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== Science, education and technology == {{anchor|scientists|engineers|inventors}} * [[Robert Adrain]] (1775β1843) β scientist, mathematician and United Irishman * [[Thomas Andrews (scientist)|Thomas Andrews]] (1813β1885) β chemist and physicist * [[Francis Beaufort]] (1774β1857) β hydrographer, developed a scale for classifying wind strength * [[John Stewart Bell]] (1928β1990) β atomic physicist, 'Bell's Inequalities' * [[John Desmond Bernal]] (1901β1971) β X-ray crystallography * [[George Boole]] (1815β1864) β Boolean Algebra, Digital Logic * [[Robert Boyle]] (1627β1691) β physicist, 'Boyle's law' * [[Louis Brennan]] (1852β1932) β principle of a guided missile, wire-guided torpedo * [[PΓ‘draig de BrΓΊn]] (1889β1960) β scholar and mathematician * [[Lucien Bull]] (1876β1972) β high-speed photography, modern electrocardiogram (ECG) * [[Jocelyn Bell Burnell]] (born 1943) β discovered [[pulsar]]s * [[Nicholas Callan]] (1799β1864) β inventor of the [[induction coil]] and discoverer the principle of the dynamo * [[Aeneas Coffey]] (1780β1852) β heat exchanger, inventor of the [[column still]] * [[William Monad Crawford]] β [[entomologist]] * [[William Dargan]] β railway [[engineer]] * [[David Doak]] (born 1967) β [[scientist]], [[video game]] developer and [[entrepreneur]] * [[Frederick G. Donnan]] β [[chemist]] * [[Niall J. English]] (born 1979) β inventor, industrialist, researcher and chartered chemical engineer * [[Michael Everson]] β expert in [[writing system]]s and [[Unicode]], born in the U.S. * [[Wentworth Erck]] β astronomer, poor-law guardian and magistrate * [[Harry Ferguson]] β engineer, designer of the modern farm tractor, inventor of the three-point hitch * [[George Francis FitzGerald|George FitzGerald]] (1851β1901) β theoretical physicist, 'FitzGerald-Lorentz Contraction' * [[Patrick Ganly]] (1809β1899) β geologist; described the use of cross-bedding in stratification * [[John Robert Gregg]] (1868β1948) β [[Gregg shorthand]] system * [[William Rowan Hamilton]] β mathematician, astronomer and mathematical physicist * [[Γine Hardiman]] β nun, headteacher, anti-apartheid activist * [[John Philip Holland]] (1841β1914) β submarine designer * [[Ellen Hutchins]] (1785β1815) β botanist * [[John Joly]] (1857β1933) β photometer, colour photography * [[Sindy Joyce]] β education * [[Richard Kirwan]] (1733β1812) β meteorologist * [[Alice Lawrenson]], (1841β1900) β botanical writer and gardener * [[Kathleen Lonsdale]] (1903β1971) β crystallographer * [[Christine Loscher|Christine E. Loscher]] β biotechnologist * [[Percy Ludgate]] (1883β1922) β designer of the second [[Analytical Engine]] * [[Lydia Lynch]] β immunologist * [[Kathleen Lynn]] (1874β1955) β one of the first female medical doctors in Ireland, politician and activist * [[Robert Mallet]] (1810β1881) β seismology * [[Alexander Mitchell (engineer)|Alexander Mitchell]] (1780β1868) β lighthouse and marine engineer * [[Dervilla Mitchell]] β engineer * [[Hannah Moylan]] (1867β1902) β first woman to get a degree in Science in Ireland * [[Robert Murphy (mathematician)|Robert Murphy]] (1806β1843) β mathematician and physicist * [[Cliona OβFarrelly]] β immunologist, Trinity College * [[Richard O'Keefe]] β computer scientist * [[Frank Pantridge]] (1916β2004) β inventor of the mobile defibrillator * [[Dorothy Price]] (1890β1954) β physician who introduced the BCG tuberculosis vaccine to Ireland * [[Patricia Redlich]] (1940β2011) β clinical psychologist * [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] (1819β1903) β mathematician, physicist, 'Stokes Theorem' and Stokes-Navier Equations' * [[George Johnstone Stoney]] (1826β1911) β atomic physicist, named the electron and measured its charge * [[John Lighton Synge]] (1897β1995) β mathematician * [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin|William Thomson]], Lord Kelvin (1824β1907) β physicist * [[John Tyndall]] (1820β1893) β physicist * [[Ernest Walton]] (1903β1995) β physicist, 1951 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] * [[Mary Ward (scientist)|Mary Ward]] (1827β1869) β microscopist * [[John Richardson Wigham]] (1829β1906) β inventor and lighthouse engineer * [[Thomas Wynne]] (1942β2005) β inventor, mechanic and engineer
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