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Thomas Edison
With hundreds of ground-breaking inventions to his credit, Thomas Edison played a key role in creating the modern world we enjoy today. An influential, innovative genius, Edison left the world a legacy of breakthroughs in technology and science unmatched by any other inventor to date.Thomas Alva Edison developed the incandescent light bulb and transformed the world. In addition, he established the first modern research laboratory and patented over a thousand other inventions.The inventions and i -
Marie Curie
Marie Curie discovered and isolated two new radioactive elements, radium and polonium, and put the term "radioactivity" into common usage. Her work opened new doors to medical technology and brought hope to victims of cancer and other related diseases. -
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi's achievements began in 1897 with his patent for a system of wireless telegraphy. Today, we enjoy and depend on the wireless communication that began with the innovation and inventions of Marconi.Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi gave the world its first practical system for long-distance wireless communication. His revolutionary advances in this area, along with formation of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, have made present-day global communication possible.From exper -
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein rocked the foundations of science with revolutionary concepts of time, space, mass, motion, and gravitation. Three new branches of physics were fostered by Einstein’s theories, and his famous formula E=mc2 was the foundation of our modern nuclear age.Albert Einstein revolutionized scientific thought, and his theories initiated new branches of physics. In 1921, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his research into the photoelectric effect -
Jonas Salk
Dr. Jonas Salk helped end the growing epidemics of polio that plagued America during the 1940s and 50s. His research on the causes and treatment of disease continues at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.Polio at one time struck thousands of children each year. Research scientist Dr. Jonas Salk developed the first effective polio vaccine, halting the yearly epidemics and eventually freeing the Western Hemisphere of this crippling, often fatal disease.Following his success in developing a
