The following famous mathematicians,physicists ,chemist and computer scientist either played or studied chess in their life times:

The following famous mathematicians,physicists ,chemist and computer scientist either played or studied chess in their life times:

Charles Babbage (26 Dec 1791-18 October 1871),Fields:Mathematics,engineering,political economy, computer science-”Father of Computer”

 

Albert Einstein (March 14,1879-April 18,1955)),Fields: Theoretical Physics,Photoelectric effect,E-mc2,Theory of Brownian motion,Einstein field equations,General relativity ,special relativity and Unified field theory

 

Alan Turing (June 23,1912-7,June 1954),Fields:Mathematics,logician,crypt analyst and computer scientist,-”Father of computer science”,Turing develops in 1953 one of the first chess programs whose calculations he performed for lack of hardware itself.

 

John Von Neumann (December 28,1903-February 8,1957),Fieids:Mathematics,physics,statistics ,inventor,polymath and polyglot-Arithmetic logic unit,Computer virus,Game theory,Lattice theory,quantum mechanics,geometry,functional analysis.

 

Isaac Asimov(October 4,1919-April 6,1992)Fields:Biochemistry,popular science,robotics,predicted:Google,Wikipedia,Facebook and YouTube