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Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (936–1013 AD), better known in the west as Albucasis, is regarded as the father of modern surgery and is the most quoted surgeon of all times. Albucasis invented over 200 tools for use in surgery - many still in use today. Water and weight driven mechanical clocks, by Spanish Muslim engineers sometime between 900 ...
Santiago Ramón y Cajal fathered modern neuroscience and was the first person of Spanish origin to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1906). This is a list of inventors and discoverers who are of Spanish origin or otherwise reside in continental Spain or one of the country's oversees territories.
Pages in category "Spanish inventions" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
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List of inventions and discoveries of the Indus Valley Civilisation; List of inventions named after people; List of inventors killed by their own invention; Timeline of Irish inventions and discoveries; List of inventions in the medieval Islamic world; List of Israeli inventions and discoveries; List of Italian inventions and discoveries
Such views were condemned in their turn as anti-Spanish propaganda, drawing on the studies of Julián Juderías. His 1914 work "The 'black legend' and historical truth" [32] claimed that a wide range of Spanish scientists had been active during the Spanish Golden Age. His list can be found in a footnote to the Spanish Wikipedia article.
4. Francisco. The name Francisco means “Frenchman” or “free man.”It is the Spanish cognate of the name Francis. Babies named Francisco are often nicknamed Frank, Frankie, Paco, Paquito ...
Joseph John O'Connell (1861–1959), U.S. – number of inventions relating to telephony and electrical engineering; Theophil Wilgodt Odhner (1845–1903), Sweden/Russia – the Odhner Arithmometer, a mechanical calculator; Paul Offit (born 1951), U.S., along with Fred Clark and Stanley Plotkin, invented a pentavalent Rotavirus vaccine