Science Experiments for Kids

 Tommy Flowers, (1905–1998) England – Colossus an early electronic computer.

 Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, (1819– 1868 ) France – Foucault pendulum, gyroscope, eddy

current

 Benoît Fourneyron, (1802–1867)

 John Fowler, (1826–1864), England – steam-driven ploughing engine

 Benjamin Franklin, (1706–1790) U.S. – the pointed lightning rod conductor, bifocal

glasses, the Franklin stove, the glass harmonica

 Augustin-Jean Fresnel, (1788–1827)

 William Friese-Greene, (1855–1921)

 Buckminster Fuller, (1895–1983)

 Ivan Fyodorov, (c. 1510– 1583 ) Russia/Poland–Lithuania – invented multibarreled mortar,

introduced printing in Russia

 Svyatoslav Fyodorov, (1927–2000)

 Vladimir Fyodorov, (1874– 1 966) Russia – Fedorov Avtomat (first self-loading battle rifle,

arguably the first assault rifle)

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 Dennis Gabor, (1900–1979)

 Boris Borisovich Galitzine, (1862–1916)

 Dmitri Garbuzov, (1940–2006) Russia/U.S. – continuous-wave-operating diode lasers

(together with Zhores Alferov), high-power diode lasers

 Elmer R. Gates, (1859–1923) USA – foam fire extinguisher, electric loom mechanisms,

magnetic & diamagnetic separators, educational toy ("box & blocks")

 Richard J. Gatling, (1818–1903) U.S. – wheat drill, first successful machine gun

 Georgy Gause, (1910–1986) Russia – gramicidin S, neomycin, lincomycin and other

antibiotics

 E. K. Gauzen Russia – three bolt equipment (early diving costume)

 Hans Wilhelm Geiger, (1882–1945)

 Andrey Geim, (born 1958)

 Nestor Genko, (1839–1904) Russia – Genko's Forest Belt (the first large-scale windbreak

system)

 Henri Giffard, (1825–1882) France – powered airship, injector

 Valentyn Glushko, (1908–1989) Russia – hypergolic propellant, electric propulsion, Soviet

rocket engines (including world's most powerful liquid-fuel rocket engine RD-170)

 Heinrich Göbel, (1818–1893)

 Leonid Gobyato, (1875–1915) Russia – first modern man-portable mortar

 Robert Goddard, (1882–1945) U.S. – liquid fuel rocket

 Igor Gorynin, (1926) Russia – weldable titanium alloys, high strength aluminium alloys,

radiation-hardened steels

 Peter Carl Goldmark, (1906–1977) Hungary – vinyl record (LP), CBS colour television

 Charles Goodyear, (1800–1860) U.S. – vulcanization of rubber

 Gordon Gould, (1920–2005) U.S. – co-inventor of laser