Notable burials · Science and work
Scientists buried in Massachusetts
Wikidata records 217 scientists as buried in 72 of the cemeteries we list in Massachusetts. Mount Auburn Cemetery in North Brighton holds the most, with 90. Massachusetts has the 2nd highest count of any state, out of 1,905 nationally.
People recorded as scientists, including chemists, physicists, mathematicians, biologists and astronomers.
217
scientists
72
cemeteries
4%
of notable burials in Massachusetts
1920s
the decade with the most deaths (22)
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Best documented
Scientists buried in Massachusetts
- Karl Landsteiner1868-1943Jewish-Austrian biologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureateProspect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket, MA
- Robert H. Goddard1882-1945American physicistHope Cemetery, Worcester, MA
- Julian Seymour Schwinger1918-1994American theoretical physicistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Edward O. Wilson1929-2021American biologist, naturalist, and writerWestview Cemetery, Bedford, MA
- Claude Shannon1916-2001American mathematician and information theoristMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Robert Burns Woodward1917-1979American chemistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Roman Jakobson1896-1982Russian linguistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt1868-1921American astronomer and human calculatorCambridge Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- James Batcheller Sumner1887-1955American chemistCanton Cemetery, Canton, MA
- Theodore William Richards1868-1928United States chemistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Carl Ferdinand Cori1896-1984Czech Nobel prize laureate and scientistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Maria Mitchell1818-1889American astronomerProspect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket, MA
- Williamina Fleming1857-1911Astronoma escocesaMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Thomas Huckle Weller1915-2008American virologistWoodlawn Cemetery, Wellesley, MA
- Samuel Langley1834-1906American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the SmithsonianForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Edward Charles Pickering1846-1919American astronomerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Asa Gray1810-1888American botanistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Mildred Dresselhaus1930-2017American physicistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Richard von Mises1883-1953Austrian physicist and mathematicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Robert J. Van de Graaff1901-1967American physicistCentral Cemetery, Beverly, MA
- Edwin H. Land1909-1991American scientist and inventorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Edwin Hall1855-1938American physicistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Alexander Agassiz1835-1910Swiss-American zoologist and engineerForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- George David Birkhoff1884-1944American mathematicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Oscar Zariski1899-1986American mathematicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Benjamin Peirce1809-1880American mathematicianCambridge Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- William Cranch Bond1789-1859American astronomerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- James Bryant Conant1893-1978American chemistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Florence Bascom1862-1945American geologistCollege Cemetery, Williamstown, MA
- Gregory Goodwin Pincus1903-1967American biochemistMountain View Cemetery, Shrewsbury, MA
- Hilda Geiringer1893-1973Austrian mathematicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Benjamin Apthorp Gould1824-1896American astronomerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Robert W. Wood1868-1955American physicist and inventorSleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA
- James Crafts1839-1917American chemistChurch on the Hill Cemetery, Lenox, MA
- Theodore Lyman1874-1954American physicistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Mary Watson Whitney1847-1921American astronomerGrove Hill Cemetery, Waltham, MA
- An Wang1920-1990American businessmanLincoln Cemetery, Lincoln, MA
- Judah Folkman1933-2008American biologistTemple Israel Cemetery, Wakefield, MA
- John Jeffries1744-1819Boston physician, scientist, and military surgeonGranary Burying Ground, Boston, MA
- Alvan Clark1804-1887American astronomer and artistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Janet Akyüz Mattei1943-2004Turkish astronomerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Frank W. Clarke1847-1931American geochemistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- William Healey Dall1845-1927American malacologist, palaeontologist and explorerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Sereno Watson1826-1892American botanistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Daniel Lewin1970-2001American-Israeli mathematician and entrepreneurSharon Memorial Park, Sharon, MA
- Nathaniel Bowditch1773-1838American astronomer and mathematician who founded modern navigationMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Maxime Bôcher1867-1918American mathematicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Richard Brauer1901-1977MathematicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Rachel Fuller Brown1898-1980American chemistOak Grove Cemetery, Springfield, MA
- Gian-Carlo Rota1932-1999American mathematician and philosopherMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Roscoe Pound1870-1964American legal scholar and educatorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Charles Sprague Sargent1841-1927American botanistWalnut Hills Cemetery, Bellevue, MA
- Frank Press1924-2020American geophysicistOak Grove Cemetery, Falmouth, MA
- Merritt Lyndon Fernald1873-1950American botanistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- William Barton Rogers1804-1882American scientist, founder of MITMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Jacob Bigelow1787-1879American botanist, physician, and educational reformerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- David Marr1945-1980British neuroscientist and psychologistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Edward Hitchcock1793-1864United States geologist and Congregationalist clergymanWest Cemetery, Amherst Center, MA
- William Smith Clark1826-1886American chemist, soldier, botanist and university teacherWest Cemetery, Amherst Center, MA
- William Fogg Osgood1864-1943American mathematicianForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Anna Winlock1857-1904American astronomerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Ludlow Griscom1890-1959American ornithologist, botanist, ichthyologist and museum professionalMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Amos Dolbear1837-1910American physicistOak Grove Cemetery, Arlington, MA
- Witold Hurewicz1904-1956Polish mathematicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- G. W. Pierce1872-1956American physicistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Josiah Whitney1819-1896American geologistBridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, MA
- Lawrence Joseph Henderson1878-1942American biochemist, philosopher and sociologistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Joseph Winlock1826-1875American astronomerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Alpheus Spring Packard1839-1905American entomologist, palaeontologistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- William Edward Story1850-1930American mathematicianCentral Cemetery, Beverly, MA
- David Peck Todd1855-1939American astronomerWildwood Cemetery, Amherst Center, MA
- Leo Beranek1914-2016American acoustical engineerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- George Mackey1916-2006American mathematicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Charles Thomas Jackson1805-1880ChemistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Charles Pickering1805-1878American anthropologist, botanist, and physicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Josiah P. Cooke1827-1894Harvard mineralogist and chemistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Edwin Bidwell Wilson1879-1964American mathematician, statistician, and physicistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- James Rhyne Killian1904-1988The 10th president of the Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Frank B. Jewett1879-1949American physicistOak Grove Cemetery, Vineyard Haven, MA
- Irving Segal1918-1998American mathematicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Nathaniel Shaler1841-1906American paleontologist and geologistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Henry Bryant Bigelow1879-1967American oceanographerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Maurice Auslander1926-1994American mathematician and professorSharon Memorial Park, Sharon, MA
- Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard1809-1889American academic administratorCenter Cemetery, Sheffield, MA
- Thaddeus William Harris1795-1856United States librarian and entomologistOld Burying Ground, West Cambridge/Harvard Square, MA
- Orra White Hitchcock1796-1863American botanical artistWest Cemetery, Amherst Center, MA
- Charles Sedgwick Minot1852-1914American anatomistForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Julian Coolidge1873-1954American mathematician and professor and chairman of the Harvard University Mathematics DepartmentCambridge Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Edward Vermilye Huntington1874-1952American mathematicianCenter Cemetery, Richmond, MA
- Ogden Rood1831-1902American physicistStockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, MA
- Min Chueh Chang1908-1991Chinese biologistMountain View Cemetery, Shrewsbury, MA
- Joseph Lovering1813-1892American mathematicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Frank Austin Gooch1852-1929American chemistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Jules Marcou1824-1898French geologistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Saly Ruth Ramler1894-1993MathematicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Benjamin Smith Lyman1835-1920US mining engineerBridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, MA
- Gladys Anslow1892-1969American physicistOak Grove Cemetery, Springfield, MA
- George Ferdinand Becker1847-1919American geologistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- William Francis Channing1820-1901American activist, physician and inventorMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Eben Norton Horsford1818-1893American food scientist and chemistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- William von Eggers Doering1917-2011American chemistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Benjamin Osgood Peirce1854-1914American mathematicianCentral Cemetery, Beverly, MA
- Charles Edward Faxon1846-1918American botanical illustrator and botanical collectorForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- John Peter Lesley1819-1903United States geologistMilton Cemetery, Milton, MA
- Charles Henry Davis1807-1877United States Navy admiralCambridge Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Edwin Plimpton Adams1878-1956PhysicistMaple Grove Cemetery, Walpole, MA
- Reinhold Rudenberg1883-1961German engineerMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- George Barrell Emerson1797-1881United States educator and botanistOld Burying Ground, Brookline, MA
- John Wesley Young1879-1932American mathematicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- William Tufts Brigham1841-1926American geologist, botanist, ethnologist and the first director of the Bernice P. Bishop MuseumMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Benjamin Waterhouse1754-1846American physicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Charles L. Bouton1869-1922American mathematicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Manasseh Cutler1742-1823American clergyman, politician, botanist and collectorHamilton Cemetery, Wenham, MA
- Ida Martha Metcalf1857-1952Second American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematicsLincoln Cemetery, Lincoln, MA
- James Flack Norris1871-1940American chemistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Richard Cockburn Maclaurin1870-1920American physicistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Francis Gano Benedict1870-1957American nutritionistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Charles Loring Jackson1847-1935American chemistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Frank Hagar Bigelow1851-1924American astronomerSleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA
- William Penn Brooks1851-1938American agronomist, botanist and college presidentWildwood Cemetery, Amherst Center, MA
- Benjamin Kendall Emerson1843-1932United States geologistWildwood Cemetery, Amherst Center, MA
- Otto Vogl1927-2013American chemistWildwood Cemetery, Amherst Center, MA
- Webster Wells1851-1916American mathematicianOak Grove Cemetery, Arlington, MA
- Edwin W. Rice1862-1935American engineerPine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, MA
- Photius Fisk1809-1890Greek-American statesman, botanist, philanthropist, clergyman, abolitionist, and civil rights activist.Cedar Grove Cemetery, Ashmont, MA
- Mary Ann Booth1843-1922American microscopist, photographerLongmeadow Cemetery, Longmeadow, MA
- Alice D. Weeks1909-1988Mineralogist (USGS) and later professor of mineralogy, Temple University, PhiladelphiaPine Hill Cemetery, Sherborn, MA
- John Farrar1779-1853American mathematician and scientistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Frederick Mosteller1916-2006American statisticianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Arthur S. Obermayer1931-2016American entrepreneurSharon Memorial Park, Sharon, MA
- Victor A. Vyssotsky1931-2012American mathematician and computer scientistMassachusetts National Cemetery, Pocasset, MA
- Henry Barker Hill1849-1903American chemistMount Feake Cemetery, Waltham, MA
- John Celivergos Zachos1820-1898Greek-American Doctor, Author, Educator, and AbolitionistNewton Cemetery, Newton, MA
- Gregory P. Baxter1876-1953US chemistMount Wollaston Cemetery, Quincy, MA
- Abraham Cressy Morrison1864-1951American chemistPondville Cemetery, Wrentham, MA
- Berta Ottenstein1891-1956German dermatologistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Edgar H. Brown1926-2021American mathematicianMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Erwin N. Hiebert1919-2012Canadian-American physicistMount Auburn Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- John Daniel Runkle1822-1902United States educator and mathematicianNorth Dorchester Cemetery, Uphams Corner, MA
- Charles James Sprague1823-1903BotanistForest Hills Cemetery, Roslindale, MA
- Raymond L. Newcomb1849-1918American astronomerHarmony Grove Cemetery, Peabody, MA
- Charles Henry Fernald1838-1921American entomologist, zoologist, naturalistWildwood Cemetery, Amherst Center, MA
- Frank Albert Waugh1869-1943American landscape architect and botanistWildwood Cemetery, Amherst Center, MA
- Josephine Adelaide Clark1856-1929Botanist and librarianMount Feake Cemetery, Waltham, MA
- James Mills Peirce1834-1906American mathematician and educatorCambridge Cemetery, North Brighton, MA
- Charlotte Fitch Roberts1859-1917ChemistGreen River Cemetery, Greenfield, MA
- Harris Hawthorne Wilder1864-1928American zoologistBridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, MA
- Mercy B. Jackson1802-1877American physicianOak Grove Cemetery, Plymouth, MA
- Arthur B. Lamb1880-1952American chemistWoodlawn Cemetery, Attleboro, MA
- Samuel Luther Dana1795-1868American chemistLowell Cemetery, Lowell, MA
Showing the 150 with the most Wikipedia language editions, of 217. Cemetery pages list everyone recorded there.
Over time
Deaths by decade
- 1810s2
- 1820s1
- 1830s1
- 1840s1
- 1850s3
- 1860s3
- 1870s7
- 1880s9
- 1890s12
- 1900s15
- 1910s17
- 1920s22
- 1930s16
- 1940s15
- 1950s21
- 1960s13
- 1970s7
- 1980s14
- 1990s12
- 2000s12
- 2010s9
- 2020s4
By recorded year of death, for the 216 people with one.
Cemeteries
Where they are buried
- Mount Auburn Cemetery · North Brighton, MA90
- Forest Hills Cemetery · Roslindale, MA9
- Wildwood Cemetery · Amherst Center, MA8
- Cambridge Cemetery · North Brighton, MA6
- Sleepy Hollow Cemetery · Concord, MA5
- Oak Hill Cemetery · Newburyport, MA4
- Newton Cemetery · Newton, MA3
- Mount Feake Cemetery · Waltham, MA3
- Hope Cemetery · Worcester, MA3
- Mount Wollaston Cemetery · Quincy, MA3
- West Cemetery · Amherst Center, MA3
- Central Cemetery · Beverly, MA3
- Bridge Street Cemetery · Northampton, MA3
- Sharon Memorial Park · Sharon, MA3
- Mountain View Cemetery · Shrewsbury, MA2
- Center Cemetery · Sheffield, MA2
- Cedar Grove Cemetery · Ashmont, MA2
- College Cemetery · Williamstown, MA2
- Lincoln Cemetery · Lincoln, MA2
- Oak Grove Cemetery · Arlington, MA2
- Milton Cemetery · Milton, MA2
- Pittsfield Cemetery · Pittsfield, MA2
- Oak Grove Cemetery · Springfield, MA2
- Westview Cemetery · Bedford, MA2
- Crystal Lake Cemetery · Gardner, MA2
Top 25 of 72 cemeteries. The map shows all of them.
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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.