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This dimension names the person credited with inventing a specific scientific instrument. Wikipedia notes that units of measurement have "played a crucial role in human endeavour from early ages up to the present," a role that the instruments used to apply those units share, each credited to a named inventor. Browsing this way collects every instrument credited to the same inventor.

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Arnold Beckman

Invented
2 entries

Gerd Binnig

Invented
2 entries

Hans Lippershey

Invented
2 entries

Karl Ferdinand Braun

Invented
2 entries

Theodor Svedberg

Invented
2 entries

Albert A. Michelson

Invented
1 entry

Anthony T. James

Invented
1 entry

Antoine Lavoisier

Invented
1 entry

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Invented
1 entry

Antonin Prandtl

Invented
1 entry

Archer Martin

Invented
1 entry

Barry Barish

Invented
1 entry

Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford

Invented
1 entry

C. T. R. Wilson

Invented
1 entry

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Invented
1 entry

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

Invented
1 entry

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

Invented
1 entry

Donald Glaser

Invented
1 entry

Edward Mills Purcell

Invented
1 entry

Edwin McMillan

Invented
1 entry

Ernest Lawrence

Invented
1 entry

Ernest Rutherford

Invented
1 entry

Ernst Ruska

Invented
1 entry

Evangelista Torricelli

Invented
1 entry

Felix Bloch

Invented
1 entry

Francis Aston

Invented
1 entry

Frederick Sanger

Invented
1 entry

Galileo Galilei

Invented
1 entry

George Graham

Invented
1 entry

Grote Reber

Invented
1 entry

Gustav Kirchhoff

Invented
1 entry

Hans Geiger

Invented
1 entry

Heinrich Rohrer

Invented
1 entry

Isidor Isaac Rabi

Invented
1 entry

J. J. Thomson

Invented
1 entry

Johann Schweigger

Invented
1 entry

John Bardeen

Invented
1 entry

John Hadley

Invented
1 entry

John Michell

Invented
1 entry

John Milne

Invented
1 entry

Joseph von Fraunhofer

Invented
1 entry

Kip Thorne

Invented
1 entry

Marvin Minsky

Invented
1 entry

Rainer Weiss

Invented
1 entry

Robert Bunsen

Invented
1 entry

Robert Hooke

Invented
1 entry

Robert Jemison Van de Graaff

Invented
1 entry

Vladimir Veksler

Invented
1 entry

Walter Brattain

Invented
1 entry

William Henry Bragg

Invented
1 entry

William Lawrence Bragg

Invented
1 entry

William Shockley

Invented
1 entry

Zacharias Janssen

Invented
1 entry

Zhang Heng

Invented
1 entry
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1. Wikipedia: Branches of science
WikipediaBranches of science, lead and Natural science sections
Quote, Branches of science, lead and Natural science sections
Natural science can be divided into two main branches: life science and physical science. Life science is alternatively known as biology, and physical science is subdivided into branches: physics, chemistry, astronomy and Earth science.
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