List of Austrian inventors and discoverers
The list of Austrian inventors and discoverers is a list of inventors and discoverers from Austria in alphabetical order of the family name.
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A.
- Wilhelm Altekruse , inventor of the Altekruse puzzle
- Carl Auer von Welsbach , discoverer of the four chemical elements neodymium , praseodymium , ytterbium and lutetium and as the inventor of the mantle in gas light ("Auerlicht"), the metal filament lamp and the flint ("Auermetall") in the lighter.
B.
- Robert Bárány (Nobel Prize) - works on physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus
- Oskar Baumann : Africa explorer, discovery of the lakes Eyassi and Manyara , the Ngorongoro crater and Baumann Bay in Lake Victoria
- Georg Joseph Beer , work for intracapsular starling extraction, a further development of cataract surgery . It also became a forerunner with the development of iridectomy for artificial pupil formation
- Gunther Burstyn : Co-inventor of the tank ( William Tritton and Walter Gordon Wilson developed the tank independently in England ).
C.
- Ludwig Castagna , inventor of mechanical devices
D.
- Carl Djerassi , inventor of the birth control pill
- Christian Doppler , discoverer of the Doppler effect
E.
- Paul Eisler , inventor of the printed circuit board
F.
- Otto Frenzl , co-discoverer of the area rule, which is important for aviation
- Sigmund Freud , founder of psychoanalysis
- Karl von Frisch (Nobel Prize), investigations on the western honey bee (Apis mellifera carnica)
- Otto Frisch : Physicist (together with Lise Meitner ) first physical-theoretical explanation of nuclear fission
- Paul Fürst , inventor of the Mozartkugel
G
- Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen , inventor of the Giesl ejector
H
- Ludwig Hatschek : inventor of the fiber cement Eternit
- Friedrich Hayek (Nobel Prize), pioneer in monetary policy and economic activity .
- Victor Franz Hess (Nobel Prize), discoverer of cosmic rays
- Christian Georg Hornbostel , mechanical silk loom
K
- Viktor Kaplan , inventor of the Kaplan turbine
- Wolfgang von Kempelen , inventor of the Chess Turk and the Kempelen's speaking machine .
- Karl Kordesch co-inventor of the alkali-manganese cell (in collaboration with Lewis Urry ).
- Johann Kravogl : inventor of the Kravogl electric motorcycle
- Richard Kuhn (Nobel Prize), research on carotenoids and vitamins, co-discoverer of the poisonous gas soman
L.
- Hedy Lamarr , who discovered the frequency hopping process together with the composer George Antheil
Karl Landsteiner's bronze bust
- Karl Landsteiner (Nobel Prize), discoverer of the AB0 system of blood groups , together with Alexander S. Wiener he discovered the rhesus factor and together with Constantin Levaditi and Erwin Popper discovered the poliovirus
- Hans Ledwinka , Austrian automobile designer, inventor of the pendulum axle at Tatrawerke in Nesslsdorf.
- Philipp Lenard : Cathode rays and the development of electron theory (Nobel Prize)
- Konrad Lorenz , (Nobel Prize), one of the "fathers" of ethology
M.
- Ernst Mach , physicist, Mach number
- Josef Madersperger is one of the inventors of the sewing machine
- Ferdinand Mannlicher , inventor of a weapon system ( repeater with package load ), together with James Paris Lee
- Alexander Meißner : Meißner circuit
- Lise Meitner : Physicist (together with Otto Frisch ) first physical-theoretical explanation of nuclear fission
- Gregor Mendel : Mendel's rules
- Peter Mitterhofer , inventor of the typewriter
- Franz Joseph Müller von Reichenstein , discoverer of the element tellurium
- August Musger , inventor of slow motion
P
- Wolfgang Pauli , (Nobel Prize) discoverer of the Pauli principle
- Max Perutz (Nobel Prize), together with John Kendrew, discovery of the structure of the protein hemoglobin
- Clemens von Pirquet , pediatrician, in 1905 together with his colleague Béla Schick (1877–1967), he first described serum sickness and invented the tuberculin skin test
- Fritz Pregl (Nobel Prize), microanalysis of organic substances developed by him
R.
- Josef Ressel : one of the inventors of the ship's propeller (alongside John Ericsson and Francis Pettit Smith ; Robert Fulton and David Bushnell )
- Edmund Rumpler , inventor of the Rumpler Teardrop Car
S.
- Franz Sacher , inventor of the Sachertorte
- Ernst Schneider : Voith Schneider Drive
- Erwin Schrödinger (Nobel Prize), discoverer of the Schrödinger equation
- Paul Schwarzkopf , inventor of the drawn tungsten filament
- Eduard Suess , geologist, discoverer of the Tethys and Gondwana
T
- Gustav Tauschek , inventor of the drum storage system
- Michael Thonet , inventor of a process for bending wood using hot steam, castle wood furniture
V
- Max Valier , pioneer of rocket technology
W.
- Julius Wagner-Jauregg (Nobel Prize), discoverer of the therapeutic importance of malaria vaccination in the treatment of progressive paralysis
Z
- Richard Zsigmondy (1865–1929), chemist, researcher in the field of colloid chemistry and microscopy . Ultramicroscope (together with Henry Siedentopf), Nobel Prize 1925