Rene Laennec
French physician and inventor René Théophile Hyacinthe Laennec sealed his place in history with a number of important cont
French physician and inventor René Théophile Hyacinthe Laennec sealed his place in history with a number of important cont
Silver Screen actress Hedy Lamarr, born on November 9, 1914 in Vienna, enjoyed one of the more memorable careers
Years after receiving a Gilbert Chemistry Set as a young boy, Robert S.
Chelsea Lanmon’s inspiration for her first and most prominent invention was completely practical. At the age of f
Lewis H. Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts on September 4, 1848. Along with Granville T.
After earning a BS from his home state's University of South Dakota (1922) and a PhD in Physics from Yale University (1
It wasn’t an engineer, an auto mechanic, or a scientist who came up with two of the most indispensable early automobile
Robert S. Ledley, inventor of the full-body Computer Tomography (CT) scanner, was born in 1926 in New York City.
Inventors often speak of a phenomenon that they call the “aha moment” – the moment an ingenious solution to a problem p
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1646. His father died when he was just five years old.
Jerome H. Lemelson (1923-1997) was one of the most prolific American inventors of all time.
David Levy of Manhattan Beach, California, received his doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering at MIT in 1997 and has b
Gilbert Newton Lewis, one of the most influential and admired scientists of the twentieth century, was a pioneer in bot