Notable burials · Science and work
Scientists buried in New Jersey
Wikidata records 73 scientists as buried in 32 of the cemeteries we list in New Jersey. Princeton Cemetery in Princeton holds the most, with 34. New Jersey has the 8th highest count of any state, out of 1,905 nationally.
People recorded as scientists, including chemists, physicists, mathematicians, biologists and astronomers.
73
scientists
32
cemeteries
4%
of notable burials in New Jersey
2000s
the decade with the most deaths (10)
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In order of death
Scientists buried in New Jersey
- John Hobbs1676-1761Resident (1676-1761) of Hopewell, New JerseyOld School Baptist Cemetery, Hopewell, NJ
- John Maclean1771-1814Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Jacob Green1790-1841American physician and scientistPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Charles Ferson Durant1805-1873American phycologistJersey City Cemetery, Jersey City, NJ
- Charles Hewitt1824-1879American industrialist and New Jersey state senatorMercer Cemetery, Trenton, NJ
- Stephen Alexander1806-1883American astronomerPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Arnaud Henri Guyot1807-1884Swiss-American geographer, paleontologist, meteorologist and naturalistPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Randolph B. Marcy1812-1887Union Army generalRiverview Cemetery, Trenton, NJ
- George Hammell Cook1818-1889American geologistElmwood Cemetery, North Brunswick Township, NJ
- Alfred Marshall Mayer1836-1897American physicistRosedale Cemetery, West Orange, NJ
- William Augustus Rogers1832-1898American astronomer and physicistHillside Cemetery, Plainfield, NJ
- Achsah Mount Ely1846-1904Mathematician and professorOld Tennent Cemetery, Yorketown, NJ
- David Murray1830-1905American educator and government adviser in JapanElmwood Cemetery, North Brunswick Township, NJ
- Richard Hinckley Allen1838-1908American naturalistMount Pleasant Cemetery, Kearny, NJ
- George J. Seabury1844-1909American chemist and pharmacistRosedale Cemetery, West Orange, NJ
- Ellen Swallow Richards1842-1911American chemistChrist Church Cemetery, South Amboy, NJ
- Charles Greene Rockwood1843-1913American mathematicianRosedale Cemetery, West Orange, NJ
- Byron Halsted1852-1918American botanistCedar Lawn Cemetery, Elmwood Park, NJ
- John Wesley Hyatt1837-1920American inventor of plasticFair Mount Cemetery, Chatham, NJ
- George Macloskie1834-1920American botanist and EsperantistPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Francis Robbins Upton1852-1921American physicistRosedale Cemetery, West Orange, NJ
- Charles Duell Lippincott1841-1926BotanistLake Park Cemetery, Swedesboro, NJ
- Frank Nelson Cole1861-1926American mathematicianMount Hebron Cemetery, Upper Montclair, NJ
- William Libbey1855-1927American geographer, academic, sport shooterPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Henry Dallas Thompson1864-1927American mathematicianPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Henry Burchard Fine1858-1928American academicPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Cavalier H. Joüet1860-1929American chemistEvergreen Cemetery, Hillside, NJ
- James Simpson Chester Wells1851-1931American inorganic chemist and metallurgistHackensack Cemetery, Teaneck, NJ
- Oliver Dimon Kellogg1878-1932American mathematicianSiloam Cemetery, Vineland, NJ
- Herman C. Hoskier1864-1938British biblical scholarRosedale Cemetery, West Orange, NJ
- T. O'Conor Sloane1851-1940American editorSaint Vincent Cemetery, Madison, NJ
- William Francis Magie1858-1943American physicistPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Hermann Weyl1885-1955German mathematicianPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Henry Norris Russell1877-1957American astronomerPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- John von Neumann1903-1957Hungarian and American mathematician and physicistPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- William R. Blair1874-1962Irish-American scientistFairview Cemetery, Middletown, NJ
- Nathaniel Howell Furman1892-1965American chemistLawrenceville Cemetery, Lawrenceville, NJ
- Luther P. Eisenhart1876-1965American mathematicianPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Walter A. Shewhart1891-1967American statistical quality control expertFriends Central Cemetery, Northfield, NJ
- Efim Kipel1895-1969Russian publicistБеларускія могілкі ў Саўт-Рыверы, South River, NJ
- Mary Franklin Barrett1879-1972American botanist, botanical collector, teacher and writerBloomfield Cemetery, Glen Ridge, NJ
- Solomon Lefschetz1884-1972Jewish American mathematicianPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Louis Serle Dederick1883-1972Ph.D. Harvard University 1909Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Oskar Morgenstern1902-1977Austrian economistPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Mykola Zajcew1894-1978St Andrew's Ukrainian Cemetery, South Bound Brook, NJ
- Kurt Gödel1906-1978Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematicsPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Edward Sampson1891-1978American geologist and professorPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Horst von Bandat1895-1982George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus, NJ
- Vladimir K. Zworykin1888-1982Russian-American engineerPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- George Gallup1901-1984American statisticianPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Isidor Isaac Rabi1898-1988American physicistRiverside Cemetery, Saddle Brook, NJ
- Robert Ellis1927-1989African American physicist known for work in plasma physicsPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Alonzo Church1903-1995American mathematician and logicianPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Eugene Paul Wigner1902-1995Hungarian-American physicist and mathematicianPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Lyman Spitzer1914-1997American astronomerPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Frederick J. Almgren, Jr.1933-1997American mathematicianPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- André Weil1906-1998French mathematicianPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- John Tukey1915-2000American mathematicianPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Herbert Robbins1915-2001American mathematicianPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Samuel DeCoster Atkins1910-2002American scientistEvergreen Cemetery, Basking Ridge, NJ
- Ivan Turchan1930-2003St Andrew's Ukrainian Cemetery, South Bound Brook, NJ
- Henry A. Boorse1904-2003Ph.D. Columbia University 1935George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus, NJ
- Jacob C. E. Dekker1921-2004Ph.D. Syracuse University 1951Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- John N. Bahcall1934-2005American physicistPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Robert Bruce Merrifield1921-2006American biochemistBrookside Cemetery, Englewood, NJ
- John P. McCullough1925-2006American petroleum chemist and oil company executivePrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Israel Gelfand1913-2009Soviet-American mathematicianFloral Park Cemetery, Dayton, NJ
- Joseph Kruskal1928-2010American statisticianB'Nai Abraham Memorial Park, Kenilworth, NJ
- John Forbes Nash1928-2015American mathematician and economistSaint Paul's Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Felix Browder1927-2016American mathematicianPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Elias M. Stein1931-2018American mathematicianPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
- Volodymyr Petryshyn1929-2020Ukrainian mathematicianSt Andrew's Ukrainian Cemetery, South Bound Brook, NJ
- Philip W. Anderson1923-2020American physicistPrinceton Cemetery, Princeton, NJ
Everyone on this list, by year of death. People without a recorded death year come last.
Over time
Deaths by decade
- 1760s1
- 1810s1
- 1840s1
- 1870s2
- 1880s4
- 1890s2
- 1900s4
- 1910s3
- 1920s9
- 1930s3
- 1940s2
- 1950s3
- 1960s5
- 1970s7
- 1980s5
- 1990s5
- 2000s10
- 2010s4
- 2020s2
By recorded year of death, for the 73 people with one.
Cemeteries
Where they are buried
- Princeton Cemetery · Princeton, NJ34
- Rosedale Cemetery · West Orange, NJ5
- St Andrew's Ukrainian Cemetery · South Bound Brook, NJ3
- Elmwood Cemetery · North Brunswick Township, NJ2
- George Washington Memorial Park · Paramus, NJ2
- Evergreen Cemetery · Hillside, NJ1
- Old Tennent Cemetery · Yorketown, NJ1
- Riverside Cemetery · Saddle Brook, NJ1
- Old School Baptist Cemetery · Hopewell, NJ1
- Беларускія могілкі ў Саўт-Рыверы · South River, NJ1
- Mercer Cemetery · Trenton, NJ1
- Floral Park Cemetery · Dayton, NJ1
- Fair Mount Cemetery · Chatham, NJ1
- Jersey City Cemetery · Jersey City, NJ1
- Bloomfield Cemetery · Glen Ridge, NJ1
- Brookside Cemetery · Englewood, NJ1
- Cedar Lawn Cemetery · Elmwood Park, NJ1
- Christ Church Cemetery · South Amboy, NJ1
- Hackensack Cemetery · Teaneck, NJ1
- Mount Hebron Cemetery · Upper Montclair, NJ1
- Mount Pleasant Cemetery · Kearny, NJ1
- Riverview Cemetery · Trenton, NJ1
- Saint Vincent Cemetery · Madison, NJ1
- Siloam Cemetery · Vineland, NJ1
- Saint Paul's Cemetery · Princeton, NJ1
Top 25 of 32 cemeteries. The map shows all of them.
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Other notable burials in New Jersey
Writers and poets199United States representatives111Painters, sculptors and photographers87Musicians and singers83Business leaders77Actors60Journalists60Baseball players57Inventors and engineers46World War II veterans46American Civil War veterans40Physicians40World War I veterans35Medal of Honor recipients34United States senators28American football players26Governors25Architects21
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.