Scientists & Inventors

Pioneering physicists, chemists, astronomers, inventors, and innovators who changed world history.

Personalities in Scientists & Inventors

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Arno Allan Penzias Rank #581

Arno Allan Penzias (; April 26, 1933 – January 22, 2024) was an American physicist and radio astronomer.

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Akira Suzuki Rank #582

Akira Suzuki (鈴木章, Suzuki Akira; born September 12, 1930) is a Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate (2010), who first published the Su...

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Benjamin Franklin Rank #583

Benjamin Franklin is a Founding Father, polymath, and pioneer of electrical physics.

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Henry Way Kendall Rank #584

Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 – February 15, 1999) was an American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 joint...

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Wilbur Wright Rank #585

Wilbur Wright is a Aviation genius and aerodynamic engineer who solved Three-Axis Flight Control.

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Har Gobind Khorana Rank #586

Har Gobind Khorana (9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011) was an Indian-American biochemist.

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Hideki Shirakawa Rank #587

Hideki Shirakawa (白川英樹, Shirakawa Hideki; August 20, 1936 – August 24, 2026) was a Japanese chemist and engineer who was Professor Emeritus...

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Fraser Stoddart Rank #588

Sir James Fraser Stoddart, (24 May 1942 – 30 December 2024) was a British-American chemist who was Chair Professor in Chemistry at the University of Hong Kong.

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Rudolf Diesel Rank #589

Rudolf Diesel is a Pioneering mechanical engineer and inventor of the Diesel Engine.

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Samuel Morse Rank #590

Samuel Morse is a Inventor of the Single-Wire Electric Telegraph and Morse Code.

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Gottlieb Daimler Rank #591

Gottlieb Daimler is a Pioneer of internal combustion engines and father of the modern automobile.

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Karl Benz Rank #592

Karl Benz is a Pioneering automotive engineer and designer of the first practical petrol automobile.

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Wernher von Braun Rank #593

Wernher von Braun is a Aerospace engineer and chief architect of the Saturn V Moon rocket.

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Sergei Korolev Rank #594

Sergei Korolev is a Chief Designer of the Soviet space program and father of practical cosmonautics.

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Robert Goddard Rank #595

Robert Goddard is a Father of Modern Liquid-Fueled Rocketry and American physicist.

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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Rank #596

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky is a Father of Theoretical Astronautics and Russian rocket visionary.

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Theodore Maiman Rank #597

Theodore Maiman is a Physicist who constructed the world's first working Optical Laser in 1960.

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Charles Townes Rank #598

Charles Townes is a Nobel laureate in Physics, inventor of the Maser, and pioneer of the Laser.

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George Eastman Rank #599

George Eastman is a Pioneering entrepreneur and inventor who popularized Roll Film and Kodak.

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