Are you searching for all those people who have made our lives easy by contributing to the various important discoveries? You have come to the right page! Find in this article a list of famous discoverers and their discoveries.
While munching on potato chips the other day, a thought came to my mind; who discovered these yummy little crisp chips? And to my surprise, discovery of potato chips was an absolute accidental discovery. There was this chef named George Crum who was frustrated with his customers as they used to send back dishes made by him to the kitchen, complaining about soggy and thick potato pieces in there. He then decided to chop the potatoes into paper thin slices and deep-fry them, so that no one could eat it with a fork. The diners loved this dish, and that’s how potato chips were discovered. Amazing, right? Read more of such interesting facts.
In fact, if these discoveries would not have been made, no one would know that the earth rotated around its own axis, we wouldn’t know about the various planets that existed. It was only when the apple fell on Sir Isaac Newton’s head, that the law of gravity was discovered. Sir Goodyear unknowingly dropped a compound of rubber on a hot stove and was quite amazed how this rubber was subjected to a change and that its hardness, strength and elasticity were improved to a greater extend after heating it! Wow! The notable contributions these great men have made lives of mankind easy and all the more interesting.
If Amerigo Vespucci didn’t find the lands of America, no one would ever know about the existence of the United States of America and the same would imply to Antarctica and many other islands. The works of these men are really laudable! Do you want to know about all these great men and their respective discoveries? Well… here you go.
List of Famous Discoverers and their Discoveries
| Discoverers | Discovery |
| Albert Einstein | Photon |
| Alfred Wegener | Continental Drift |
| Amerigo Vespucci | America |
| Antoine Lavoisier | Conservation of Mass and Diamond a Form of Carbon |
| Antonio de Ulloa and Charles Wood | Platinum |
| Bartolomeu Dias | Africa |
| Benjamin Franklin | +/- Electric Charges |
| Captain James Cook | Antarctica |
| Carl Wilhelm Scheele | Oxygen |
| Charles Darwin | Evolution of Life |
| Charles Goodyear | Vulcanized Rubber |
| Christiaan Huygens | Saturn Rings |
| Clyde Tombaugh | Pluto |
| DuPont | Teflon |
| Edward Jenner | Vaccination |
| Ernest Rutherford | Proton |
| Friedrich Miescher | DNA and RNA |
| Galileo Galilei | Principle of Relativity and Moons of Jupiter |
| George Crum | Potato Chips |
| Heinrich Hertz | Electromagnetic Waves |
| Henri Becquerel | Radioactivity |
| Henry Cavendish | Hydrogen |
| Humphry Davy | Sodium and Potassium |
| Isaac Newton | Universal Gravitation |
| J. J. Thomson | Electron |
| Jean Bernard Foucault | Rotation of Earth |
| Johann Galle | Neptune |
| Joseph Nicephore Niepce | Photography |
| Louis Pasteur and Joseph Lister | Microorganisms Causing Infectious Disease |
| Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell | Electromagnetism |
| Morris W. Travers and William Ramsay | Neon, Krypton, Xenon |
| Nicolaus Copernicus | Solar System and Earth |
| Niels Bohr | Quantum Theory |
| Rabi Simantov, Solomon H. Snyder, John Hughes and Hans Kosterlitz | Endorphin |
| Robert Boyles | Boyle’s Law |
| Robert Hooke | Cells in Living Things |
| Sir Alexander Fleming | Penicillin |
| Sir F.G. Hopkins | Vitamins |
| Sir Frederick G. Banting | Insulin |
| Thomas A. Edison | Phonograph |
| Vitus Jonassen Bering | Alaska |
| Wilhelm Röntgen | X-rays |
| Willard Libby | Radiocarbon Dating |
| William Harvey | Circulatory System |
| William Herschel | Uranus |
Without the contribution of these discoverers numerable cities, planets, facts, laws and theories would still exist but, remain unknown. Where would we be today without the contribution of these brilliant discoverers and their discoveries? Hats off to these great discoverers who have helped improve the standard of our lives, thus making it easier and way better!