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 1939https://snl.no/Sigmund_Freud. Store norske leksikon. Retrieved April 10, 2022
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";2014 Class of the Fellows of the AMS , American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2013-11-04. Geometric number theory, and convex and discrete geometry; 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. 1906https://snl.no/Ludwig_Boltzmann. Store norske leksikon
Fritjof Capra, physicist
Christian Doppler, d. 1853
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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List of European scientists

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