Famous Scientists Names

History stands as a testimony to the fact that contributions made by some of the famous scientists that lived on this planet has helped human civilization to live a comfortable life. The list of famous scientists in history is a mix of great mathematicians, physicists, botanists, chemists, astrologers and scientists from every field. There is no subject or topic that hasn't be enlightened by the genius of famous scientists. In this article, I have tried to enlist some scientists who made the world what it is today. This is just a humble attempt to compile the names all geniuses of history, till the 21st century. Famous scientists and their discoveries, no matter how small or insignificant they seemed initially, have gone to shape human life.

Famous Scientists Names and their Inventions

While there is a long list of famous inventors, there are some scientists whose contributions formed the base of every other study and research.

Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
An Italian Physicist, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer and a revolutionary thinker. Galileo is known as 'father of modern observational astronomy' as he was the first to use a telescope. He is hailed to be responsible for the birth of modern science as his theories, ideas and beliefs based on scientific reasoning, started challenging the Church beliefs. He proclaimed Earth revolved around the Sun and suffered severe criticism from the Clergyman in those days.

Sir Issac Newton (1643 - 1727)
"All saw the Apple fall but only Newton thought over it" - is a popular quote about Newton. Sir Issac Newton, an English Physicist, known for his most influential work in history of physical sciences, the Principia, gave the revolutionary concept of gravitation and changed the world of Physics. In his book, Newton also mentioned about the three laws of motion and principles of classic mechanics.

Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931)
Thomas Edison, known as the 'wizard of Menlo Park' and the greatest inventor ever to have visited this Earth, is hailed to have patented most number of inventions. Going through Thomas Edison inventions will help you to know his significant contribution.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
This theoretical physicist shook the world with one of the most interesting and intriguing theories in Physics, the theory of relativity. Understanding what is Einstein's theory of Relativity may not be possible for every one of us but it has given birth to a new branch of relativistic mechanics.

List of Some Other Popular Scientists

None can deny that every scientist has in some or the other way contributed to the growth of this world. Talking about every scientist, is not possible in this limited space. But some of the names of famous scientists that are worthy of mention are as follows.

Famous Scientists	Life Period	Inventions
Archimedes	287-212 BC	Archimedean principle, famous theory of buoyancy and many 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, pressure and temperature being equal, contain the same number of molecules".
Neils Hendrik David Bohr	1885-1962	Bohr Model of Atom
Johannes Gutenberg	398-1468	Letterpress printing press also known as mechanical printing press.
Rudolf Diesel	1858-1913	Combustion engine.
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen	1845-1923	X-ray
Karl Friedrich von Drais	1785-1851	Bicycle
Peter Henlein	1479-1542	Pocket Watch
Ferdinand Verbiest	1623-1688	Verbiest invented the first ever car.
Graham Bell	1847-1922	Graham Bell invented the first practical telephone.
Philipp Reis	1834-1874	Reis is known for the early invention of telephone
John Logie Baird	1888-1946	John Logie Baird invented the television.
Werner von Siemens	1816-1892	Dynamo
Hans von Ohain	1911-1998	Jet engine
Artur Fischer	1919	Fischertechnik
Felix Hoffmann	1868-1946	Aspirin
Hugo Junkers	1859-1935	Civilian avion
Otto Lilienthal	1848-1896	Gliding flights
Melitta Bentz	1873-1950	Coffee Filter
Konrad Zuse	1910-1995	First 'working' computer.
Gottlieb Daimler	1834-1900	Automobile and internal combustion machine
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 Gobel	1818-1893	Incandescent light bulb
Samuel Hahnemann	1755-1843	Creation of alternative medicine practice called Homeopathy
Heinrich Focke	1890-1979	Helicopter
Levi Strauss	1829-1902	Jeans
Otto Hahn	1879-1968	Nuclear fission and known as the 'father of nuclear chemistry'.
Julius Lothar Meyer	1830-1895	First person to draw the periodic table of chemical elements
Emil Berliner	1851-1929	Record Player
Rudolf Hell	1901-2002	Formulated technology for Scanner and Fax
Fritz Pfleumer	1881-1945	Audio tape
Elias Howe	1819-1867	Sewing machine
Laszlo Jozsef Bíro	1899-1985	Ballpoint pen
Garrett Augustus Morgan	1877-1963	Traffic signal, respiratory protective mask (gas mask), hair straightening preparation.
Samuel F. B. Morse	1791-1872	Telegraph invention
Percy Spencer	1894-1970	Microwave oven
Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright	1871-1948, 1867-1912	Airplane invention
Benjamin Franklin	1706-1790	One of the founding fathers of America, Franklin is attributed to have invented electricity

Some More Names

• 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
• Robert Koch
• 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
• Neils Bohr
• 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
• 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

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