 Einstein, Albert
1879–1955
The greatest scientist of the 20th century
Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century. He was the author of the general theory of relativity. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect and "for his services to Theoretical Physics."
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 Archimedes
c. 287 BC–212 BC
Mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer and philosopher
He is considered by some mathematical historians to be one of the greatest mathematicians in antiquity.
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 Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria
c. 10 – 70
Hellenized Egyptian engineer and geometer in Alexandria
His most famous invention was the first documented steam engine, the aeolipile.
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 Leonardo da Vinci
1452-1519
Italian Renaissance architect, musician, anatomist, inventor, engineer, sculptor, geometer, painter
He has been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man" and as a universal genius, a man both infinitely curious and infinitely inventive. He is also considered to be one of the greatest painters that ever lived.
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 Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov
1711-1765
Russian writer and polymath who made important contributions to literature, education, and science
Lomonosov was the first person to record the freezing of mercury, and to hypothesize the existence of an atmosphere on Venus based on his observation of the transit of Venus of 1761 in a small observatory near his house in Petersburg. In 1745 he published a catalogue of over 3,000 minerals, and in 1760 he explained the formation of icebergs.
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 Pavel Nikolayevich Yablochkov
1847-1894
An electrical engineer, the inventor of the Yablochkov candle (a type of electric carbon arc lamp)
He developed and introduced the system of electric lighting on a single-phase alternating current (“Russian light”), which was demonstrated at the World exhibition in Paris in 1878 and was extremely successful. Some French, English, and American businessmen even set up companies at home for its commercial exploitation.
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 Alexander Stepanovich Popov
1859-1906
Russian physicist
Popov was the first to publicly demonstrate transmission of radio waves but didn't apply for a patent for this great invention.
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 Thomas Alva Edison
1847-1931
Inventor and businessman
Thomas Alva Edison, American, was an inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th Century.
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 Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov
1907-1966
The leading engineer in rocket building
Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov was the head Soviet rocket engineer and designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s.
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 Count Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro di Quaregna e Cerreto
9.08.1776-9.07.1856
Italian scientist
Developed theory of molarity and molecular weight.
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 Zhores I. Alferov
15.03.1930
Scientist and inventor awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2000
Zhores Alferov was one of the creators of first soviet transistors, photodiods and germanium rectifiers.
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 André-Marie Ampère
22.01.1775-10.07.1836
French physicist
Discoverer of electromagnetism. The ampere unit of measurement of electric current is named after him.
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 Alexander Graham Bell
1847-1922
Scottish-Canadian-American scientist and inventor
He is still widely considered to be the inventor of the telephone.
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 Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann
20.02.1844-05.09.1906
Austrian physicist
Famous for the invention of statistical mechanics
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 James Watt
1736-1819
Scottish inventor and engineer
His improvements to the steam engine were fundamental to the changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution.
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 Carl Friedrich Gauss
30.04.1777-23.02.1855
German mathematician and scientist
Gauss and Weber constructed the first electromagnetic telegraph in 1833, which connected the observatory with the institute for physics in Gottingen.
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 Dennis Gabor
5.06.1900-9.02.1979
Hungarian physicist
Invented holography
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 Isaac Newton
4.01.1643-31.03.1727
English physicist
One of the most influential scientists in history
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 Louis Jean Lumière
5.10.1864-6.6.1948
Creator of the cinematographe
The Lumière Brothers, Louis Jean and Auguste Marie Louis Nicholas were the creators of the cinematographe, a three-in-one motion picture camera, developer, and projector, and were among the earliest key filmmakers.
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 Auguste Marie Louis Nicholas Lumière
19.10.1862-10.04.1954
Manager and co-creater of the cinematographe
The Lumière Brothers, Louis Jean and Auguste Marie Louis Nicholas were the creators of the cinematographe, a three-in-one motion picture camera, developer, and projector, and were among the earliest key filmmakers.
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 Paton Evgeny Oscarovich
1870-1953
Founder of Electric Welding Institute
Created the methods of design of rational bridge spans, investigated the conditions of their operation, suggested methods of restoration of damaged bridges.
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 William Shockley
13.02.1910-12.08.1989
physicist, researcher of semiconductors and transistors
The Nobel Prize for Physics was bestowed on Dr. Shockley in 1956, jointly with his two former colleagues at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattain.
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 Walter Brattain
10.02.1902-13.10.1989
Nobel Prize n Physics 1956
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 John Bardeen
23.05.1908-30.01.1991
John Bardeen was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1972.
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 Paul Allen
21.01.1953
co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation
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 Sergey Mihailovich Brin
1973
Google Cofounder
Changed the way that people search the Internet by founding the Google search engine with Larry Page.
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 Hugo de Garis
1947
Leading specialist in artificial intellect development
He is known for his work on artificial intelligence. His work has attracted many critics, most of whom object to his view of eventual AI dominance over humans.
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 William Henry Gates
28.10.1955
Chairman and Chief Software Architect of the Microsoft Corporation
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 Lawrence Joseph Ellison
17.08.1944
co-founder and CEO of the major database software firm Oracle Corporation
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 Larry Page
26.03.1973
Google Cofounder
Started the popular Google search engine with Sergey Brin
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 Nikolai Tesla
9/10.07.1856-7.01.1943
Inventor of the induction coil
The most interesting parts are bolded, such as the one where one can understand that Tesla invented the idea of a wireless internet.
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 Gordon Earl Moore
3 .01.1929
cofounder of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's law
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 Steven Paul Jobs
24.02.1955
the CEO of Apple Computer and one of the leading figures in the computer and entertainment industrie
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 Max Levchin
1975
Computer scientist and entrepreneur
He is widely known as co-founder and former director of the PayPal
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 Douglas C. Engelbart
30.01.1925
American inventor of Norwegian descent
Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart is best known for inventing the computer mouse (in a joint effort with Bill English); as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs.
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 Fujio Masuoka
8.05.1943
Solid State Electronics, Research Institute of Elctrical Communication, Tohoku University
Inventor of the flash memory.
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 John William Mauchly
30.08.1907 – 8.01.1980
American physicist
American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, for a long time believed to be the first electronic digital computer
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 Joseph Marie Jacquard
7.07.1752–7.08.1834
French silk weaver and inventor
French silk weaver and inventor, who improved on the original punched card design of Jacques de Vaucanson's loom of 1745, to invent the Jacquard loom in 1804-1805. Jacquard's loom is controlled by recorded patterns of holes in a string of cards.
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 Wilhelm Schickard
1592 - 1653
built the first automatic calculator in 1623
Contemporaries called this machine the Calculating Clock. It precedes the less versatile Pascaline of Blaise Pascal and the calculator of Gottfried Leibniz by twenty years.
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 Blaise Pascal
19.07.1623 — 19.08.1662
French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher
Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences, where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators and the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by expanding the work of Evangelista Torricelli.
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 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
21.07(1.08). 1646 — 14.11.1716
German (Saxon) polymath and philosopher of Slavic origin.
Leibniz may have been the first computer scientist and information theorist. Early in life, he discovered the binary number system, the one subsequently employed on all computers.
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 Howard Hathaway Aiken
9.03.1900 - 14.03.1973
pioneer in computing
Was the primary engineer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer
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 Charles Babbage
26.12.1791 – 18.10.1871
English mathematician and proto- computer scientist
Babbage's engines were among the first mechanical computers. Although Babbage's machines were mechanical monsters their basic architecture was astonishingly similar to a modern computer.
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 Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace
10.12.1815 — 29.11.1852
English mathematician
Ada is mainly known for having written a description of Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine, and program for it. Is believed the first programmer in the world.
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 George Boole
2.11.1815 — 8.12.1864
English mathematician and philosopher
Boolean algebra became the foundation of practical digital circuit design.
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 Konrad Zuse
22.06.1910 – 18.11.1995
German engineer and computer pioneer
His greatest achievement was the completion of the first functional tape-stored-program-controlled computer, the Z3, in 1941, and the first top level programming language.
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 John von Neumann
28.12.1903 — 8.02.1957
Hungarian mathematician and polymath of Jewish ancestry
Most notably, von Neumann was a pioneer of the modern digital computer and the application of operator theory to quantum mechanics (see Von Neumann algebra), a member of the Manhattan Project Team, and creator of game theory and the concept of cellular automata.
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 Turing, Alan Mathison
23.06.1912 — 7.06.1954
British mathematician, logician, and cryptographer
Turing is often considered to be a father of modern computer science
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 Andrey P. Ershov
19.04.1931, Moscow — 8.12.1988
Soviet pioneer in the field of theoretical and systems programming
A.P.Ershov's works on software engineering formed the basis of this research direction in the Soviet Union.
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 Claude Elwood Shannon
30 April 1916 – 24 February 2001
electrical engineer and mathematician
Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001), an American electrical engineer and mathematician, has been called "the father of information theory", and was the founder of practical digital circuit design theory.
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 Lawrence G. Roberts
Lawrence G. Roberts is one of the four persons most closely associated with the birth of the Internet, the other three being Leonard Kleinrock, Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf.
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 Leonard Kleinrock, Ph.D.
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computer scientist, and a professor of computer science
Leonard Kleinrock, Ph.D. is a computer scientist, and a professor of computer science at UCLA, who made several extremely important contributions to the field of computer networking, in particular to the theoretical side of computer networking. He also played an important role in the development of the ARPANET at UCLA.
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 Robert E. Kahn
born December 23, 1938
Robert E. Kahn along with Vinton G. Cerf, invented the TCP/IP protocol, the technology used to transmit information on the modern Internet.
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 Vinton Gray Cerf
born June 23, 1943
computer scientist
Vinton Gray Cerf is an American computer scientist who is commonly referred to as one of the "founding fathers of the Internet" for his key technical and managerial role in the creation of the Internet and the TCP/IP protocols which it uses.
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 Alec Miloslavsky
Chairman, Head of Product Development & Strategy, Exigen
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 Alexander Stepanov
Principal Scientist, Adobe Systems
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 Tim Berners-Lee
was born on June 8, 1955
The well-known British scientist, inventor of URI, URL, HTTP, HTML, the inventor of the World Wide W
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