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 Wilbur Wright was born on April 16, 1867 in Millville, Indiana and died on May 30, 1912. He was along his brother, Orville Wright, the first airplane builder and they created the first... | |
 Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) developed German military rockets (VI and V2) during World War II, and later worked for NASA in the USA. Short Biography: During the 1940s his research... | |
 William Edward Boeing (1881-1956) was an American industrialist, founder of the Boeing Airplane Company in 1917. Short Biohraphy: It's military aircraft include the flying fortress... |  Walter Hermann Nernst (1864-1941) investigations, for which he won the 1920 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, were concerned with heat changes in chemical reactions. Short Biography: He... |
 Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958) was an Austrian physicist, who originated Poult's exclusion principle: in a given system no two electrons, protons, neutrons, or other elementary particles... |  William Shockley (1910-1989) was an American physicist and amateur geneticist, who worked with Bardeen and Brattain on the invention of the transistor. Short Biography: They... |
 William Gilbert (1544-1603) was a scientist and physician to Elizabeth I and (briefly) James I. Short Biography: He studied magnetism and static electricity, deducing that the... |  Wilhelm Wien, (1864-1928) studied radiation and established the principle that the wavelength at which the radiation from an idealized radiating body is most intense is inversely proportional... |
 William Harvey (1578-1657) in 1628 he published his great book De Moot Cordis / On the Motion of the Heart. Short Biography: After studying at Padua, Italy, under Fabricius, he... |  Walter Gilbert (born in 1932) worked on the problem of genetic control, seeking the mechanisms which switch genes on and off. Short Biography: By 1966 he had established the... |
 Werner Carl Heisenberg (1901-1976) was a German physicist. Short Biography: He was an originator of quantum mechanics, the modem theory of matter, radiation, and their reaction... |  Willis Lamb (1913-2008) was an American physicist who revised the quantum theory of Dirac. Short Biography: The hydrogen atom was thought to exist in either of two distinct states... |
 William Herschel (1738-1822) was a German-born British astronomer. He was a skilled telescopemaker, and pioneered the study of binary stars and nebulae. In 1781, he discovered Uranus. Short... |  William Symington (1763-1831) invented the steam road locomotive in 1787 and a steamboat engine in 1788. His steamboat the Charlotte Dundas was completed in 1802. Why is William... |
 Wilhelm Hofmeister (1824-1877) was a German botanist. Short Biography: He studied plant development and determined how a plant embryo, lying within a seed, is itself formed out... |  William Wollaston (1766-1828) amassed a large fortune through his discovery in 1804 of how to make malleable platinum. Short Biography: He went on to discover the new elements... |
 Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804-1891)was working with Karl Gauss, he made sensitive magnetometers to measure magnetic fields, and instruments to measure direct and alternating currents.... |  William Oughtred (1575-1660) is credited as the inventor of the slide rule in 1622. Short Biography: His major work Clavis mathematicae/The Key to Mathematics in 1631 was a survey... |
 William Thomson Kelvin, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824-1907) was a Irish physicist, who introduced the Kelvin scale, the absolute scale of temperature. Short Biography: His work on the... |  Willebrord Snellius (1581-1626) was a Dutch mathematician and physicist who devised the basic law of refraction, known as Snell's law in 1621. Short Biography: This states that... |
 William Prout (1785-1850) published Prout's hypothesis: that the atomic weight of every atom is an exact and integral multiple of the hydrogen atom in 1815. The discovery of isotopes... |  Wendell Stanley (1904-1971) was working at the Rockefeller Institute, Princeton, Stanley succeeded, in 1935, in crystallising a virus: the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV). Short Biography... |
 Walter Houser Brattain (1902-1987) was a American physicist. Short Biography: In 1956, he was awarded a Nobel prize jointly with William Shockley and John Bardeen for their work... |  William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868) in 1846 introduced ether as an anaesthetic; his claim to be the first to do so was strongly disputed. Short Biography: While searching... |
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