Mathematics, Philosophy, Science, and Technology
- Carl Abel (1837–1906), German philologist
- Sir Frederick Abel (1827–1902), chemist who made a special study of explosives
- Jacob Friedrich von Abel (1751–1829), German philosopher, teacher of Schiller
- John Jacob Abel (1857–1938), American pharmacologist
- Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829), Norwegian mathematician
- The Abel Prize given annually by the King of Norway and named after Niels Henrik Abel
- Abel (crater) on the Moon, named for Niels Henrik Abel
- Othenio Abel (1875–1945), Austrian paleontologist
- Tom Abel (born 1970), German astrophysicist
- Wolfgang Abel (1905–1997), German anthropologist
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“One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)