Inventions/Discoveries | Name of the Scientist/Person |
Adding Machine | Pascal |
Aeroplane | Wright brothers |
Air Brake | George Westinghouse |
Air Pump | Otto von Guericke |
Airship (rigid) | G. Ferdinand Von Zeppelin |
Aniline Dyes | Hoffman |
Antiseptic Surgery | Lord Joseph Lister |
Arc Lamp | C. F. Brush |
Archimedean Screw | Archimedies |
Atom | Neils Bohr |
Atomic Number | Mosley |
Atomic Physics | Enrico Fermi |
Atomic Structure | Bohr and Rutherford |
Atomic Theory | Dalton |
Automatic gearbox | Hermann Fottinger |
Automobile | Daimler |
Automobiles using gasoline | Karl Benz |
Avogadro’s Hypothesis | Avogadro |
Bacteriology | Robert Koch |
Bacteriophage | Max Delbruck |
Bakelite | Leo H Baekeland |
Balloon | Jacques and Joseph Montgolfier |
Ball-Point Pen | John J. Loud |
Barometer | Evangelista Torricelli |
Behaviorism | B. F. Skinner |
Beri – Beri | Eijkman |
Bicycle | Kirkpatrick Macmillan |
Bicycle Tyre | J.B. Dunlop |
Bifocal Lens | Benjamin Franklin |
Binomial Nomenclature | Carl Linnaeus |
Biogenetic Principle | Ernst Haeckel |
Bismuth | Valentine |
Blood Circulation | Harvey |
Blood Groups | Karl Landsteiner |
Bomb | Edward Teller |
Boson | S.N.Bose |
Boyle’s law | Boyle |
Braille | Louis Braille |
Breaking up the Nucleus of an atom | Rutherford |
Calculating machine | Pascal |
Camera | George Eastman |
Carburetor | Gottlieb Daimler |
Carburettor | Gottlieb Daimler |
Cash register | William Burroughs |
Cell Doctrine | Rudolf Virchow |
Celluloid | A.Parker |
Cement | Joseph Aspdin |
Cenema | A.L. and J.L. Lumiere |
Centrigrade scale | A. Celsius |
Chemical Structure | August Kekule |
Chemotherapy | Paul Ehrlich |
Child Development | Jean Piaget |
Chloroform | James Harrison and James Young Simpson |
Cholera Bacillus | Robert Koch |
Chromosomal Theory of Heredity | Thomas Hunt Morgan |
Chronometer | John Harrison |
Cine camera | Friese-Greene |
Cinematograph | Thomas Alva Edison |
Cinematography | Thomas Alva Edison |
Circulation of the Blood | William Harvey |
Classical Field Theory | Michael Faraday |
Clock (machanical) | Hsing and Ling-Tsan |
Clock (pendulum) | C. Hugyens |
Coloured Photography | Lippman |
Computer | Charles Babbage |
Continental Drift | Alfred Wegener |
Cosmic Rays | R.A.Millikan |
Crescograph | J.C.Bose |
Crystal Dynamics | C.V.Raman |
Cyclotron | Lawrence |
D.D.T. | Dr.Paul Muller |
Deciphering the genetic code | Dr.Hargobiad Khorana |
Deuterium (Heavy Water) | H.C.Urey |
Diesel Engine | Rudolf Diesel |
Diesel Oil Engine | Rudolf Diesel |
Difference engine | Charles Babbage |
Electrons | J.J.Thomson |
Laws of Planetary Motion | Kepler |
North Pole | Robert Peary (1909) |
Solar System | Copernicus (1540) |
South Pole | Amundson (1912) |
Specific Gravity | Archimedes |
West Indies | Columbus (1492) |
Drinker’s Chamber of Iron Lung | Dr.Philip Drinker |
Dynamical theory of Heat | Lord Kelvin |
Dynamite | Alfred B. Nobel |
Dynamo | Michael Faraday |
Effect of Pressure on trough bodies | Meghnad Saha |
Eightfold Way | Murray Gell-Mann |
Electric Battery | Alessandro Volta |
Electric Flat Iron | H. W. Seeley |
Electric Furnace | William Siemens |
Electric Generator | Michael Faraday |
electric guitar | Adolph Rickenbacker |
Electric iron | H.W. Seeley |
Electric Lamp | Thomas Alva Edison |
Electric Measurement | Gauss |
Electric Motor (AC) | Nikola Tesla |
Electric razor | Jacob Schick |
Electrical Waves | Heitz |
Electricity | Faraday |
Electromagnet | William Sturgeon |
Electromagnetic Field | James Clerk Maxwell |
Electromagnetic Theory | Maxwell |
Electron | Joseph J. Thomson |
Electron Theory | Bohr |
Electronic Computer | Dr. Alan M. Turing |
Elevator | Elisha G. Otis |
Energy of the Sun | Hans Bethe |
Equal sign (=)? | Robert Recorde |
Ethology | Konrad Lorenz |
Eugenics | Francis Galton |
Evolution | Charles Darwin |
Evolution (theory) | Charles Darwin |
Evolutionary Theory | Ernst Mayr |
Fahrenheit Scale | Fahrenheit |
Film & Photographic goods | Kodak |
Film (with sound) | Dr. Lee de Forest |
Foundations of Biology | Jean Baptiste Lamarck |
Foundations of Mathematics | Euclid |
Founding of Modern Physiology | Claude Bernard |
Founding of Psychology | Wilhelm Wundt |
Fountain Pen | Lewis E. Waterman |
Fundamental Laws of Electric Attraction | Coulomb |
Galvanometer | Andre-Marie Ampere |
Gas lighting | William Murdoch |
Gasoline engine | Karl Benz |
Genetic Code | Frederick Sanger |
Geometry | Euclid |
Germ Theory of Disease | Louis Pasteur |
Glider | Sir George Caley |
Gramophone | Thomas Alva Edison |
Gun powder | Rogei Bacon |
Heavens | William Herschel |
Heavy Hydrogen | Urey |
Helicopter | Broquett |
Heliocentric Universe | Nicolaus Copernicus |
Helium Gas | Lockyer |
Homoeopathy | Hahnemann |
Hovercraft | Christopher Cockerell |
Human Sexuality | Alfred Kinsey |
Hydrogen | Cavendish |
Hydrophobia | Louis Pasteur |
I.Q. Test | Alfred Binet |
In Number Theory | Ramanujam |
Incandescent Bulb | Edison |
Induction Coil | Rohm Korff |
Induction of Electric Current | Faraday |
Insulin | F.Banting |
Intelligence test | Binet |
Internal Combustion Engine | Otto |
Jeans | Levi Strauss |
Jet Engine | Sir Frank Whittle |
Jet Propulsion | Frank Whittle |
Kala-azar Fever | U.N.Brahmachari |
Kaleidoscope | David Brewster |
Laboratory Gas Burner | Robert Wilhelm Von Bunsen |
Laughing Gas | Priestley |
Law of Electrolysis | Faraday |
Law of gases | Gay Lussac |
Laws of Electrical Resistance | Ohm |
Laws of Gravitation | Newton |
Laws of Heredity | Gregory Mandel |
Laws of Inheritance | Gregor Mendel |
Laws of Motion | Newton |
Laws of Multiple Proportion | Dalton |
Laws of Natural Selections | Darwin |
Life Boat | Henry Great Head |
Lift | E.G. Otis |
Lift (Elevators) | Otis |
Lightning Conductor | Benjamin Franklin |
Line of demarcation (ship) | Plimsoll |
Linotype | Mergenthaler |
Liquid Oxygen | Dewar |
Locomotive | Richard Trevithick |
Logarithmic Tables | John Napier |
Logarithms | John Napier |
Machine Gun | Dr. Richard Gatling |
Malarial Parasite | Ronald Ross |
Match (safety) | J.E. Lurdstrom |
Mathematical Astro Physics | Chandrasekhar |
Mathematical Genius | Carl Gauss (Karl Friedrich Gauss) |
Mauve dye | Perkin |
Measurement of Electrical Energy | Joule, James Prescoft |
Mechanical Equivalent of Heat | Joules |
Mercury Thermometer | Fahrenheit |
Meson | Hideki Yakawa |
Microphone | Johann Phillip Reis, Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray, Amos E. Dolbear, and Thomas Edison |
Microscopic Anatomy | Marcello Malpighi |
Modern Anthropology | Franz Boas |
Modern Astronomy | Arthur Eddington |
Modern Computer | John von Neumann |
Modern Geology | Charles Lyell |
Modern Physiology | William Bayliss |
Modern Synthesis | Theodosius Dobzhansky |
Modern Telescope | Edwin Hubble |
Molecular Biology | Francis Crick |
Molecular Scattering of light in fluid | Ramanathan |
Montessori Method | Maria Montessori |
Motion of the Planets | Johannes Kepler |
Motor Car (petrol) | Karl Butler |
Movie Projector | Thomas Alva Edison |
Neon Gas | Ramsay, Travers |
Neon-lamp | G. Claude |
Neurophysiology | Charles Sherrington |
Neutron | Chadwick |
New Anatomy | Andreas Vesalius |
New Astronomy | Tycho Brahe |
New Science | Galileo Galilei |
Newtonian Mechanics | Pierre Simon de Laplace |
Newtonian Revolution | Isaac Newton |
Nuclear Fission | Otto Hahn, Bohr and Fermi |
Nylon | Dr. Wallace H. Carothers |
Nylon Plastic | Carothers |
Organic Chemistry | Emil Fischer |
Origin of Species | Charles Darwin |
Oxygen | Priestly |
Paints | Shalimar |
Paper clip | Johann Vaaler |
Parking meter | Carlton Mcgee |
Penicillin | Alexander Fleming |
Periodic Law | Mendeleef |
Periodic Table of Elements | Dmitri Mendeleev |
Pharmacology | Gertrude Belle Elion |
Phonograph | Edison |
Photograph | Dauguerre |
Photography (paper) | W.H. Fox Tablot |
Phototherapy | N.R.Finsen |
Pneumatic Tyres | John Boyd Dunlop |
Positive Electrons | Anderson |
Power Loom | Edmund Cartwright |
Powerloom | Cartwright |
Principle for lever (S.P.Gravity) | Archimedes |
Printing for the Blind | Braille |
Printing Press | Johannes Gutenberg |
Psycho-analysis | Dr.Sigmund Freud |
Psychology of the Unconscious | Sigmund Freud |
Quanta | Max Planck |
Quantum Cosmology | Stephen Hawking |
Quantum Electrodynamics | Richard Feynman |
Quantum Mechanics | Max Born |
Quantum Theory | Werner Heisenberg |
Quantum Theory | Max plank |
Raazor (safety) | K.G. Gillete |
Rabies Vaccine | Louis Pasteur |
Radar | Dr. A.H. Taylor and L.C. Young |
Radio | G. Marconi |
Radio transmitter | Alexanderson |
Radioactive Dating | Willard Libby |
Radioactivity | Marie Curie |
Radio-activity of Uranium | Henry Becquerel |
Radium | Madame Curie |
Railway Engine | Stephenson |
Raincoat | Charles Macintosh |
Raman effect | C.V.Raman |
Rare Gas | Cavandish |
Rayon | American Viscose Co. |
Razor (electric) | Col. J. Schick |
Refrigerator | James Harrison, Alexander Catlin |
Replacing human heart | Christian Barnard |
Revolution in Chemistry | Antoine Laurent Lavoisier |
Revolver | Samuel Colt |
Rise of German Science | Hermann von Helmholtz |
rubber (vulcanized) | Charles Goodyear |
Rubber (waterproof) | Charles Macintosh |
Safety lamp | Sir Humphrey Davy |
Safety Pin | William Hurst |
Safety Razor | King C. Gillette |
Salk Vaccine | Salk |
Saxophone | Antoine Joseph Sax |
Scientific astronomy | Hippalus |
Scientific Thinking | Lucretius |
Scooter | G. Bradshaw |
Seismograph | Roberts Mallet |
Sewing Machine | Thomas Saint |
Sextant | Hadley |
Ship (steam) | J.C. Perier |
Ship (turbine) | Sir Charles Parsons |
Shorthand | Sir Isaac Pitman |
Sociobiology | Edward O. Wilson |
Soviet Genetics | Trofim Lysenko |
Space flying | Braun, Dr.Wernher Von |
Spectroscope | Bunsen |
Spectroscopy | Gustav Kirchhoff |
Spinning frame | Sir Richard Arkwight |
Spinning jenny | James Hargreaves |
Stainless Steel | Harry Brearley |
Steam boat | Fulton |
Steam Engine | James Watt |
Steam engine (condenser) | James Watt |
Steam engine (piston) | Thomas Newcome |
Steam Turbine | Parsons |
Steel Melting Process | Bessemer |
Steel production | Henry Bessemer |
Stethoscope | Dr. William Stokes, Rene Laennec |
Stress Concept | Hans Selye |
Structural Anthropology | Claude Levi-Strauss |
Structure of DNA | James Watson |
Structure of the Atom | Ernest Rutherford |
Submarine | David Bushnell |
Sulpha Drugs | Domagk |
Superconductivity | Heike Kamerlingh |
Symbiosis Theory | Lynn Margulis |
Symbol (x)? | William Oughtred |
T.N.T. | llly Brandt |
Talkies | Lee-de-Frost |
Tank | Sir Ernest Swington |
Telegraph | Samuel Morse |
Telegraphic Code | Samuel Morse |
Telephone | Sir Alexander Graham Bell |
Telescope | Galileo |
Television | Baird |
Television (mechanical) | John Logie Baird |
Tempo of Evolution | George Gaylord Simpson |
Terylene | J. Whinfield and H. Dickson |
The long playing microgroove record | Peter Goldmark |
Theory of conditioned reflex | Pavlov |
Theory of Evolution | Darwin |
Theory of Relativity | Einstein |
Theory of the Atom | John Dalton |
Thermodynamics | Ludwig Boltzmann |
Thermometer | Galileo Gallei |
Thermos Flasks | Dewar |
Tractor | J. Froelich |
Transformer | Michael Faraday |
Transistor | Bardeen, Shockley, Brattain |
Typewriter | C. Sholes |
Uranium fusion | Oho Hahn |
Uranus (Planet) | Herschel William |
Vaccination | Edward Jenner |
Valve of radio | Sir J.A. Fleming |
Vitamins | Hopkins and Funk |
Vitamin A
|
Elmer V. McCollum and M. Davis
|
Vitamin B
|
Elmer V. McCollum
|
Vitamin B1
|
Casimir Funk
|
Vitamin B2
|
D. T. Smith, E. G. Hendrick
|
Vitamin Niacin
|
Conrad Elvehjem
|
Vitamin Folic acid
|
Lucy Wills
|
Vitamin B6
|
Paul Gyorgy
|
Vitamin C
|
James Lind
|
Vitamin D
|
Edward Mellanby
|
Vitamin E
|
Herbert Evans and Katherine Bishop
|
Vulcanised Rubber | Charles Goodyear |
Washing Soda | Lablanc |
Watch | A.L. Breguet |
Waterproof Rubber | Charles Macintosh |
Wave Mechanics | Erwin Schrodinger |
Wave Theory of Light | Christiaan Huygens |
Wave/Particle Duality | Louis Victor de Broglie |
Wireless Communication | Oliver Lodge |
Wireless Telegraphy | Marcony |
World Wide Web and Hypertext Markup Language | Tim Berners Lee |
X – Rays | Roentgen |
X-ray | Wilhelm Reontgen |
X-ray Crystallography | Max von Laue |
zerox machine | Chester Carlson |
Zip fastener | W. L. Judson |
Zipper | B. F. Goodrich |
Compiled by: GELI Question Papers Team
is the air pump introduced by Otto von Guericke or Robert Hook
Excellent work! Thanks