Alexander Graham Bell 

1847 – 1922.
Inventor of the metal detector, the telephone, and the photophone – the first
device to carry the human voice using light.
Brahmagupta 597 – 668. 
Established zero as a number and defined its mathematical properties; discovered the formula
for solving quadratic equations.
Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642.
The father of modern science, Galileo discovered the first moons ever known to orbit another
planet and that the Milky Way is made of stars. He rationalized how objects are affected by
gravity, stated the principle of inertia, and proposed the first theory of relativity.
Dmitri Mendeleev 1834 – 1907.
Discovered the periodic table in a dream. Utilized the organizing principles of the periodic table
to correctly predict the existence and properties of six new chemical elements.
Isaac Newton 1643 to 1727.
Profoundly changed our understanding of nature with his law of universal gravitation and his
laws of motion; invented calculus, the field of mathematics that dominates the physical sciences;
generalized the binomial theorem; built the first ever reflecting telescope; showed sunlight is
made of all the colors of the rainbow
C. V. Raman 1888 – 1970.
Discovered that light can donate a small amount of energy to a molecule, changing the light’s
color and causing the molecule to vibrate. The color change acts as a ‘fingerprint’ for the
molecule that can be used to identify molecules and detect diseases such as cancer.
James Watt 1736 – 1819.
Father of the industrial revolution; radically improved the steam engine; invented high pressure
steam engines; independently discovered latent heat; invented the world’s first copying machine.