scientist and zoologistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Daniel Cady Eaton1834-1895American botanistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Hubert Anson Newton1830-1896American astronomer and scientistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- James Hammond Trumbull1821-1897American historianSpring Grove Cemetery, Hartford, CT
- Oliver P. Hubbard1809-1900American scientistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- George Pratt Starkweather1872-1901American mathematicianEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Frederick Law Olmsted1822-1903American landscape designer, journalist, social critic, and public administratorOld North Cemetery, Hartford, CT
- Josiah Willard Gibbs1839-1903American scientistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Charles Emerson Beecher1856-1904American paleontologistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Sarah Louise Clarke1852-1906American botanistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Edmund H. Miller1869-1906American analytical chemistOaklawn Cemetery, Fairfield, CT
- Wilbur Olin Atwater1844-1907American agricultural chemist (1844-1907); developer of the respiration calorimeterIndian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, CT
- William Henry Brewer1828-1910American botanistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- William Russel Dudley1849-1911BotanistAlderbrook Cemetery, Guilford Center, CT
- George J. Brush1831-1912American mineralogist, professor, Yale UniversityGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- John Monroe Van Vleck1833-1912American mathematicianIndian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, CT
- Eugene Lamb Richards1838-1912American mathematicianGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Arthur Williams Wright1836-1915American physicistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Andrew Wheeler Phillips1844-1915American mathematicianRiverside Cemetery, Waterbury, CT
- Herbert William Conn1859-1917American bacteriologist and educatorPine Grove Cemetery, Middletown, CT
- Edward Bouchet1852-1918American physicistEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Henry Andrews Bumstead1870-1920American physicistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- John Emory Clark1832-1921American mathematicianGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Henry Hollister Robinson1873-1925American geologistEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Addison Emery Verrill1839-1926U.S. zoologistEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Clarence A. Waldo1852-1926American mathematicianMountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, CT
- Annie Lorenz1879-1927American botanistCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- Thomas Burr Osborne1859-1929American biochemistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Arthur Sherburne Hardy1847-1930Engineer, educator, editor, diplomat, novelist, poetWoodstock Hill Cemetery, South Woodstock, CT
- Frances Manwaring Miner Graves1863-1932American botanistCedar Grove Cemetery, New London, CT
- Charles S. Hastings1848-1932American physicistCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- Frederick E. Beach1863-1933US teacher and authorEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Charlotte Barnum1860-1934MathematicianGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Albert Mann1853-1935American phycologistIndian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, CT
- William Gilbert Mixter1846-1936American chemistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Ernest William Brown1866-1938English-American astronomer and mathematicianEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Horace Thomas Burgess1881-1939Ph.D. Yale University 1909Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- John F. Woodhull1857-1941American chemist and physicistColonel Ledyard Cemetery, Groton, CT
- Russell Henry Chittenden1856-1943American chemistEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- William Anthony Granville1863-1943American mathematicianEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- William Lyon Phelps1865-1943American author, critic and scholarGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Harry K. Daghlian, Jr.1921-19451940s physicist who died of radiation poisoningCedar Grove Cemetery, New London, CT
- George Byron Hogaboom1874-1953American engineerFairview Cemetery, New Britain, CT
- Emma Jane Thompson1863-1954American physician and botanistLittle Haddam Cemetery, Moodus, CT
- Ethan Allen Andrews1859-1956U.S. biologistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Herbert Eli Arnold1896-1957Ph.D. Yale University 1928Pine Grove Cemetery, Middletown, CT
- Herbert Spencer Davis1875-1958U.S. zoologistCedar Hill Cemetery, Newington, CT
- John Gamble Kirkwood1907-1959American scientistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Ross Granville Harrison1870-1959American biologistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Lynde Wheeler1874-1959American physicistMountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, CT
- Ada Watterson Yerkes1873-1963American botanistEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Grace Lucretia Clapp1881-1965American botanist, botanical collector and historianPalisado Cemetery, Windsor, CT
- Ann Haven Morgan1882-1966American zoologist and ecologistCedar Grove Cemetery, New London, CT
- Øystein Ore1899-1968Norwegian mathematicianGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Kate Grace Barber1882-1974American botanist, chemist, histologist and botanical collectorMountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, CT
- Lars Onsager1903-1976American physical chemist and theoretical physicistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Milton Nunn Bramlette1896-1977American botanistBranford Center Cemetery, Branford, CT
- Chester Ittner Bliss1899-1979American statisticianEvergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Ida Barney1886-1982American astronomerGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- John Franklin Enders1897-1985American medical researcherFairview Cemetery, West Hartford, CT
- Mary Livingston Ripley1914-1996American horticulturist and scientific collectorEast Cemetery, Litchfield, CT
- Telford Taylor1908-1998American attorney and law professorMorningside Cemetery, Sherman, CT
- Nathan Jacobson1910-1999American mathematicianGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Sidney Dillon Ripley1913-2001American ornithologist and 8th Secretary of the SmithsonianEast Cemetery, Litchfield, CT
- Shizuo Kakutani1911-2004Japanese mathematicianGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Walter Feit1930-2004Austrian-American mathematicianGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Donald Laurence Thomsen, Jr.1921-2005Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1947Lands End Cemetery, Newtown, CT
- John Kenneth Galbraith1908-2006Canadian-American economist and diplomatIndian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, CT
- Benoit Mandelbrot1924-2010Polish-born, French and American mathematicianGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Alan Walton1936-2015American businessmanOaklawn Cemetery, Fairfield, CT
- Thomas A. Steitz1940-2018American biochemistGrove Street Cemetery, New Haven, CT
- Cynthia Wyeth Peterson1933-2020Physicist and astronomerUnion Hill Cemetery, East Hampton, CT
- Sidney Altman1939-2022Canadian American molecular biologistCongregation Mishkan Israel Cemetery, New Haven, CT
Everyone on this list, by year of death. People without a recorded death year come last.
Over time
Deaths by decade
- 1810s1
- 1830s1
- 1840s1
- 1850s1
- 1860s6
- 1870s3
- 1880s3
- 1890s6
- 1900s8
- 1910s9
- 1920s7
- 1930s9
- 1940s5
- 1950s8
- 1960s4
- 1970s4
- 1980s2
- 1990s3
- 2000s5
- 2010s3
- 2020s2
By recorded year of death, for the 91 people with one.
Cemeteries
Where they are buried
- Grove Street Cemetery · New Haven, CT40
- Evergreen Cemetery · New Haven, CT12
- Cedar Hill Cemetery · Newington, CT4
- Indian Hill Cemetery · Middletown, CT4
- Mountain Grove Cemetery · Bridgeport, CT3
- Cedar Grove Cemetery · New London, CT3
- East Cemetery · Litchfield, CT2
- Pine Grove Cemetery · Middletown, CT2
- Oaklawn Cemetery · Fairfield, CT2
- Old North Cemetery · Hartford, CT1
- Spring Grove Cemetery · Hartford, CT1
- Yantic Cemetery · Norwich, CT1
- Colonel Ledyard Cemetery · Groton, CT1
- Turner Cemetery · Groton, CT1
- Fairview Cemetery · West Hartford, CT1
- Fairview Cemetery · New Britain, CT1
- Norfolk Center Cemetery · Winchester Center, CT1
- Palisado Cemetery · Windsor, CT1
- Alderbrook Cemetery · Guilford Center, CT1
- Riverside Cemetery · Waterbury, CT1
- Woodstock Hill Cemetery · South Woodstock, CT1
- Lakeview Cemetery · New Canaan, CT1
- Little Haddam Cemetery · Moodus, CT1
- Branford Center Cemetery · Branford, CT1
- Congregation Mishkan Israel Cemetery · New Haven, CT1
Top 25 of 28 cemeteries. The map shows all of them.
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Other notable burials in Connecticut
Writers and poets194United States representatives104Painters, sculptors and photographers86Physicians59Business leaders56Actors49Inventors and engineers46Governors40Journalists39Musicians and singers38American Civil War veterans33United States senators29Architects27World War II veterans26American football players19Baseball players16World War I veterans16
Method
How this list is made
A person is on this list when their Wikidata entry gives a cemetery we list as their place of burial and also carries the statement this list is built on. We do not add anyone by judgment, so the list reflects how complete Wikidata is: some people are missing, and burial places can be disputed.
Names, years and descriptions are shown as Wikidata records them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists.