Personally I prefer the Irish weather, a walk in the hills. the craic and wit of a stranger in the street or pub. The smile and catching the eye of an irish girl,the rhythm of the bodhran and pulse of the Irish music and overall the general live and let be attitude in Ireland as I grew up ! If it's still there in today's 'celtic rat-race' - oops tiger, economy I'm not sure, but I'm sure it is. Failing that - see below ! Diesel From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from List of Irish Scientists, Engineers and Inventors) Jump to: navigation, search A List of Irish scientists, engineers and inventors, people who were either born on the island of Ireland or lived and worked there for an extended period. Vincent Barry (1908-1975), led a team that discovered a treatment for leprosy Francis Beaufort (1774-1857), hydrographer, developed a scale for classifying wind strength John Stewart Bell (1928-1990), atomic physicist, 'Bell's Inequalities' John Desmond Bernal (1901-1971), X-ray crystallography George Boole (1815-1864), inventor of Boolean algebra, the basis of all modern computer arithmetic Robert Boyle (1627-1691), pioneer scientist, 'Boyle's Law' Louis Brennan (1852-1932), principle of a guided missile, wire-guided torpedo Lucien Bull (1876-1972), high speed photography, modern electrocardiogram (ECG) Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943- ), discovered pulsars Nicholas Callan (1799-1864), inventor of the induction coil and discoverer the principle of the dynamo (See link: http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/~eugeniik/history/callan.html) Aeneas Coffey (1780-1852), heat exchanger Nicholas Comins, binaural stethoscope William Monad Crawford, entomologist William Dargan, railway engineer John Boyd Dunlop, Scotsman, pneumatic tyre Michael Everson, expert in writing systems and Unicode, born in USA Henry George Ferguson, engineer, designer of the modern farm tractor, inventor of the three-point hitch George Francis FitzGerald (1851-1901), theoretical physicist, 'Fitzgerald-Lorenz Contraction' John Robert Gregg (1868-1948), Gregg shorthand system Sir John Purser Griffith (1848-1938) Chief engineer for Dublin port and Irish Free State senator (1922-1936) William Rowan Hamilton, quaternions; mathematical physics John Phillip Holland (1841-1914), submarine designer Ellen Hutchins (1785-1815), botanist John Joly (1857-1933), photometer, colour photography Richard Kirwan (1733-1812), meteorologist Arthur Leared (1822-1879), binaural stethoscope Robert Mallet (1810-1881), seismology Sir James Martin (1893-1981), aircraft ejector seat Alexander Mitchell (1780-1868), lighthouse and marine engineer Sir Charles Parsons (1854-1931), English born inventor of the steam turbine Francis Rynd (1811-1861), doctor, hypodermic needle George Stokes (1819-1903), mathematician, physicist, 'Stokes Theorem' and Stokes-Navier Equations' George Johnstone Stoney (1826-1911), atomic physicist, named the 'electron' and measured its charge John Lighton Synge (1897-1995), mathematician William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), physicist John Tyndall (1820-1893), physicist Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton, physicist, 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics Mary Ward (1827-1869), microscopist John Walker (1841-1910), principle and forerunner of the caterpillar track Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irish_scientists%2C_engineers_and_inventors"
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