Famous 1800 Inventors/Scientists/Etc.
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- Einstein
- Developed the influential theory of relativity stating that motion can only be measured relative to the position of a particular observer
- Lamarck
- Developed an early form of evolutionary theory which held that living beings adapt to fit their environment (later disproved)
- Jenner
- Although unaware of the scientific principle for its success, developed an effective smallpox vaccine in 1796
- Lister
- Developed antisepis for use in the medical field
- Rutherford
- First to develop the theory of an atom as a core nucleus with electrons floating about it (though he believed the nucleus consisted only of protons)
- Faraday
- First to produce electricity from magnetism
- Virchow
- Refined cell theory, stating that only living matter can produce living matter
- Mendel
- Did pioneering genetics work through experiments with pea plants
- Marconi
- Did pioneering work in radio communication
- Mendeleyev
- Developed the periodic table of elements
- Curie
- Experimented with radioactive elements uranium and radium
- Koch
- Developed a vaccine for tuberculosis and some forms of cholera
- Dalton
- Developed a system of atomic weights in which the lightest element, hydrogen, was assigned a weight of one
- Daimler and Benz
- First to successfully use an internal combustion engine to power an automobile
- Pasteur
- Explained the role of bacteria in fermentation and disease
- Darwin
- Published his influential evolutionary theory in the 1859 Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
- Roentgen
- Developed a process of taking x rays
- Thomson
- Discovered the negatively charged particles of an atom, electrons