Claim To Fame : Scientists and Inventors
1,586 memorials found
Cleveland Abbe
3 Dec 1838 – 28 Oct 1916Scientist. A native of New York City, New York, he studied and...
Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA
Louis Agassiz
28 May 1807 – 12 Dec 1873Scientist. He was a paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and...
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Edwin Howard Armstrong
18 Dec 1890 – 1 Feb 1954Inventor. Born in Manhattan, New York, he was one of the most...
Merrimac, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Benjamin Banneker
9 Nov 1731 – 9 Oct 1806Inventor, Scientist. He is arguably the best-known...
Oella, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
Benjamin Banneker
9 Nov 1731 – 9 Oct 1806Inventor, Scientist. He is arguably the best-known...
Oella, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
Elmer Clinton Adolph Berger
12 Aug 1891 – 15 Jul 1952Inventor of rear view mirror. Berger is often credited as being...
Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, USA
George Washington Carver
12 Jul 1864 – 5 Jan 1943Scientist, Inventor. He developed three hundred uses for peanuts...
Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama, USA
Samuel Colt
19 Jul 1814 – 10 Jan 1862Inventor, Industrialist. He is best remembered as the founder of...
Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Peter Cooper
12 Feb 1791 – 4 Apr 1883Inventor, Philanthropist. A Native of New York City, New York, as...
Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA
Ely Culbertson
22 Jul 1891 – 27 Dec 1955Card Player, Author and Businessman. The son of an American...
Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont, USA
Lee de Forest
26 Aug 1873 – 30 Jun 1961Inventor. He was born in Iowa but raised in Alabama where his...
Mission Hills, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Herbert Dow
26 Feb 1866 – 16 Oct 1930Chemist. Member, National Inventors Hall of Fame. Herbert Henry...
Midland, Midland County, Michigan, USA
Albert Einstein
14 Mar 1879 – 18 Apr 1955Scientist, Social Reformer. Widely considered the most...
Enrico Fermi
29 Sep 1901 – 28 Nov 1954Physicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938. He...
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Robert Fulton
14 Nov 1765 – 24 Feb 1815Inventor, Artist. While not the inventor of the steamboat, he was...
Manhattan, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA
Dr Robert Hutchings Goddard
5 Oct 1882 – 10 Aug 1945Scientist. A graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (BS,...
Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
MG George Washington Goethals
29 Jun 1858 – 21 Jan 1928United States Army Major General. He is most remembered as being...
West Point, Orange County, New York, USA
Charles Goodyear
29 Dec 1800 – 1 Jul 1860Inventor. He invented the vulcanization process that made rubber...
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
Charles Elmer Hires
19 Aug 1851 – 31 Jul 1937Businessman. He developed and helped popularize root beer, which...
Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
Karen Horney
16 Sep 1885 – 4 Dec 1952Scientist. She was an eminent and influential psychoanalyst who...
Hartsdale, Westchester County, New York, USA
