Science Experiments for Kids

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 Richard Hall Gower, (1768–1833) England – ship's hull and rigging
 Boris Grabovsky, (1901–1966) Russia – cathode commutator, an early electronic TV
pickup tube
 Bette Nesmith Graham, (1924– 1980 ) U.S. – Liquid Paper
 James Henry Greathead, (1844–1896) South Africa – tunnel boring machine, tunnelling
shield technique

 Chester Greenwood, (1858–1937)


 James Gregory, (1638–1675)


 William Robert Grove, (1811–1896)


 Otto von Guericke, (1602–1686) Germany – vacuum pump, manometer, dasymeter
 Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, (1738–1814) France – Guillotine, a device for human
decapitation
 Mikhail Gurevich, (1893–1976) Russia – MiG-series fighter aircraft, including world's most
produced jet aircraft MiG-15 and most produced supersonic aircraft MiG-21 (together with
Artem Mikoyan)

 Hakan Gürsu, (c. 2007)


 Johann Gutenberg, (c. 1390s–1468) Germany – movable type printing press

 Samuel Guthrie, (1782–1848)


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 John Hadley, (1682–1744)


 Waldemar Haffkine, (1860–1930) Russia/Switzerland – first anti-cholera and anti-plague
vaccines

 Tracy Hall, (1919–2008 )


 John Hays Hammond, Jr., (1888–1965)


 James Hargreaves, (1720–1778)


 John Harington, (1561–1612) England – the flush toilet

 John Harrison, (1693–1776)


 Victor Hasselblad, (1906–1978) Sweden – invented the 6 x 6 cm single-lens reflex camera
 Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), (965–1039) Iraq – camera obscura, pinhole camera,
magnifying glass
 George H. Heilmeier, ( 1936 – ) U.S. – liquid crystal display (LCD)

 Robert A. Heinlein, (1907–1988)


 Jozef Karol Hell, (1713–1789)


 Rudolf Hell, (1901–2002)


 Joseph Henry, (1797–1878)


 Heron, (c. 10-70) Roman Egypt – usually credited with invention of the aeolipile, although
it may have been described a century earlier
 John Herschel, (1792–1871) England – photographic fixer (hypo), actinometer

 William Herschel, (1738–1822)


 Heinrich Hertz, (1857–1894) Germany – radio telegraphy, electromagnetic radiation
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