Pierre Curie voluntarily exposed his arm to the action of radium for several hours. This resulted in damage resembling a burn that developed progressively and required several months to heal. Henri Becquerel had by accident a similar burn as a result of carrying in his vest pocket a glass tube containing radium salt. He came to tell us of this evil effect of radium exclaiming in a manner at once delighted and annoyed: “I love it but I owe it a grudge.” ~ Marie Curie 1867 to 1934
This most beautiful system of the sun planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems these being formed by the like wise counsel must be all subject to the dominion of One; especially since the light of the fixed stars is of the same nature with the light of the sun. ~ Isaac Newton 1642 to 1727
William Howard Livens (1889–1964) UK – chemical warfare – Livens Projector.
Pavel Molchanov (1893–1941) Russia – radiosonde.
Alexander Smakula (1900–1983) Ukraine/Russia/USA – anti-reflective coating.
Eric Fossum (born 1957) USA – intra-pixel charge transfer in CMOS image sensors.
Wallace H. Coulter (1913–1998) USA – Coulter counter (cell biology).
Joseph Shivers (1920-2014) USA – Spandex.
Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692–1761) Netherlands – Leyden jar pyrometer.
Frank Hornby (1863–1936) UK – invented Meccano.
Eugene Polley (1915–2012) United States – wireless remote control (with Robert Adler).
Antonio Benedetto Carpano (1764–1815) Italy – modern vermouth.
Vladimir Fyodorov (1874–1966) Russia – Fedorov Avtomat (first self-loading battle rifle arguably the first assault rifle).
György Gömöri (1904–1957) Hungary / USA– Gömöri trichrome stain Gömöri methenamine silver stain (histology).
Franc Trkman (1903–1978) Slovenia – electrical switches accessories for opening windows.
Narcis Monturiol i Estarriol (1819–1885) Spain – steam powered submarine.
James Leonard Plimpton (1828–1911) USA – roller skates.
James Henry Greathead (1844–1896) South Africa – tunnel boring machine tunnelling shield technique.
Gerhard Sessler (born 1931) Germany – foil electret microphone silicon microphone.
Paul Winchell (1922–2005) USA – the artificial heart.
Arturo Caprotti (1881–1938) Italy – Caprotti valve gear.
Leonid Gobyato (1875–1915) Russia – first modern man-portable mortar.
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Pierre Curie voluntarily exposed his arm to the action of radium for several hours. This resulted in damage resembling a burn that developed progressively and required several months to heal. Henri Becquerel had by accident a similar burn as a result of carrying in his vest pocket a glass tube containing radium salt. He came to tell us of this evil effect of radium exclaiming in a manner at once delighted and annoyed: “I love it but I owe it a grudge.” ~ Marie Curie 1867 to 1934
Time is the best appraiser of scientific work and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor. ~ Louis Pasteur - 1822 to 1895
I think it would be quite wrong to suggest that my colleagues have rejected me or that I reject them. Quite the reverse. It’s only a small vociferous group – mainly biologists I’m sorry to say – that go beyond ordinary scientific criticism and start becoming personal. ~ James Lovelock 1919 – present - Gaia Theorist Inventor Scientific Polymath
Division is esteemed one of the busiest operations of Arithmetic and such as requireth a mind not wandering or settled upon other matters. ~ Thomas Hylles The arte of vulgar arithmeticke 1600 - Mathematician
If your experiment needs statistics you ought to have done a better experiment. - Ernest Rutherford 1871 to 1937 Physicist
Trial by combat of wits in disputations has no attraction for the seeker after truth; to him the appeal to experiment is the last and only test of the merit of an opinion conjecture or hypotheses. - Joseph Mellor 1869 to 1938 Chemist
Outstanding examples of genius – a Mozart a Shakespeare or a Carl Friedrich Gauss – are markers on the path along which our species appears destined to tread. - Fred Hoyle 1915 to 2001 Astrophysicist
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