- Anderson—Discovered positive electrons.
- Archimedes—Discovery of the Principles of lever and of specific gravity; invention of the famous Archimedean screw.
- Avogadro—An Italian scientist known for Avogadro’s Hypothesis.
- Bacquerel—Radio-activity of uranium. Baird—Television.
- Baron Napier—Logarithms.
- Benjamin Franklin—Invented lightning conductor.
- Bessemer—Steel smelting process.
- Bhabha, Dr H.J.—Research in Cosmic rays and Quantum theory.
- Binet—Intelligence Test.
- Birbal Sahni—Researches in Botany.
- Bose, J.C.—Invented Crescograph and published many works on plant physiology. He discovered that plants have sense and perception.
- Bose, S.N.—Discovery of a group of nuclear particles named after him “Boson”.
- Boyle—Boyle’s law; Pressure x volume = constant at a constant given temperature. Boyle was the greatest scientist of England in his time.
- Bohr—Electron Theory—Atomic structure.
- Braun, Dr Wernher von—space flying.
- Bunsen—Invention of the spectroscope.
- Carothers—Nylon plastics.
- Cavendish—Discovery of chemical composition of water; discovery of hydrogen (Inflammable Air); ‘rare gases’.
- Chadwick—Discovery of the neutron.
- Chandrasekhar—Mathematical Astrophysics.
- Charles Darwin—Theory of Evolution; Origin of Species.
- Clarke, Arthur C.—Concept of Geostationary Orbit.
- Curie, Madame—Discovery of radium.
- Dalton—Atomic theory; laws of chemical combination; law of partial pressures; the law of multiple proportions.
- Democritus—Greek philosopher—(Atomic theory).
- Dewar—Invented cordite, liquid oxygen and introduced thermos flask.
- Einstein—Theory of relativity.
- Euclid—Science of geometry.
- Fahrenheit—Fahrenheit mercury thermometric scale in which freezing point is –32° and boiling point is 212°.
- Faraday—Electromagnetic induction and laws of electrolysis.
- Fermi—Discovered artificial splitting of atoms.
- Freud—Doctrine of Psycho-analysis.
- Gay Lussac—Law of gases.
- Gauss—System of absolute electric measurements.
- Good Year—Discovered the art of vulcanising rubber.
- Herschel, William—Discovered the Planet—Uranus.
- Hertz—Electrical waves.
- Hippalus—Founder of scientific astronomy.
- Hoffmann—Discovered the first aniline dye.
- Kelvin, Lord—Dynamical theory of heat.
- Khorana, Dr Hargobind—Deciphering the genetic code.
- Kodak—Film and photographic goods.
- Lablanc—Manufacture of washing soda.
- Lawrence—Invention of cyclotron.
- Lockyer—Helium gas.
- Louis Braille—Perfected his system of reading and writing for the blind.
- Marconi—Wireless telegraphy; radio.
- Maria-Montessori—‘Montessori’ method of teaching children.
- Maxwell—Electro-magnetic Theory of Light
- Meghnad Saha—Effect of pressure on Radiation through bodies.
- Mendel—Laws of heredity.
- Mandeleev—Periodic Table.
- Morse—Morse system of electric telegraphy.
- Newton—Laws of gravitation; Law of Motion.
- Nobel—Dynamite.
- Oliver Lodge—Physicist. Researches in wireless communications.
- Oppenheimer—Researches in atomic theory.
- Otto Hahn—Discovery of uranium fission.
- Parkes—Celluloid.
- Parsons—Steam turbine.
- Pavlov—Theory of Conditioned Reflex.
- Perkin—‘Mauve dye’.
- Pitman—Founded the Pitman system of phonographic shorthand.
- Planck—Quantum theory.
- Plimsoll—Introduced a line of demarcation on the ships beyond which the ships cannot be loaded.
- Priestley—Discovery of Oxygen.
- Raman, C.V.—“Raman Effect” on polarisation of light and theories on crystals and diamond formation.
- Ramanathan—Molecular scattering of light in fluids.
- Ramanujam—A great Indian mathematician.
- Ramsay—Discovery of Inert gases such as Argon, Neon, Helium etc.
- Ray, P.C.—Researches in chemistry.
- Regnault—Experiments in regard to the physical properties of bodies and their relation to heat.
- Roger Bacon—Gun powder.
- Rontgen—Discovery of X-rays.
- Rohmkorff—Induction coil.
- Rutherford—Atomic Research; succeeded in splitting the atom for the first time in 1918.
- Shalimar—Paints.
- Stephenson—British engineer and pioneer in Railways. He was the first to put a locomotive on the line that was able to draw a train of 31 carriages.
- Thomson, J.J.—Discovered electron.
- Travers—Discovery of Neon gas (Working with Ramsay).
- Urey—Discovery of Heavy Hydrogen.
- Volta—Current electricity and electric battery.
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