Dr. Amar Gopal Bose was a scientist, inventor, academic, and entrepreneur who founded the Bose Corporation. His family was of Bengali Indian origin but his father, a revolutionary freedom fighter, fled to the United States to avoid persecution by the British Raj.
Alhazen or Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham was an Arab polymath born in the tenth century AD. Popularly known as the first scientist, Alhazen developed the scientific method of experimentation and was the first person to formulate hypothesis and conduct verifiable experiments.
Alfred Nobel was a Swedish scientist who invented dynamite and willed his wealth to establish the prestigious Nobel Prize. He was born on October 21, 1833 to Immanuel and Karolina Andriette Nobel, the fourth of eight children.
Alexander Stepanovich Popov was a Russian physicist who is widely credited in Russia and other Eastern European countries as being the inventor of the radio.
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish inventor who is most well known for inventing the world’s first practical telephone. Bell was born on March 3, 1847 to Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Grace.
Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish bacteriologist who revolutionized modern medicine with his discovery of penicillin. He was born on August 6, 1881 in Ayrshire, Scotland, and was the seventh child of a farmer named Hugh Fleming.
Alessandro Volta (formally Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta) was an Italian scientist best known for inventing the battery. He was born to a noble family in Como, Italy in February 1745.
Alberto Santos-Dumont was a Brazilian aviator who is best known for flying the first controlled flying machine. Alberto was born on a farm in a Brazilian town called Palmira on July 20, 1873.
Albert Hofmann was a Swiss scientist, best known for the invention of the psychedelic drug lysergic acid diethylamide, better known as LSD. He was born on January 11, 1906, in Baden, Switzerland where his father Adolf worked as a factory tool maker.
Al-Kindi was an Arab Muslim philosopher born and brought up in Iraq in 801 CE. His fields of interest were very diverse, including mathematics, physics, metaphysics, music, ethics, logic, psychology, philosophy, medicine, pharmacology, chemistry, astronomy, astrology and optics.