List of Scientists / Inventors and their Inventions
Scientist’s / Inventor's Name | Invention |
A. Celsius | Centrigrade scale |
A.L. and J.L. Lumiere | Cenema |
A.L. Breguet | Watch |
A.Parker | Celluloid |
Adolph Rickenbacker | electric guitar |
Alessandro Volta | Electric Battery |
Alexander Fleming | Penicillin |
Alexanderson | Radio transmitter |
Alfred B. Nobel | Dynamite |
Alfred Binet | I.Q. Test |
Alfred Kinsey | Human Sexuality |
Alfred Wegener | Continental Drift |
American Viscose Co. | Rayon |
Amundson (1912) | South Pole |
Anderson | Positive Electrons |
Andreas Vesalius | New Anatomy |
Andre-Marie Ampere | Galvanometer |
Antoine Joseph Sax | Saxophone |
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier | Revolution in Chemistry |
Archimedes | Specific Gravity |
Archimedes | Principle for lever (S.P.Gravity) |
Archimedies | Archimedean Screw |
Arthur Eddington | Modern Astronomy |
August Kekule | Chemical Structure |
Avogadro | Avogadro's Hypothesis |
B. F. Goodrich | Zipper |
B. F. Skinner | Behaviorism |
Baird | Television |
Bardeen, Shockley, Brattain | Transistor |
Benjamin Franklin | Bifocal Lens |
Benjamin Franklin | Lightning Conductor |
Bessemer | Steel Melting Process |
Binet | Intelligence test |
Bohr | Electron Theory |
Bohr and Rutherford | Atomic Structure |
Boyle | Boyle's law |
Braille | Printing for the Blind |
Braun, Dr.Wernher Von | Space flying |
Broquett | Helicopter |
Bunsen | Spectroscope |
C. F. Brush | Arc Lamp |
C. Hugyens | Clock (pendulum) |
C. Sholes | Typewriter |
C.V.Raman | Crystal Dynamics |
C.V.Raman | Raman effect |
Carl Gauss (Karl Friedrich Gauss) | Mathematical Genius |
Carl Linnaeus | Binomial Nomenclature |
Carlton Mcgee | Parking meter |
Carothers | Nylon Plastic |
Cartwright | Powerloom |
Casimir Funk | Vitamin B1 |
Cavandish | Rare Gas |
Cavendish | Hydrogen |
Chadwick | Neutron |
Chandrasekhar | Mathematical Astro Physics |
Charles Babbage | Computer |
Charles Babbage | Difference engine |
Charles Darwin | Evolution |
Charles Darwin | Evolution (theory) |
Charles Darwin | Origin of Species |
Charles Goodyear | rubber (vulcanized) |
Charles Goodyear | Vulcanised Rubber |
Charles Lyell | Modern Geology |
Charles Macintosh | Raincoat |
Charles Macintosh | Rubber (waterproof) |
Charles Macintosh | Waterproof Rubber |
Charles Sherrington | Neurophysiology |
Chester Carlson | zerox machine |
Christiaan Huygens | Wave Theory of Light |
Christian Barnard | Replacing human heart |
Christopher Cockerell | Hovercraft |
Claude Bernard | Founding of Modern Physiology |
Claude Levi-Strauss | Structural Anthropology |
Col. J. Schick | Razor (electric) |
Columbus (1492) | West Indies |
Conrad Elvehjem | Vitamin Niacin |
Copernicus (1540) | Solar System |
Coulomb | Fundamental Laws of Electric Attraction |
D. T. Smith, E. G. Hendrick | Vitamin B2 |
Daimler | Automobile |
Dalton | Atomic Theory |
Dalton | Laws of Multiple Proportion |
Darwin | Laws of Natural Selections |
Darwin | Theory of Evolution |
Dauguerre | Photograph |
David Brewster | Kaleidoscope |
David Bushnell | Submarine |
Dewar | Liquid Oxygen |
Dewar | Thermos Flasks |
Dmitri Mendeleev | Periodic Table of Elements |
Domagk | Sulpha Drugs |
Dr. A.H. Taylor and L.C. Young | Radar |
Dr. Alan M. Turing | Electronic Computer |
Dr. Lee de Forest | Film (with sound) |
Dr. Richard Gatling | Machine Gun |
Dr. Wallace H. Carothers | Nylon |
Dr. William Stokes, Rene Laennec | Stethoscope |
Dr.Hargobiad Khorana | Deciphering the genetic code |
Dr.Paul Muller | D.D.T. |
Dr.Philip Drinker | Drinker's Chamber of Iron Lung |
Dr.Sigmund Freud | Psycho-analysis |
E.G. Otis | Lift |
Edison | Incandescent Bulb |
Edison | Phonograph |
Edmund Cartwright | Power Loom |
Edward Jenner | Vaccination |
Edward Mellanby | Vitamin D |
Edward O. Wilson | Sociobiology |
Edward Teller | Bomb |
Edwin Hubble | Modern Telescope |
Eijkman | Beri - Beri |
Einstein | Theory of Relativity |
Elisha G. Otis | Elevator |
Elmer V. McCollum | Vitamin B |
Elmer V. McCollum and M. Davis | Vitamin A |
Emil Fischer | Organic Chemistry |
Enrico Fermi | Atomic Physics |
Ernest Rutherford | Structure of the Atom |
Ernst Haeckel | Biogenetic Principle |
Ernst Mayr | Evolutionary Theory |
Erwin Schrodinger | Wave Mechanics |
Euclid | Foundations of Mathematics |
Euclid | Geometry |
Evangelista Torricelli | Barometer |
F.Banting | Insulin |
Fahrenheit | Fahrenheit Scale |
Fahrenheit | Mercury Thermometer |
Faraday | Electricity |
Faraday | Induction of Electric Current |
Faraday | Law of Electrolysis |
Francis Crick | Molecular Biology |
Francis Galton | Eugenics |
Frank Whittle | Jet Propulsion |
Franz Boas | Modern Anthropology |
Frederick Sanger | Genetic Code |
Friese-Greene | Cine camera |
Fulton | Steam boat |
G. Bradshaw | Scooter |
G. Claude | Neon-lamp |
G. Ferdinand Von Zeppelin | Airship (rigid) |
G. Marconi | Radio |
Galileo | Telescope |
Galileo Galilei | New Science |
Galileo Gallei | Thermometer |
Gauss | Electric Measurement |
Gay Lussac | Law of gases |
George Eastman | Camera |
George Gaylord Simpson | Tempo of Evolution |
George Westinghouse | Air Brake |
Gertrude Belle Elion | Pharmacology |
Gottlieb Daimler | Carburetor |
Gottlieb Daimler | Carburettor |
Gregor Mendel | Laws of Inheritance |
Gregory Mandel | Laws of Heredity |
Gustav Kirchhoff | Spectroscopy |
H. W. Seeley | Electric Flat Iron |
H.C.Urey | Deuterium (Heavy Water) |
H.W. Seeley | Electric iron |
Hadley | Sextant |
Hahnemann | Homoeopathy |
Hans Bethe | Energy of the Sun |
Hans Selye | Stress Concept |
Harry Brearley | Stainless Steel |
Harvey | Blood Circulation |
Heike Kamerlingh | Superconductivity |
Heitz | Electrical Waves |
Henry Becquerel | Radio-activity of Uranium |
Henry Bessemer | Steel production |
Henry Great Head | Life Boat |
Herbert Evans and Katherine Bishop | Vitamin E |
Hermann Fottinger | Automatic gearbox |
Hermann von Helmholtz | Rise of German Science |
Herschel William | Uranus (Planet) |
Hideki Yakawa | Meson |
Hippalus | Scientific astronomy |
Hoffman | Aniline Dyes |
Hopkins and Funk | Vitamins |
Hsing and Ling-Tsan | Clock (machanical) |
Isaac Newton | Newtonian Revolution |
J. Froelich | Tractor |
J. Whinfield and H. Dickson | Terylene |
J.B. Dunlop | Bicycle Tyre |
J.C. Perier | Ship (steam) |
J.C.Bose | Crescograph |
J.E. Lurdstrom | Match (safety) |
J.J.Thomson | Electrons |
Jacob Schick | Electric razor |
Jacques and Joseph Montgolfier | Balloon |
James Clerk Maxwell | Electromagnetic Field |
James Hargreaves | Spinning jenny |
James Harrison and James Young Simpson | Chloroform |
James Harrison, Alexander Catlin | Refrigerator |
James Lind | Vitamin C |
James Watson | Structure of DNA |
James Watt | Steam Engine |
James Watt | Steam engine (condenser) |
Jean Baptiste Lamarck | Foundations of Biology |
Jean Piaget | Child Development |
Johann Phillip Reis, Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray, Amos E. Dolbear, and Thomas Edison | Microphone |
Johann Vaaler | Paper clip |
Johannes Gutenberg | Printing Press |
Johannes Kepler | Motion of the Planets |
John Boyd Dunlop | Pneumatic Tyres |
John Dalton | Theory of the Atom |
John Harrison | Chronometer |
John J. Loud | Ball-Point Pen |
John Logie Baird | Television (mechanical) |
John Napier | Logarithmic Tables |
John Napier | Logarithms |
John von Neumann | Modern Computer |
Joseph Aspdin | Cement |
Joseph J. Thomson | Electron |
Joule, James Prescoft | Measurement of Electrical Energy |
Joules | Mechanical Equivalent of Heat |
K.G. Gillete | Raazor (safety) |
Karl Benz | Automobiles using gasoline |
Karl Benz | Gasoline engine |
Karl Butler | Motor Car (petrol) |
Karl Landsteiner | Blood Groups |
Kepler | Laws of Planetary Motion |
King C. Gillette | Safety Razor |
Kirkpatrick Macmillan | Bicycle |
Kodak | Film & Photographic goods |
Konrad Lorenz | Ethology |
Lablanc | Washing Soda |
Lawrence | Cyclotron |
Lee-de-Frost | Talkies |
Leo H Baekeland | Bakelite |
Levi Strauss | Jeans |
Lewis E. Waterman | Fountain Pen |
Lippman | Coloured Photography |
llly Brandt | T.N.T. |
Lockyer | Helium Gas |
Lord Joseph Lister | Antiseptic Surgery |
Lord Kelvin | Dynamical theory of Heat |
Louis Braille | Braille |
Louis Pasteur | Germ Theory of Disease |
Louis Pasteur | Hydrophobia |
Louis Pasteur | Rabies Vaccine |
Louis Victor de Broglie | Wave/Particle Duality |
Lucretius | Scientific Thinking |
Lucy Wills | Vitamin Folic acid |
Ludwig Boltzmann | Thermodynamics |
Lynn Margulis | Symbiosis Theory |
Madame Curie | Radium |
Marcello Malpighi | Microscopic Anatomy |
Marcony | Wireless Telegraphy |
Maria Montessori | Montessori Method |
Marie Curie | Radioactivity |
Max Born | Quantum Mechanics |
Max Delbruck | Bacteriophage |
Max Planck | Quanta |
Max plank | Quantum Theory |
Max von Laue | X-ray Crystallography |
Maxwell | Electromagnetic Theory |
Meghnad Saha | Effect of Pressure on trough bodies |
Mendeleef | Periodic Law |
Mergenthaler | Linotype |
Michael Faraday | Classical Field Theory |
Michael Faraday | Dynamo |
Michael Faraday | Electric Generator |
Michael Faraday | Transformer |
Mosley | Atomic Number |
Murray Gell-Mann | Eightfold Way |
N.R.Finsen | Phototherapy |
Neils Bohr | Atom |
Newton | Laws of Gravitation |
Newton | Laws of Motion |
Nicolaus Copernicus | Heliocentric Universe |
Nikola Tesla | Electric Motor (AC) |
Ohm | Laws of Electrical Resistance |
Oho Hahn | Uranium fusion |
Oliver Lodge | Wireless Communication |
Otis | Lift (Elevators) |
Otto | Internal Combustion Engine |
Otto Hahn, Bohr and Fermi | Nuclear Fission |
Otto von Guericke | Air Pump |
Parsons | Steam Turbine |
Pascal | Adding Machine |
Pascal | Calculating machine |
Paul Ehrlich | Chemotherapy |
Paul Gyorgy | Vitamin B6 |
Pavlov | Theory of conditioned reflex |
Perkin | Mauve dye |
Peter Goldmark | The long playing microgroove record |
Pierre Simon de Laplace | Newtonian Mechanics |
Plimsoll | Line of demarcation (ship) |
Priestley | Laughing Gas |
Priestly | Oxygen |
R.A.Millikan | Cosmic Rays |
Ramanathan | Molecular Scattering of light in fluid |
Ramanujam | In Number Theory |
Ramsay, Travers | Neon Gas |
Richard Feynman | Quantum Electrodynamics |
Richard Trevithick | Locomotive |
Robert Koch | Bacteriology |
Robert Koch | Cholera Bacillus |
Robert Peary (1909) | North Pole |
Robert Recorde | Equal sign (=)? |
Robert Wilhelm Von Bunsen | Laboratory Gas Burner |
Roberts Mallet | Seismograph |
Roentgen | X - Rays |
Rogei Bacon | Gun powder |
Rohm Korff | Induction Coil |
Ronald Ross | Malarial Parasite |
Rudolf Diesel | Diesel Engine |
Rudolf Diesel | Diesel Oil Engine |
Rudolf Virchow | Cell Doctrine |
Rutherford | Breaking up the Nucleus of an atom |
S.N.Bose | Boson |
Salk | Salk Vaccine |
Samuel Colt | Revolver |
Samuel Morse | Telegraph |
Samuel Morse | Telegraphic Code |
Shalimar | Paints |
Sigmund Freud | Psychology of the Unconscious |
Sir Alexander Graham Bell | Telephone |
Sir Charles Parsons | Ship (turbine) |
Sir Ernest Swington | Tank |
Sir Frank Whittle | Jet Engine |
Sir George Caley | Glider |
Sir Humphrey Davy | Safety lamp |
Sir Isaac Pitman | Shorthand |
Sir J.A. Fleming | Valve of radio |
Sir Richard Arkwight | Spinning frame |
Stephen Hawking | Quantum Cosmology |
Stephenson | Railway Engine |
Theodosius Dobzhansky | Modern Synthesis |
Thomas Alva Edison | Cinematograph |
Thomas Alva Edison | Cinematography |
Thomas Alva Edison | Electric Lamp |
Thomas Alva Edison | Gramophone |
Thomas Alva Edison | Movie Projector |
Thomas Hunt Morgan | Chromosomal Theory of Heredity |
Thomas Newcome | Steam engine (piston) |
Thomas Saint | Sewing Machine |
Tim Berners Lee | World Wide Web and Hypertext Markup Language |
Trofim Lysenko | Soviet Genetics |
Tycho Brahe | New Astronomy |
U.N.Brahmachari | Kala-azar Fever |
Urey | Heavy Hydrogen |
Valentine | Bismuth |
W. L. Judson | Zip fastener |
W.H. Fox Tablot | Photography (paper) |
Werner Heisenberg | Quantum Theory |
Wilhelm Reontgen | X-ray |
Wilhelm Wundt | Founding of Psychology |
Willard Libby | Radioactive Dating |
William Bayliss | Modern Physiology |
William Burroughs | Cash register |
William Harvey | Circulation of the Blood |
William Herschel | Heavens |
William Hurst | Safety Pin |
William Murdoch | Gas lighting |
William Oughtred | Symbol (x)? |
William Siemens | Electric Furnace |
William Sturgeon | Electromagnet |
Wright brothers | Aeroplane |