List of Austrian scientists

Economists

• Siegfried Becher, economist and government minister
• Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
• Ernst Fehr
• Simon Gächter
• Friedrich Hayek, economist and social scientist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1974
• Rudolf Hilferding, Marxist and politician
• Leopold Kohr, economist
• Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School of economics
• Ludwig von Mises, free-market economist
• Oskar Morgenstern, co-founder of game theory
• Martin Nowak
• Joseph Schumpeter, economist, born in Triech, Austria-Hungary
• Othmar Spann, economist and philosopher
• Friedrich von Wieser, economist

  Engineers, inventors

• Carlo Abarth, motorcycle racer and car designer
• Igo Etrich, aviation pioneer and pilot
• Anselm Franz, pioneer in jet engine engineering
• Gaston Glock, inventor, founder of GLOCK GmbH
• Claire Gmachl, quantum cascade laser and mid-IR technologies pioneer
• Eduard Haas, inventor of Pez candy
• Ingeborg Hochmair, electrical engineer who developed the modern cochlear implant
• Viktor Kaplan, inventor of turbines for river power plants
• Wilhelm Kress, aviation pioneer, inventor of the stick control for airplanes
• Hedy Lamarr, known for research in frequencies, needed for mobile phones
• Siegfried Marcus, automobile pioneer, lived most of his life in Austria
• Alois Negrelli, engineer and railroad pioneer
• Ferdinand Porsche, automotive engineer, designed the Volkswagen, born in Austria-Hungary
• Johann Puch, engineer and entrepreneur
• Josef Ressel, inventor of the marine screw propeller
• Edmund Rumpler, engineer, aviation pioneer
• Alois Senefelder, inventor of the printing technique of Lithography
• Nikola Tesla, inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer
• Max Valier, rocketry pioneer
• Auer von Welsbach, inventor of gaslight

  Philosophers

• Nathan Birnbaum, philosopher
• Franz Brentano, philosopher and psychologist
• Martin Buber, philosopher, born in Vienna
• Christian von Ehrenfels, philosopher
• Herbert Feigl, philosopher
• Paul Feyerabend, philosopher
• Philipp Frank, philosopher and physicist
• Heinrich Gomperz, philosopher, born in Vienna
• Edmund Husserl, philosopher
• Victor Kraft, philosopher
• Nachman Krochmal, philosopher, historian and theologian
• Alexius Meinong, philosopher
• Otto Neurath, socialist, economist and philosopher
• Karl Popper, philosopher
• Moritz Schlick, philosopher
• Othmar Spann, philosopher and economist
• Rudolf Steiner, mystic and philosopher
• Friedrich Waismann, mathematician, philosopher and physicist
• Otto Weininger, philosopher
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher, born 1889 in Vienna

  Physicians

• Alfred Adler, psychiatrist, father of Individual Psychology
• Hans Asperger, pediatrician
• Leopold Auenbrugger, physician
• Robert Bárány, physician, 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Georg Joseph Beer, physician
• Lorenz Böhler, physician
• Josef Breuer, psychiatrist
• Carl Cori, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947
• Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben, physician and poet
• Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, physician and physiologist
• Viktor Frankl, psychiatrist, father of logotherapy
• Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist, father of psychoanalysis
• Karl von Frisch, physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Otto Gross, physician and revolutionist
• Josef Hyrtl, anatomist
• Nicolaus Joseph Jacquin, physician and botanist
• Eric Kandel, neuropsychiatrist
• Leo Kanner, child psychiatrist
• Fritz Köberle, physician
• Karl Landsteiner, physician, serologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Franz Mesmer, physician, developed an early form of hypnotism
• Ernst Moro, physician and pediatrician
• Paracelsus, alchemist and physician
• Clemens von Pirquet, pediatrician and scientist in bacteriology and immunology
• Karl Pribram, physician, neuroscientist, originator of Holonomic brain theory
• Carl Rabl, anatomist
• Wilhelm Reich, psychiatrist
• Erwin Ringel, Austrian psychiatrist
• Hans Selye, physician
• Ignaz Semmelweis, physician
• Hans Steiner, child and adolescent psychiatrist
• Julius Wagner-Jauregg, physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1927
• Rudolf Wlassak, physiologist and neurologist 1865-1930

  Physicists, mathematicians and chemists

• Emil Artin, mathematician
• Norbert Bischofberger, chemist
• Wilhelm Blaschke, mathematician
• Ludwig Boltzmann, physicist, born in Vienna
• Fritjof Capra, physicist
• Christian Andreas Doppler, physicist, 1803-1853, born in Salzburg
• Paul Ehrenfest, physicist and mathematician
• Heinz Falk, chemist
• Kurt Gödel, mathematician
• Thomas Gold, astrophysicist, geophysicist, controversial for 'steady state' view of cosmos and abiogenic petroleum origin theory
• Wolfgang Gröbner, mathematician
• Hans Hahn, mathematician
• Wilhelm Karl, Ritter von Haidinger, physicist, geologist and mineralogist of the 19th century
• Friedrich Hasenöhrl, physicist
• Victor Franz Hess, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
• Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, chemist
• Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998
• Karl Kordesch, chemist and inventor
• Anton Schrötter von Kristelli, chemist and mineralogist
• Richard Kuhn, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938
• Johann Josef Loschmidt, physicist and chemist
• Ernst Mach, physicist and philosopher
• Lise Meitner, physicist
• Karl Menger, mathematician
• Ronald Micura, chemist
• Richard von Mises, physicist
• Otto E. Neugebauer, mathematician and astronomer
• Wolfgang Pauli, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1945
• Max Ferdinand Perutz, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962
• Josef Maximilian Petzval, physicist and mathematician
• Fritz Pregl, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1923
• Johann Radon, mathematician
• Otto Redlich, physical chemist
• Leopold Ružička, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944
• Karl Schlögl, chemist
• Erwin Schrödinger, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
• Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze, mathematician
• Leopold Vietoris, mathematician
• Victor Frederick Weisskopf, physicist
• Carl Auer von Welsbach, chemist
• Anton Zeilinger, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 2022
• Gernot Zippe, physicist
• Mario Zippermayr, physicist, inventor of the thermobaric weapon
• Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1925

  Psychologists

• Bruno Bettelheim, psychologist
• Anna Freud, child psychologist
• Sigmund Freud, founding father of psychoanalysis
• Fritz Heider, psychologist
• Melanie Klein, child psychotherapist
• Walter Mischel, psychologist
• Otto Rank, pioneer psychologist
• Paul Watzlawick, family therapist and psychologist

  Other scientists

• Ludwig von Bertalanffy, biologist, systems theory
• Othenio Abel, paleontologist
• Max Adler, jurist and Marxist author
• Christopher Alexander, architectural theorist
• Wilhelm Alzinger, archeologist
• Oscar Baumann, philosopher, explorer, ethnologist and geographer
• Heinz von Foerster, physicist and philosopher
• Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, orientalist
• Julius Hann, meteorologist
• Hans Hass, biologist
• Wolf-Dieter Heiss, neuroscientist
• Thomas Henzinger, computer scientist, founding president of the IST Austria
• Hans Kelsen, jurist; father of the Austrian constitution
• Paul Felix Lazarsfeld, social scientist
• Otto Loewi, pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Konrad Lorenz, zoologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Gregor Mendel, pioneer of genetics
• August Emanuel von Reuss, paleontologist
• Rupert Riedl, zoologist
• Joseph Rock, explorer, geographer, botanist and linguist
• Maria Wähnl, astronomer