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List of Austrian scientists
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This is a list of scientists from Austria.
- Carl Djerassi, chemist, known for developing the first oral contraceptive for women
- Sigmund Freud, neurologist, psychologist; pioneer of psychoanalysis; He died in 1939[1]
- Karl Landsteiner, discovered that there are different types of human blood; had a Nobel Prize; d. 1943
- Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American born in modern-day Croatia's part of the Austrian Empire; inventor, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer; died in 1943
- Lise Meitner, Austrian-Swedish, helped discover nuclear fission; d. 1968
- Karl von Frisch, discovered that bees use the waggle dance to communicate; Nobel Prize, d. 1982
- Peter M. Gruber, was known for work about "geometry of numbers and to convex and discrete geometry";[2][3] Geometric number theory,[4] and convex and discrete geometry;[2][3] d. 2017
- Alexander Van der Bellen, president, economist, born 1944
Alphabetical list
- Christopher Alexander, architectural theorist
- Hans Asperger, pediatrician (most known for work on autism, Asperger syndrome named for him)
- Robert Bárány, physician, 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Alexander Van der Bellen
- Ludwig Boltzmann, d. 1906[5]
- Fritjof Capra, physicist
- Christian Doppler, d. 1853[6]
- Viktor Frankl, psychiatrist, father of logotherapy
- Anna Freud, child psychologist
- Sigmund Freud
- Karl von Frisch, physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Kurt Gödel, mathematician (born in Austria-Hungary, became a naturalized US citizen)Thomas Gold, astrophysicist, geophysicist, controversial for 'steady state' view of cosmos and abiogenic petroleum origin theory
- Peter M. Gruber
- Hans Hass, biologist
- Friedrich Hayek, economist and social scientist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1974a
- Paracelsus (real name: Theophrast von Hohenheim), alchemist and physician
- Hedy Lamarr, known for research in frequencies, needed for mobile phones
- Karl Landsteiner (1886-1943), physician, serologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Eric Kandel, neuropsychiatrist (born Vienna, emigrated to the US)
- Melanie Klein (1882-1960), child psychotherapist (emigrated to England in 1926)
- Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998
- Otto Loewi, pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in Germany, but spent 40 years in Austria, from age 25-65)
- Konrad Lorenz, zoologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Lise Meitner
- Gregor Mendel, pioneer of genetics
- Walter Mischel (1930-2018), psychologist
- Ludwig von Mises, free-market economist
- Franz Mesmer (1734-1815), physician, developed an early form of hypnotism
- Otto Neurath, socialist, economist and philosopher
- Wolfgang Pauli, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1945
- Ferdinand Porsche, automotive engineer, designed the Volkswagen (the "people's car"), born in Austria-Hungary
- Karl Pribram, physician, neuroscientist, originator of Holonomic brain theory
- Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), psychiatrist
- Josef Ressel, inventor of the marine screw propeller
- Ignaz Semmelweis, physician (born in Hungary, Austria-Hungary)
- Erwin Schrödinger, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
- Joseph Schumpeter, economist (neoclassical), born in Triech, Austria-Hungary
- Rudolf Steiner, mystic and philosopher
- Nikola Tesla, inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer
- Julius Wagner-Jauregg, physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1927
- Paul Watzlawick (1921-2007), family therapist and psychologist
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher, born 1889 in Vienna
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