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- Alfred Nobel - Better known as inventor of Dynamite, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, was a poet as well as the archetype international capitalist. Because he loathed his own appearance and believed that it denied him the happiness of being loved, Nobel while still young resolved to dedicate his life for the benefit of mankind.
- Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston Massachusetts. He was the eighth child among the ten children of Josiah and Abiah Franklin. His father already had seven children from his first marriage so, Benjamin knew a lot about growing up in a ‘big’ family with nine brothers and seven sisters !
- Charles Babbage - British mathematician, designer and inventor of the world’s first mechanical computing machine, the forerunner of the modern electronic computer, is considered as one of the key figures of the golden era of British history.
- Edwin Hubble - Dr Edwin Powell Hubble, an aesthetic American astronomer is universally acknowledged as having been one of the foremost astronomers of the modern era.
- Galileo - Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy on February 15, 1564, 21 years after the death of Copernicus and three days before the death of Michelangelo.
- George Eastman Kodak - The world of photography got a new meaning with George Eastman appearing in the scene. The cumbersome and the most primitive form of photography underwent a revolution. He opened up new avenues for even the common man to record the most memorable of his life’s events for posterity’s sake.
- Graham Bell - How often do you use the telephone? Every day, two or three times a day or almost daylong? What would it be like if there was no phone? Thanks to Alexander Graham Bell, who invented one of the most significant domestic device of today – the Telephone. This Scottish – American scientist had an inventive mind and a great vision.
- Guglielmo Marconi - The air is full of promises of miracles", a man wrote in London. Soon after, three dots and the letter S sputtered across the Atlantic Ocean.
- Gutenberg - It was an era of political and social upheaval, times when the common man, the tradesman, the craftsman were struggling to overcome the strictures passed by the leaders of the church and monarchy, when equality was being talked about in more than hushed whispers, when knowledge and education were sought and respected, when all were trying to break through the shackles of tradition. It was the beginning of the 15th century - the dawn of the modern era.
- James Watt - If the question were asked : "Who is the most famous British engineer ?", the first answer that would immediately come to one's lips would be James Watt.
- Jonas Salk - Jonas Salk, the great physician and medical researcher was the first to develop a safe and effective vaccine for poliomyelitis more commonly known as polio.
- Louis Braille - "If my eyes will not tell me about men and events, ideas and doctrines, I must find another way."
- Louis Pasteur - Louis Pasteur, the French chemist, is known as the founder of Microbiological Sciences. A noteworthy figure in the field of science, he formulated the process of fermentation - a knowledge of the chief maladies which have scourged man and annimals - a knowledge of the measure by which either the body may be protected against these diseases, or the poison neutralised when once within the body.
- Robert Goddard - It was his flight to fancy that laid the foundation for the first flight into space. Robert Hutchings Goddard, the Father of Modern Rocketry, was an American expert of rocket research who is recognized as a remarkable experimenter as well as an engineering genius.
- Thomas Alva Edison - He discovered electromotograph phenomenon.
- Wilhelm Roentgen - The year 1895 witnessed a turning point in experimental physics as Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered ‘X–rays’.
- Wright Brothers - The Wright Brothers made the world’s first manned and powered flight covering just 120 feet, on December 17, 1903. This was their great achievement.
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