# List of Austrian inventors and discoverers

This is a list of Austrian inventors and discoverers. The following list comprises people from Austria, and also people of predominantly Austrian heritage, in alphabetical order of the surname.
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## A

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## B

* Georg Joseph Beer, introducing a flap operation for treatment of cataracts (Beer's operation), as well as popularizing the instrument used to perform the surgery (Beer's knife).
* Günther Burstyn, co-inventor of the tank (independent from him William Tritton and Walter Gordon Wilson)

## C

* Carl Cori (Nobel Prize), co-discovered Cori cycle.
* Gerty Cori (Nobel Prize), co-discovered Cori cycle.

## D

* Carl Djerassi, inventor of birth control pills
* Christian Doppler, discoverer of the Doppler effect

## E

* Paul Eisler, inventor of the printed circuit board.

## F

* Otto Frenzl: aeronautical pioneer, developed the area rule in 1943, a design technique for airfoils used to reduce an aircraft's drag at transonic and supersonic speeds. Later it was independently developed again by Richard T. Whitcomb in 1952.
* Sigmund Freud: neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
* Karl von Frisch: (Nobel Prize), one of the founders of modern ethology, studies on waggle dance
* Paul Fürst: inventor of the Mozartkugel

## G

* David Gestetner, inventor of the Gestetner stencil duplicator.
* Adolph Giesl-Gieslingen, inventor of the Giesl ejector

## H

* Friedrich Hayek (Nobel Prize), pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations.
* Victor Francis Hess (Nobel Prize), discovered cosmic ray.
* Ingeborg Hochmair, developed the first modern cochlear implant

## K

* Eric Kandel (Nobel Prize), research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons.
* Viktor Kaplan, inventor of the Kaplan turbine.
* Wolfgang von Kempelen, inventor of The Turk, a chess-playing automaton and Wolfgang von Kempelen's Speaking Machine.
* Walter Kohn (Nobel Prize) discovered Density functional theory
* Karl Kordesch, jointly co-inventor of Alkaline battery (together with Canadian Lewis Urry).
* Richard Kuhn (Nobel Prize), works on carotenoids and vitamins, co-discovered Soman

## L

* Hedy Lamarr, co-invented, with composer George Antheil, an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping.
* Karl Landsteiner (Nobel Prize) discovered the main blood groups, co-discovered with Alexander S. Wiener, the Rhesus factor and co-discovered with Constantin Levaditi and Erwin Popper the polio virus.
* Konrad Lorenz (Nobel Prize) one of the founders of modern ethology

## M

* Ferdinand Mannlicher, along with Scottish Canadian James Paris Lee, Mannlicher was particularly noted for inventing the en-bloc clip charger-loading magazine system.
* August Musger, inventor of slow motion.

## P

* Wolfgang Pauli (Nobel Prize), discovered Pauli exclusion principle
* Max Perutz (Nobel Prize), co-discovered with John Kendrew in studies the structures of hemoglobin and globular proteins.
* Fritz Pregl (Nobel Prize), making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis, one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental analysis.

## R

* Edmund Rumpler, inventor of Rumpler Tropfenwagen

## S

* Franz Sacher, inventor of Sachertorte
* Erwin Schrödinger, discovered Schrödinger equation
* Eduard Suess: discoveries in geology, continent Gondwana and Tethys Ocean was named by Suess
* Viktor Schauberger: discoveries in biomimicry, contributions to fluid mechanics, inventor of the trout turbine
* Stephan von Breuning, discoverer of many varieties of beetles, particularly those in the Cerambycidae family

## T

* Gustav Tauschek, inventor of Drum memory

## V

* Max Valier, performed the first test drive of a rocket car with liquid propulsion, the Valier-Heylandt Rak 7.

## W

* Julius Wagner-Jauregg (Nobel Prize), discovered treatment of mental disease by inducing a fever, an approach known as pyrotherapy.