Find A Grave - Scientists and Inventors

Abbe, Cleveland b. December 3, 1838 d. October 28, 1916
Scientist. A native of New York City, New York, he studied and taught mathematics and astronomy at the Free Academy in New York, the University of Michigan, Cambridge Massachusetts, and at Pulkova, Russia. In 1868 he was named director of the Cincinnati Observatory in Ohio. While there he developed a system of telegraphic weather reports, daily weather maps and weather forecasts. At his urging Cincinnati became the meteorological observation headquarters for the United States. His project was...[Read More] (Bio by: Bigwoo)
Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia, District Of Columbia, USA
Plot: Section M, Lot 292, Range 5
Abel, Frederick Augustus b. July 7, 1827 d. September 6, 1902
Scientist. He was an English military chemist who developed a process for reducing gun cotton to a pulp, thus enabling it to be worked and stored in safety. Together with Scottish physicist and ballistics expert Sir Andrew Noble, he developed new and important theories of explosives. He was one of twenty-six original students of the Royal College of Chemistry, enrolling when the institution began in 1845. In March 1852 he succeeded scientist [Read More] (Bio by: s.canning)
Nunhead Cemetery, London, Greater London, England
Abel, Niels Henrik b. August 5, 1802 d. April 6, 1829
Mathematician. Born in Nedstrand, Norway, he studied at the University of Christiania (now Oslo). His body of work mainly concentrated on the solution of the Quintic Equation, the elliptic functions and the group theory. Part of his researches were published in the influential "Crelle's Journal". On Christmas 1828 he became ill during a sled journey to visit his fiancee in Froland, Norway, and some months later he died of tuberculosis at the age of 26. German mathematician August Leopold...[Read More] (Bio by: Duke)
Cemetery of Froland, Froland, Norway
Abplanalp, Robert b. April 4, 1922 d. August 30, 2003
Inventor, Industrialist. He turned the aerosol can into a household fixture. At the age of 27, while working as a machine shop operator, he perfected an inexpensive and reliable valve that could be mass-produced to spray perfume, insecticides and whipped cream. As an industrialist, he was an ally and confidant of President Richard M. Nixon. He lent Nixon the money to buy property in San Clemente, California...[Read More] (Bio by: Ginny M)
Cause of death: Cancer
Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York, USA
Achong, Bertrand Geoffrey b. December 6, 1928 d. November 20, 1996
Medical Pioneer. An expert on Electron Microscopy, he is most known for his participation in the discovery of the Epstein-Barr virus.
Golders Green Crematorium, Golders Green, Greater London, England
Ackerman, Dr. Albert Bernard 'Bernie' b. November 22, 1936 d. December 5, 2008
Physician, Dermatopathologist, Educator, Author. He was responsible for developing key ideas and methods for diagnosing diseases of the skin under the microscope. Dr. Ackerman, educated at Princeton, Columbia University, and Harvard University, began his career at the University of Miami, later at New York University, Philadelphia, and, finally, at the Ackerman Academy of Dermatopathology in New York City. Dr. Ackerman revolutionized the field of Dermatopathology by developing the "pattern...[Read More] (Bio by: Mark Albert Hurt, MD)
Cremated, Other, Ashes scattered in Central Park, NYC, near the Alice in Wonderland sclupture
Ackerman, Rudolph b. April 20, 1764 d. March 30, 1834
Inventor, Publisher. In 1817 he established a print-shop in the Strand, London, England and organized a lithographic press, which produced copper lithographs. He later included the production of colors and thick carton paper for miniatures and landscape painters. He applied his press to the illustration of his "Repository of Arts, Literary and Fashion", published monthly with contributions from many eminent artists of the day. He introduced fashion to the popular literary annals of the day...[Read More] (Bio by: s.canning)
Kensal Green Cemetery, London, Greater London, England
Plot: 12907/112/3: the monument is to the West of the main path.
Adams, John Couch b. June 5, 1819 d. January 21, 1892
Astronomer. He deduced the existence of the planet Neptune in 1845. Although his calculations were given to the Astronomer Royal, the latter did nothing about them, so a German observer was the first to actually spot the planet in 1846. He refused a knighthood in 1847. (Bio by: David Conway)
Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Adams, Joseph Henry b. 1867 d. February 8, 1941
Scientist. He patented an oil cracking process that manufactured gasoline in 1919.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Plot: Section 23, Lot 2194
Adamson, Joy b. January 20, 1910 d. January 3, 1980
Scientist, Author. Born Friederike Victoria Gessner, she was a naturalist and author of the "Born Free" book series, which detailed the raising of the lioness Elsa by her and her husband George Adamson. She was murdered while working in Kenya's Shaba Reserve by a disgruntled ex-employee. She was cremated, and her ashes were divided and placed in the graves of Elsa the Lioness, and Pippa the Cheetah at her former...[Read More]
Joy Adamson Gravesite, Meru National Park, Eastern Province, Kenya
Addison, Thomas b. April, 1793 d. June 29, 1860
Medical Pioneer. He was one of a famous group of eminent physicians at Guy's Hospital, London, England. An acute clinical observer and teacher, he did much to create the fame of the medical school at Guy's and whose contributions to the science of medicine have been numerous and important. His research into pneumonia revealed truths, novel at the time, but now generally accepted; he influenced the progress of knowledge of pulmonary phthisis; and, in 1853, produced his best-known work, his "...[Read More] (Bio by: s.canning)
Lanercost Priory, Lanercost, Cumbria, England
Adler, Charles b. June 20, 1899 d. October 23, 1980
Inventor. He was granted 60 patents in his lifetime, and invented numerous innovations such as an electric automotive brake, a traffic-actuated signal light, and other locomotive and auto safety devices.
Druid Ridge Cemetery, Pikesville, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
Adler, Robert b. December 4, 1913 d. February 16, 2007
Inventor. He was credited as co-inventor of the television remote control with fellow engineer Eugene Polley, and was best known for his Zenith Space Command remote control, which was introduced in 1956. He earned a doctorate in physics from the University of Vienna in 1937, and then joined Zenith's research division in 1941. He retired as Vice President of Research in 1979, and was a technical consultant for the company until 1999. During World War II, Adler specialized in military...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
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Agassiz, Elizabeth b. December 5, 1822 d. June 27, 1907
Scientist. The wife of naturalist Louis Agassiz, she helped to organize and manage the Thayer Expedition to Brazil in 1865, and the Hassler Expedition to the Strait of Magellan in 1871. She co-wrote "A First Lesson in Natural History," "Seaside Studies in Natural History," and "A Journey in Brazil". She served as President of Radcliffe College from 1882 to 1899.
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Agassiz, Louis b. May 28, 1807 d. December 12, 1873
Scientist.
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Agnew, David Hayes b. November 24, 1818 d. March 22, 1892
Medical Pioneer. A professor of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania from 1870 to 1892, he attended President James Garfield after he was shot in 1881.
West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
Agote, Luis b. September 22, 1868 d. November 12, 1954
Medical Pioneer. In 1914, he performed the first successful blood transfusion using sodium citrate as an anticoagulant in Latin America.
Cementerio de la Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Capital Federal, Argentina
Ahern, George Patrick b. December 29, 1859 d. May 13, 1940
United States Army Officer, Conservationist. He served in Cuba and the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. After the war, he remained in the Philippines to organize the Office of Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks and later the Bureau of Forestry for the Philippine Government. Earlier in 1890, he explored some of the last areas unmapped in Montana, mapping what would become Glacier National Park. Several areas in the park are named for him including Ahern Creek, Peak, Pass and Glacier...[Read More] (Bio by: Barry Charles)
Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA
Plot: Section 4, Lot 3050
Airy, George Biddell b. July 27, 1801 d. January 2, 1892
Astronomer. He served as Great Britain's Astronomer Royal from 1835 until 1881. In 1838 he created a magnetic and meteorological department at the Greenwich Observatory in England. From 1826 to 1854 he conducted research which led him to determine the mean density of the Earth. As Astronomer Royal, he built the Airy Transit Circle, which defines the exact position of the Greenwich or Prime Meridian longitude vector. He was a Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University for forty-...[Read More] (Bio by: s.canning)
St Mary Churchyard, Playford, Suffolk, England
Alderton, Charles Courtice b. June 21, 1857 d. May 29, 1941
Inventor. He was the creator of the "Dr. Pepper" soft drink. Born in Brooklyn, New York to British immigrants, he went to England after his early education, where he attended a college in Stowmarket. He returned to Brooklyn during the Westward Expansion, and attended medical school at the University of Texas in Galveston, Texas. Graduating with an M.D., he decided to work as a pharmacist, moving to Waco, Texas to join W. B. Morrison in his Old Corner Drug Store. He soon noticed that patrons of...[Read More]
Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, McLennan County, Texas, USA
Plot: Lot 425

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