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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. Engineers are ...
Recollections of the Irish War (1900) A Vision of Life (1909) A Chronicle of Jails (1917) The Return of the Hero (1923) [17] Thomas Rudmose-Brown (1878–1942) Ireland: James Cousins: 22 July 1873 in Belfast, Northern Ireland 20 February 1956 in Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh, India 1935 [c] The Sleep of the King (1902) New Ways in English ...
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.
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.
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.
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John Joly (/ ˈ dʒ oʊ l i /; 1 November 1857 – 8 December 1933) was an Irish geologist and physicist known for his development of radiotherapy in the treatment of cancer. He is also known for developing techniques to more accurately estimate the age of a geological period, based on radioactive elements present in minerals, the uranium–thorium dating.
This is a list of notable Irish people, who were born on the island of Ireland, in either the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland, and have lived there for most of their lives. Also included on the list are people who were not born in Ireland, but have been raised as Irish, have lived there for most of their lives or in regards to the ...