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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German physicist and mechanical engineer who discovered X-rays in 1895 while experimenting...

German Physics 19TH Century Medical

9.8 Brilliant

2

Wilhelm Roentgen

Wilhelm Roentgen was a German physicist who discovered X-rays in 1895. He produced and detected electromagnetic radiatio...

German Physics Historical Medical

9.8 Brilliant

3

Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg developed a printing press utilizing movable type in the mid-15th century. This innovation dramatical...

German Press Printing 15TH Century

9.7 Brilliant

4

Wilhelm Röntgen

Wilhelm Röntgen was a German physicist whose accidental discovery of x-rays in 1895 revolutionized science and medicine....

German Physics Medicine 19TH Century

9.6 Brilliant

5

André-Marie Ampère

André-Marie Ampère was a French physicist and mathematician whose work laid the foundations for electrodynamics. He inve...

18TH Century French Physics Electrical

9.6 Brilliant

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John Harrison

John Harrison was a British horologist and inventor of the 18th century. He dedicated his life to solving the challengin...

18TH Century Navigation British Horology

9.5 Brilliant

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Gerhard Domagk

Gerhard Domagk was a German pathologist who pioneered the use of sulfonamide drugs for treating bacterial infections. Hi...

German Chemistry Medicine 20TH Century

9.4 Excellent

8

Peter Grünberg

Peter Grünberg was a German physicist who revolutionized data storage technology. His independent 1988 discovery of gian...

German Physics 20TH Century Data Storage

9.4 Excellent

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Jakob Berzelius

Jacob Berzelius was a Swedish chemist whose work in the early 19th century established fundamental principles of modern...

18TH Century Chemistry Silicon Swedish

9.4 Excellent

10

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was a prominent 18th-century inventor and scientist. His meticulous research into electricity, particu...

18TH Century American Electricity Lightning

9.3 Excellent

11

Felix Hoffmann

Felix Hoffmann was a German chemist employed by Bayer. He developed and synthesized acetylsalicylic acid in 1897, creati...

German Chemistry Medicine 19TH Century

9.3 Excellent

12

Carl Zeiss

Carl Zeiss was a German optician whose workshop established in Jena in 1846 fundamentally shaped the field of optics. He...

German 19TH Century Lenses Microscopy

9.3 Excellent

13

Hans Christian Ørsted

Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851) was a Danish physicist who made significant contributions to the field of electromagne...

18TH Century Danish Physics Electromagnetism

9.3 Excellent

14

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor widely credited as a foundational pioneer in the field of photography. In...

18TH Century French Photography Heliography

9.3 Excellent

15

Karl Wilhelm Scheele

Karl Wilhelm Scheele was a 18th-century Swedish-German chemist whose independent discovery of oxygen in 1772 significant...

18TH Century Chemistry Swedish Elements

9.2 Excellent

16

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

Augustin-Jean Fresnel was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in the early 19th century provided founda...

18TH Century French Lighthouse Optics

9.2 Excellent

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Ernst Ruska

Ernst Ruska was a German physicist who designed and built the first electron microscope in 1931 while working at the Tec...

German Optics Scientific Mid 20TH

9.2 Excellent

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Karl Ferdinand Braun

Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850-1918) was a German physicist whose work contributed to early electronics, radio engineering,...

German Radio 19TH Century Electronics

9.2 Excellent

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Gabriel Fahrenheit

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) was a Dutch-German-Polish physicist and instrument maker born in Danzig (now Gdańs...

German 18TH Century Measurement Mercury Thermometer

8.8 Great

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Charles Stanhope

Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, was an English inventor, scientist, and politician active during the eighteenth cen...

18TH Century British Printing Printing Press

6.7 Fair