151 World’s Greatest Inventors

An American biochemist and pharmacologist, receiver of the 1988 Nobel prize in Physiology, Gertrude Belle Elion (23 January, 1918–21 February, 1999) has made noteworthy contributions to the medical world. Her involvement in cancer research was due to the death of her grandfather to cancer. Along with the research for cancer drugs, she has also been […]

Gerd Binnig (born 20 July, 1947) is famous physician and inventor and known for the microscopic field of science for scanning tunneling. He worked as an engineer in the IBM Company as his first company and later on joins the research group. He is also a Nobel Prize winner for the year of 1986 in

Georgy Beriev (13 February, 1903–12 July, 1979) established the Soviet Union Beriev style agency in the Taganrog that focused on amphibious craft. Of cultural Georgian beginning, his antecedents unsure, and it’s not glorious once his name was Russified to Beriev from Beriashvili. After receiving an academic degree upon completion of studies through railway school within Tbilisi.

George Harry Heilmeier was born on 22 May, 1936, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was an American engineer and entrepreneur, who was a revolutionary contributor to liquid crystal display. Heilmeier joined RCA Laboratories in 1958 in Princeton, New Jersey. In those laboratories he worked on so many things likes parametric enlargement, tunnel diode down-converters, millimeter wave

George Eastman was born on 12 July, 1854, at Waterville in New York, USA. He was an American modernizer and industrialist who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and made up roll film, serving to get photography to the mainstream. In 1888 roll film was also the source for the creation of motion picture film by

George De Bothezat was born on 7 June, 1882 in Saint Petersburg. Between 1905 and 1907, he was in an electrotechnical school. In 1914, he became the director of a Polytechnical Institute. In 1915, he brought down on the paper standard bombing tables for Air Force. In 1916, he promoted to the chief of the

Genrich Altshuller (15 October, 1926–24 September, 1998) was a multi-faceted personality because he was a scientist, an engineer as well. In Russian Soviet he was an inventor, a journalist and a great writer as well. His achievement and imprisonment are two contrary points of his life. The main invention he had done is on TRIZ

Galileo Galilei (15 February, 1564–8 January, 1642) played a vital part in the Scientific Revolution for which he received immense admiration. During his college time Galileo decided to go in the medical field. With strong determination he got admitted to the University of Pisa to achieve the medical expertise. Almost 2 years later he started

Frederick Gowland Hopkins was born on 20 June, 1861, at Eastbourne, England. He was a bright schoolboy in several subjects, and was given a first-class in Chemistry in 1874. Later, as a result of an examination at the College of Preceptors, he was given a prize for Science. At the early age of 17, when

Fyodor Abramovich Blinov (1827–1902) born in Russia, was a famous inventor and engineer. He was born in Saint Nicholas village, which falls under Wolski county, in Russia. He was well known as the inventor of the world’s first tracked vehicles which are wagon that ran on continuous track instead the conventional wheels, in 1877. These

Sir Francis Beaufort was born on 24 May, 1774 in Navan. Daniel Augustus Beaufort was his father who was the member of Royal Irish Academy. Till the age fourteen Francis spent his days in Ireland and Wales. After finishing his school he went for higher studies. But afterward, he became amply self-educated to get associated

Federico Faggin was born on 1 December, 1941. He was an Italian physicist as well as an electrical engineer. He was known for his designing that was related to the first viable microprocessor. He was initiator and CEO of Zilog, the earliest company exclusively committed to microprocessors. He was honoured with the National Medal of

The father of Nuclear Physics, Ernest Rutherford (30 August, 1871–19 October, 1937) earned recognition in the field of Physics and Chemistry for his model of an atom and the popular Gold Foil Experiment. He discovered Proton and coined the term ‘Artificial Disintegration’, a process by which atomic nucleus was broken down by high-speed alpha particles.

Eugen Baumann was born on 12 December, 1846. He was a famous German chemist. He created Polyvinyl Chloride or PVC. Along with his partner Carl Schotten he was successful in discovering the Schotten-Burman reaction, a synthesis of amides from amines and acid chloride. He had completed his education in pharmacy from the University of Tubingen.

Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer was born on 20 November, 1889 in Marshfield, Missouri, United States, and died on 28 September, 1953 in San Marino, California, at 63 years of age. Hubble is known generally for the popular Hubble’s law. With the use of Hooker Telescope, (which was the biggest telescope in the world at that