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World's Most Influential Inventors and Scientists of All Time

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This list consists of names of inventors and scientists who made great contributions in improving human life and their works paved the way in the development and modernization of science and technology.

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Johann Guttenberg Report Abuse
He is the inventor of printing, the first person who developed the first method of movable type and the printing press.He combined all the elements of printing into an effective and complete production and manufacturing process.
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No list is right without Nikola Tesla in the top 3! Need I say more
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He was a cartographer for Marco Pollo...
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He didn't invent printing, he invented the printing press (movable type). Get the facts right.
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Nikolaus August Otto Report Abuse
He built the first 4-stroke internal combustion engine.
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May Planck Report Abuse
Planck's hypothesis became the starting point for the quantum theories that revolutionized physics and provided a deeper understanding of the nature of matter and radiation. He is the Father of Quantum Mechanics.
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Max Planck*
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Werner Heisenberg Report Abuse
He created the quantum mechanic theory which is applied in the creation of electron microscopic lasers and transistors, wide application in nuclear physics and atomic energy.
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Leonardo Da Vinci Report Abuse
Leonardo is most well known for his skill in the arts, but was also one of the greatest mechanical minds of his time. He is contributed with the first designs for the flying machine, the tank, horseless carriage and paved the way for architectural design. His work was the stepping stone for many others to build from and made it possible for many to complete their work.
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He even wrote down all of his findings upside-down and backwards so no one could read it.
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Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen Report Abuse
He invented x-ray
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roentgen
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Albert Einstein Report Abuse
He is considered the greatest scientist of the 20th century. He developed the Einstein Law of Gravitation. He received a Nobel Prize in physics for his paper explaining the photoelectric effects, an important phenomenon which is a puzzle to physicists.In his paper he explained the existence of photon or particles of light. His photoelectric law turn out to have important applications and his hypothesis of the photon had a major influence and an integral part of today's quantum theory.
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So many people think he was the smartest man who ever lived, but Thomas Edison and Isaac Newton are about 30 IQ points smarter than him.
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Perhaps one of the most influential scientists of all time. However, i believe that the definition of inventor is more someone who develops something new rather than discovering and theorizing something that has always existed
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Nicolas Copernicus Report Abuse
Copernicus correctly stated that the earth rotates in it's axis, that the moon revolves around the earth and the earth and other planets revolve around the sun. The Copernican system of the universe revolutionized our understanding of the universe and led to major changes in the entire philosophical outlook.
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Otto von Lilienthal Report Abuse
Inventor of the airplane
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I did a PowerPoint on this dude, he was known for successful glider tests and invented the plane, yet he died doing this.
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Dmitri Mendeleev Report Abuse
Russian chemist and inventor. He is credited as being the creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements.
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Lewis Pasteur Report Abuse
He is the most important single figure in the history of medicine and made many contributions to science. He is most famous in his advocacy of the germ theory of disease and for his technique of preventive inoculation.Pasteur stressed the importance of antiseptic methods for physicians. Pasteur developed a technique to destroy microorganisms in beverages called pasteurization. He studied a disease called anthrax and developed a technique for producing a weakened strain of the anthrax bacillus, when injected into the cattle it developed an immunity to normal form of disease. It was soon realized that his method might be applied to the prevention of many other communicable diseases. Pasteur's most renowned achievement is the development of immunizing people against rabies. Other scientists applied Pasteur's basic ideas and created vaccines against serious diseases like typhus and poliomyelitis.
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His name is spelled LOUIS, not LEWIS.
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Lewis?????? LEWIS?!?!?????
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Ben Franklin Report Abuse
Besides his many inventions, he also had a big part in Democracy
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The Greeks had democracy long before Franklin.
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He invented the bifocals and the stove. Scientists state that he never did his kite-flight because the shock would have killed him.
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Galileo Galilei Report Abuse
Italian scientist famous in the field of Astronomy. Galileo invented the telescope and his observations proved the Copernican Hypothesis. He also discovered the Law of Inertia which states that an object will continue moving indefinitely unless a stopping force like friction is applied to it.. Galileo's most important contribution was his role in founding the modern scientific method. He insisted the necessity of conducting experiments to determine what actually did happen.
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Vladimir Shukhov Report Abuse
Russian civil engineer, inventor and architect, who played a key role in petroleum industry, transport and modern architecture. His inventions: hyperboloid structures, lattice shell structures, tensile structures, gridshell structures, oil reservoirs and pipelines.
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Orville and Wilbur Wright Report Abuse
Inventor of airplane. The Wright brothers first learn to fly before before inventing a powered airplane by using gliders. They are the most expert pilots in the world.
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They did not invent the airplane. They made good progress together with others who built airplanes before them. They just set a new record in the distance of the plane flying.
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Michael Faraday Report Abuse
He invented the first electric motor, the first device to use an electric current to make a material object move. Faraday Law is of in our theoretical understanding of electromagnetism. Electro magnetic conduction can be used to generate continuous electricity as Faraday demonstrated himself by building the first electric dynamo.
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he is very important
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Gregor Mendel Report Abuse
He discovered the basic principles of heredity and paved the way of modern genetics..
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Thomas Edison Report Abuse
He invented the first electrical lighting system-incandescent light bulb.He also set up the first power distribution company providing electricity to private homes. This paved the way to the development of the power generation industry and stimulated the use of electricity in different industries.He also established the first modern, well-equipped research laboratory.
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"This paved the way to the development of the power generation" - Clearly you didn't take the time to read and interpret what was said. Thomas Edison's invention paved a road for someone like Nicola Tesla to make it more efficient.
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Nicola Tesla's design is the one We use today Edison's design Wasn't efficient not to mention The 3 phase motor , coil ,ac power I could go on !!!
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James Clark Maxwell Report Abuse
Famous for his formulation of the set of four equations that express the basic laws of electricity and magnetism. Maxwell was able to describe exactly the behavior and interaction of electric and magnetic field.
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James Clerk Maxwell
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Sigmund Freud Report Abuse
He developed the technique of psychoanalysis to treat mental illness. He formulated the theory of the structure of the human personality.
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He did not invent anything. He just phantasied.
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Euclid Report Abuse
A Greek Geometer whose textbook, The Element has been used for more than 2000 years ans it is unquestionably the mos successful textbook ever written. Euclid's textbook was a significant factor in the advancement of science.
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James Watt Report Abuse
Inventor of the steam engine
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Mikhail Lomonosov Report Abuse
Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. Among his discoveries was the atmosphere of Venus. His spheres of science were natural science, chemistry, physics, mineralogy, history, art, philology, optical devices and others. Lomonosov was also a poet, who created the basis of the modern Russian literary language.
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Wow! He did a lot!
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T'sai Lun Report Abuse
He is the inventor of paper during the Han Dynasty. His name is unknown to many but his invention of the paper made a significant change and improvement of how books are written. Before paper was invented, Books in China were made of bamboo, in the West Books are written in parchment or vellum made of specially processed sheepskin or calfskin, which is expensive and scarce. Paper is common nowadays but it is so important and it is widely used not just for writing and printing. Imagine a world without paper...what do you think?
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The most important and influential invention on this list.
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Isaac Newton Report Abuse
An apple fell while he sat under a tree, that helped him with some important ideas. Seriously, he's not even on this list...ISAAC NEWTON!
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Between Newton or Einstein should be #1
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He is almost popular just like Einstein...!!! And seriously... He can be in 3rd or4th influential I ever have known
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Nicola Tesla Report Abuse
Alternating Current (AC), Wireless, Radio & Radio-control, X-ray experimentation, and the Tesla Coil.
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Ivan Pavlov Report Abuse
Russian scientist, Nobel laureate. The Most influential physiologist of all time. Creator of reflex system ("Pavlov's dog")
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Guglielmo Marconi Report Abuse
He is the inventor of radio. His work paved the way in the development of wireless communication which is very important in the modern world.
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Nope wrong again Marconi used Nicola Tesla's patents to build the Radio
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Alexander Fleming Report Abuse
Inventor of penicillin. He studied wound infection and noticed that many antiseptics injured the body cell even more than they injured the microbes. He discovered the substance which he called lysozyme-produced by human body.
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DISCOVERER of penicillin, not inventor
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Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek Report Abuse
He discovered the microbes and the first person who was able to describe spermatozoa, one of the earliest to describe the red blood corpuscles. Through him the scientific world became aware of the existence of microbes.
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anton van leeuwenhoek
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Wernher von Braun Report Abuse
the father of the moon programm
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Alexander Graham Bell Report Abuse
Inventor of telephone
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That is right, Philip Reis invented the telephone and Bell made it economic in Britain. The British did not want to speak into a German device at that time.
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He was not the inventor of the telephone!
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Enrico Fermi Report Abuse
He designed the first nuclear reactor
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He actually invented radiation.
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Antoine Laurent Lavoiseur Report Abuse
He is the most important figure in the development of Chemistry. He was the first person to clearly explain the principle of conservation of mass in chemical reactions. According to him a chemical reaction might re-arrange the elements present in the original substance but no matter is destroyed , and the end product weigh the same as the original component.
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John Ross Dixon Report Abuse
Found out turkeys could fly fly.
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I totally think they could flyflyflyflyflyflyflyfly....
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Dang i knew they could fly but i didnt know they could fly fly
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Johannes Kepler Report Abuse
proved that the sun is the center of our solar system, father of modern astronomy
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William TG Morton Report Abuse
He was the person responsible in introducing the use of anesthesia in surgery.
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Nicholas Barkley Report Abuse
He invented the Crimson C
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Gregory Pincus Report Abuse
He played a very significant role in the development of the oral contraceptive pill.
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Edward Jenner Report Abuse
He was the person who popularized the technique of vaccination as a preventive measure against small pox..
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Antoine Henry Becquerel Report Abuse
He is a Nobel Prize recipient for her discovery of radio activity.
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It's radioactivity.
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William Harvey Report Abuse
He discovered the circulation of blood and the function of the heart.
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Louis Daguerre Report Abuse
He developed the first practical method of photography called daguerreotype.
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