The man most firmly at grips with the problem is the University of Minnesota's Physiologist Ancel Keys, 57, inventor of the wartime K ( for Keys ) ration and author of last year's bestselling Eat Well And Stay Well.

Muhammad ibn Zakariya ar-Razi ( Rhazes ), the Persian chemist and most famous alchemist, the inventor of alcohol, isolated many chemical substance s, produced many medication s, and described many laboratory apparatus.

He has been called " the most prolific and influential inventor in radio history ".

One of the most successful Soviet designer / inventor in this area was Rostislav Alexeyev who some consider the ' father ' of the modern hydrofoil due to his 1950's era high speed hydrofoil designs.

İskender kebab is one of the most famous meat foods of northwestern Turkey and takes its name from its inventor, İskender Efendi ( İskender meaning ' Alexander '), who lived in Bursa in the late 19th century.

There has been some debate about who the original inventor of the magic lantern is, but the most widely accepted theory is that Christiaan Huygens developed the original device in the late 1650s.

: I have been so constantly under the necessity of watching the movements of the most unprincipled set of pirates I have ever known, that all my time has been occupied in defense, in putting evidence into something like legal shape that I am the inventor of the Electro-Magnetic Telegraph !!

Edison is the fourth most prolific inventor in history, holding 1, 093 US patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.

Finn's position as the most visible promoter of the sport when it became widely known has often caused him to be mistakenly named as the inventor of the sport.

One of the most prominent champions of the central route railroad was Asa Whitney ( a distant cousin to cotton gin inventor Eli Whitney ).

Henry Shrapnel ( 3 June 1761 – 13 March 1842 ) was a British Army officer and inventor, most famously, of the " shrapnel shell ".

Mercury in particular was reported as becoming extremely popular among the nations the Roman Empire conquered ; Julius Caesar wrote of Mercury being the most popular god in Britain and Gaul, regarded as the inventor of all the arts.

The most successful early outboard motor, was created by Norwegian-American inventor Ole Evinrude in 1909.

His most important teacher was Ernst Karl Abbe ( 1840 – 1905 ) ( physicist, mathematician, and inventor ).

Binge was interested in the technicalities of composition and was most famous as the inventor of the " cascading strings " effect that is the signature sound of the Mantovani orchestra, much used in their arrangements of popular music.

He was a chemist, engineer and inventor who amassed a fortune during his lifetime, most of it from his 355 inventions of which dynamite is the most famous.

One of the most notorious sales by Zaharoff was that of the Nordenfelt I, a faulty steam-driven submarine model based on a design by the English inventor and clergyman Rev.

Sir Clive Marles Sinclair ( born 30 July 1940 ) is an English entrepreneur and inventor, most commonly known for his work in consumer electronics in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Broadcast in two series, it starred David Swift as Prince Ludovico, the ambitious and henpecked ruler of Monte Guano ( the smallest and most inconsequential city-state in Renaissance Italy ), Siân Phillips as his wife Princess Plethora, Graham Crowden as Francesco ( Ludovico's perpetually drunken secretary ), Saskia Wickham as Countess Rosalie ( Ludovico's mistress Plethora's full knowledge and approval ), and as Ludovico's perpetually squabbling sons: Nick Romero as the overly religious Salvatore ( whose ambition is to become Pope some day ), Paul Bigley as Allesandro ( an eternally hopeful would-be artist and inventor ) and Christopher Kellen as Guido ( a fierce follower of Martin Luther ).

Two later series cemented Kuttner's reputation as one of the most popular early writers of comic science fiction: the Gallegher series ( about a drunken inventor and his narcissistic robot ) and the Hogben series ( about a family of mutant hillbillies ).

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

John Dunn, inventor of keyed Northumbrian smallpipes, the most characteristic musical instrument in the region, lived and worked in the city.

Gyro is Duckburg's most famous inventor, even though his inventions don't always work the way he wants them to.

Roberto del Rosario, a prolific Filipino inventor, independently created a music system with accompaniment and a pre-recorded vocals that could be turned up or down on a separate track.

Bessemer was a prolific inventor and held at least 129 patents, spanning from 1838 to 1883.

The United States Postal Service has been using OCR machines to sort mail since 1965 based on technology devised primarily by the prolific inventor Jacob Rabinow.

Perhaps the earliest contribution to seismology was the invention of a seismoscope by the prolific inventor Zhang Heng in 132 AD.

Donald E. Lancaster is a prolific author, inventor, and microcomputer pioneer best known for his magazine columns.

William Friese-Greene ( 7 September 1855 – 5 May 1921 ) ( born William Edward Green ) was a British portrait photographer and prolific inventor.

The first paper shredder is credited to prolific inventor Marcus McShredder of Horseshoe, located on the Western shore of Horseshoe Lake, in Piercefield, New York.

" Before his death at age 83 in 1931, the prolific inventor amassed a record 1, 093 patents for creations including the phonograph, a stock ticker, the motion-picture camera, the incandescent lightbulb, a mechanical vote counter, the alkaline storage battery including one for an electric car, and the first commercial electric light.

Image: Michael_DeBakey. jpg | Michael E. DeBakey, world-famous cardiothoracic surgeon and prolific inventor

* Oskar van Deventer A prolific inventor of highly innovative mechanical and other puzzles.

Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist.

Lee De Forest filed a patent in 1916 that became the cause of a contentious lawsuit with the prolific inventor Armstrong, whose patent for the regenerative circuit had been issued in 1914.

He is a prolific inventor, and he even claims to hold the world record for number of inventions with over 4, 000 patents.

Jerome " Jerry " Hal Lemelson ( July 18, 1923 Staten Island, New York-October 1, 1997 ) was a prolific American engineer, inventor, and patent holder.

Besides his rockets, Congreve was a prolific ( if indifferently successful ) inventor for the remainder of his life.

He was a prolific inventor of chemical processes, compounds, and products, and was a successful businessman.

Roberts was a prolific inventor and manufacturer, ranging over turret clock-making, to road vehicles, to iron ship building, to a punching machine, operating on the same system as the Jacquard loom, for punching the rivet holes in the iron plates making up the railway bridge over the river Conwy in North Wales.

A prolific inventor, Van Depoele was granted at least 243 United States patents between 1881 and 1894 for various electric inventions including railway systems, lights, generators, motors, current regulators, pumps, telpher systems, batteries, hammers, rock drills, brakes, a gearless locomotive, a coal-mining machine, and a pile-driver.

The Easy-Bake Oven was invented by Ronald Howes, a prolific toy inventor known for working with Kenner Products.

Holmes was also a prolific inventor of other electrical devices, including the " Castle " dynamo, early electrical systems in trains and the generation, lighting and searchlight systems which first allowed the Suez Canal to be safely operated at night, thus boosting its profitability due to the increased operating hours.

LeTourneau, prolific inventor and philanthropist, founder of LeTourneau University

Vernon Rylands Parton ( 2 October 1897 – 31 December 1974 ) was an English chess enthusiast and prolific chess variant inventor, his most renowned variant being Alice Chess.