Famous Inventors Born in October
Explore the famous inventors born in October with IDiyas. October has the birth anniversaries of notable figures like Alfred Nobel who invented dynamite, and Niels Bohr who made important contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Date of Birth: October 21, 1833
Profession: Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist.
Notable Works: Alfred is known for creating dynamite as well as having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prize.
He also made several important contributions to science, holding 355 patents in his lifetime. Nobel’s most famous invention was dynamite, an explosive using nitroglycerin; it was patented in 1867.
Nobel displayed an early aptitude for science and learning, particularly in chemistry and languages; he became fluent in six languages and filed his first patent at the age of 24.
Niels Henrik David Bohr
Date of Birth: October 7, 1885
Profession: Danish physicist
Notable Works: Niels was renowned for foundational contributions to atomic structure and quantum theory, earning him the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics. Bohr developed the Bohr model of the atom,
emphasizing discrete energy levels and stable electron orbits. Bohr’s principle of complementarity highlighted the dual nature of particles and waves.
Bohr founded the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, mentoring physicists like Heisenberg and predicting hafnium’s existence. During the 1930s, Bohr helped refugees from Nazism.
Sir John B. Gurdon
Date of Birth: October 2, 1933
Profession: British developmental biologist
Notable Works: Sir Gurdon is best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation and cloning. In 1962, John Gurdon removed the nucleus of a fertilized egg cell from a frog and replaced it with the nucleus of a cell taken from a tadpole’s intestine. This modified egg cell grew into a new frog, proving that the mature cell still contained the genetic information needed to form all types of cells.
Awarded the Lasker Award in 2009, and in 2012, he and Shinya Yamanaka were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells.
Reginald Fessenden
Date of Birth: October 6, 1866
Profession: Canadian-born inventor
Notable Works: Fessenden is best known for his pioneering work developing radio technology, including the foundations of amplitude modulation (AM) radio.
His achievements included the first transmission of speech by radio (1900), and the first two-way radiotelegraphic communication across the Atlantic Ocean (1906). In 1932 he reported that, in late 1906, he also made the first radio broadcast of entertainment and music, although a lack of verifiable details has led to some doubts about this claim.
Elmer Ambrose Sperry Sr.
Date of Birth: October 12, 1860
Profession: American inventor and entrepreneur
Notable Works: Mr. Sperry was known as the “father of modern navigation technology”. After experiencing seasickness on an Atlantic voyage in 1898, Sperry started to work on incorporating a large gyroscope into a ship to lessen the effect of waves on the ship. His innovation included a sensor to detect wave movements early.
By 1911, he collaborated with the US Navy to implement his gyroscope stabilizer, significantly reducing ship rolling. This technology, including the gyrocompass, was adopted by various naval forces during World War I, becoming crucial for maintaining steady ship courses.
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