List of Trinity College Dublin People - Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Medicine

Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Medicine

  • Denis Parsons Burkitt, surgeon and researcher into childhood cancer (cf. Burkitt's lymphoma)
  • Aeneas Coffey, Irish Engineer, inventor of the Coffey still
  • Steven Collins, co-founder of Havok
  • George Francis FitzGerald, Professor of physics
  • Oliver St John Gogarty, physician and ear surgeon
  • Alexander Henry Haliday, entomologist
  • William Rowan Hamilton, Mathematician
  • William Henry Harvey, Botanist
  • John Joly, Physicist and geologist
  • Sir John MacNeill, civil engineer
  • Antoin MacGabhann, Irish architect
  • Richard Maunsell, Chief Mechanical Engineer, South Eastern and Chatham Railway, and Southern Railway
  • Henry Benedict Medlicott, geologist
  • William Molyneux, natural philosopher
  • Robert Mallet, engineer and scientist
  • Charles Algernon Parsons, British engineer, inventor of the modern steam turbine
  • William Parsons, Astronomer
  • Thomas Preston, scientist
  • John Lighton Synge, mathematician and scientist
  • William Stokes, Physician and professor
  • George Johnstone Stoney, physicist who proposed the term 'electron' for the fundamental unit of electricity
  • Ernest Walton, Nobel Prize winner
  • Benjamin Worsley, 17th century physician, surveyor and alchemist
  • Gordon Foster (1920–2010) was a fellow emeritus at the college, and was Professor of Statistics and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and statistics. He was the author of the International Standard Book Numbering system, a global standard and a book on Information Technology in Developing Countries (ISBN 9280808311).

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