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Robert Norton Noyce , nicknamed " the Mayor of Silicon Valley ", co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporati...

Giovanni Giorgi was born on 27 November 1871 and died on 19 August 1950. He was an Italian electrical engineer who invented the Giorgi sys...

Roberto Cavalli is an Italian fashion designer from Florence. He is known for detailed exotic prints and for creating the sand-blasted l...

Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov is a Russian small arms designer, most famous for developing the AK-47, AKM, and AK-74 assault rifles. ...

Jack William Szostak was born November 9, 1952 , he is a Canadian American biologist of Polish British descent and Professor of Genetics a...

Edwin Herbert Hall was an American physicist who discovered the "Hall effect". He was born on November 7, 1855 and died on Nove...

James Naismith was born on November 6, 1861 , he was a Canadian-American sports coach and innovator. He invented the sport of basketball...

Nick Holonyak invented the first practically useful visible LED in 1962 and has been called " the father of the light-emitting diode ...

Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. He was born on October 21, 1833 . He was th...

Jacques Edwin Brandenberger was a Swiss chemist and textile engineer who in 1908 invented cellophane (Cellophane is a thin, transparent sh...

John Gorrie was born on October 3, 1803 . He was a physician, scientist, inventor, and humanitarian. He is considered the father of refr...

Jean-Maurice Emile Baudot September was born on 11, 1845 , French telegraph engineer and inventor of the first means of digital communi...

Denis Papin was a French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forer...

Paul Kammerer was born on A ugust 17, 1880 , he was an Austrian biologist who studied and advocated the now largely abandoned Lamarckian...

Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt was Born on  August 16, 1832 , he was a German physician, psychologist, physiologist, philosopher, and professor...

photo: www.magnet.fsu.edu Hans Christian Orsted was born on August 14, 1777 and he was a Danish physicist and chemist who discovere...

Ernest Orlando Lawrence was born August 8, 1901 . He was an American physicist and Nobel Laureate, known for his invention, utilization, ...

Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was born on August 7, 190 3. He was a British archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in estab...

Jesse Wilford Reno was born on August 4, 1861 . He was invented the first working escalator in 1891 used at the Old Iron Pier, Coney Is...