Famous Discoverers & Inventors

• William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.
• Sir Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin.
• Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen.
• Edward Jenner discovered vaccination.
• Sir Ronald Ross discovered the cause of malaria.
• Lord Lister discovered antiseptic treatment.
• Sir James Young Simpson discovered the use of chloroform as an anaesthetic.
• Henry Cavendish discovered the composition of water, he also discovered Hydrogen.
• Sir Isaac Newton discovered the Law of Gravitation.
• William Hyde Wollaston discovered ultra-violet rays.
• Louis Pasteur discovered the science of bacteria, i.e. the germ-theory of diseases.
• Professor Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen discovered Rontgen rays ( X- rays ).
• William Harvey discovered the circulation of blood.
• Robert Koch discovered the bacillus of tuberculosis.

                           

Inventors

• The Safety Lamp- Sir Humphry Davy.
• The stethoscope- Laennec.
• The Steam Engine- James Watt.
• The Microscope- Janssen.
• Dynamite- Dr Alfred Bernhard Nobel.
• Television- John L. Baird.
• The Lightening Conductor- Benjamin Franklin.
• The Thermometer and the Telescope- Galileo Galilei.
• The Telephone- Alexander Graham Bell.
• The Barometer- Evangelista Torricelli.
• Income Tax- The Marquis De Vauban.
• The Micrometre- William Gascoigne.