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Democritus (c. 460 – c. 370 BC) [56] Founder of atomism in cosmology. Atomic theory (modern) Father Roger Boscovich (1711–1787) [57] First coherent description of atomic theory. John Dalton (1766–1844) [58] First scientific description of the atom as a building block for more complex structures.
Rangaswamy Narasimhan. Rangaswamy Narasimhan (April 17, 1926 – September 3, 2007) was an Indian computer and cognitive scientist, regarded by many as the father of computer science research in India. [1] [2] He led the team which developed the TIFRAC, the first Indian indigenous computer [3] [4] and was instrumental in the establishment of ...
1918. Eccles, William and Jordan, Frank Wilfred. Patented the Eccles–Jordan trigger circuit, [23] the so-called "bistable flip-flop ", a building block of all digital memory cells. Built from vacuum tubes, their concept was essential for the success of the Colossus codebreaking computer .
International Federation of Football History & Statistics. Retrieved 2013-08-21. Arnoldo Pencliffe Watson Hutton (20.8.1886–29.7.1951), popularly known as "El Fantástico", was the son of Scotsman Alexander (Alejandro) Watson Hutton, who was a football pioneer and is considered the father of Argentine football.
Alan Turing. Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS ( / ˈtjʊərɪŋ /; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. [5] Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm ...
Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) [1] was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926. [2] By 1915 his pioneering work had dramatically improved the efficiency of the ...
Mongkut embraced Western innovations and initiated the modernization of his country, both in technology and culture—earning him the nickname "The Father of Science and Technology" in Siam. Mongkut was also known for appointing his younger brother, Prince Chutamani, as Second King , crowned in 1851 as King Pinklao .
Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy (born 13 June 1937) is an Indian-American computer scientist and a winner of the Turing Award. He is one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon for over 50 years. [4] He was the founding director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon ...