An American pharmacologist and biochemist. Dr. Earl W. Sutherland (19 November, 1915–9 March, 1974) received Nobel Prize for Medicine, in 1971. He was a Professor of Physiology at the Vanderbilt University in the U.S.A. He started his research while studying how the hormone epinephrine signals cells to release more sugar into the blood so that an organism […]
The Russian scholar Dmitri Mendeleev (8 February, 1834–2 February, 1907) has made notable contributions to the fields of Physics and Chemistry. This great chemist born in Siberia is remembered for his Periodic Table of Chemical Elements. He carried out vital research in the fields of geology, meteorology, hydrodynamics, etc. He was one of the pioneers
Aprominent American inventor, doctor and scientist, David Alter was born in Westmoreland county of Pennsylvania on 3 December, 1807. He did his graduation from the Reformed Medical School in New York City and started his carrier as a physician and scientist in Elderton, Pennsylvania, in the 1830s. He had German and Swiss ancestry. He invented the electric telegraph, one year before the popular
A British electrical engineer, Dr. Dennis Gabor worked as a scientist in the U.S.A. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 June 1900. He studied electrical engineering in Budapest and completed his Ph.D in engineering from Berlin. Dr. Gabor won the 1971 Nobel prize award for Physics. He was the 16th Briton to have
Donat Banki, better known as the Hungarian engineer who invented the carburetor for the stationary engine, was born on 6 June 1859, in a village called Bakonybank. After graduating from the Budapest University of Technology with Economics, Donat Banki worked as an engineer. In collaboration with Janos Csonka, Donat Banki invented the carburetor in 1893.
Douglas Carl Engelbart was born on 30 January, 1925, in Portland, USA. He is an American inventor of the computer mouse and the development of hypertext, networked computers and precursors to graphical user interface (GUI). From the beginning he was working on the human computer interaction devices. That’s why the result came out in the
Charles Franklin Kettering (29 August, 1876–25 November, 1958) is inventor of the electrical ignition system. The electric driven generator is also the holder of 186 different patents. Kettering graduated from Ohio State University as an engineer and joined the National Cash Register Company; in 1909, he left NCR and set up the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company, with
Once, a bear named Monti, lived with his mother and father bear. Monti was a lazy bear who didn’t work but only ate the fish brought by his father. One day his mother chided him of being so lazy. Monti felt very ashamed and ran down to the river. He was going to fish all
Cai Lun (50 AD–121 AD) was the Chinese eunuch and he was the inventor of the paper and paper making process even though paper was existed in China before the time of Cai Lun. He took the improvements and consistency of paper making by accumulating necessary new materials into its production. Cai Lun was born
A wolf had been eyeing a flock of sheep for a long time. He thought of a plan to seize them all. Every day he would quietly follow the sheep but he never harmed them. In the beginning, the shepherd did not trust the wolf and guarded his flock carefully. But as time passed, he
Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel was born on 1572 at Alkmaar in Holland and died on 7 November, 1633. But in this period of time, he did so many things. He was the Dutch builder who made the first navigable submarine in 1620. He was an innovator who contributed the growth of measurements and control systems, optics
Once, a bird named Ted lived in a tree. He was very punctual and daily woke up early in the morning. One day Ted felt hungry and he went into the jungle to search for food for himself. In the jungle, there lived a worm named Wiky who moved in the dirt. Suddenly Wiky saw
Once, a mouse had gone to his uncle’s house near a pond. The mouse loved to do adventurous work. One day, the mouse was roaming along the bank of the pond then he saw a frog. Soon they became good friends. The mouse said to him, “Won’t you pay me a visit? I can promise
Charles Mackintosh (29 December, 1766–25 July, 1843) was the inventor of the waterproof raincoat made from a fabric that was rubberized. It was in 1824 that it was first sold with an abbreviated ‘mack’ or ‘mac’ on it. Even the raincoat was named after Charles Macintosh, who was a Scottish. Material made from laminated rubber
Seattle born Chester Carlson (8 February, 1906–19 September, 1968) excelled in two fields of Electrophotography and Xerography. Since early childhood, he started printing and duplication newspapers and did not like the traditional methods of duplicating writing when he was working in a printing press. In New York, he was made patent attorney. Chester Carlson saw