Current Articles | Archives Biographies Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Staff | October 12, 2006 | Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (also spelled ROENTGEN) was German physicist who was a recipient of the first... More >> Wilbur and Orville Wright Staff | October 12, 2006 | Wilbur and Orville Wright were American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who achieved the ... More >> Thomas Alva Edison Staff | October 12, 2006 | Thomas Alva Edison was the quintessential American inventor. He invented the phonograph, the carbon-... More >> Stephanie Louise Kwolek Staff | October 12, 2006 | Stephanie Louise Kwolek’s research with high performance chemical compounds for the DuPont Company l... More >> Sir Isaac Newton Staff | October 12, 2006 | Isaac Newton's life can be divided into three quite distinct periods. The first is his boyhood days ... More >> Samuel Colt Staff | October 12, 2006 | Samuel Colt was an American firearms manufacturer who popularized the revolver. More >> Sadi Carnot Staff | October 12, 2006 | Sadi Carnot (NICOLAS-LÉONARD-SADI CARNOT) was a French scientist who described the Carnot ... More >> Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel Staff | October 12, 2006 | Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was a German thermal engineer who invented the internal-combustion engi... More >> Richard Phillips Feynman Staff | October 12, 2006 | Richard Phillips Feynman developed a new approach to quantum mechanics using the principle of least ... More >> René Descartes Staff | October 12, 2006 | René Descartes was a philosopher whose work, La géométrie, includes his application of algebra to ge... More >> Randi Altschul Staff | October 12, 2006 | In November of 1999 Randice-Lisa "Randi" Altschul was issued a series of patents for the world's fir... More >> Pythagoras of Samos Staff | October 12, 2006 | Pythagoras of Samos is often described as the first pure mathematician. He is an extremely important... More >> Pierre-Simon Laplace Staff | October 12, 2006 | Pierre-Simon Laplace's father, Pierre Laplace, was comfortably well off in the cider trade. Laplace'... More >> Pierre de Fermat Staff | October 12, 2006 | Pierre de Fermat's father was a wealthy leather merchant and second consul of Beaumont- de- Lomagne.... More >> Patsy Sherman Staff | October 12, 2006 | Patsy Sherman was an essential part of the introduction of 3M’s first stain repellent and soil relea... More >> Patricia Billings Staff | October 12, 2006 | Patricia Billings received a patent in 1997 for a fire resistant building material called Geobond. More >> Nikolaus August Otto Staff | October 12, 2006 | Nikolaus August Otto was a German engineer who developed the four-stroke internal-combustion engine,... More >> Nicolaus Copernicus Staff | October 12, 2006 | Nicolaus Copernicus came from a middle class background and received a good standard humanist educat... More >> Michael Faraday Staff | October 12, 2006 | Michael Faraday was an English physicist and chemist whose many experiments contributed greatly to t... More >> Mary Walton Staff | October 12, 2006 | The major scientific shortcoming of the Industrial Revolution that transformed the U.S. in the years... More >> Martha Coston Staff | October 12, 2006 | Widowed at the age of 21, Martha Coston of Philadelphia (born 1826) met the challenge of providing f... More >> Maria Sklodowska (Marie Curie) Staff | October 12, 2006 | Maria Sklodowska (Marie Curie) was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. She would becom... More >> Leonardo da Vinci Staff | October 12, 2006 | Leonardo da Vinci is perhaps best known as an artist. His name inevitably brings forth images ... More >> Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky Staff | October 11, 2006 | Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was a Russian research scientist in aeronautics and astronautics ... More >> Karl Friedrich Benz Staff | October 11, 2006 | Karl Friedrich Benz was a German mechanical engineer who designed and in 1885 built the world's firs... More >> Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss Staff | October 11, 2006 | At the age of seven, Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss started elementary school. His teacher, was amazed ... More >> Henry Cavendish Staff | October 10, 2006 | Henry Cavendish, eldest son of Lord Cavendish, attended Cambridge University for three years, but bu... More >> Guglielmo Marconi Staff | October 02, 2006 | Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian physicist and inventor of a successful system of radio telegraphy (... More >> Georgius Agricola Staff | October 02, 2006 | Georgius Agricola was born of obscure parentage. From 1514 to 1518 he studied classics, philosophy, ... More >> Grace Hopper Staff | October 02, 2006 | Grace Hopper (1906-1992) was one of the first programmers to transform large digital computers from ... More >> George Simon Ohm Staff | October 02, 2006 | George Simon Ohm was a German physicist who discovered the law, named after him, which states that t... More >> Galileo Galilei Staff | October 02, 2006 | Galileo Galilei studied medicine at the university of Pisa, but his real interests were always in ma... More >> Euclid of Alexandria Staff | October 02, 2006 | Euclid of Alexandria is the most prominent mathematician of antiquity best known for his treatise on... More >> Ellen Ochoa Staff | October 02, 2006 | Ellen Ochoa’s pre-doctoral work at Stanford University in electrical engineering led to the developm... More >> Edith Flanigen Staff | October 02, 2006 | Edith Marie Flanigen, born in Buffalo, New York (1929), and recently retired (1994), is one of the m... More >> Daniel Bernoulli Staff | October 02, 2006 | Daniel Bernoulli was the son of Johann Bernoulli. He was born in Groningen while his father held the... More >> Charles Goodyear Staff | October 02, 2006 | Charles Goodyear was the American inventor of the vulcanization process that made possible the ... More >> Charles Babbage Staff | October 02, 2006 | The construction of modern computers, logically similar to Charles Babbage's design, have changed th... More >> Blaise Pascal Staff | October 02, 2006 | Blaise Pascal's father had unorthodox educational views and decided to teach his son himself. Etienn... More >> Bette Nesmith Graham Staff | October 02, 2006 | Bette Nesmith Graham was an artist and use to handling paints and inks. She used her own kitchen ble... More >> Benoit Mandelbrot Staff | October 02, 2006 | Benoit Mandelbrot was largely responsible for the present interest in fractal geometry. He showed ho... More >> Benjamin Franklin Staff | October 02, 2006 | Benjamin Franklin (Pseudonym RICHARD SAUNDERS) was an American printer and publisher, author, invent... More >> Archimedes of Syracuse Staff | October 02, 2006 | Archimedes was a native of Syracuse, Sicily. It is reported by some authors that he visited Egypt an... More >> Alexander Graham Bell Staff | September 29, 2006 | Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born American audiologist best known as the inventor of the tel... More >> Albert Einstein Staff | September 29, 2006 | Around 1886 Albert Einstein began his school career in Munich. As well as his violin lessons, which ... More >>