Alexander Graham Bell

A famous scientist and an inventor, Alexander Graham Bell is known to all for his invention of the Telephone. Much less is known about the fact that apart from inventing the telephone...

Albert Einstein

Known for revolutionizing the concepts of space and time, by creating the Theory of Relativity, Einstein was born at Ulm, Germany. Einstein disliked the rigid education and grading...

Alexander Fleming

Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) was a Scottish bacteriologist who discovered lysozyme (a nasal enzyme with antibacterial properties) in 1922, and in 1928 the antibiotic drug penicillin....

Alfred Nobel

Alfred Nobel was born on October 21, 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden and died on December 10, 1896. He was a chemist, innovator, engineer and one of his most important discoveries was dynamite....

Alessandro Volta

Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) invented the voltaic pile (the first battery), the electrophorus (an early electrostatic generator), and an electroscope (for detecting electric charge). Born...

Andreas Vesalius

Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) great innovations were to perform postmortem dissections, and to make use of illustrations in teaching anatomy. Short Biography: These enabled him...

A. P. J. Kalam

A. P. J. Kalam (Avul Pakir Jainulabhudin Abdul Kalam) was born on Thursday, October 15, 1931 in Rameshwaram and he is a famous scientist from India of Muslim religion. He started his...

Andrei Sakharov

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (1921-1989) was a Soviet physicist, known both as the "father of the Soviet H-bomb" and as an outspoken human-rights campaigner. Short Biography: Nobel...

Aurel Vlaicu

Aurel Vlaicu was born on November 19, 1882 in Bintinti near Orastie, Hunedoara - Romania. He was a Romanian inventor, engineer and a world aviation pioneer. Biography and Career...

Albert Sabin

Albert Sabin (1906-1993) was a Polish-born US microbiologist, whose involvement in the anti-polio campaigns led to the development of a new, highly effective live vaccine. Short...

Abdus Salam

Abdus Salam (1926-1996) was a Pakistani physicist, known for his work on the fundamental forces of nature. In 1979 he was the first from his country to receive a Nobel prize. Short...

Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) described in 1936 a "universal computing machine" that could theoretically be programmed to solve any problem capable of solution by a specially designed...

Apollonius of Perga

Apollonius of Perga (c.260-c.190 BC) was an Greek mathematician, known as "the Great Geometer". Short Biography: In his work Conks he showed that a plane intersecting a cone...

Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) was a French chemist. Short Biography: He proved that combustion needed only a part of "air" which he called oxygen, thereby destroying...

Alfred Wegener

Alfred Lothar Wegener (1880-1930) theory of "continental drift", expounded in Origin of Continents and Oceans in 1915, was originally known as Wegener's hypothesis. His ideas can...

Adele Diamond

Adele Diamond is one of the few founders of the field of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. She holds the Canada Research Chair Tier 1 Professorship in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience...

Arthur Kornberg

Arthur Komberg (1918-2007) was an American biochemist. Short Biography: In 1956, while working on enzymes at Washington University, Komberg discovered the enzyme DNA-polymerase...

Alexei Ananishnov

Alexei Ananishnov was born on November 8, 1962 in Leningrad, Russia. He is also known as Aleksei Ananishnov. He was an actor and also a professional mathematician. He acted in "Dni...

Archimedes

Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, who made important discoveries in geometry, hydrostatics, and mechanics. Short Biography: He formulated a law of fluid displacement...

Auguste Piccard

Auguste Piccard (1884-1962) was a Swiss scientist. Short Biography: In 1931-1932, he and his twin brother Jean Felix (1884-1963) made ascents to 17,000 m/55,000 ft in a balloon...

Alexander Todd

Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd (1907-1997) was a British organic chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1957 for his work on the role of nucleic acids in genetics. He...

Albert Szent-Gyorgi

Albert Szent-Gyorgi (1893-1986) isolated vitamin C and studied the chemistry of musclar activity. He won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1937. Short Biography: In 1928 Szent-Gyorgi...

Andre Marie Ampere

Andre Marie Ampere (1775-1836) was an French physicist and mathematician who made many discoveries in electromagnetism and electrodynamics. Short Biography: He followed up the...

Arthur Eddington

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944) was a British astrophysicist, who studied the motions and equilibrium of stars, their luminosity and atomic structure, and became a leading...