List of Austrian inventors and discoverers

The list of Austrian inventor and discoverer is a list of inventors and discoverers from Austria, including people outside Europe which are of Austrian origin, in alphabetical order of surname.

List

A

  • Robert Adler: physicist and electronics engineer; over 180 patents in the U.S., best known was his Miterfindung the TV remote control, development of touch screens on the basis of SAW phenomena
  • Old Wilhelm Kruse, inventor of the Old Kruse puzzles
  • Carl Auer von Welsbach, inventor of the four chemical elements neodymium, praseodymium, ytterbium and lutetium, and as the inventor of the gas mantle light ( " Auer light " ), the metal filament lamp and of flint ( " Auermetall ") in the lighter.

B

  • Robert Bárány (Nobel Prize ) - Work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus
  • Oscar Baumann: African explorer, exploring the lakes and Eyassi Manyara, the Ngorongoro Crater and the Baumann- Bay in Lake Victoria
  • Georg Joseph Beer, use for intracapsular cataract extraction, a further development of the cataract surgery. Precursor he was also with the development of iridectomy for artificial pupil education
  • Gunther Burstyn: co-inventor of the tank ( independently developed by him in England William Tritton and Walter Gordon Wilson the tank ).

C

  • Carl Cori (Nobel Prize ), co-discoverer of the Cori cycle
  • Gerty Cori (Nobel Prize ), Mitentdeckerin the Cori cycle

D

  • Carl Djerassi, co-inventor of the contraceptive pill norethindrone
  • Christian Doppler, discoverer of the Doppler effect

E

F

  • Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis
  • Karl von Frisch (Nobel Prize ), studies of the Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera carnica )
  • Otto Frisch: Physicists (together with Lise Meitner ) first physical- theoretical explanation of the fission
  • Prince Paul, inventor of Mozart Ball

G

B

  • Ludwig Hatchek: inventor of fiber cement fiber cement
  • Friedrich Hayek (Nobel Prize ), a pioneer in monetary policy and economic stimulus.
  • Victor Franz Hess (Nobel Prize ), discoverer of cosmic rays
  • Georg Christian Hornbostel, mechanical silk loom

K

  • Eric Kandel (Nobel Prize ), the pioneer of research in the process of storing memories in the brain
  • Viktor Kaplan, inventor of the Kaplan turbine
  • Wolfgang von Kempelen invented the chess Turks and Kempelen 's speaking machine.
  • Karl Kordesch co-inventor of the alkaline manganese cell ( jointly with Lewis Urry ).
  • Johann Kravogl: electric motorcycle inventor of Kravogl
  • Richard Kuhn (Nobel Prize ), research on carotenoids and vitamins, co-discoverer of poison gas Soman

L

  • Hedy Lamarr, along with the composer George Antheil discoverer of the frequency hopping
  • Karl Landsteiner (Nobel Prize ), discoverer of the AB0 system of blood groups, jointly with Alexander S. Wiener, he discovered the Rhesus factor and jointly with Constantin Levaditi and Erwin Popper discovered the polio virus
  • Philipp Lenard: cathode rays and the development of the electron theory (Nobel Prize )
  • Konrad Lorenz (Nobel Prize ), one of the " fathers" of ethology

M

  • Ernst Mach, physicist, Mach number
  • Josef Madersperger, is considered one of the inventors of the sewing machine
  • Alexander Meissner: Meissner circuit
  • Lise Meitner: a physicist (together with Otto Frisch) first physical- theoretical explanation of the fission
  • Gregor Mendel: Mendel's laws
  • Franz Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, discoverer of the element tellurium
  • August Musger, inventor of the slow motion

P

  • Wolfgang Pauli (Nobel Prize ), discoverer of the Pauli principle
  • Max Perutz (Nobel Prize ), jointly 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 the serum sickness, invented the tuberculin skin test
  • Fritz Pregl (Nobel Prize ), he developed micro- analysis of organic substances

R

S

  • Franz Sacher, inventor of Sacher Torte
  • Ernst Schneider: Voith-Schneider drive
  • Erwin Schrodinger, discoverer of the Schrödinger equation

T

V

W

  • Julius Wagner -Jauregg (Nobel Prize ), discoverer of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation 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
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