List of Austrian inventors and discoverers

This is a list of Austrian inventors and discoverers. The following list comprises people from Austria, and also people of predominantly Austrian heritage, in alphabetical order of the surname.

Existing:	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O	P	Q	R	S	T	U	V	W	X	Y	Z
See also						Notes						References						External links

A

a

B

Georg Joseph Beer

• Georg Joseph Beer, introducing a flap operation for treatment of cataracts (Beer's operation), as well as popularizing the instrument used to perform the surgery (Beer's knife).
• Günther Burstyn, co-inventor of the tank (independent from him William Tritton and Walter Gordon Wilson)

C

• Carl Cori (Nobel Prize), co-discovered Cori cycle.
• Gerty Cori (Nobel Prize), co-discovered Cori cycle.

D

• Carl Djerassi, inventor of birth control pills
• Christian Doppler, discoverer of the Doppler effect

E

• Paul Eisler, inventor of the printed circuit board.

F

Sigmund Freud

• Otto Frenzl: aeronautical pioneer, developed the area rule in 1943, a design technique for airfoils used to reduce an aircraft's drag at transonic and supersonic speeds. Later it was independently developed again by Richard T. Whitcomb in 1952.
• Sigmund Freud: neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
• Karl von Frisch: (Nobel Prize), one of the founders of modern ethology, studies on waggle dance
• Paul Fürst: inventor of the Mozartkugel

G

• David Gestetner, inventor of the Gestetner stencil duplicator.
• Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen, inventor of the Giesl ejector

H

• Friedrich Hayek (Nobel Prize), pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations.

Victor Francis Hess

• Victor Francis Hess (Nobel Prize), discovered cosmic ray.
• Ingeborg Hochmair, developed the first modern cochlear implant

K

Eric Kandel

• Eric Kandel (Nobel Prize), research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons.
• Viktor Kaplan, inventor of the Kaplan turbine.
• Wolfgang von Kempelen, inventor of The Turk, a chess-playing automaton and Wolfgang von Kempelen's Speaking Machine.
• Walter Kohn (Nobel Prize) discovered Density functional theory
• Karl Kordesch, jointly co-inventor of Alkaline battery (together with Canadian Lewis Urry).
• Richard Kuhn (Nobel Prize), works on carotenoids and vitamins, co-discovered Soman

L

• Hedy Lamarr, co-invented, with composer George Antheil, an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping.

Karl Landsteiner

• Karl Landsteiner (Nobel Prize) discovered the main blood groups, co-discovered with Alexander S. Wiener, the Rhesus factor and co-discovered with Constantin Levaditi and Erwin Popper the polio virus.

Konrad Lorenz

• Konrad Lorenz (Nobel Prize) one of the founders of modern ethology

M

• Ferdinand Mannlicher, along with Scottish Canadian James Paris Lee, Mannlicher was particularly noted for inventing the en-bloc clip charger-loading magazine system.
• August Musger, inventor of slow motion.

P

Wolfgang Pauli

• Wolfgang Pauli (Nobel Prize), discovered Pauli exclusion principle
• Max Perutz (Nobel Prize), co-discovered with John Kendrew in studies the structures of hemoglobin and globular proteins.
• Fritz Pregl (Nobel Prize), making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis, one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental analysis.

R

• Edmund Rumpler, inventor of Rumpler Tropfenwagen

S

Franz Sacher

• Franz Sacher, inventor of Sachertorte
• Erwin Schrödinger, discovered Schrödinger equation
• Eduard Suess: discoveries in geology, continent Gondwana and Tethys Ocean was named by Suess
• Viktor Schauberger: discoveries in biomimicry, contributions to fluid mechanics, inventor of the trout turbine
• Stephan von Breuning, discoverer of many varieties of beetles, particularly those in the Cerambycidae family

T

• Gustav Tauschek, inventor of Drum memory

V

• Max Valier, performed the first test drive of a rocket car with liquid propulsion, the Valier-Heylandt Rak 7.

W

Julius Wagner-Jauregg

• Julius Wagner-Jauregg (Nobel Prize), discovered treatment of mental disease by inducing a fever, an approach known as pyrotherapy.

See also

• List of Austrian Americans

Notes

Austrians have a history of aircraft and math