List of Austrian inventors and discoverers
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This is a list of Austrian inventors and discoverers. The following list comprises people from Austria, and also people of predominantly Austrian heritage, in alphabetical order of the surname.
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- Georg Joseph Beer, introducing a flap operation for treatment of cataracts (Beer's operation), as well as popularizing the instrument used to perform the surgery (Beer's knife).
- Günther Burstyn, co-inventor of the tank (independent from him William Tritton and Walter Gordon Wilson)
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- Carl Cori (Nobel Prize), co-discovered Cori cycle.
- Gerty Cori (Nobel Prize), co-discovered Cori cycle.
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- Carl Djerassi, inventor of birth control pills
- Christian Doppler, discoverer of the Doppler effect
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- Paul Eisler, inventor of the printed circuit board.
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- Otto Frenzl: aeronautical pioneer, developed the area rule in 1943, a design technique for airfoils used to reduce an aircraft's drag at transonic and supersonic speeds. Later it was independently developed again by Richard T. Whitcomb in 1952.
- Sigmund Freud: neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
- Karl von Frisch: (Nobel Prize), one of the founders of modern ethology, studies on waggle dance
- Paul Fürst: inventor of the Mozartkugel
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- David Gestetner, inventor of the Gestetner stencil duplicator.
- Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen, inventor of the Giesl ejector
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- Friedrich Hayek (Nobel Prize), pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations.
- Victor Francis Hess (Nobel Prize), discovered cosmic ray.
- Ingeborg Hochmair, developed the first modern cochlear implant
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- Eric Kandel (Nobel Prize), research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons.
- Viktor Kaplan, inventor of the Kaplan turbine.
- Wolfgang von Kempelen, inventor of The Turk, a chess-playing automaton and Wolfgang von Kempelen's Speaking Machine.
- Walter Kohn (Nobel Prize) discovered Density functional theory
- Karl Kordesch, jointly co-inventor of Alkaline battery (together with Canadian Lewis Urry).
- Richard Kuhn (Nobel Prize), works on carotenoids and vitamins, co-discovered Soman
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- Hedy Lamarr, co-invented, with composer George Antheil, an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping.
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- Karl Landsteiner (Nobel Prize) discovered the main blood groups, co-discovered with Alexander S. Wiener, the Rhesus factor and co-discovered with Constantin Levaditi and Erwin Popper the polio virus.
- Konrad Lorenz (Nobel Prize) one of the founders of modern ethology
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- Ferdinand Mannlicher, along with Scottish Canadian James Paris Lee, Mannlicher was particularly noted for inventing the en-bloc clip charger-loading magazine system.
- August Musger, inventor of slow motion.
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- Wolfgang Pauli (Nobel Prize), discovered Pauli exclusion principle
- Max Perutz (Nobel Prize), co-discovered with John Kendrew in studies the structures of hemoglobin and globular proteins.
- Fritz Pregl (Nobel Prize), making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis, one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental analysis.
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- Edmund Rumpler, inventor of Rumpler Tropfenwagen
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- Franz Sacher, inventor of Sachertorte
- Erwin Schrödinger, discovered Schrödinger equation
- Eduard Suess: discoveries in geology, continent Gondwana and Tethys Ocean was named by Suess
- Viktor Schauberger: discoveries in biomimicry, contributions to fluid mechanics, inventor of the trout turbine
- Stephan von Breuning, discoverer of many varieties of beetles, particularly those in the Cerambycidae family
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- Gustav Tauschek, inventor of Drum memory
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- Max Valier, performed the first test drive of a rocket car with liquid propulsion, the Valier-Heylandt Rak 7.
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- Julius Wagner-Jauregg (Nobel Prize), discovered treatment of mental disease by inducing a fever, an approach known as pyrotherapy.
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See also
Notes
Austrians have a history of aircraft and math
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