151 World’s Greatest Inventors

Zhores Alferov (born 15 March, 1930) was a physicist, academician and a known inventor of heterotransistor. He was also a Nobel prize winner in the year 2000 for Physics. His inventions contributed to the creation of heterostructure of physics devices and electronics circuits. He was the most influential member as well in the Russian Federation. […]

Willis Carrier was an American inventor. He worked hard in his life. He was a mechanical engineer who worked to control and regulate the temperature. Willis Carrier was born on 26 November, 1876 in America. By the start of the 20th century, he completed his mechanical engineering. He invented the air conditioner. It was a

William Potts (1883–1947) was born in Michigan and served as a Detroit Police officer from the age of 17. He is credited to invent a three-way traffic light in 1920. Officially, he did not get the patent for his invention but since the legal battle started between the manufacturers of the traffic light, The United

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was born on 3 August, 1860. He was a French born Scot inventor who designed an early motion picture camera under the supervision of Thomas Edison. William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was an inventor, director, producer, cinematographer and actor. Dickson invented the first realistic celluloid film for this application (Kinetoscope) and determined

William Harvey (1 April, 1578–3 June, 1657) was a great English physician who pioneered the complete description of the concept of systemic circulation–detailed properties of the blood that is being pumped by the heart to the entire body. History states that Harvey was a humorous yet a very precise man who would often be insomniac

William George Armstrong (26 November, 1810–27 December, 1900) was basically a solicitor who was genuinely interested in engineering. Generally in his spare time, he was indulged in the activities of inventing little things which made the daily work easy. During one of his fishing visits he was thrilled by the idea that the energy and

William Friese-Greene was born on 7 September, 1855 in Bristol, England. He was a British portrait photographer and creative inventor. He is mainly known as a initiator in the field of motion pictures and is recognized by some as the inventor of cinematography. On 21 June 1889, Friese-Greene patented his ‘chronophotographic’ camera. It was actually

Werner Karl Heisenberg was a philosopher and theoretical physicist from Germany who was born on 5 December, 1901.  He was born to a school teacher, Kaspar Earnesta August Heisenberg, in the secondary section at Wurzburg located in Germany. The formulation of quantum mechanics made by Werner Karl Heisenberg in 1925 changed the understanding of matrices.

Wallace Hume Carothers (27 April, 1896–29 April, 1937) made his mark in Organic Chemistry after completing Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois. He later joined Harvard as the instructor and was offered a fund research by the DUPont Fundamental research Laboratory. In 1934, Wallace Carothers and his team developed the first man-made organic

Vladimir Bekhterev (24 January, 1857–24 December, 1927) was a Russian brain doctor and also the Father of objective psychological science. He is known for discovering the function of the hippocampus within memory and Bekhterev’s illness. Furthermore, he is also known for his contest with Ivan Pavlov concerning the conditioned reflexes study. Vladimir Bekhterev was born in a village named Sorali in

Vitally Abalakov (13 January, 1906–26 May, 1986) was a great soviet mountaineer and also an inventor of ice protecting device. This device is named V-thread by taking the first letter of his inventor. He was a great Soviet climber too. He worked really hard on the method of protecting an individual while climbing icy mountains.

Vladimir Davidovich Baranoff-Rossine, born in 1888 was a revolutionary Russian-born French painter, inventor and an avant-garde artist. Apart from his excellence in Art, Vladimir Davidovich Baranoff-Rossine is also known as the inventor of the Optophonic Piano, pointillist or dynamic military camouflage. The first among these was a synaesthetic instrument invented by him in 1924 that

Vasily Andreyev (1861–1918) was a famous Russian musician with responsible modern and tradition folk instruments. He knew how to play them. Moreover in this field, he is known as a Father of folk musicians. He had done his academic on folk instruments in Europe. He also knew how to play orchestra which includes the string

Ulugh Beg (1394–27 October, 1449) was a Timurid astronomer, mathematician and sultan. His name also appears as Ulug Bey, (bey in Turkish means ‘chieftain’), Ulugh Bek and Ulug Bek. The grandson of the conqueror Timur the Lame (1336–1405) and the oldest son of Shah Rukh, both of whom came from the Turkic Barlas tribe of

Sir Timothy John, known by the name of Tim Berners-Lee was born on 8 June 1955. He is also recognized as TimBL. He is a British computer scientist and the inventor of the World Wide Web. In March 1989 he prepared a plan for an information management system. On 25 December, 1990, through the help