SCIENTIST
Hippocrates
Pioneered techniques of health care. Considered the father of modern medicine. His Hippocratic oath is still sworn by medical practitioners today.
George Stephenson
Credited with building the first railway line and becoming the ‘father of the railways’.
William Henry Gates
As the principal founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates is one of the most influential and richest people on the planet.
Pythagoras
Philosopher and Mathematician. Pythagoras is best known today for the Pythagorean theorem.
Marie Curie
Polish-born French chemist and physicist. Discovered Radium and uses of radiation and X-rays.
Galileo Galilei
Created one of the first modern telescopes,
Johannes Gutenberg
German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who invented the world’s first printing press.
Robert Maxwell
Publisher, businessman. Once considered on the richest men in the world, only to have it dissolve in bankruptcy following his death.
Sir Isaac Newton
Newton studied mathematics, optics, physics, and astronomy. Developed the law of gravity and the Laws of Motion.
Alexander Fleming
Scottish scientist. Fleming discovered the antibiotic penicillin by accident from a mould Penicillium Notatum
John Harrison
Invented the marine Chronometer which enabled a ship to accurately know its longitude at sea
Frank Whittle
Whittle developed a jet aircraft, which used a gas turbine.
Coco Chanel
French modernist designer. Revolutionised women’s clothing.
Adam Smith
Scottish social philosopher. His ‘The Wealth of Nations‘ laid down a framework for the basis of free market economics.
Tim Berners-Lee
British computer scientist. He developed and made the World-Wide-Web freely available.
Edward Jenner
English doctor who helped create and popularise a vaccination for smallpox. Known as the ‘father of immunology’ and later vaccinations.
Hedi Lemarr
Film star AND Electronic Engineer who Invented "Frequency Hopping" Used in WiFi and Blue Tooth.
Larry Page
Along with Sergey Brin, Page is the co-founder of Google. Invented Page Rank which made Google the most popular search engine.
Marcus Aurelius
Roman Emperor and philosopher. Famous for his book ‘Meditations‘ short aphorisms of wisdom and advice.
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist, credited with inventing the battery. Volta invented the first electrochemical battery cell.
John Logie Baird
Demonstrated the first televised moving objects, the first transatlantic TV broadcast and the first colour TV in 1941.
Countess of Lovelace (1815-52)
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace: Mathematics. Worked with Charles Babbage on his "Computer". Often regarded as the first computer programmer.
Dame Anita Roddick,
British businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner, best known as the founder of The Body Shop
Thomas Paine
English-American writer and political activist. Notable works include: Rights of Man
Enrico Fermi
Italian scientist who built and developed the nuclear reactor which led to the creation of atomic bombs and nuclear power.