We are introducing the Famous Inventors Born in September. September has the birth anniversaries of notable figures like Ferdinand Porsche and Michael Faraday, the inventor of the electric motor. Many influential scientists, inventors, and artists were born in September. Explore and connect with your September birthday twin to learn about their contributions that shaped the world.
Michael Faraday
Date of Birth: September 22, 1791
Profession: English scientist
Notable Works: He contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis. Although Faraday received little formal education, he was one of the most influential scientists in history.
He also established that magnetism could affect rays of light and that the two phenomena had an underlying relationship. His inventions of electromagnetic rotary devices formed the foundation of electric motor technology, and it was mainly due to his efforts that electricity became practical for use in technology.
Prestigious Honours and Awards: Royal Medal (1835 and 1846); Copley Medal (1832 and 1838); Rumford Medal (1846); Albert Medal (1866).
Ferdinand Porsche
Date of Birth: September 3, 1875
Profession: Austro-Bohemian automotive engineer.
Notable Works: He is best known for creating the first gasoline–electric hybrid vehicle (Lohner–Porsche), the Volkswagen Beetle, the Auto Union racing cars, the Mercedes-Benz SS/SSK, and several other significant developments and Porsche automobiles.
Prestigious Honours and Awards: German National Prize for Art and Science (1938)
SS-Ehrenring
War Merit Cross
Wilhelm Exner Medal, 1936
Dennis M Ritchie
Date of Birth: Sept. 9, 1941
Profession: American computer scientist.
Notable Works: Mr. Ritchie created the UNIX operating system and the C programming language, which were pivotal developments in the progress of computer science.
Prestigious Honours and Awards: IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1982); Turing Award (1983); National Medal of Technology (1998); IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (1990); Computer Pioneer Award (1994); Computer History Museum Fellow (1997); Harold Pender Award (2003); Japan Prize (2011);
Waldo Lonsbury Semon
Date of Birth: Sept. 10, 1898
Notable Works: Semon is best known for plasticizing vinyl, the world’s third most used plastic. He is also credited for being the first to commercialize plasticizers for vinyl, which greatly increased their utility, starting with dibutyl phthalate. Semon held 116 patents and was inducted into the Invention Hall of Fame in 1995 at 97.
Prestigious Honours and Awards: Charles Goodyear Medal (1944); Elliott Cresson Medal (1964).
George Sudarshan
Date of Birth: Sept.16, 1931
Notable Works: Prof.Sudarshan has been credited with numerous contributions to the field of theoretical physics, including Glauber–Sudarshan P representation, V-A theory, tachyons, quantum Zeno effect, open quantum system and quantum master equations, spin–statistics theorem, non-invariance groups, positive maps of density matrices, and quantum computation.
Prestigious Honours and Awards: 2010 ICTP Dirac Medal; 2007 Padma Vibhushan; 2006 Majorana Prize; 1985 TWAS Prize; 1977 Bose Medal; 1976 Padma Bhushan; 1970 C. V. Raman Award.
Lewis Howard Latimer
Date of Birth: Sept. 4, 1848
Notable Works: His inventions included an evaporative air conditioner, an improved process for manufacturing carbon filaments for light bulbs, and an improved toilet system for railroad cars. In 1884, he joined the Edison Electric Light Company where he worked as a draftsman.
Prestigious Honours and Awards: Latimer received a patent on September 13, 1881, along with Joseph V. Nichols, for a method of attaching carbon filaments to conducting wires within an electric lamp; and another patent on January 17, 1882, for a “process of manufacturing carbons”, a method for the production of carbon filaments for lightbulbs which reduced breakages during the production process by wrapping the filaments in a cardboard envelope.
Luigi Galvani
Date of Birth: Sept. 9, 1737
Notable Works: Galvani studied animal electricity. In 1780, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs’ legs twitched when struck by an electrical spark. This was an early study of bioelectricity.
Prestigious Honours and Awards: Galvani’s name also survives in everyday language as the verb ‘galvanize’ as well as in more specialized terms: Galvani potential, galvanic anode, galvanic bath, galvanic cell, galvanic corrosion.
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