William George Armstrong (26 November, 1810–27 December, 1900) was basically a solicitor who was genuinely interested in engineering. Generally in his spare time, he was indulged in the activities of inventing little things which made the daily work easy. During one of his fishing visits he was thrilled by the idea that the energy and […]
William Friese-Greene was born on 7 September, 1855 in Bristol, England. He was a British portrait photographer and creative inventor. He is mainly known as a initiator in the field of motion pictures and is recognized by some as the inventor of cinematography. On 21 June 1889, Friese-Greene patented his ‘chronophotographic’ camera. It was actually
Werner Karl Heisenberg was a philosopher and theoretical physicist from Germany who was born on 5 December, 1901. He was born to a school teacher, Kaspar Earnesta August Heisenberg, in the secondary section at Wurzburg located in Germany. The formulation of quantum mechanics made by Werner Karl Heisenberg in 1925 changed the understanding of matrices.
Wallace Hume Carothers (27 April, 1896–29 April, 1937) made his mark in Organic Chemistry after completing Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois. He later joined Harvard as the instructor and was offered a fund research by the DUPont Fundamental research Laboratory. In 1934, Wallace Carothers and his team developed the first man-made organic
Vladimir Bekhterev (24 January, 1857–24 December, 1927) was a Russian brain doctor and also the Father of objective psychological science. He is known for discovering the function of the hippocampus within memory and Bekhterev’s illness. Furthermore, he is also known for his contest with Ivan Pavlov concerning the conditioned reflexes study. Vladimir Bekhterev was born in a village named Sorali in
Vitally Abalakov (13 January, 1906–26 May, 1986) was a great soviet mountaineer and also an inventor of ice protecting device. This device is named V-thread by taking the first letter of his inventor. He was a great Soviet climber too. He worked really hard on the method of protecting an individual while climbing icy mountains.
Vladimir Davidovich Baranoff-Rossine, born in 1888 was a revolutionary Russian-born French painter, inventor and an avant-garde artist. Apart from his excellence in Art, Vladimir Davidovich Baranoff-Rossine is also known as the inventor of the Optophonic Piano, pointillist or dynamic military camouflage. The first among these was a synaesthetic instrument invented by him in 1924 that
Vasily Andreyev (1861–1918) was a famous Russian musician with responsible modern and tradition folk instruments. He knew how to play them. Moreover in this field, he is known as a Father of folk musicians. He had done his academic on folk instruments in Europe. He also knew how to play orchestra which includes the string
Ulugh Beg (1394–27 October, 1449) was a Timurid astronomer, mathematician and sultan. His name also appears as Ulug Bey, (bey in Turkish means ‘chieftain’), Ulugh Bek and Ulug Bek. The grandson of the conqueror Timur the Lame (1336–1405) and the oldest son of Shah Rukh, both of whom came from the Turkic Barlas tribe of
Sir Timothy John, known by the name of Tim Berners-Lee was born on 8 June 1955. He is also recognized as TimBL. He is a British computer scientist and the inventor of the World Wide Web. In March 1989 he prepared a plan for an information management system. On 25 December, 1990, through the help
Thomas Saint, a skilled craftsman in cabinetry, patented a design of the sewing machine in the year 1790. He was the first to design it but this invention was not advertised by him. The machine was initially used for sewing canvas and leather materials only. There wasn’t evidence available for the product since Saint had
Thomas Hunt Morgan was an evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist and science author. He was born on 25 September, 1866, at Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.A. Since childhood he had shown an immense interest in natural history. In 1890, he completed his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and researched embryology during his term at Bryn Mawr. Morgan left an important
Thomas Alva Edison (11 February, 1847–18 October, 1931) an American school dropout, was a genius and a businessman by profession. His list of inventions includes the Phonograph, the first commercial incandescent light, carbon microphone and the light bulb. He found his own company, called as the Edison Electric Light Company. He started off as a
Stephen Hawking (born 8 January, 1942) is a theoretical physicist and former Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He is also the celebrated author of the book, ‘A Brief History of Time’, an international bestseller for a record-breaking 237 weeks. He is now Director of Research at the Institute for Theoretical Cosmology at
Sir Joseph Lister (5 April, 1827–10 February, 1912) was a British surgeon who is considered as the Father of antiseptic surgery. He was the one to propel the idea of sterile surgery as this would help to decrease the possibility of post-operative infection. He successfully used Carbolic acid to sterilise wounds and surgical instruments. In