Famous inventors
person that devises a new device, method, composition, or process
697 people
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
1857
– 1935
· Age 78
Deceased
Steve Wozniak
1950
· Age 75
Alive
Humphry Davy
1778
– 1829
· Age 50
Deceased
Philipp Lenard
1862
– 1947
· Age 84
Deceased
Jacques Cousteau
1910
– 1997
· Age 87
Deceased
Lev Landau
1908
– 1968
· Age 60
Deceased
Mikhail Kalashnikov
1919
– 2013
· Age 94
Deceased
Hans Christian Ørsted
1777
– 1851
· Age 73
Deceased
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
1791
– 1872
· Age 80
Deceased
Sergey Brin
1973
· Age 52
Alive
Hedy Lamarr
1914
– 2000
· Age 85
Deceased
Anders Celsius
1701
– 1744
· Age 42
Deceased
Abu Bakr al-Razi
0866
– 0925
· Age 59
Deceased
Rudolf Diesel
1858
– 1913
· Age 55
Deceased
Ferdinand Braun
1850
– 1918
· Age 67
Deceased
John Bardeen
1908
– 1991
· Age 82
Deceased
Gabriel Lippmann
1845
– 1921
· Age 75
Deceased
William Shockley
1910
– 1989
· Age 79
Deceased
Evangelista Torricelli
1608
– 1647
· Age 39
Deceased
Roger Bacon
1220
– 1292
· Age 72
Deceased
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
1853
– 1926
· Age 72
Deceased
Tu Youyou
1930
· Age 95
Alive
Joseph Priestley
1733
– 1804
· Age 70
Deceased
Louis Braille
1809
– 1852
· Age 43
Deceased
Pyotr Kapitsa
1894
– 1984
· Age 89
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q205375