Maddox;Maddox, Richard Leach: 1816 to 1902, physician and photochemist
Madersperger;Madersperger, Joseph: 1768 to 1850, engineer
Magirius;Magirius, Dietrich Conrad: 1824 to 1895, engineer
Magnetic heads;Coil used in audio or videotape recorders. It converts information into electric signals and transfers them on a magnetic tape or floppy disk or reconverts the information stored on magnetized tapes.
Magnetic sound reproduction;Sound recording method in which sound waves are converted into electrical signals and amplified in a recording system with electromagnetic recording heads.
Magnetic tape;A magnetic tape is a data carrier for sound, video and other media. It consists of a plastic tape coated with a magnetizable layer. Data is stored on this layer in the form of minute magnetic strokes.
Magnus;Magnus, Heinrich Gustav: 1802 to 1870, physicist
Malus;Malus, Etienne-Louis: 1755 to 1812, army officer and physicist
MΣlzel;MΣlzel, Johann Nepomuk: 1772 to 1838, musical instrument maker
Mandelstam;Mandelstam, Leonid Isaakovich: 1879 to 1944, physicist
Mannesmann;Mannesmann, Reinhard: 1856 to 1922, engineer
Mannoury;Mannoury, Jean Charles Alexandre Franτois: 1777 to 1822, engineer
Marconi ;Marconi, Guglielmo Marchese (1874-1937), Italian radio engineer and Nobel prize winner for physics in 1909 (along with Karl Ferdinand Braun)
Marcus;Marcus, Siegfried: 1831 to 1898, automotive engineer
Marinoni;Marinoni, Hippolyte: 1823 to 1904, engineer
Mariotte;Mariotte, EdmΘ: 1620 to 1684, physicist
Markgraf;Markgraf, Andreas Siegismund: 1709 to 1782, chemist
Martens;Martens, Adolf: 1850 to 1914, metallurgist
Martin;Martin, Pierre: 1824 to 1915, French engineer
Mass;The quantity of matter contained in an object. The strength of a gravitational field is directly proportional to its mass.
Mattauch;Mattauch, Joseph Heinrich: 1895 to 1976, physicist
Matter;The substance of the universe consisting of atomic particles, atoms and molecules.
Maudslay;Maudslay, Henry: 1771 to 1831, machine manufacturer
Mauersberger;Mauersberger Heinrich: 1909 to 1982, machine manufacturer
Maupertius;Maupertius, Pierre-Louis: 1698 to 1759, physicist and mathematician
Maurer;Maurer, Eduard: 1886 to 1969, physical chemist and metallurgist
Maxim;Maxim, Sir Hiram Stevens: 1840 to 1916, engineer
Maxwell;Maxwell, James Clerk: 1831 to 1879, physicist
Maybach;Maybach, Wilhelm (1846-1929), German engineer and inventor
Mayer;Mayer, Julius Robert: 1814 to 1878, physician and physicist
McCormick;McCormick, Cyrus Hall: 1809 to 1898, farming machinery inventor
Mechanics;Study of motion affected by forces and stasis (effect and equilibrium of the forces exerted on a stationary object).
Meikle;Meikle, Andrew: 1719 to 1811, engineer
Meisenbach;Meisenbach, Georg: 1814 to 1912, copperplate engraver and engineer
Meissner;Meissner, Alexander: 1883 to 1958, physicist
Meitner;Meitner, Lise (1878-1968), Austrian-Swedish physicist
Melan;Melan, Ernst: 1890 to 1963, civil engineer
Melloni;Melloni, Macedonio: 1798 to 1854, physicist
Mendeleyev;Mendeleyev, Dmitry Ivanovich: 1883 to 1907, chemist
Mercator;Mercator (real name Gerard de Cremer): 1512 to 1594, mathematician and geographer
Mergenthaler;Mergenthaler, Ottmar: 1854 to 1899, engineer
Mersenne;Mersenne, Marin: 1588 to 1648, naturalist
Messter;Messter, Oskar: 1866 to 1943, cinematographer
Meyer J.;Meyer, Jean Jacques: 1804 to 1877, machine manufacturer
Meyer L.;Meyer, Lothar: 1830 to 1895, chemist
Meyer V.;Meyer, Viktor: 1848 to 1897, chemist
Michelson;Michelson, Albert Abraham: 1852 to 1931, physicist
Micrometer screws;A micrometer screw is a precision instrument used to measure short distances to an accuracy of 0.00254 millimeters.
Mikoyan;Mikoyan, Artem Ivanovich: 1905 to 1970, aircarft designer
Miller O.;Miller, Oskar von: 1855 to 1934, engineer
Miller P.;Miller, Patrick: 1731 to 1815, engineer
Millikan;Millikan, Robert Andrews: 1868 to 1953, physicist
Mitscherlich;Mitscherlich, Alexander: 1836 to 1918, chemist
Mitscherlich;Mitscherlich, Eilhard: 1794 to 1863, chemist, father of Alexander M.
Mittasch;Mittasch, Alwin: 1869 to 1953, chemist
Mitterhofer;Mitterhofer, Peter: 1822 to 1893, engineer
Mohr;Mohr, Christian Otto: 1853 to 1911, building engineer
Mohs;Mohs, Friedrich: 1773 to 1839, physicist
Moissan;Moissan, Henri: 1852 to 1907, chemist
Molecule;Two or more chemically combined atoms. A water molecule consists of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.
Moncel;Moncel, ThΘodor du: 1821 to 1884, electrical engineer
Monge;Monge, Gaspard: 1746 to 1818, mathematician and physicist
Monier;Monier, Joseph: 1823 to 1906, gardener
Montgolfier;Etienne Jacques (1745-1799) and Michel Joseph (1740-1810) de Montgolfier invented the hot-air balloon.
Morin;Morin, Arthur: 1795 to 1880, physicist
Morse;Morse, Samuel Finley Breese (1791-1872), American painter and inventor
Moseley;Moseley, Henry Georges Jeffreys: 1887 to 1915, physicist
Moshaiski;Moshaiski, Alexander Fyodorovich: 1825 to 1890, engineer
M÷▀bauer;M÷▀bauer, Rudolf: (* 1929), physicist
Motherboard;Thin copper or silver-coated plate on a computer, on which microprocessors, memory chips and electronic components are mounted.
Motor;A motor is a machine that produces motion by harnessing electricity or other forms of energy. Motors powered by chemical energy are usually called engines. However, a motor may also mean a motor vehicle with an internal combustion engine.
Moyer;Moyer, Andrew: 1899 to 1959, biologist
Moyroud;Moyroud, Louis Marius: (* 1914), engineer
Mrowka;Mrowka, Bernhard: 1907 to 1973, physicist
Mⁿller;Mⁿller, Otto: 1828 to 1897, engineer
Mⁿller;Mⁿller, Erwin Wilhelm (1911-1977), German physicist
Murdock;Murdock, William: 1754 to 1839, engineer
Murgue;Murgue, Daniel: 1840 to 1918, engineer
Musschenbroek;Musschenbroek, Pieter van: 1692 to 1761, physicist
Nasmyth;Nasmyth, James: 1808 to 1890, machine manufacturer
Natterer;Natterer, Johann August: 1821 to 1901, physician and naturalist
Navier;Navier, Claude Louis Marie Henri: 1785 to 1836, mathematician
Navigation;Guiding of a vehicle from a starting point to a destination including all calculations needed to establish the current location.
Nernst;Nernst, Walther Hermann: 1864 to 1941, chemist
Nervi;Nervi, Pier Luigi: 1891 to 1979, engineer
Nessler;Nessler, Julius: 1827 to 1905, chemist
Neumann;Neumann, Franz Ernst: 1798 to 1895, physicist and mineralogist
Neumann;Neumann, John von: 1903 to 1957, mathematician
Neutrino;Elementary particle released in nuclear fusion.
Neutron;An electrically neutral elementary particle that has a slightly larger mass than a proton.
Newcomen;Newcomen, Thomas (1669-1729), English steam engine manufacturer
Newton;Newton, Sir Isaac (1643-1727), English physicist, astronomer, mathematician, chemist and naturalist
Nicholsons;Nicholsons, William: 1754 to 1815, scholar
Niepce;Niepce, Claude-FΘlix-Abel: 1805 to 1870, photographic inventor
Niepce;Niepce, Joseph-NicΘphore: 1765 to 1833, photographic inventor and brother of Claude N.
Nipkow;Nipkow, Paul: 1860 to 1940, engineer
Nobel;Nobel, Alfred: 1833 to 1896, chemist, founder of the Nobel prize named after him
Nollet;Nollet, Jean Antoine: 1700 to 1770, clergyman and naturalist
Nordenfelt;Nordenfelt, Torsten Wilhelm: 1842 to 1920, engineer
Noyce;Noyce, Robert N.: 1927 to 1990, physicist
Nuclear fusion;Nuclei of lighter atoms fuse to heavier nuclei releasing great amounts of energy in the process.
