famous scientists names
Famous Scientists Names
Innovative minds have shaped the world through their concepts and inventions since ancient times. In this article, we will go through an interesting list of famous scientist names and get to know a little more about the legends that shaped the history of the world and revolutionized how we live our lives.
Famous Scientists | Inventions |
Archimedes (287 - 212 BC) | Archimedean principles, theory of buoyancy, and many other mathematical and mechanical discoveries. |
Heinrich Hertz (1857 - 1894) | Electromagnetic theory of light and electromagnetic waves. |
Andre Marie Ampere (1775 - 1836) | Unit of measurement to measure electric current |
Amedeo Avogadro (1776 - 1856) | Avogadro's Law, that is, "equal volumes of different gases, at the same pressure and temperature, contain the same number of molecules". |
Neils Hendrik David Bohr (1885 - 1962) | Bohr Model of an atom |
Johannes Gutenberg (398 - 1468) | Letterpress printing press, also known as the mechanical printing press. |
Rudolf Diesel (1858 - 1913) | Diesel combustion engine. |
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923) | X-rays |
Karl Friedrich von Drais (1785 - 1851) | Bicycle |
Peter Henlein (1479 - 1542) | Pocket Watch |
Ferdinand Verbiest (1623 - 1688) | First steam automobile. |
Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922) | Graham Bell invented the first practical telephone. |
Johann Philipp Reis (1834 - 1874) | Reis is known for the creation of the earliest model of a telephone. |
John Logie Baird (1888 - 1946) | John Logie Baird invented the television. |
Werner von Siemens (1816 - 1892) | Pointer Telegraph |
Hans von Ohain (1911 - 1998) | Jet engine |
Artur Fischer (1919) | Plastic wall plugs |
Felix Hoffmann (1868 - 1946) | Aspirin |
Hugo Junkers (1859 - 1935) | Civilian Aviation |
Otto Lilienthal (1848 - 1896) | Gliding flights |
Melitta Bentz (1873 - 1950) | Coffee Filter |
Konrad Zuse (1910 - 1995) | First 'programmable' computer. |
Gottlieb Daimler (1834 - 1900) | Automobile and internal combustion machine, High speed petrol engine. |
Robert Koch (1843 - 1910) | Isolation of Bacillus anthracis, tuberculosis bacteria and Vibrio cholerae. Also known for his Koch's postulates. |
Karlheinz Brandenburg (1954) | MP3 Technology |
Heinrich Göbel (1818 - 1893) | Incandescent light bulb |
Samuel Hahnemann (1755 - 1843 ) | Creation of an alternative medicinal practice called homeopathy. |
Heinrich Focke (1890 - 1979) | Helicopter propulsion system |
Levi Strauss (1829 - 1902) | Jeans |
Otto Hahn (1879 - 1968) | Known as the 'father of nuclear chemistry' for his discovery of nuclear fission. |
Julius Lothar Meyer (1830 - 1895) | First person to draw the periodic table of chemical elements. |
Emil Berliner (1851 - 1929) | Disc-record gramophone |
Rudolf Hell (1901 - 2002) | Formulated technology for scanners and fax machines. |
Fritz Pfleumer (1881 - 1945) | Magnetic audio tape |
Elias Howe (1819 - 1867) | Sewing machine |
László József Bíró (1899 - 1985) | Ballpoint pen |
Garrett Augustus Morgan (1877 - 1963) | Traffic signal, respiratory protective mask (gas mask), hair straightening solution. |
Samuel F. B. Morse (1791 - 1872) | Single wire Telegraph |
Percy Spencer (1894 - 1970) | Microwave oven |
Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright (1871 - 1948, 1867 - 1912) | Invention of the Airplane |
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) | One of the founding fathers of America, Franklin is attributed to have invented the lightning rod, and bifocal spectacles. |
- Karl Landsteiner
- Konrad Lorenz
- Leonard Euler
- Linus Pauling
- Louis Victor de Broglie
- Lucretius
- Ludwig Boltzmann
- Lynn Margulis
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Noam Chomsky
- Paul Dirac
- Paul Ehrlich
- Pierre Simon de Laplace
- Richard Feynman
- Willard Libby
- William Bayliss
- Sheldon Glashow
- Sigmund Freud
- Marcello Malpighi
- Marie Curie
- Stephen Hawking
- Theodosius Dobzhansky
- Thomas Hunt Morgan
- Trofim Lysenko
- Tycho Brahe
- Werner Heisenberg
- Wilhelm Wundt
- Rudolf Virchow
- William Harvey
- William Herschel
- Jean Piaget
- John Bardeen
- John Dalton
- Albrecht von Haller
- Max Born
- Max Delbruck
- Max Planck
- Max von Laue
- Michael Faraday
- Murray Gell-Mann
- Edward Teller
- Emil Fischer
- Alexander Fleming
- Andreas Vesalius
- Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
- Anton van Leeuwenhoek
- Arthur Eddington
- August Kekule
- C.V. Raman
- Homi Jehnagir Bhabha
- Jagdish Chandra Bose
- Vikram Sarabhai
- B. F. Skinner
- Karl Friedrich Gauss
- Charles Lyell
- Charles Sherrington
- Christiaan Huygens
- Claude Bernard
- Claude Levi-Strauss
- Comte de Buffon
- Dmitri Mendeleev
- Edward O. Wilson
- Emil Kraepelin
- Enrico Fermi
- Ernest Rutherford
- Ernst Haeckel
- Ernst Mayr
- Erwin Schrodinger
- Euclid
- Francis Crick
- Francis Galton
- Franz Boas
- Frederick Sanger
- Alfred Binet
- Alfred Kinsey
- Alfred Wegener
- George Gaylord Simpson
- Gertrude Belle Elion
- Gregor Mendel
- Gustav Kirchhoff
- Hans Bethe
- Hans Selye
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Charles Drew
- James Clerk Maxwell
- James Watson
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Har Gobind Khorana
- Meghnad Saha
- Prafulla Chandra Ray
- Satyendra Nath Bose
- Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
- Subramaniam Chandrasekhar
- C. R. Rao
- K. Chandrasekharan
- Jean Baptiste Lamarck
- John von Neumann
- Jonas Salk
- Joseph J. Thomson
- Justus Liebig