List of Austrian scientists
This is a list of Austrian scientists and scientists from the Austria of Austria-Hungary.
Economists
- Siegfried Becher, economist and government minister
- 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
- 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, born in Triech, Austria-Hungary
- Othmar Spann, economist and philosopher
- Friedrich von Wieser, economist
Engineers, inventors
- Carlo Abarth, motorcycle racer and car designer
- Igo Etrich, aviation pioneer and pilot
- Anselm Franz, pioneer in jet engine engineering
- Gaston Glock, inventor, founder of GLOCK GmbH
- Claire Gmachl, quantum cascade laser and mid-IR technologies pioneer
- Eduard Haas, inventor of Pez candy
- Ingeborg Hochmair, electrical engineer who developed the modern cochlear implant
- Viktor Kaplan, inventor of turbines for river power plants
- Wilhelm Kress, aviation pioneer, inventor of the stick control for airplanes
- Hedy Lamarr, known for research in frequencies, needed for mobile phones
- Siegfried Marcus, automobile pioneer, lived most of his life in Austria
- Alois Negrelli, engineer and railroad pioneer
- Ferdinand Porsche, automotive engineer, designed the Volkswagen, born in Austria-Hungary
- Johann Puch, engineer and entrepreneur
- Josef Ressel, inventor of the marine screw propeller
- Edmund Rumpler, engineer, aviation pioneer
- Alois Senefelder, inventor of the printing technique of Lithography
- Nikola Tesla, inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer
- Max Valier, rocketry pioneer
- Auer von Welsbach, inventor of gaslight
Philosophers
- Nathan Birnbaum, philosopher
- Franz Brentano, philosopher and psychologist
- Martin Buber, philosopher, born in Vienna
- Christian von Ehrenfels, philosopher
- Herbert Feigl, philosopher
- Paul Feyerabend, philosopher
- Philipp Frank, philosopher and physicist
- Heinrich Gomperz, philosopher, born in Vienna
- Edmund Husserl, philosopher
- Victor Kraft, philosopher
- Nachman Krochmal, philosopher, historian and theologian
- Alexius Meinong, philosopher
- Otto Neurath, socialist, economist and philosopher
- Karl Popper, philosopher
- Moritz Schlick, philosopher
- Othmar Spann, philosopher and economist
- Rudolf Steiner, mystic and philosopher
- Friedrich Waismann, mathematician, philosopher and physicist
- Otto Weininger, philosopher
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher, born 1889 in Vienna
Physicians
- Alfred Adler, psychiatrist, father of Individual Psychology
- Hans Asperger, pediatrician
- Leopold Auenbrugger, physician
- Robert Bárány, physician, 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Georg Joseph Beer, physician
- Lorenz Böhler, physician
- Josef Breuer, psychiatrist
- Carl Cori, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947
- Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben, physician and poet
- Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, physician and physiologist
- Viktor Frankl, psychiatrist, father of logotherapy
- Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist, father of psychoanalysis
- Karl von Frisch, physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Otto Gross, physician and revolutionist
- Josef Hyrtl, anatomist
- Nicolaus Joseph Jacquin, physician and botanist
- Eric Kandel, neuropsychiatrist
- Leo Kanner, child psychiatrist
- Fritz Köberle, physician
- Karl Landsteiner, physician, serologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Franz Mesmer, physician, developed an early form of hypnotism
- Ernst Moro, physician and pediatrician
- Paracelsus, alchemist and physician
- Clemens von Pirquet, pediatrician and scientist in bacteriology and immunology
- Karl Pribram, physician, neuroscientist, originator of Holonomic brain theory
- Carl Rabl, anatomist
- Wilhelm Reich, psychiatrist
- Erwin Ringel, Austrian psychiatrist
- Hans Selye, physician
- Ignaz Semmelweis, physician
- Hans Steiner, child and adolescent psychiatrist
- Julius Wagner-Jauregg, physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1927
- Rudolf Wlassak, physiologist and neurologist 1865-1930
Physicists, mathematicians and chemists
- Emil Artin, mathematician
- Norbert Bischofberger, chemist
- Wilhelm Blaschke, mathematician
- Ludwig Boltzmann, physicist, born in Vienna
- Fritjof Capra, physicist
- Christian Andreas Doppler, physicist, 1803-1853, born in Salzburg
- Paul Ehrenfest, physicist and mathematician
- Heinz Falk, chemist
- Kurt Gödel, mathematician
- Thomas Gold, astrophysicist, geophysicist, controversial for 'steady state' view of cosmos and abiogenic petroleum origin theory
- Wolfgang Gröbner, mathematician
- Hans Hahn, mathematician
- 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
- Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998
- Karl Kordesch, chemist and inventor
- Anton Schrötter von Kristelli, chemist and mineralogist
- Richard Kuhn, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938
- Johann Josef Loschmidt, physicist and chemist
- Ernst Mach, physicist and philosopher
- Lise Meitner, physicist
- Karl Menger, mathematician
- Ronald Micura, chemist
- Richard von Mises, physicist
- 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
- Otto Redlich, physical chemist
- Leopold Ružička, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944
- Karl Schlögl, chemist
- Erwin Schrödinger, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
- Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze, mathematician
- Leopold Vietoris, mathematician
- Victor Frederick Weisskopf, physicist
- Carl Auer von Welsbach, chemist
- Anton Zeilinger, physicist
- Gernot Zippe, physicist
- Mario Zippermayr, physicist, inventor of the thermobaric weapon
- Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1925
Psychologists
- Bruno Bettelheim, psychologist
- Anna Freud, child psychologist
- Sigmund Freud, founding father of psychoanalysis
- Fritz Heider, psychologist
- Melanie Klein, child psychotherapist
- Walter Mischel, psychologist
- Otto Rank, pioneer psychologist
- Paul Watzlawick, family therapist and psychologist
Other scientists
- Ludwig von Bertalanffy, biologist, systems theory
- Othenio Abel, paleontologist
- Max Adler, jurist and Marxist author
- Christopher Alexander, architectural theorist
- Wilhelm Alzinger, archeologist
- Oscar Baumann, philosopher, explorer, ethnologist and geographer
- Heinz von Foerster, physicist and philosopher
- Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, orientalist
- Julius Hann, meteorologist
- Hans Hass, biologist
- Thomas Henzinger, computer scientist, founding president of the IST Austria
- Hans Kelsen, jurist; father of the Austrian constitution
- Paul Felix Lazarsfeld, social scientist
- Otto Loewi, pharmacologist, 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
- Joseph Rock, explorer, geographer, botanist and linguist