Science Experiments for Kids

 Valdemar Poulsen, (1869–1942) Denmark – magnetic wire recorder, arc converter

 Joseph Priestley, (1733–1804) England – soda water

 Alexander Procofieff de Seversky, ( 1894 – 1974 ) Russia/United States of America – first

gyroscopically stabilized bombsight, ionocraft, also developed air-to-air refueling

 Alexander Prokhorov, (1916–2002) Russia – co-inventor of laser and maser

 Petro Prokopovych, (1775–1850) Ukraine/Russia – early beehive frame, queen excluder

and other beekeeping novelties

 Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, (1863–1944) Russia/France – early colour photography method

based on three colour channels, also colour film slides and colour motion pictures

 George Pullman, (1831–1897) U.S. – Pullman sleep wagon

 Michael I. Pupin, (1858–1935) Serbia – pupinization (loading coils), tunable oscillator

 Tivadar Puskas, (1844– 189 3) Hungary – telephone exchange

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 Mario Rabinowitz, (1936–) U.S. – solar concentrator with tracking micromirrors

 Hasan al-Rammah, (fl.1270s) Syria – purified potassium nitrate, explosive gunpowder,

torpedo

 Harun al-Rashid, (763-809) Persia/Iran – public hospital, medical school

 Muhammad ibn Zakarīya Rāzi (Rhazes), (865– 965 ) Persia/Iran – distillation and

extraction methods, sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid, soap kerosene, kerosene lamp,

chemotherapy, sodium hydroxide

 Alec Reeves, (1902–1971) UK -- Pulse-code modulation

 Karl von Reichenbach, (1788–1869) paraffin, creosote oil, phenol

 Ira Remsen, (1846–1927) U.S. – saccharin

 Ralf Reski, (* 1958) Germany – Moss bioreactor 1998

 Josef Ressel, (1793–1857) Czechoslovakia – ship propeller

 Charles Francis Richter, (1900–1985) U.S. – Richter magnitude scale

 Adolph Rickenbacker, (1886– 1976 ) Switzerland – Electric guitar

 Hyman George Rickover, (1900–1986) U.S. – Nuclear submarine

 John Roebuck, (1718–1794) England – lead chamber process for sulfuric acid synthesis

 Heinrich Rohrer, (1933–) Switzerland – with Gerd Binnig, scanning tunneling microscope

 Peter I the Great (Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov), Tsar and Emperor of Russia, (1672–

1725) Russia – decimal currency, yacht club, sounding line with separating plummet

(sounding weight probe)

 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, (1845–1923) Germany – the X-ray machine

 Ida Rosenthal, (1886–1973) Belarus/Russia/United States – modern brassiere

(Maidenform), the standard of cup sizes, nursing bra, full-figured bra, the first seamed uplift

bra (all with her husband William)

 Boris Rosing, (1869–1933) Russia – CRT television (first TV system using CRT on the

receiving side)

 Eugene Roshal, (born 1972) Russia – FAR file manager, RAR file format, WinRAR file

archiver