List of Austrian scientists

This is a list of Austrian scientists and scientists from the Austria of Austria-Hungary.

Economists

*Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
*Ernst Fehr
*Simon Gächter
*Friedrich Hayek, economist and social scientist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1974
*Rudolf Hilferding, marxist and politician 1877-1941 (murdered by the Gestapo in Paris)
*Leopold Kohr, economist
*Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School of economics
*Ludwig von Mises, free-market economist
*Oskar Morgenstern, co-founder of game theory
*Martin Nowak
*Joseph Schumpeter, economist (neoclassical), born in Triech, Austria-Hungary
*Othmar Spann, economist and philosopher
*Friedrich von Wieser, economist (regarded as follower of the Austrian School of economics)

Engineers/Inventors

*Carlo Abarth, motorcycle racer and car designer
*Igo Etrich, aviation pioneer and pilot 1879-1967
*Anselm Franz, pioneer in jet engine engineering
*Gaston Glock, inventor, founder of GLOCK GmbH
*Eduard Haas, inventor of PEZ
*Hedy Lamarr, (known for research in frequencies, needed for mobile phones)
*Viktor Kaplan, inventor of turbines for river power plants
*Johann Korbuly, inventor of matador (special wooden toy)
*Wilhelm Kress, aviation pioneer, inventor of the stick control for airplanes
*Josef Madersberger, invented the sewing machine in 1818
*Siegfried Marcus, automobile pioneer (vehicles of 1870 and 1889), lived most of his life in Austria
*Peter Mitterhofer, inventor of typewriter
*Johann August Natterer, chemist and physician (inventions in photography)
*Alois Negrelli, engineer and railroad pioneer (created the plans for the Suez Canal)
*Ferdinand Porsche, automotive engineer, designed the Volkswagen (the "people's car"), born in Austria-Hungary
*Johann Puch, engineer and entrepreneur
*Josef Ressel, inventor of the marine screw propeller
*Edmund Rumpler, engineer, aviation pioneer
*Paul Schwarzkopf, inventor of powder metallurgy
*Alois Senefelder, inventor of the printing technique of Lithography
*Max Valier, rocketry pioneer
*Auer von Welsbach, inventor of gaslight
*Claire Gmachl, quantum cascade laser and mid-IR technologies pioneer

Philosophers

*Nathan Birnbaum, philosopher (created the word Zionism)
*Franz Brentano, philosopher and psychologist
*Martin Buber, philosopher, 1878-1965, born in Vienna
*Christian von Ehrenfels, philosopher
*Herbert Feigl, philosopher (member of the Vienna Circle)
*Paul Feyerabend, philosopher (died 1994)
*Philipp Frank, philosopher and physicist (member of the Vienna Circle)
*Heinrich Gomperz, philosopher, 1873-1942, born in Vienna
*Edmund Husserl, philosopher (born in Prossnitz, Austria-Hungary)
*Victor Kraft, philosopher
*Nachman Krochmal, philosopher, historian and theologian
*Alexius Meinong, philosopher (theory of objects) 1853-1920
*Otto Neurath, socialist, economist and philosopher
*Karl Popper, philosopher (born in Austria, became British)
*Othmar Spann, philosopher and economist
*Rudolf Steiner, mystic & philosopher
*Otto Weininger, philosopher
*Friedrich Waismann, mathematician, philosopher and physicist (member of the Vienna Circle)
*Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher, born 1889 in Vienna
*Moritz Schlick, philosopher (member of the Vienna Circle)

Physicists, mathematicians and chemists

*Emil Artin, mathematician (Artin's conjecture)
*Wilhelm Blaschke, mathematician
*Ludwig Boltzmann, physicist, 1844-1906, born in Vienna

*Fritjof Capra, physicist
*Christian Andreas Doppler, physicist, 1803-1853, born in Salzburg (See Doppler effect)
*Paul Ehrenfest, physicist & mathematician
*Kurt Gödel, mathematician (born in Austria-Hungary, became naturalized U.S. citizen)
*Thomas Gold, astrophysicist, geophysicist, controversial for 'steady state' view of cosmos and abiogenic petroleum origin theory
*Wolfgang Gröbner, mathematician (best known for Gröbner basis)
*Hans Hahn, mathematician (member of the Vienna Circle)
*Wilhelm Karl, Ritter von Haidinger, physicist, geologist and mineralogist of the 19th century
*Friedrich Hasenöhrl, physicist
*Victor Franz Hess, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
*Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, chemist
*Anton Schrötter von Kristelli, chemist and mineralogist (red phosphor)
*Richard Kuhn, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938
*Johann Josef Loschmidt, physicist and chemist
*Ernst Mach, physicist and philosopher (Mach number)
*Lise Meitner, physicist
*Richard von Mises, physicist (younger brother of Ludwig von Mises)
*Otto E. Neugebauer, mathematician and astronomer
*Wolfgang Pauli, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1945
*Max Ferdinand Perutz, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962
*Josef Maximilian Petzval, physicist and mathematician
*Fritz Pregl, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1923
*Johann Radon, mathematician
*Leopold Ruzicka, (born in Croatia, Austria-Hungary in 1887), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944
*Erwin Schrödinger, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
*Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze, mathematician
*Leopold Vietoris, mathematician (1891-2002(!))
*Victor Frederick Weisskopf, physicist (worked on the Manhattan Project)
*Carl Auer von Welsbach, chemist
*Anton Zeilinger, physicist
*Gernot Zippe, physicist (developed Zippe-type centrifuge to extract Uranium-235 for nuclear weapons)
*Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1925

Physicians

*Alfred Adler, psychiatrist, father of Individual Psychology
*Hans Asperger, pediatrician (most known for work on autism; see Asperger's syndrome)
*Leopold Auenbrugger, physician 1722-1809 (method of percussion)
*Robert Bárány, physician, 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*Georg Joseph Beer, physician (forerunner in ophthalmology)
*Lorenz Böhler, physician
*Josef Breuer, psychiatrist (forerunner in psychoanalysis)
*Carl Cori, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947
*Karl Fellinger, physician
*Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, physician and physiologist (studies of nerves and the brain)
*Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben, physician and poet
*Viktor Frankl, psychiatrist, father of logotherapy
*Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist, father of psychoanalysis
*Karl von Frisch, physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*Otto Gross, phyician and revolutionist
*Josef Hyrtl, anatomist
*Nicolaus Joseph Jacquin, physician and botanist
*Leo Kanner, child psychiatrist
*Fritz Köberle, physician (emigrated to Brazil)
*Karl Landsteiner, physician, serologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1886-1943
*Franz Xaver Mayr, physician
*Franz Mesmer, physician, developed an early form of hypnotism 1734-1815
*Ernst Moro, physician and pediatrician
*Paracelsus, (real name: Theophrast von Hohenheim), alchemist and physician
*Clemens von Pirquet, pediatrician and scientist in bacteriology and immunology
*Rudolf Pösch, physician
*Karl Pribram, physician, neuroscientist, originator of Holonomic brain theory
*Carl Rabl, anatomist
*Wilhelm Reich, psychiatrist, (1897-1957)
*Erwin Ringel (1921-1994), Austrian psychiatrist ("presuicidal syndrome")
*Ignaz Semmelweis, physician (born in Hungary, Austria-Hungary)
*Hans Selye, physician (emigrated to Canada)
*Julius Wagner-Jauregg, physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1927
*Rudolf Wlassak, physiologist and neurologist 1865-1930

Psychologists

*Bruno Bettelheim, psychologist
*Frederick Kanfer, psychologist (born 1925 in Vienna, emigrated to US 1941)
*Melanie Klein, child psychotherapist 1882-1960(emigrated to England ii 1926)
*Otto Rank, pioneer psychologist
*Paul Watzlawick

Other scientists

*Othenio Abel, paleontologist
*Max Adler, jurist and marxist author 1873-1937
*Christopher Alexander, architectural theorist
*Wilhelm Alzinger, archeologist
*Bernard Andreae, archeologist
*Oscar Baumann, philosoph, explorer, ethnologist and geograph
*Heinz von Foerster, physicist and philosopher (working in the field of cybernetics)
*Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, orientalist
*Julius Hann, meteorologist
*Hans Hass, biologist
*Hans Kelsen, jurist (father of the Austrian constitution)
*Otto König, scientist in behavioural studies
*Paul Felix Lazarsfeld, social scientist
*Otto Loewi, pharmacologist (born in Germany, but spent 40 years (age 25-65) of his life in Austria) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*Konrad Lorenz zoologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*Gregor Mendel, pioneer of genetics
*August Emanuel von Reuss, paleontologist
*Rupert Riedl, zoologist
*Karl Rinner, geodesist 1912-1991
*Joseph Rock, explorer, geographer, botanist and linguist
*Armin Zijerdi, Paleontologist, Ethnologist

See also

* List of Austrians
* Nobel Prize