Discover the fascinating achievements of Irish Scientists who have shaped the world.

Irish scientists have an esteemed history. This handy book does not provide detailed personal life histories; instead, it gives you essential concise overviews of selected Irish scientists scientific achievements – past and present – who have produced scientific theories, discoveries and innovations that changed the world and which continue to resonate today. Each of the Irish Scientists featured has left enduring footprints on the sands of time and though their impressive and important legacy will not be forgotten.

Famous Irish people covered in this book are:

Joseph Barnes (1914 - 2017) - diagnostician and clinician in Hansen's Disease (leprosy).
Francis Beaufort (1774 - 1857) - Hydrographer, creator of the Beaufort Scale
John Bell (1928 - 1990) - Quantum physicist, originator of Bell's Theorem
JD Bernal (1901 - 1971) - Pioneer of X-ray crystallography
George Boole (1815 - 1864) - 'The Father of Computer Science', invented Boolean Algebra
Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691) - Physicist and chemist who formulated Boyle's Law
Denis Parsons Burkitt (1911 - 1993) - pioneer in public medicine
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943 - ) - Astrophysicist who discovered pulsars
Rev Nicholas Callan (1799 - 1864) - inventor of induction coil
George Francis Fitzgerald (1851 - 1901) - physicist, radio waves
William Rowan Hamilton (1805 - 1865) - Development of optics, dynamics and algebra
John Joly (1857 - 1933) - Radiotherapy, colour photography
Kathleen Lonsdale (1903 - 1971) - Chemistry and physics pioneer
William Parsons (1800 - 1867) - built the world's largest telescope in 1847
Charles Parsons (1854 - 1931) - invented the steam turbine
George Gabriel Stokes (1819 - 1903) - Fluid dynamics, optics, and mathematical physics
George Johnstone Stoney (1826 - 1911) - Physicist who named the electron
William Thompson, Lord Kelvin (1824 - 1907) - Kelvin scale of absolute temperature measurement
John Tyndall (1820 - 1893) - Why the sky is blue
Ernest Walton (1903 - 1995) - Awarded Nobel prize for his research in nuclear physics