The Renouwned in Engineering (pre 1900)


Name
Nationality / Field of Work
Lived
AMPERE, Andre Marie
French mathematician & physicist
1775 - 1836
BAIRD,, John Logie
Scottish inventor
1888 - 1946
BELL, Alexander Graham
Scottish-American inventor
1847 - 1922
BOLTZMANN, Ludwig
Austrian physicist
1844 - 1906
BOOLE, George
English schoolteacher & mathematician
1815 - 1864
COULOMB, Charles Augustin de
French engineer and physicist
1738 - 1806
DESCARTES, Renee
French mathematician and philosopher
1596 - 1650
de MORGAN, Augustus
English mathematician and logician
1806 - 1871
ENSTEIN, Albert
German-Swiss physicist
1879 - 1955
EDISON, Thomas Alva
American scientist and inventor
1847 - 1931
FARADAY, Michael
English chemist and physicist
1791 - 1867
FLEMING, John Ambrose
English electrical engineer and physicist
1849 - 1945
FOURIER, Jean Baptiste Joseph
French mathematician
1768 - 1830
FRANKLIN Benjamin
American scientist and statesman
1706 - 1790
GALILEI, Galileo
Italian mathematician, physicist & astronomer
1564 - 1642
GAUSS, Karl Friedrich
German mathematician
1777 - 1855
HENRY, Joseph
American physicist and scientific administrator
1797 - 1878
HERTZ, Henrich
German physicist
1857 - 1894
JOULE, James Prescott
English scientist
1818 - 1889
KELVIN, Lord William Thomson
Scottish physicist and mathematician
1824 - 1907
KIRCHOFF, Gustav Robert
German physicist
1824 - 1887
LAPLACE, Marquis de
French astronomer and scientist
1749 - 1827
LENZ, Henrich Friedrich Emil
German-Russian physicist
1804 - 1865
MARCONI, Guglielmo
Italian electrical engineer
1874 - 1937
MAXWELL, James Clerk
Scottish physicist
1831 - 1879
MORSE, Samuel Finley Breese
American electrical engineer and artist
1791 - 1872
NAPIER, John
Scottish mathematician
1550 - 1617
NEWTON, Sir Isaac
English physicist and mathematician
1672 - 1727
OERSTED, Hans Christian
Danish physicist and chemist
1777 - 1851
OHM, Georg Simon
German experimental physicist
1787 - 1854
PASCAL, Blaise
French scientist and mathematician
1623 - 1662
PLANCK, Max
German theoretical physicist
1858 - 1947
RUTHERFORD, Lord Ernest
New Zealand physicist
1871 - 1937
SIEMANS, Ernst Werner von
German electrical engineer
1816 - 1892
TESLA, Nikola
American (Yugoslav born) electrical engineer
1856 - 1943
THOMSON, Sir Joseph John
English physicist
1856 - 1940
VOLTA, Alexsandro
Italian physicist
1745 - 1827
WATT, James
Scottish engineer
1736 - 1819
WEBER, Wilhelm Eduard
German physicist
1806 - 1891
WHEATSTONE, Sir Charles
English physicist
1802 - 1875
WIEN, Wilhelm
German physicist
1864 - 1928

 

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Compiled by D. Brewer - April 2000