Famous Scientists and Their Discoveries

All the technologies that make our lives easier, all the medicines and medical equipment that save our lives, all that we know about the creation of the world is because of all those scientists who spent thousands of hours in their laboratories inventing these things. They gave us the world as it is today. Here is a list of some of the world's greatest and most famous scientists, along with a brief of the things they discovered.

Archimedes (287 - 212 BC)
A very versatile personality, Archimedes was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, engineer and a successful inventor. He was popular for his innovative thinking and has discovered many innovative machines. A way of finding the volume of irregularly shaped objects was perhaps the best of his discoveries.

Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931)
Amongst the numerous inventions of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prominent one is the electric bulb. But there were many other useful things that he discovered like telegraph devices, phonograph, carbon transmitter, direct current generator, graphophone which was the improved version of the phonograph, the dictating machine, universal electric motor, etc.

Sir Alexander Fleming (1881 - 1955)
He worked as an army medical corp throughout the First World War. His invention, penicillin, saved many soldiers from infections. No doubt he secured a place in the list of the world's most well-known science veterans. His discovery is said to have revolutionized the medicine industry tremendously.

Michael Faraday (1791 - 1867)
We know more about the laws he invented than anything else he did. His contributions to electromagnetism and electrochemistry are most remarkable. The study of magnetism is incomplete without learning Faraday's law of induction. And his laws and terminologies of the process of electrolysis are the spine of chemistry.

Alexander Graham Bell (1857 - 1922)
It was during his experiments with the telegraph that he thought of the concept of the telephone and everyone knows that no other invention is as path breaking as the telephone. Bell himself considered the telephone to be intruding and did not have a telephone in his place of work.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Albert Einstein's inventions and theories transformed many concepts related to space and time, theory of relativity being the most important one of his theories. Even today there are hardly any people who truly understand the theory. His other discoveries include the photoelectric effect and the Einstein calculator.

Frederick Banting (1891 - 1941)
He started with his education in politics but ended up shifting to medicine. He completed his MD in the year 1916. He worked as a doctor in the World War I and attended many wounded soldiers. Banting's real interest was in diabetes and its cure, which he worked upon with another scientist named Dr. Charles Best. He received the Nobel prize in the year 1923 for developing insulin.

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
This creative maestro, Leonardo Da Vinci, was also a visionary in various fields like engineering, astronomy, aeronautics, mathematics etc. He conceptualized many inventions through his paintings. He is even considered as the father of modern science. His most profound inventions include the hydraulic machine, the boat, design of a flying machine, crane clocks etc.

Ferdinand Verbiest (1623 - 1688)
Originally an astronomer and an accomplished mathematician, Ferdinand Verbiest invented the first automobile. He built it when he was visiting China as a missionary. This automobile was powered by steam and was not meant to carry humans.

Others

Scientist	Invention
Benjamin Franklin	Electricity
Isaac Newton	Gravity
Wright Brothers	Airplane
James Watt	Steam Engine
Alessandro Volta	Electric Cell
Edward Teller	Hydrogen Bomb
Rudolf Diesel	Compression Ignition Engine
John Browning	Automatic Firearms
Louis Braille	Braille System
Tim Berners-Lee	World Wide Web
Charles Babbage	Computer
Marie Curie	Radioactivity
Niels Bohr	Bohr Theory of the Atom
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen	X-rays
Joseph John Thomson	Mass Spectrograph
William Thompson	Kelvin Temperature Scale
Robert Bunsen	Cesium and Rubidium
John Dalton	Atomic Theory

The above list covers only a handful of the scientists. However, there have been countless inventions and the number of scientists who invented them is also huge. But they have all improved our life in some or the other way and they will always be remembered for that.