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Also: Ireland: People: By occupation: Scientists An inclusive list with Irish-born scientists who worked abroad, scientists who came to Ireland to work and Irish-born scientists who worked in Ireland.
Irish inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques which owe their existence either partially or entirely to an Irish person. Often, things which are discovered for the first time, are also called "inventions", and in many cases, there is no clear line between the two. Below is a list of such inventions.
4 April 1913 in Dublin, Ireland 1913: Shakspere: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art (1875) Shakespeare Primer (1877) The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1886) [16] James Lindsay (1847–1913) Great Britain: Darrell Figgis: 17 September 1882 in Dublin, Ireland 27 October 1925 in London, England 1922: Recollections of the Irish War (1900) A ...
Robert Boyle FRS [2] (/ b ɔɪ l /; 25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish [3] natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method.
View history; General What links here; Related changes; Upload file; ... 21st-century Irish scientists (13 C, 25 P). Scientists from Northern Ireland by century (2 C) A.
Ireland's Greatest Scientist: Robert Boyle founded modern chemistry and discovered Boyle's law. Ireland's Greatest was a 2010 public poll by Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) and associated television documentary series broadcast on RTÉ One, where viewers voted to choose the greatest person in the history of Ireland. [1]
John Desmond Bernal FRS [7] (/ b ər ˈ n ɑː l /; 10 May 1901 – 15 September 1971) was an Irish scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology. He published extensively on the history of science. In addition, Bernal wrote popular books on science and society.
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (6 October 1903 – 25 June 1995) was an Irish nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics who first split the atom. [1] He is best known for his work with John Cockcroft to construct one of the earliest types of particle accelerator, the Cockcroft–Walton generator.