List of Irish People - Science, Education and Technology

Science, Education and Technology

  • Robert Adrain (1775–1843) – scientist, mathematician and United Irishman
  • Thomas Andrews – chemist & physicist
  • Francis Beaufort (1774–1857) – hydrographer, developed a scale for classifying wind strength
  • John Stewart Bell (1928–1990) – atomic physicist, 'Bell's Inequalities'
  • John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971) – X-ray crystallography
  • George Boole (1815–1864) – inventor of Boolean algebra
  • Robert Boyle (162 –1691) – physicist, 'Boyle's law'
  • Louis Brennan (1852–1932) – principle of a guided missile, wire-guided torpedo
  • Pádraig de Brún (1889–1960) – scholar and mathematician
  • Lucien Bull (1876–1972) – high speed photography, modern electrocardiogram (ECG)
  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943– ) – discovered pulsars
  • Nicholas Callan (1799–1864) – inventor of the induction coil and discoverer the principle of the dynamo
  • Aeneas Coffey (1780–1852) – heat exchanger, inventor of the column still
  • William Monad Crawford – entomologist
  • William Dargan – railway engineer
  • David Doak (b. 1967) - scientist, video game developer and entrepreneur
  • Shane Curran - software developer, entrepreneur
  • Frederick G. Donnan – chemist
  • Michael Everson – expert in writing systems and Unicode, born in USA
  • Harry Ferguson – engineer, designer of the modern farm tractor, inventor of the three-point hitch
  • George FitzGerald (1851–1901) – theoretical physicist, 'Fitzgerald-Lorenz Contraction'
  • John Robert Gregg (1868–1948) – Gregg shorthand system
  • William Rowan Hamilton – quaternions; mathematical physics
  • John Philip Holland (1841–1914) – submarine designer
  • Ellen Hutchins (1785–1815) – botanist
  • John Joly (1857–1933)- photometer, colour photography
  • Richard Kirwan (1733–1812) – meteorologist
  • Robert Mallet (1810–1881) – seismology
  • Alexander Mitchell (1780–1868) – lighthouse and marine engineer
  • Richard O'Keefe – computer scientist
  • Frank Pantridge – Inventor of the mobile defibrilator
  • Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819–1903) – mathematician, physicist, 'Stokes Theorem' and Stokes-Navier Equations'
  • George Johnstone Stoney (1826–1911) – atomic physicist, named the 'electron' and measured its charge
  • John Lighton Synge (1897–1995) – mathematician
  • William Thomson – Lord Kelvin (1824–1907), physicist
  • John Tyndall (1820–1893) – physicist
  • Ernest Walton – physicist, 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics
  • Mary Ward (1827–1869)- microscopist
  • John Richardson Wigham (1829–1906) – inventor and lighthouse engineer
  • Thomas Wynne (1942–2005) - Inventor, mechanic and engineer

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