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