Important Scientific Discoveries and Inventions

Discoveries and Inventions play an important role in Everyday Science, helping us understand the world and improve human life. Many scientists and inventors have made remarkable contributions through their discoveries and inventions, which are widely studied in science subjects and competitive exams.

Below is a list of important scientific discoveries and inventions along with the scientists who introduced them.

Discovery / Invention	Scientist
Atomic Number	Mosley
Antiseptic Medicine	Joseph Lister
Aeroplane	Wilbur and Orville Wright
AK-47	Mikhail Kalashnikov
Bicycle	Macmillan
Binomial Nomenclature	Carl Von Linnaeus
Bacteriology	Pasteur
Battery	Alessandro Volta
Big Bang Theory	Georges Lemaitre
Bakelite	Baekeland
Ballpoint pen	Laszlo And Georg Biro
Blood Banking	Charles Drew
Current Electricity	Volta
Cell	Robert Hooke
Circulation Of Blood	William Harvey
Cement	Joseph Aspdin
Computer	Charles Babbage
Cyclotron	Ernest Lawrence
Cell Theory	Scheilden And Schwann
Cholera Bacillus	Robert Koch
Chromosome	Waldeyer
Cotton Gin	Eli Whitney
Cellular Phone	Dr. Martin Cooper
Calculating Machine	Blaise Pascal
DDT	Paul Muller
Dynamite	Alfred Noble
Electricity	Thomas Edison
Electro Magnetic Engine	James Maxwell
Earth As A Huge Magnet	William Gilbert
E.M Induction	Faraday
Energy Quanta	Max Planck
Earth‘s Radius	Eratosthenes
Earth Revolves Round The Sun	Copernicus
Electromagnetic theory	James Clerk Maxwell
Electron	J.J Thomson
First Person To Orbit Earth	Yuri Gagarin
First Clone Of A Sheep	Ian Wilmit
Father Of Botany	Theophrastus
Father Of Zoology	Aristotle
Father Of Taxonomy	Carolus Linnaeus
Father Of Genetics	Gregor Mendel
First Person To Televise Pictures Of Moving Objects	John Logie Baird
Genetic Laws of Heredity	Mendel
Gramophone	Thomas Edison
Gravitation	Newton
Gun Powder	Roger Bacon
Green Land	Robert Peary
Helical Structure Of Protein	Linus Pauling
Helicopter	Igor Sikorsky
Household Vacuum Cleaner	Herbert Cecil Booth
Integrated Circuit	Robert Noyce
Insulin	Dr. F.G Banting
Internal Combustion Engine	Nikolas August Otto
Jet Engine	Frank Whittle
Jupiter	Galileo
Laser	Theodore Maiman
Law Of Attraction And Repulsion Between Electric Charges	Coulomb
Logarithm Table	John Napier
Lightening Conductor	Benjamin Franklin
Laser	Dr. C. Gilbert
Microorganisms	Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek
Mass/Energy Conversion Equation	Einstein
Magnet	Dr. Gilbert
Malaria Parasite	Ronald Ross
Mercury Thermometer	Fahrenheit
Noble Gases	Cavendish
Nucleus	Robert Brown
North America	Christopher Columbus
Neutron	James Chadwick
Nylon	Wallace. H Carothers
Oxygen	Joseph Priestley
Polio Vaccine	Jonas Salk
Periodic Table	Mendeleev
Penicillin	Alexander Fleming
Radio	Marconi
Radioactivity	Becquerel
Radium	Madam Marie Curie
Rabies Vaccination	Louis Pasteur
Structure Of DNA	Watson & Crick
Simple Microscope	Hans Janssen and Zacharias Janssen
Sulphuric, Nitric and Hydrochloric Acid	Jabir Bin Hayan
Semiconductor	Bardeen and Brattain
Streptomycin	S.A.Waksman
Safety Match	John Walker
Synthesis Of Gene In Laboratory	Hargobind Khorana
Steam Railway Locomotive	Richard Trevithick
Solar System	Copernicus
Telephone	Graham Bell
Television	John Baird
Transistor	William Bradford Shockley
Typewriter	Sholes
Theory Of Relativity And Photoelectric Effect	Einstein
Tuberculosis	Robert Koch
Uranus	Herschel
Uncertainty Principle	Heisenberg
Ultra Violet Rays	Johann Wilhelm Ritter
Vaccination Against Small Pox	Edward Jenner
Vitamin. C Therapy	Linus Pauling
Vitamins	Funk
Velocity Of Light	Roomer
Wireless Telegraphy	Signor Marconi
Water	Henry Cavendish
Windscreen Wipers	Marry Anderson
X-rays	Roentgen
Zero	Al Khwarizmi