151 World’s Greatest Inventors

Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Thorn, Poland, on 19 February, 1473 and has been marked for being a Renaissance astronomer. He was known for the formulation of the complete heliocentric cosmology, which was in context to the movement of earth from its central position of the universe. He had even designed the heliocentric model whereby […]

Nicolaus August Otto was born on 14 June, 1832 in Holzhausen, Germany. He is credited with the invention of the modern engine. He built the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine called the ‘Otto Cycle Engine’. He built it into a motorcycle when he completed his engine. His first job was a travelling salesman. Soon

Nicolas Appert was famous for his invention of airtight food preservation system. He was famously known as the Father of the canning. A confectioner and a chef by profession in Paris, he was born on 17 November, 1749. He began his experiments with all kinds of food preservatives. Finally after 14-15 years, he succeeded. He

Nick Holonyak, Jr. was born on 3 November, 1928 in Zeigler, Illinois. In 1962, he invented the first practically helpful noticeable LED during the working as a consulting scientist at a General Electric Company laboratory in Syracuse, New York. He has been called ‘the Father of the light-emitting diode’. The advisor of Nick Holonyak was

Neils Henrik David Bohr, popularly known as Neils Bohr, was born on 7 October, 1885 in Copenhagen, Denmark. His contributions included understanding the foundations of quantum mechanics and atomic structure, the former also earning him Nobel Prize in the year 1922. In 1926, he was also awarded with the coveted Franklin Medal for his brilliant

Neil Arnott (1788-1874) was a popular Scottish physician. He completed his graduation from the University of Aberdeen. At the age of nineteen, he was appointed as a full-time working surgeon. He provided his service to the British East India Company and made two voyages to China. Within a short period of time he became well

Muhammad Ibn Jabir Al-Harrani Al-Battani (850 AD–923 AD) was nicknamed as Albatenius. He was a famous Muslim astronomer, astrologer and mathematician. He invented a number of trigonometric relations. His greatest achievement was to determine the solar year. He found out that it has 365 days, 5 hours, 46 minutes and 24 seconds. The new tables

Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov was born on 10 November, 1919. He was a Russian arms designer who designed various types of small arms. His very famous designs are the AK-47, AKM and AK-74 assault rifles, Mikhail Kalashnikov was two times named as ‘Hero of Socialist Labour’. He was awarded an Order of Saint Andrew the Protoclete

Michael Faraday (22 September, 1791–25 August, 1867) is remembered for his achievements in the fields of electrochemistry and electromagnetism. This English scientist discovered electrolysis, electromagnetic induction, etc. He had a Civil Law degree from Oxford University to his credit. His discovery of magnetic field and a direct current conductor is considered very vital in Physics.

Max Von Laue was born on October 9, 1879 at Pfaffendorf, near Koblenz. He was the son of Julius von Laue, an official in the German military administration. At the Protestant school at Strassburg he came under the influence of Professor Goering, who introduced him to the exact sciences. In 1898 he left school. For

The winner of Nobel Prize of Physics in the year 1903 along with Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911, Marie Curie (7 November, 1867–4 July, 1934) was brought up in Warsaw, Poland. Her forte was not one but multiple fields. Marie Curie coined the term ‘radioactivity’ and discovered Polonium and Radium, both of which are

Luis W. Alvarez (13 June, 1911–1 September, 1988) was an American experimental physicist, won Nobel Prize in Physics in the year 1968 for his work which eventually came to be known as Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR). In his early career, he worked in the fields of optics and cosmic rays simultaneously. He co-discovered the ‘East-West

A French blind student who made the learning for blinds effective was born on 4 January, 1809. As a student, he studied the books of Valentin Huay who embossed Latin letters on heavy paper. As this created only small information to be filled in heavy uneven books, Louis Braille took inspiration from the captain of

Lev Artsimovich was born on 25 February, 1909. He was a famous Soviet physicist. Along with this he was an academician and renowned member of the presidium of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He became the hero of the Socialist Labour in 1969. His field of work was plasma Physics and nuclear fusion. He worked