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
*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"; Geometric number theory, and convex and discrete geometry;
*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

## Related pages
*List of European scientists

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